_Name_ _Place _Microfilm
found_ No._
Application, the Militant Irving 380
Application slip for FPCC Beckley 416
Application slips for FPCC (187) Irving 96
Booklet, "The Coming American Revolution," Irving 330
by James Cannon.
Booklet, "Continental Congress of Solidarity Irving 319
with Cuba, Brazil," by FPCC.
Booklet, "Cuban Counter Revolutionaries to Irving 307
the U.S.," published by FPCC.
Booklet, Dobbs Weiss Campaign Committee, 116 Irving 308
University Pl., N.Y.C., entitled "Apamphlar."
Booklet, "Fidel Castro Denounces Bureaucracy Irving 304
and Sectarianism."
Book, list of FPCC, N.Y.C. Irving 329
Book, foreign language, 2 pages Irving 201
Book, foreign language, 2 pages Irving 202
Booklet, "Ideology and Revolution," by Jean Irving 313
Paul Sarte
Booklet, list of Russian and Communist Irving 309
literatures publications.
Booklet, "The McCarran Act and the Right Irving 311
to Travel"
Booklet, "The Nation," dated Jan. 23, 1960 Irving 320
Booklet, "The Pact of Madrid," by the Irving 310
committed of Democratic Spain.
Book, Russian Irving 84
Books, Russian (18) Irving 78-83
Book, Russian Language No. 732648 Irving 112
Booklet, "Socialist Workers Party," by Irving 305
Josepth Hanson
144
Book, "Sofia," dated 1962 Irving 324
Booklet, "Speech at the UN by Fidel Castro" Irving 318
Book, "The Spy Who Loved Me," by Ian Fleming Beckley 410
Book, "Live and Let Die," by Ian Fleming Beckley 410
Book, "A Study of U.S.S.R. and Communism Beckley 409
Historical," by Keiber and Nelson.
Book, "A study of U.S.S.R. and Communism Beckley 409
Historical"
Circulars, FPCC, Bill Jones Printing Co., Beckley 415
New Orleans.
Handbill, FPCC, Lee H. Oswald, 4907 Magazine Irving 335
St., New Orleans.
Handbill, FPCC, L. H. Oswald, 4907 Magazine Beckley 414
St., New Orleans, La.
Handbills, "Hands Off Cuba" (178), Irving 97
Join the FPCC
Handbills, "Hands Off Cuba" (180), Irving 300
Join the FPCC, New Orleans Branch.
Letter, from James J. Forney on letterhead of Beckley 405
Gus Hall, Benjamin J. Davis, defense
comittee, N.Y.C., Dec 13, 1962.
Letter, from Farrell Dobbs, National Beckley 401
Secretary of Socialist Workers Party to
Lee Oswald, Nov. 5, 1962.
Letter, signed "Gene," to "Dear Lee," from Beckley 412
Jesuit House of Studies, Mobile, Ala.,
letterhead, Aug. 22, 1963.
Letter, from Jesuit House of Studies, Mobile, Beckley 430
Ala., to Lee and Marie.
Letter, from Peter P. Gregory to Oswald, Beckley 413
re: Ability to translate.
Letter, from Arnold Johnson, P.O. Box 30061, Beckley 400
New Orleans, to Oswald.
Letter, from Arnold Johnson, director, Beckley 406
Information and Lecture Bureau CP, July 31,
1963, P.O. Box 30061, New Orleans, to Oswald.
Letter, from V. T. Lee, national director of Beckley 403
FPCC, N.Y., to Oswald, May 22, 1963.
Letter, from V. T. Lee, national director, Beckley 407
FPCC, N.Y.C., to Oswald, 4907 Magazine,
New Orleans.
145
Letter, from Paul Piazza to Oswald, on Jesuit Beckley 429
House of Studies, Mobile, Ala., letterhead.
Letter, from Pioneer Publishers, April 26, Irving 363
1963
Letter, from Joseph Tack, Socialist Worker Beckley 445
Party, to Oswald.
Letter, from Johnny Tackett, on Fort Worth Beckley 438
Press letterhead, to Oswald.
Letter, from Louis Weinstock, general manager Beckley 404
of the Worker, Dec. 19, 1962, to Oswald.
Magazine, "Friends Word News" Irving 87
Magazine, "The Militant" Irving 85
Magazine, "The New Republic," reprint from Irving 322
Sept. 12, 1963.
Magazine, cover, group of men dressed in Irving 198
black standing behind what appears to be
a master of ceremonies dressed in white.
Magazine, wrapper, addressed to Lee Oswald, Irving 191
Minsk, Russia.
Newspaper, "The Worker" Irving 86
Newspaper, clipping, re: the President Irving 120
Newspaper, clipping, New Orleans paper. Irving 98
Newspaper, clipping, Fort Worth Press, Irving 270
showing photo of Iranian native, Mrs.
John R. Hall.
Newspaper, clipping (Oswald defection and Beckley 417
cartoon regarding defectors).
Newspaper, clipping (Times Picayune, New Beckley 413
Orleans, re: Oswald's fine for disturbing
peace. Sent from room 329, 799 Broadway,
N.Y.C.
Newspapers (7), Russian language Irving 381
Newspaper, subscription forms (3), The Irving 380
Worker, with return envelopes to publishers
News Press.
146
Pamphlet, "The End of the Comintern," by Irving 317
James P. Cannon.
Pamphlets, "The Crime Against Cuba," Curliss Irving 303
Lamont
Pamphlets, "The Crime Against Cuba," by Irving 99
Curliss Lamont
Pamphlet, "The Revolution Must Be a School Irving 312
of Unfettered Thought," by Fidel Castro.
Pamphlet, "The Road to Socialism," by Blas Irving 315
Rocan
Pamphlet, Russian, bearing No. 500 on cover Irving 325
Pamphlets, Russian Irving 89-94
Pamphlets, No. 13, Russian document Irving 192
Pamphlet, New York School for Marxist study, Beckley 411
fall term, 1963.
Pamphlet, the weekly people entitled Irving 321
"Automation, a Job Killer."
Photos, "Visit to U.S.S.R."(4) Irving 366
Photos, Fidel Castro (6) Irving 366
Photo, Fidel Castro Irving 368
Photo, female Russian workers in radio Irving 332
factory
Photo, Russian workers Irving 331
147
Mr. JENNER. Now, Mrs. Paine, one of the things we said we might see is
a package that was in your garage containing curtain rods.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes--as you recall.
Mr. JENNER. You said you would leave that package in precisely the
place--wherever it was last week when you were in Washington, D.C.,
and have you touched it since you came home?
Mrs. PAINE. I have not touched it.
Mr. JENNER. And is it now in the place it was to the best of your
recollection on November 21, 1963?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you rise and enter the garage and point out in
my presence and in the presence of Mr. Howlett where that package is?
(At this point the persons heretofore mentioned entered the garage as
stated by Counsel Jenner.)
Mrs. PAINE. It is on a shelf above the workbench. It extends north of
the north edge of the workbench.
Mr. JENNER. Is it the thicker of the two packages wrapped in brown
wrapping paper, shorter and thicker?
Mrs. PAINE. You would do well to look at them both.
Mr. JENNER. Well, what I am going to do first--I'm going to hand you a
pointer, and would you point to the package that you have in mind?
Mrs. PAINE. This, to the best of my recollection, contains venetian
blinds.
Mr. JENNER. The witness is now referring to a package which Mr.
Howlett, and I will ask you to measure it in a moment, but which
appears to me to be at most about 28 inches long, maybe 30, and about
6-1/2 inches high and about 6-1/2 inches through.
While it is still wrapped in place, Mr. Howlett, would you measure the
package and it is a little bit irregular.
Agent HOWLETT. That is 2 feet 11 inches.
Mr. JENNER. The package is 2 feet 11 inches long and it is resting on a
shelf which is apparently a foot down from the ceiling, and the north
edge of the package is 5 inches from the outer wall of the storeroom I
have described, and Mr. Howlett has now measured the distance from the
shelf on which the package is resting, to the floor, and that is what
distance?
Agent HOWLETT. Seven feet and three inches.
Mr. JENNER. Now, measure the height of the package.
Mrs. PAINE. While you are up there, measure the one behind you.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; we will.
Agent HOWLETT. The height of the package is about seven inches.
Mr. JENNER. And it is how thick through from east to west?
Agent HOWLETT. Seven inches.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, I'll ask Mr. Howlett to take the package
down, since he is already up there on top of the bench, and we will
open it in the presence of Mrs. Paine and see what it contains.
The package has now been taken down from the shelf in our presence
and Mrs. Paine is opening it. Mrs. Paine, and in your presence, Mr.
Howlett, what does the package contain?
Mrs. PAINE. It contains two venetian blinds, both of them are 2 feet 6
inches.
Mr. JENNER. And they are of the metal variety, are they not?
Mrs. PAINE. They are.
Mr. JENNER. And those blinds are 2 feet 6 inches wide?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, they are wrapped in brown or light-tan wrapping paper?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have a supply of this particular wrapping paper
around your home at that time?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. From where did you obtain this wrapping paper?
Mrs. PAINE. This must have come around a package or something I had
bought. I have never had a supply of this variety.
Mr. JENNER. Now, John Joe, will you favor Mrs. Paine by putting her
package back the way it was?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes--for the record.
Mr. JENNER. For the record, when we sought to rewrap the package, it
has a paster on the outside of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Dallas, No. 4017,
and "Will call--M. R. Paine."
Mrs. Paine has torn from the package some sticky tape.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. It is wider than the variety we have heretofore
identified--is it your recollection that this sticky tape came on this
particular package when it was delivered to your home?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And is this paper the paper in which the blinds came in the
first instance?
Mrs. PAINE. These blinds did not come to me from Sears, Roebuck, but
that--I used to replace them did. Now, whether the shades I bought came
in this package, I have no idea whatever.
Mr. JENNER. Well, is it your recollection that this paper in which the
blinds are now wrapped came from another package that was delivered to
you and not a part of a general supply of paper which you had in your
home?
Mrs. PAINE. It was certainly not part of a general supply of paper.
Mr. JENNER. Is it your recollection that the sticky tape that appears
on this wrapping was affixed to the package which this is?
Mrs. PAINE. As you said, yes.
Mr. JENNER. This paper--when delivered to your home, having nothing to
do with the curtain rods or the rifle or anything else hereon, is that
right?
Mrs. PAINE. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Now, we see in back of this package that we have just
described a much longer package also wrapped on--in light-tan wrapping
paper--at this time a little bit darker, I think, than the package we
have just been describing, and Mr. Howlett has now mounted again the
work bench and is measuring that package. That package, Mr. Howlett, is
also on the shelf.
Agent HOWLETT. The same shelf in behind where the other package was.
Mr. JENNER. And it is how long?
Agent HOWLETT. Three feet nine inches long, as it is folded now.
Mr. JENNER. And in general is it a rectangular package?
Agent HOWLETT. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. But its shape is not as well defined as the shorter package
we have already described?
Agent HOWLETT. No, sir; it seems to be a little bit bigger at the north
end.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, before we open it, what is in that package?
Mrs. PAINE. My best guess would be that it contains two pull blinds
which I did have in the southeast bedroom.
Mr. JENNER. When you say "pull blinds" you mean venetian blinds?
Mrs. PAINE. No; I do not. I mean roll-type.
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Howlett, would you be good enough to take that package
down and we will open it in Mrs Paine's presence here.
(At this point Agent Howlett complied with the request of Counsel
Jenner.)
Mr. JENNER. It contains, does it not, what you call the pull blinds,
and which I, in my vernacular call spring window shades.
Mrs. PAINE. All, right, that's correct, and these are cut to fit the
windows in the southeast bedroom.
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Howlett, there are two of them, one of which is how
wide?
Agent HOWLETT. Two feet six inches.
Mr. JENNER. And the other one is?
Agent HOWLETT. Three feet six inches.
Mr. JENNER. And Mr. Howlett and Mrs. Paine, these two spring
window-shades are the customary type we see on windows, these, however,
are white or cream colored, and are plastic?
Mrs. PAINE. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. And they are opaque?
Mrs. PAINE. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Neither is metal?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. The spring to which the shade itself--the plastic shade
is attached, is wood, inside of which there is the usual window shade
spring.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. The paper in which these are wrapped likewise contains as
did the other one an address sticker of Sears, Roebuck & Co., No.
4017, addressed to Michael R. Paine.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And so, the wrapping paper in which those two shades are
wrapped came from Sears, Roebuck & Co. and not from any roll of paper
that you keep in your home?
Mrs. PAINE. That's correct.
Mr. JENNER. Now, are there any other paper-wrapped packages on that
shelf?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. It was your impression as you testified last week that you
had some curtain rods on the shelf wrapped in a paper wrapping?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, I testified that.
Mr. JENNER. That was your impression, was it not?
Mrs. PAINE. And as part of the testimony I said they were very light
and might not deserve their own wrapping.
Mr. JENNER. You, of course--you did state it was possible they might
not be separately wrapped?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Is there another shelf below the shelf on which you found
the first two packages?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; there is.
Mr. JENNER. And, Mr. Howlett, that shelf is about how far below the
upper one on which we found the two packages?
Agent HOWLETT. About 10-1/2 inches.
Mr. JENNER. Now, we all see, do we not, peeking up what appears to be a
butt end of what we might call a curtain rod, is that correct?
Mrs. PAINE. That's correct.
Mr. JENNER. Is that correct, Mr. Howlett?
Agent HOWLETT. Yes, sir; that's correct.
Mr. JENNER. Painted or enameled white?
Agent HOWLETT. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Would you reach back there and take out what appears to be
a curtain rod, Mr. Howlett--how many do you have there?
Agent HOWLETT. There are two curtain rods, one a white and the other a
kind of buff color or cream colored.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you please search the rest of that shelf and
see if you can find any other curtain rods or anything similar to the
curtain rods, and look on the bottom shelves, Mr. Howlett, will you
please?
While he is doing that, Mrs. Paine, I notice there is on your garage
floor what looks like a file casing you have for documents similar,
at least it seems substantially identical to those that we had in
Washington last week.
Mrs. PAINE. This is a filing case similar, yes, slightly different in
color to one that you had in Washington. It contains madrigal music. It
was on November 22 at the apartment where my husband was living.
Agent HOWLETT. I have just finished searching both shelves and I don't
find any other curtain rods.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, are the curtain rods that Mr. Howlett has taken
down from the lower of the two shelves, the two curtain rods to which
you made reference in your testimony before the Commission last week?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; they are.
Mr. JENNER. And you know of no other curtain rods, do you, in your
garage during the fall of 1963?
Mrs. PAINE. No; I do not.
Mr. JENNER. And in particular, no other curtain rods in your garage at
any time on the 21st or 22d of November 1963?
Mrs. PAINE. None whatsoever.
Mr. JENNER. May we take these curtain rods and mark them as exhibits
and we will return them after they have been placed of record?
Mrs. PAINE. All right.
Mr. JENNER. Miss Reporter, the cream colored curtain rod, we will mark
Ruth Paine Exhibit 275 and the white one as Ruth Paine Exhibit No. 276.
(The curtain rods referred to were at this time marked by the reporter
as Ruth Paine Exhibit Nos. 275 and 276, for identification.)
Mr. JENNER. Since we will have the exact physical exhibits we don't
have to measure them, but perhaps for somebody who is reading the
record, Mr. Howlett, your suggestion that we measure them is not a bad
one. Let me describe the configuration of these rods. They are very
light weight--what would you say that metal is, Mr. Howlett, tin--heavy
tin?
Agent HOWLETT. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. They are the sliding or extension type, one fitting into
the other when closed entirely, measuring from upended tip to upended
tip they are----
Agent HOWLETT. The white one is 2 feet 3-1/2 inches.
Mr. JENNER. And the cream colored one measured in the like fashion?
Agent HOWLETT. It is 2 feet 3-1/2 inches.
Mr. JENNER. These curtain rods--the ends of each of them are turned.
Those ends extending are turned up how many inches?
Agent HOWLETT. About 2 inches measuring from the inside of the curtain
rod.
Mr. JENNER. On the cream colored one, and what about the white one?
Agent HOWLETT. Yes; on the cream colored one and the white one measures
about 2-3/8 inches.
Mr. JENNER. Now, these curtain rods with the ends turned up form a "U,"
do they not, a long "U"?
Agent HOWLETT. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Now, Mrs. Paine, we have only remaining the one other item
to which you have called our attention and that is the correspondence
between you and Marina Oswald subsequent to November 22, 1963.
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Have you been able to assemble that correspondence for me?
Mrs. PAINE. I appear only to have the translation.
Mr. JENNER. I beg your pardon?
Mrs. PAINE. I appear only to have the translation.
Mr. JENNER. You appear only to have the translation--will you explain
that remark?
Mrs. PAINE. The correspondence you refer to is all by me, with the
exception of one Christmas card from Marina.
Mr. JENNER. When it is by you, you mean it is correspondence you
transmitted to her and therefore you do not have the originals?
Mrs. PAINE. I thought I had the rough draft of what I wrote--I appear
only to have a translation of that rough draft. I made a translation
for several of these--I made a translation at the time and sent them
off.
Mr. JENNER. At the time you prepared the originals?
Mrs. PAINE. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. May I have the translations?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; you may.