Mr. JENNER. Having that to refresh your recollection, do you wish to
add to your testimony as to your motivation in studying Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, I can explain two phrases I did not understand when
you used them without the rest of the paragraph. It is a socially
useful interest--and then I go on to say, "By this I mean I get a great
deal of excitement out of talking with these young friends," and I
mention some.
Mr. JENNER. And this is a document, a letter you wrote your mother,
when?
Mrs. PAINE. This is written June 7, 1957, according to the date on it.
I enjoyed the contact with these friends, and our common interest in
Russian exchange.
Then also the reference to its being an intellectual decision--I am
opposing intellectual decision to the initial leading or calling to
study the language, which was not intellectual but a felt thing.
Then the decision to study specifically Russian--as it says right
here, "The decision to study Russian specifically is an intellectual
decision" which came after the leading. That is something I thought
out, that kind of intellectual--rather than a prompting from within.
Mr. JENNER. And when you use the expression--you Quakers use the
expression that you have a leading--you mean a prompting from
your--inner prompting.
Mrs. PAINE. That's correct.
Mr. JENNER. I would like to confirm with you, if I can, Mrs.
Paine--your recollection is that Lee Oswald had come home on the
evening of November 8, and that it was the following day, the following
morning, the 9th, that you took him, with Marina, to the driver's
license application bureau.
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And that it was some other weekend that he did not come on
Friday, but came on Saturday morning.
Mrs. PAINE. I would think so.
Mr. JENNER. That that is your present recollection.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. I will support it by saying that he used my typewriter
before he went to the driver training location.
Mr. JENNER. Now, when you say you have a recollection of his having
used your typewriter, you mean the evening before?
Mrs. PAINE. No, I mean the morning before. But that would have had to
be fairly soon after breakfast.
Mr. JENNER. You mean in the morning before you left for the driver's
license bureau, he used your typewriter?
Mrs. PAINE. It was the morning of the 9th, before we left for the
driver training bureau. And I am just saying that if he had come in on
Saturday, I doubt it would have been that early.
Mr. JENNER. I see. So that tends to confirm your own recollection that
he had come to your home the night before as usual.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. That he arose in the morning, and used your typewriter, and
then you all departed for the driver's license bureau.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you take him to the parking lot for instruction on more
than one occasion?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. About how many?
Mrs. PAINE. There were at least two. I think probably just two. And add
to that one occasion when we practiced only in front of the house, just
parking. Three lessons altogether.
Mr. JENNER. Was there an English-language dictionary on your desk
secretary at the time you found what I call the Mexico letter?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, there was--a pocket dictionary.