Her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife made her a noteworthy witness during the Warren Commission’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Ruth Paine in 2013. She let Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife, Marina, stay at her home in 1963 and, according to the author Thomas Mallon, knew more about the Oswalds’ movements and moods in the months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy than anyone else did.
In 1951, always an adventurer, he was the second person to walk the trail in a “thru-hike,” from Georgia to Maine, in an arduous 123 days. He later met the first to do so.
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