Mr. LIEBELER. And your recollection is that you saw him each
weekend after that except for the weekend immediately prior to the
assassination?
Mr. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. The weekend of November 8, 9, and 10 was a long weekend,
was it not?
Mr. PAINE. He was there then. I remember we didn't have a long weekend,
Bell didn't. He had another day to sit in front of the TV.
Mr. LIEBELER. Was that the last weekend that you saw him then?
Mr. PAINE. If that is the one prior, two weekends, yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now, starting at November 8, 9, and 10, which was the
last time you saw him, consider when your wife showed you the draft
of the letter that we spoke of just before. Would it have been that
weekend or after that?
Mr. PAINE. Well, I suppose it would be after that. They weren't in the
house when she showed it to me or at least he wasn't. I don't remember
when he wrote that letter or when we moved the furniture.
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't remember whether you saw Oswald after you read
the letter or not?
Mr. PAINE. That is a good question, I can see some point to it now. One
would surmise that, and I would think it reasonable that I would have
looked at him with somewhat different point of view after having read
the letter, and I don't remember looking at him with that different
point of view, so quite possibly I didn't see him again.
Mr. LIEBELER. So we would--the conclusion would be suggested that she
showed you the letter sometime after November 8 or 9, 1963?
Mr. PAINE. Yes; yes, I would guess that she, as I say, I would come
to a dinner when he was not there on either of the Tuesday or the
Wednesday and that would have been a reasonable time that she would
have shown me the letter.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have a discussion with her about this subject of
his having gone to Mexico which was discussed in the letter, was it not?
Mr. PAINE. She thought it was a fabrication, a complete fabrication.
And she did not discuss, she gave me the letter, and as I say I was
reading some other magazine and I read the letter and went back to my
magazine. How dense people can be. But anyway----