The President's Commission met at 9:05 a.m. on Friday, March 20, 1964,
at 200 Maryland Avenue NE., Washington, D.C.
Present were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chairman; Senator John Sherman
Cooper, Representative Gerald R. Ford, and John J. McCloy, members.
Also present were J. Lee Rankin, general counsel; Albert E. Jenner,
Jr., assistant counsel; and Wesley J. Liebeler, assistant counsel.
Senator COOPER. Mrs. Paine, you, I think, yesterday affirmed, made
affirmation as to the truthfulness of your testimony?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, I did.
Senator COOPER. You are still under that affirmation?
Mrs. PAINE. I understand that I am under that affirmation.
Mr. JENNER. May I proceed?
Thank you. Mrs. Paine, just to put you at ease this morning, Mr.
Chairman, may I qualify some documents?
The CHAIRMAN. Good morning, gentlemen and ladies. How are you, Mrs.
Paine? I am glad to see you this morning.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, I show you Commission Exhibit No. 425 which
you produced and which you testified was the original of a letter of
October 14, 1963, to your mother, part of which you read at large in
the record. Is that document in your handwriting entirely?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; it is.
Mr. JENNER. You testified it is a letter from you to your mother?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Did you dispatch the letter?
Mrs. PAINE. I did.
Mr. JENNER. In view of that fact would you explain for the record how
you came into possession of the letter since you sent it to your mother?
Mrs. PAINE. She gave it to me a few days ago.
Mr. JENNER. Is the document now in the same condition it was when you
mailed it to your mother?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; it is. You have the first page of two. The other page
not being relative to this case.
Mr. JENNER. In other words, that there be no question about it, do you
have the other page?
Mrs. PAINE. I have the other page.
Mr. JENNER. May I have it?
Mrs. PAINE. The other page, of course, contains my signature.
Mr. JENNER. Yes. May the record be amended to show that Commission
Exhibit No. ----.