The 30 Minute Rule begins November 11 at 7:00 PM EST. An Initial Bid Must Be Placed By November 11 at 6:00 PM EST To Participate After 6:00 PM EST
American educator (1932–2025) who became a significant witness in the investigation of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination after befriending Marina Oswald and housing her and her children in Irving, Texas, in 1963. She later testified extensively before the Warren Commission concerning Lee Harvey Oswald and the events surrounding the assassination. TLS signed “Ruth Hyde Paine,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, January 11, 2021. Letter to Bill Dee, in full: “I generally do not answer specific questions from folks like yourself who are studying the assassination of President Kennedy. I usually just limit myself to signing things for people who request that I sign photos they have sent. But here goes.
1. Oswald spoke Spanish? I never heard him speak any Spanish nor heard that he could do so.
2. I think Oswald acted entirely alone. I think he had a sudden impulse to try to shoot the president when he saw in the paper Thursday that the motorcade was going to go right by the School Book Depository. He asked for a ride to my house on Thursday, Nov. 21. He had never come from work on a weekday before, and always asked if it was ok for him to come to the house when he came for the weekend. He didn’t ask permission that time. It’s my belief that if he had planned to try to shoot the president as early as Thursday morning, he would have taken his pistol with him that morning when he left the rooming house where he lived. What did he do when he slipped out of the School Book Depository Friday after he shot Kennedy? He went to his rooming house and got his pistol.
I had the impression from something I read that Oswald walked to his rooming house after trying to shoot Walker, and hiding the rifle. Marina’s report includes the information that he went back later (a day or several days later, I don’t know) and got the rifle.
In Dallas, it is possible that he could walk around carrying a rifle and no one would confront him about it. I heard from a newsman after the assassination who tried carrying a rifle in downtown Dallas, and no one confronted him or asked him about it.
I believe Oswald came out Thursday evening expressly to get the rifle. I did not know he had a rifle, nor that he had put it in my garage. (It probably came from New Orleans the end of September with many of their things. There was a large Marine duffle bag which could have easily accommodated the rifle.)
Marina knew he had a rifle, and that he had used it to try to kill Walker. When I heard on the TV Friday morning the 22nd that it was thought the shot that killed Kennedy had been fired from the School Book Depository, I translated that information to Marina. I learned later that she then slipped into the garage to check, and thought the gun was still there, in a blanket roll she saw on the floor.
I learned only last year that Buell Frazier thought the package Lee brought to the SBD Friday was not able to hold the rifle. I’m surprised at that. The paper wrap Oswald put around the rifle was from paper identified as from the School Book Depository. It looks to me as though Lee made the paper package Thursday in order to hide the rifle when he went into town on Friday with Buell.
Enough. I’ll enclose something I have written about how Oswald’s note to Marina — which he left for her when he went to try to kill Walker — was discovered. I won’t answer more questions. But good luck in your investigations. There is a lot of poor research out on the internet about the Kennedy assassination." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and the referenced enclosure, a two-page account by Paine explaining how Oswald’s handwritten note to Marina, left before his attempt to kill retired Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, was discovered after the Kennedy assassination.
This item is Pre-Certified by PSA/DNA
Buy a third-party letter of authenticity for
(inquire for price)
*This item has been pre-certified by a trusted third-party authentication service, and by placing a bid on this item, you agree to accept the opinion of this authentication service. If you wish to have an opinion rendered by a different authenticator of your choosing, you must do so prior to your placing of any bid. RR Auction is not responsible for differing opinions submitted 30 days after the date of the sale.
Third-party authentication service applies only to signatures and handwriting, and does not cover the addition of sketches, artwork, musical quotations, etc.
