Ruth Paine welcomed Lee Harvey Oswald's family into her home and helped him get a job in the building from which she shot Kennedy.
For conspiracy investigators, these coincidences show that Ruth Paine was part of a government plot to frame Oswald as the president's assassin. Her defenders, however, believe that this woman is an innocent bystander trapped in history, the victim of a paranoid setup.
Ruth Paine met Lee and Marina Oswald a few months before Kennedy's assassination. She went to a party in Dallas in February 1963. She took Marina and their son into her house, while Lee visited them on weekends and even young Oswald's rifle was kept in her garage. Ruth also helped him get a job at the Texas School Book Depository, from where on November 22 of that year, according to the official version, the shot that killed JFK was fired.
Looking back, Ruth remembers that on the morning of the assassination, she and Marina watched on television as the president lost his life. "I was crying and she was very worried," Ruth recalls almost sixty years later.
Then, "the men from the Dallas Police Department showed up and that was the first indication we had that her husband was related to that tragic event," she says calmly. The cops then discovered that Oswald's rifle had gone missing from Ruth's garage. "That's when I thought it might have been Lee," says Ruth Paine.
What role did Ruth Paine play in the Kennedy assassination?
From that day on, Ruth reinforced that thesis, first in the Warren Commission, which officially investigated the assassination of JFK, and later in the countless interviews she gave throughout these six decades.
But the unappealable coincidences that link her to the official assassin of the assassination have been more than enough, in all this time, for the conspiracy investigators to accuse her of being a government agent who helped frame Lee Harvey Oswald as an assassination.
"The inescapable truth about the Kennedy assassination is that the testimonies, the evidence, do not coincide with the conclusions reached by the Warren Commission," reveals historian and writer Jim Dieugenio. "The Warren Commission hid mountains of evidence from the public," insists along the same lines, crime investigator Gary Aguilar, thus consolidating the idea of conspiracy, installed in more than two-thirds of Americans, as confirmed by the United States media. Joined.
An innocent bystander trapped by history
Ruth Paine's detractors did not stop casting doubt on her and her ex-husband, Michael Paine, regarding their possible relationship with the CIA. There were all kinds of rumors, although they found no clear evidence that directly incriminated them. But her father and sister's ties to American intelligence put her in the spotlight. "I was not Oswald's babysitter for the CIA," Ruth asserts.
Attorney and JFK assassination researcher Bill Simpich thinks "there's something important about Ruth Paine's story that just doesn't add up." Her defenders believe that the persecution of her and the suspicions cast on her during all these years are part of an absurd paranoid montage. "Ruth was completely honest with the FBI," says journalist Max Holland.
Along with her husband, Michael, she appears in several reports of the official investigation. They were asked more than six thousand questions. Ruth, however, states "that I never felt that anyone on the Warren Commission suspected me." "In a very real sense they were victims," says lawyer Vincent Salandria.
