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  1. I don't see any of these stories actually pointing out where to access the original files. Someone should locate them and have them translated... https://yle.fi/a/74-20064205
  2. I believe Ruth was offended that Lee was "lying on her typewriter" after reading his letter, and that he was actually using it with her permission. How interesting that the Paines, with all their communist/socialist parents, harboring a Russian emigre and a returned defector, never seemed to arouse the slightest suspicion on the part of the authorities. If there was suspicion for a moment in the beginning, it was completely shut down by higher ups and the right people vouching for the Paines.
  3. Thanks for the kind words, Gene. And yes, Sandy, Salandria makes those points in the film. I think we can throw out the crude and deceptive argument that "Ruth Paine has been 100% honest at all times and, as a pious Quaker, she would never lie." Anyone making this argument shouldn't be taken seriously. She stole Oswald's letter, planned to give it to the FBI behind his back, and did so, but not before FAILING to tell the police about this letter when they first arrived to search her home after THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT. She was clearly less than forthcoming when I asked her about her sister's CIA connections. She also repeatedly dodges my question about there being a conflict of values with Michael working for a military contractor. And as Tom points out above, I know there are other examples of Ruth being less than forthcoming. Michael Paine supposedly kept it a secret that he saw the photo of Oswald with the rifle for 30 years.
  4. Good to see you still working on this, Bill. I have also also surmised that the Paines, with their plethora of communist/socialist family connections could easily have been tied up in a communist plot storyline. We have reports on Ruth Forbes Young, Arthur Young and Carol Hyde (Ruth's mother) where they were all suspected of being communists, let alone the famous Trotskyist, Lyman Paine. The report on Ruth Forbes Young and Arthur Young was triggered by someone who they met at a party in 1950 and supposedly told that they were communists. William Avery Hyde was a presumed socialist, supporting Norman Thomas. That's all the parents right there. So, whether or not all these people were actually working for the government and were die-hard capitalist Americans, we have a paper trail that could easily be seen as incriminating in a communist plot story. So, it would have been an open option to either tie the Paines up in such a story or to lean on them with the implied or explicit threat of doing so. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145799#relPageId=5&search=arthur_young communist https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11184#relPageId=14&search=arthur_young ruth communism https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=58982#relPageId=15&search=carol_hyde communist
  5. That's a coincidence. I was just looking at the document concerning the two $100 checks today. I found it in Harold Weisberg's Paine collection on Archive.org. Some other good stuff in there. It was George Stephenson, a fellow Bell engineer, who sold Michael the 1955 Oldsmobile. He was interviewed by the FBI (it appears to be Hosty) and said that Michael's explanation for the two $100 checks was to dodge the sales tax on the transaction. https://archive.org/details/nsia-PaineMichaelRuth/nsia-PaineMichaelRuth/Paine Michael-Ruth 20/page/n1/mode/2up
  6. @James DiEugenio Jim, in one of your interviews with me, you said that: Is this correct? Was it the Houston Post or the Chronicle? I haven't been able to find a mention of this online. Anyone have any info? Interestingly, I also found a March 1964 article in the NYT where Ruth is the source linking Oswald to the Walker shooting. https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/20/archives/oswald-is-linked-to-shot-at-walker.html
  7. People might want to take a close look at the wording of Ruth's answers to some of my questions. Here are some excerpts from my transcripts: Q: And your sister? (regarding CIA connections) A: I think she worked briefly with an outfit. All I really know, that she's told me about it, is that she was helping develop questionnaires for non-English speakers to try to figure out who would be bright and capable and they were looking for employers, employees for oil rigs. That's about all I knew and that was maybe for a year or two. It came out of a job that she had at college and then she was a stay at home mom from mid-50s on. Q: So, yeah, it seems these conspiracy people claim that your sister was in the CIA but I've never seen a document. A: Well, it’s possible, but I think unlikely that some of the contracts she may have been working on could have been something that CIA wanted, but I don't know. --- (A later interview, after I found the document) Interviewer: This is some sort of CIA declassified document about your sister. Ruth: Yeah. Okay, it's possible. What I know of what she did in a brief job she had in Washington, that she told me about ... She had studied psychology, I guess, and she was helping to develop tests of intelligence that didn't involve language, because they wanted to get bright people working on the oil fields. That's all I know about what she did. Interviewer: This document does basically say that she had been employed by the CIA at one point. Ruth: Mmmm. She wasn't employed for very long, in her whole life. Interviewer: I don't know if that's anything people talk about when they work with the CIA. Ruth: What? Interviewer: I don't know if people talk about that when they work for the CIA, but is that something that your sister ever discussed with you, what kind of work she was doing? Ruth: No, just that one time. Interviewer: Oh. Ruth: That didn't identify the agency. Interviewer: Do you see why people take these connections as being suspicious? Ruth: Sure, yeah. --- Q: And another one they bring up is the fact that Michael worked for Bell helicopter and you guys were pacifist or at least you were. A: Yeah. Q: I don't know about Michael. A: I was. Yeah. He went to, he was a draftee for the Korean War. He went to Korea. Q: Was it a conflict with your values? A: We were pretty close on values. We really didn't talk much about that, about his service. He's a very. . . he thinks about what's the right thing to do. One of the things he told me was when he was being inducted into the Army they have. . . they read off something and then they say, "If you swear to this, take a step forward." He said it included saying I will follow the officer's orders whatever they are and he was still thinking about that when everybody else stepped forward. So, he had to go up later and say, "I'm not sure I'm inducted because I can't agree to following the orders of my superior no matter what they might be." Which, of course, actually you're not supposed to follow the orders if you seriously consider them wrong. So, in terms of outlook on the world, we're pretty close. Q: Was it. . . did you feel bad that he was working for a, I don't know, is that a defense contractor or did they just make helicopters? A: Well, he had been working for his father, my father-in-law, his step-father on inventing, building, a model for a vertical take-off and landing machine. His step-father had been a major person in developing the first licensed helicopter license to fly, you know, an inventor and recommended Michael to Bell Helicopter, who developed the helicopter. That's where my father-in-law went with his model, was to Larry Bell, and they built a full-size model of the helicopter. That's how it got started. The Bell Helicopter was Michael's step-father's vehicle and. . . where was I going with that? Anyway. Q: I guess they were used widely in Vietnam. . . A: That was it. Yeah. Okay. It was his first major paid job, for Michael, and he was glad to get it, I think. It was a steady paycheck, working with machine tools that he loved to do, and building parts, and talking with the engineers. So he really enjoyed that, but he told me, not too long ago, that they wanted him to become more of a desk person. A manager? And he really didn't want to do that. And I never heard him talk about how he felt whether this was contributing to killing or war, but he did only work there about ten years.
  8. Thanks, Tony. I found some more info on this patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3486717A/en?q=helicopter&inventor=paine&oq=michael+paine He has three other patents listed here and they all look to be similar: https://patents.google.com/?inventor=paine+michael
  9. Hi Tony. Where did you find this schematic?
  10. In addition to the excellent article by Brian Baccus for WhoWhatWhy, three other articles on Ruth Paine came out this anniversary. There are even mentions of the suspicions. The Columbus Dispatch covers Ruth and Paul Landis. How 2 former Columbus-area natives were in middle of JFK assassination 60 years ago today https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/11/22/how-two-columbus-area-teens-ended-up-in-jfk-assassination-and-investigation/71595936007/ The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (Ruth's local paper) has an article by Chris Smith, who has written several others on her over the years. 60th anniversary of JFK assassination revives troubled time for Sonoma County resident Ruth Paine, host to Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/60th-anniversary-of-jfk-assassination-revives-troubled-time-for-sonoma-coun/ The Epoch Times has a strange article by someone who interviewed Ruth. 60-Year Anniversary of the Assassination of JFK: Interview With Key Witness Ruth Paine https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/60-year-anniversary-of-the-assassination-of-jfk-interview-with-key-witness-ruth-paine-5534452
  11. According to the author, who has reached out to me, there is supposed to be new information on Ruth Paine in this book. https://x.com/DianaThoma19326/status/1725910515661050270?s=20
  12. I actually cut a little scene about this but it didn't make it into the movie. This issue appears to be inconclusive. Ruth's story is that she heard the March 20 date on TV on 11/23/63 and wrote it down in her calendar. I found the footage where that date is announced. The issue of the mixup between October/November is odd though. You can see it (for free) on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/deleted-scene-73267969
  13. The Age of Unreality is upon us. They've been gearing this thing up for a long time, but now it begins in earnest. They will have a big section of the population begging for regulation and standards because of the epistemological chaos. It already happened with the Democrats and Trump. I never expected a confession from her. But, if she decides to do it one day, I hope she calls me.
  14. It appears that someone has created a sophisticated FAKE "confession" audio interview with Ruth Paine, perhaps using AI tools such as voice matching synthesis. It sounds a lot like her, but maybe a younger version. But there is clearly something off about the speech of both her and the interviewer. This was posted to YouTube today by an account that was created yesterday with the following description: At 2:25, "Ruth" says, "Both myself and my husband were employed by Central Intelligence as handlers for the Oswalds."
  15. I think the reason Greg Doudna couldn't resist re-posting the material on Griffin from my Patreon, despite the clear instruction not to, was that he hoped Griffin would take some legal action against me. Griffin, Paul Hoch, W. Tracy Parnell, Doudna, Fred Litwin, and David von Pein have all suggested or intimated legal action against me. That's not exactly in the spirit of a "friendly debate," as far as I'm concerned. This isn't about intellectual property for me and I will not engage with people who would like to see me getting sued. I think most of us can see who has honest intentions and who does not. Thanks to Denny Zartman and John Cotter for the support.
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