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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. III - Page 139« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)

Mr. Jenner.
Your husband has returned to your home?
Mrs. Paine.
He is living there now.
Mr. Jenner.
How long has that been?
Mrs. Paine.
He has been staying there since the night of November 22. He didn't move his belongings in until the middle of the following week.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you say this is a reconciliation?
Mrs. Paine.
I can't say that.
Mr. Jenner.
You cannot.
Do you wish to say any more in the statement of yours?
Mrs. Paine.
Not unless you have questions. I think it is an accurate statement of the marriage.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
What brought this forth was my asking you if you had anything you would like to bring before the Commission.
Mrs. Paine.
That is correct.
Mr. Jenner.
Are there any others?
Mrs. Paine.
I can think of nothing else.
Mr. Jenner.
To the best of your present recollection are the statements and the testimony you gave, you have given so far, before the Commission consistent with Statements you have given to the FBI, to Secret Service, to magazine reporters, editors, to anyone?
Mrs. Paine.
The statements I have given here are fully consistent with anything I have said before except that the statement here has been much fuller than any single previous statement.
Mr. Jenner.
And you have testified to matters and things before the Commission about which, which you did not relate or even had occasion to relate in your mind, at least, to FBI agents, to Secret Service agents and to the others that you have identified in general terms?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Mrs. Paine, you and I had the opportunity, you afforded me the privilege of speaking with you before your testimony commenced, before the Commission. And also I think the first day of your testimony you were gracious enough to return here to the Commission room and we spent several hours talking?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
As a matter of fact, we left around 12:30, a quarter of one in the morning, did we not?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes, that is right, we did.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, recalling back to those periods of conferences with me, do you have any feeling or notion whatsoever that any of your testimony before the Commission was in any degree whatsoever, inconsistent with anything you related to me?
Mrs. Paine.
Oh, no; I don't think so, not in any way.
Mr. Jenner.
Not in any way. Do you have any feeling whatsoever that during the course of my conferences with you, outside this Commission, that I influenced or sought to shape your testimony in any respect?
Mrs. Paine.
No. Clearly I felt no influence from you.
Mr. Jenner.
All of the statements that you related to me were free and voluntary on your part, and not given under any coercion, light or heavy, as the case might be, on my part.
Mrs. Paine.
That is right.
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Chairman, there are some additional matters we wish to examine the witness about and Representative Ford has given me a rather long list of questions he asked me to cover. He regretted that was necessary because of his enforced absence, and Mrs. Paine has agreed that she would be available in the morning, and I may examine her by way of deposition before a reporter under oath, and with that understanding of the Commission, of you, Mr. Chairman, I would at this moment as far as the staff is concerned, close the formal testimony of Mrs. Paine before the Commission, with advice to you, sir, that tomorrow morning I will cover additional matters by way of deposition.
Senator COOPER. As I understand the matters you will go into by deposition will not be any new evidence in the sense of substance but more to
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