Mr. JENNER. During this 15-day period?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. We had such conversations.
Mr. JENNER. Would you please relate to us your discussions with Marina
with respect to her husband Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, she wondered if he did, in fact, love her.
Mr. JENNER. What did she say?
Mrs. PAINE. She said she supposed most couples had at some time
wondered about this. She wondered herself whether she loved him truly.
She talked some of her few months of dating that she had in Minsk, and
of living there.
Mr. JENNER. That is before her marriage to Lee Harvey?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. At some point, and I want to tell you this, whether
it is appropriate or whether it happened later in October, I can't be
certain, but I think in May she told me that she had written a letter
to a previous boyfriend, and that this letter had come back because she
had put insufficient postage on it, and Lee had found it at the door
coming back through the mail, and had been very angry.
Mr. JENNER. Did she go beyond that?
Mrs. PAINE. She did not. To tell me what was in the letter, you mean?
Mr. JENNER. I am not thinking so much within the letter. Did she go
beyond stating that he was merely only angry? Was there any discussion
about his having struck her?
Mrs. PAINE. No; none. No; none. She never mentioned to me ever that Lee
had struck her.
Mr. JENNER. And during all the visits you ever had with her, all the
tete-a-tetes, her living with you on this occasion we now describe as
15-1/2 days, and in the fall, was there any occasion when Marina Oswald
related to you any abuse, physical abuse, by her husband, Lee Harvey
Oswald, with respect to her?
Mrs. PAINE. There was never any such occasion.
Mr. JENNER. Never any such occasion. And in particular this incident?
Mrs. PAINE. She related this incident, but it did not include anything
further than he had been very angry and hurt.
Mr. JENNER. Up to this time, that is, the time she came to you on the
24th, had you ever seen any bruises----