Mr. JENNER. And to you and your children?
Mrs. PAINE. And I think I told you this, but that it is not in the
record, that Mrs. Ruth Kloepfer with her two daughters--no; I mentioned
that to the record--came over to their house in New Orleans in
September, and he was a genial host on that occasion, and he was, I
felt, enjoying being the center of interest for four or five people at
this initial party when I first met him.
Mr. JENNER. That was in the spring? That was February of 1963?
Mrs. PAINE. Right; so that it is in this period when he was coming out
weekends in the fall to my home that he seemed to me a man striving,
wanting to achieve something, a man without much formal schooling nor
much native intelligence, really, but a striver, trying hard, and I
never felt any sense during that period that he might be a violent
person or apt to break over from mild maladjustment to active violent
hostility towards an individual.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have any feeling or impression that he in turn felt
frustrated, that the ideals and objectives toward which he was reaching
were unattainable, and he was having that feeling that they were
unattainable, or at least that others were not accepting him in the
concept in which he regarded himself?