Ruth and Michael Paine were invited to a party in February of 1963 where they were introduced to Lee and Marina Oswald by George de Morenschildt. When Lee Oswald was looking for work, Ruth told him of a job at the Texas School Book Depository that she said she heard about from her neighbor, Linnie Mae Randle, who was Buell Wesley Frazier's sister. She says she now regrets making the connection for him.

With the job secured, the couple moved in with Ruth Paine. Michael had moved out as the marriage headed for an amicable divorce. Lee found a room close to the depository to stay in during the week. This suited Ruth just fine as she did not care to have Lee around. She did, however, she did like Marina and developed a relationship with her.

After the assassination, Ruth Paine made the interview circuit where she played the role of simple house wife who offered her home to a couple that needed a place to live and gave her the opportunity to practice the Russian she had been studying for years. She has described Lee Oswald as Trotskyite communist and supporter or Fidel Castro's Cuba in conversations with FBI Agent, James Hosty. When Sheriff's Deputy Buddy Walthers searched the home following the assassination he found several file cabinets filled with pro-Castro literature – which would be unusual to find in the home of a simple housewife.  Interestingly, the Paine's tax returns have been sealed, keeping them out of the hands of researchers seeking to find their sources of income... which could well have come from the intelligence community.

Does this square with the reality of a connected, sophisticated gentleman like de Morenschildt placing a young former Marine defector in their middle class home. We can begin with the tip for the book depository job that she claimed the neighbor gave her – Linnie Randle denies knowing of any opportunities. Beyond that, she received a message for Lee from the Texas Employment Commission about an opening at Trans Texas Airways which would have paid significantly more than the book depository... but the message was never delivered.

The Paines had an interesting mix of connected relatives and friends for a simple middle class family. Ruth was a Quaker who attended the nominally Christian Antioch College. She was interested in studying Russian and enjoyed folk dancing... and was one of the relatives of the Lodge family... as in Henry Cabot Lodge. She and her husband Michael socialized with Mary Bancroft, paramour of Allen Dulles and friend of Michael's parents.

She gave a hand written copy of a typed letter than Lee Oswald allegedly sent to the Russian Embassy in Washington. It aligned with the version the FBI intercepted, but had none of the spelling and grammatical errors of Oswald's regular writing. There are stories of Mrs Paine being a CIA operative in South America and being asked to leave because she was not sufficiently discreet about her activities. This would be hard to confirm as she denies it and the company certainly would not confirm it. However her father's work took him to different parts of the world with considerable time in South America.  As the Paine's garage was searched following the murder of the President, index card files were discovered with records of most of the left wing activists in the Dallas area.

Michael Paine had a resemblance to Lee Oswald and was the step son of Arthur Young, who designed the first commercial helicopter, as well as the nephew of Larry Bell.  He worked for the Bell Helicopter company. His birth father, Lyman Paine, was a confirmed Trotskyite and his mother, Ruth Forbes Young (Part of the Forbes family) was a financial backer of the International Peace Academy, and joined the World Federalist Movement and for a time was a consultant to the United Nations.

When the Paines were being checked out for the validity of their testimony, the son of Fred Osborn Sr. who was the creator of Radio Free Europe and worked with the CIA testified to their reliability.

For years she was happy to tell her story to anyone who would listen and it never deviated from the official version of the Warren Commission tale.

Lee Harvey Oswald Ruth Paine Texas Schoolbook Depository Cuban Guerrilla Exile Marita Lorenz Assassination Squad Cover Up
by William C. Lewis

Ruth Paine and Michael Paine were the people that Lee Harvey Oswald's wife Marina and his two daughters were living with in Irving, Texas, before the Nov. 22, 1963 deep state JFK assassination. Oswald frequently visited this residence and kept his items in the Paine's garage. Michael Paine had a high level position at Bell Helicopter, which profited handsomely from the Vietnam War. Find out, in this informative report, how Ruth Paine was involved in ensuring that Lee Harvey Oswald was working in the Texas School Book Depository on the day of the JFK assassination Nov. 22, 1963, where he could be conveniently framed by the covert team of hit squad assassins that consisted partially of CIA trained Cuban guerrilla anti-Castro exiles that were angry over Kennedy's denial of air support for the Cuban rebels during the Bay of Pigs invasion from April 17-21, 1961. Also read about what CIA officers that testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) thought about the possibility of Oswald being a secret CIA operative. Then, read about how Fidel Castro's lover Marita Lorenz, who was a CIA operative, was used by the agency in an attempt to poison Castro and what this woman said at the HSCA hearings about the men that she accompanied the night before the Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy assassination that she referred to as an assassination squad.
 

Mrs. Paine's Garage: and the Murder of John F. Kennedy
by Thomas Mallon

Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in the Oswalds’ lives that she eventually became one of the Warren Commission’s most important witnesses.

Mrs. Paine’s Garage is the tragic story of a well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job that put him six floors above Dealey Plaza—into which, on November 22, he fired a rifle he’d kept hidden inside Mrs. Paine’s house. But this is also a tale of survival and resiliency: the story of a devout, open-hearted woman who weathered a whirlwind of investigation, suspicion, and betrayal, and who refused to allow her enmeshment in the calamity of that November to crush her own life.

Thomas Mallon gives us a disturbing account of generosity and secrets, of suppressed memories and tragic might-have-beens, of coincidences more eerie than conspiracy theory. His book is unlike any other work that has been published on the murder of President Kennedy.