Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

第八章 She did not then know Oswald’s address in Dallas.[C6-367]

Chapter VIII. She did not then know Oswald’s address in Dallas.[C6-367] This chapter examines what Mrs. Ruth Paine knew about Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of President Kennedy and did not share with the FBI, details the Commission’s thorough investigation into the backgrounds of Ruth and Michael Paine, and surveys Oswald’s political contacts and activities after his return from the Soviet Union, including his dealings with the Communist Party, U.S.A., the Socialist Workers Party, the Socialist Labor Party, and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Mrs. Paine’s Withheld Information

Mrs. Paine’s Withheld Information When contacted by the FBI in early November 1963, Mrs. Paine informed the agent that Oswald made periodic weekend visits and was employed at the Texas School Book Depository Building, providing enough information to locate him at his job. She did not, however, volunteer Oswald’s Dallas telephone number, which she did know, nor his Dallas address, because she was not asked.[C6-368][C6-369]

Oswald’s Letter to the Soviet Embassy

Oswald’s Letter to the Soviet Embassy On November 10, Ruth Paine discovered a draft of a letter Oswald had written the day before to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, in which he claimed to have conferred with “comrade Kostine” at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.[C6-370] Although the Paines initially assumed the letter was Oswald’s invention, it caused Mrs. Paine considerable misgivings.[C6-371] She made an unknown copy of the draft intending to deliver it to the FBI if agents returned, but they did not return before the assassination.[C6-372][C6-373] On November 19, Mrs. Paine learned Oswald was living in a Dallas roominghouse under an assumed name but did not report this because she had no occasion to see the agents and did not think it important enough to call.[C6-374][C6-375]