Mr. Liebeler. Before you get back to the lab let me ask you this, who was with you at the first time you heard the assassination?
Mr. Paine. Dave Noel.
Mr. Liebeler. Was Mr. Krystinik with you?
Mr. Paine. No.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you hear during this first period of time when you first heard of the assassination, that the President had been shot near the Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. Paine. I don't believe so. I think, I heard that he had been shot, I listened over some of the crowd's shoulders, a little cluster of people listening to a transistor radio thereby knowing it was no joke, so we went back to the lab where there is a radio. So I didn't hear it until I got back to the lab. As soon as I got back to the lab it was not very long after that that it was mentioned, that the Texas School Book Depository Building was mentioned, and then I mentioned to Frank Krystinik that is where Lee worked, and then in the course of the next half hour Frank and I were discussing whether to report to the FBI that Lee worked there, and——
Mr. Liebeler. Tell me what you said and what he said.
Mr. Paine. He was urging me to do it, and or asking whether I didn't think we should do it, and I was torn but I came up with the decision no, the FBI already knows he works there. Everybody will be jumping on him because he is a black sheep, and I didn't want to join the hysterical mob in his harassment. So I decided I wouldn't call, I didn't say that I couldn't but I said I wasn't going to call the FBI on it.
Mr. Liebeler. And you told him that?
Mr. Paine. Yes.