Mrs. PAINE. Training?
Mr. JENNER. Trn.
Mrs. PAINE. Probably. It is not familiar to me.
Mr. JENNER. Next, Russ. Groth. Hos. Organ.
Mrs. PAINE. Could it be hospitality?
Mr. JENNER. It might be. I will read it in full. Russ. Groth. Hosp.
Organ, 1733 Spring.
Mrs. PAINE. This organization is not familiar to me.
May I say each street appears in Philadelphia. In other words, Snyder,
I recall as being in Philadelphia, and Spring is.
Mr. JENNER. This is Spruce.
Mrs. PAINE. Spruce was the first one I recall. The last you mentioned
was Spring; is that right?
Mr. JENNER. Yes. None of those entries awakens anything in your mind in
any respect?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. During these weekends in the fall period, when Marina was
living with you, I take it your husband visited at your home?
Mrs. PAINE. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. Did he visit on other than weekends?
Mrs. PAINE. Occasionally. It seems to me he often came on Tuesday
evening. And then he came on Friday, and sometimes on Sunday afternoon,
as I have testified.
Mr. JENNER. He would visit Friday evening and then return to his
quarters. And he would visit reasonably often on Sunday and return to
his quarters?
Mrs. PAINE. Every now and then on Sunday, I would say. And then
sometimes during the week on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, if you had become aware prior to November 22
of the fact, if it be a fact, that there was a rifle in the blanket
wrapped package on the floor of your garage, what do you think now you
would have done?
Mrs. PAINE. I can say certainly I would not have wanted it there.
And that my pacifist feelings would have entered into my consideration
of the subject. I cannot say certainly what I would have done, of
course. And, as I have described myself and my beliefs, I like to
consider the situation that I am in and react according to that
situation, rather than to have doctrine or rigid belief.
I can certainly say this. I would have asked that it be entirely out of
reach of children or out of sight of children.
Mr. JENNER. Well, when the FBI agent interviewed you on November 1, had
you known of the existence of the rifle on the floor of the garage,
what is your present thought as to what you might have done with
respect to advising the FBI of its existence?
Mrs. PAINE. I would seriously doubt that I would have considered
it of significance to the FBI. I know that a great many people in
Texas go deer hunting. As one of the FBI agents said to me after the
assassination, he surmised that every other house in the street had a
rifle, a deer rifle.
I would have simply considered this was offensive to me, but of no
consequence or interest to them.
Mr. JENNER. You see what I am getting at. Would the existence of your
knowledge of the rifle on the floor of your garage, connected with
Lee Oswald's history as you knew it up to that point, and some of
the suspicions that you voiced in your testimony with respect to Lee
Oswald, have led you to be apprehensive out of the ordinary as to the
existence of that rifle on the floor of your garage?
Mrs. PAINE. I don't believe I would have assumed that this rifle was
for any other purpose than deer hunting.
Mr. JENNER. Did the FBI, any of the FBI agents inquire of you prior to
November 22, 1963, as to whether there were any firearms in and about
your home?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did any FBI agent inquire of you as to whether you thought
there was any suspicious--anything suspicious about Lee Harvey
Oswald that caused you any concern with respect to the safety of the
Government of the United States or any individual in it, in that
Government?
Mrs. PAINE. No; they made no such inquiry.
Mr. JENNER. And I would repeat this line of questioning with respect to
Marina as well as Lee. Would your answers be the same if I did?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; they would be the same.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, Marina testified of her impression that when
Lee returned to Dallas, and then to your home on the 4th of October
1963, that he--when he came to your home he had a valise or a suitcase.
Mrs. PAINE. Marina testified, did you say?
Mr. JENNER. Yes. What impression do you have in that respect?