Mr. JENNER. You shook your head, did you shake your head in the
affirmative?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; there were FBI agents in my home during the day. One
I recalled made this telephone call. I was waiting to hear from Marina
to see if she wanted to talk with me. I had no desire to press her or
to attempt to reach her unless she wanted to reach me, but then with
this message, I went ahead and dialed the Executive Inn and asked for
Tommy Thompson, and Marguerite Oswald answered, and I said I would like
to talk to Marina, and she said, "Well, Marina is in the bathroom,"
and I said to Marguerite that Lee had called me, that he wanted me to
deliver a message to Marina, that he wished for her to be at my home,
and Marguerite Oswald said, "Well, he is in prison, he don't know the
things we are up against, the things we have to face. What he wants
doesn't really matter," which surprised me. And again I asked to speak
to Marina and waited until I did speak to her and delivered the same
message in Russian to her but there was no further----
Mr. JENNER. What response did Marina make to the message that you
conveyed to her?
Mrs. PAINE. She said she was very tired and wanted to get to bed, as I
recall, and thought it was certainly best to stay there that night.
Mr. JENNER. Is that your best recollection?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. And I certainly agreed with her.
Mr. JENNER. Did she say anything in response to your delivery of Lee
Oswald's message about Marina staying with you, of the possibility of
her staying with you, say, the next day?
Mrs. PAINE. Nothing of that nature was said. I think I remember that
we did discuss whether she had seen Lee during the day, and on that
occasion it seems to me I learned that she had seen him around noon
but I may be wrong about when I learned that. I knew she had seen him.
Mr. JENNER. Either in that conversation or any other conversation with
Marina that you may have had, was the subject of Lee Oswald's attitude
or any comments he made mentioned?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Nobody reported to you anything about any conversation they
might or did have with Lee Oswald either on the 22d or 23d or even on
the 24th of November 1963?
Mrs. PAINE. No. I am of the impression I again tried the home telephone
of John Abt on Sunday morning, but I am not certain, and there was no
answer. That I certainly remember.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you ever reach Abt?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever attempt to report to Lee Oswald that you had
been unable to reach Mr. Abt?
Mrs. PAINE. Not unless such transpired in our 9:30 conversation
Saturday evening, but I made no effort to call the police station
itself.
Mr. JENNER. Excuse me?
Mrs. PAINE. I made no effort to call the police station.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have at anytime any further conversations with Lee
Oswald?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Other than what you have now related?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you have any impression as to why he wanted Marina to
come back with you? Was it in order to make her available for telephone
calls from him or what?
Mrs. PAINE. What is distinctly my impression is that he thought she
should be available. That it was she wasn't where he could find her
that irritated him rather than that he thought this was the best place
for her.