Mr. Jenner. What is your opinion as to whether Marina Oswald would tell the truth and the whole truth under oath in response to questions put to her?
Mrs. Paine. I would expect that she would make a dedicated attempt to tell the truth. Just looking at the amount of time I have testified, as opposed to the amount of time she testified, relative to the amount of things she knows and the amount of material that I have that is of any use to the Commission, she could not have yet told the whole truth, just in terms of time.
Mr. Jenner. Well, that may be affected—of course, you must understand—by the questions put to her and the subjects that were opened on her examination.
Mrs. Paine. Right.
Mr. Jenner. But subject to that, it is your feeling that she—there is a——
Mrs. Paine. Subject to that, I really cannot answer. I don't know what her attitude is towards her situation, which is a rather remarkable one in this case. I would guess that it is helpful to her telling the whole truth that Lee is now dead. I might say I am affected in that judgment by having been present when she could not positively identify her husband's—what was thought to be his rifle at the police station, whereas I read—and perhaps it is not so—but I read that she positively identified it here at the Commission.
Mr. Jenner. But you were present when she, in your presence, was unable to identify with reasonable certainty that the weapon exhibited to her was her husband's rifle?
Mrs. Paine. That is right.
Mr. Jenner. And you attribute that largely to the fact that his now being deceased has in her mind released her, so that she may without fear of implicating him, were he alive, to speak fully her opinions on subjects such as that?
Mrs. Paine. That would be my opinion.