Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Did not understand what she was saying?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And that went on through the entire evening?
Mrs. PAINE. You must understand she was not present for, I would say,
more than half of the evening. She was just with her child.
Mr. JENNER. But while she was present.
Mrs. PAINE. There was no translation done for her benefit.
Mr. JENNER. Or for the benefit of anybody else who did not understand
Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. The other way; no. It is a long time ago.
Mr. JENNER. Oh, yes. Was anything the subject that evening of Mrs.
Oswald's family background? Was that discussed?
Mrs. PAINE. Of Marina's?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. PAINE. No; nothing.
Mr. JENNER. It was not discussed at anytime during that evening, the
fact that she was in Russia, she had been educated as, and was, a
pharmacist?
Mrs. PAINE. That might have been said. I don't recall.
Mr. JENNER. What was your reaction to the De Mohrenschildts that
evening?
Mrs. PAINE. I had heard from Everett that they were interesting people,
that they had gone on a hiking tour through Mexico taking pictures
as they went. I learned or had known from Everett, also, in this one
telephone conversation, that he was a geologist, a free lancer.
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt seemed somewhat protective toward Marina in the
sense of wanting her to understand what was--wanting to talk with her,
to include her. Mr. De Mohrenschildt talked about his past life some in
English.
Mr. JENNER. His speaking of his past life was in English?
Mrs. PAINE. Was in English. I recalled to him his first wife who was
also a Quaker. I remember he said that.
Mr. JENNER. When was your next contact with either Marina Oswald or Lee
Oswald?
Mrs. PAINE. I wrote a letter, a note to Marina at the address I had
been given, and got a note back saying, "We have moved. This is the new
address. Come in perhaps a week." From that time. She wanted to get the
house cleaned up before I came.
Mr. JENNER. They lived in Dallas, did they not?
Mrs. PAINE. That was in Dallas; yes.
Mr. JENNER. On this February 22 occasion they were then living on Neely
Street in Dallas?
Mrs. PAINE. I believe they moved just in that period that I had the
previous address, and as soon as I wrote, the first letter I got back
gave the Neely Street address.
Mr. JENNER. You have recorded that, have you not, in your address book?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Which I will follow up in a moment. Do you have a copy of
the letter that you wrote to Marina?
Mrs. PAINE. No. That initial letter asking if I could come over? I
don't believe I do.