Senator COOPER. What?
Mrs. PAINE. It was not the most pressing thing I had to do at that time.
Senator COOPER. I know that. But you must have read after the
assassination the story about Lee Oswald saying, he told Mr. Frazier, I
think, that he was carrying some curtain rods in the car?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Senator COOPER. Do you remember reading that?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; I remember reading that.
Senator COOPER. Didn't that lead you--Did it lead you then to go in and
see if the curtain rods were there?
Mrs. PAINE. It was all I could do at that point to answer my door,
answer my telephone, and take care of my children.
Senator COOPER. I understand you had many things to do.
Mrs. PAINE. So I did not.
Senator COOPER. You never did do it?
Mrs. PAINE. I am not certain whether I specifically went in and checked
on that. I recall a conversation with Michael about it and, to the best
of my recollection, things looked as I expected to find them looking
out there. This package with brown paper was still there.
Mr. JENNER. By any chance, does that package appear in the photograph
that you have identified of the interior of your garage?
Mrs. PAINE. I think it is this that is on a shelf almost to the ceiling.
Mr. JENNER. May I get over here, Mr. Chairman?
Mrs. PAINE. Along the west edge of the garage, up here.
Mr. JENNER. In view of this, I think it is of some importance that you
mark on Commission Exhibit 429 what appears to you to be the package in
which the curtain rods were.
Mrs. PAINE. To the best of my recollection.
Mr. JENNER. Now the witness has by an arrow indicated a shelf very
close to the ceiling in the rear of the garage, and an arrow pointing
to what appears to be a long package on that shelf, underneath which
she has written "Wrapping paper around venetian blinds"----