Ruth Paine & "The Queen of Spades"
paul seaton
belonging to Lee, at her house, at any time prior to March 64.
Whatever Mary Ferrell really saw on the bookshelf, it had never been in the
possession of Lee Oswald.
Here's an old post of mine from acjfk =>
On the micro-question "did Ruth Paine have a gray book entitled "The Queen
of Spades" ,by Alexander Pushkin, that had previously been in the possession
of Lee Oswald, on her bookshelves in 1967?" :
Was Ruth aware of any such book of Lee's existing, prior to her Warren
testimony in March 64?
Ans: No.
Did she see any such book, in Russian, Swahili, Serbo-Croat or English,
belonging to Lee, at her house, prior to 22/11/63 ?
Ans: No.
Was she aware that Oswald even possesed a single book, prior to this
testimony?
Ans : No.
The relevant passages are below.
If the book Mary Ferrell thinks she saw there in 67 actually once belonged
to Lee, a very good question would be "How the devil did the damn thing get
there between March 64 and Xmas 1967?"
Another would be "How did it get there without Ruth being aware of it's
arrival?"
Another would be "If there was such a book there in 1967, wouldn't the
obvious conclusion be that it belonged to Ruth, and just happened to be the
same old (gray) edition that can still be found to this day, by anyone with
the motivation, with a little work?"
(Skeptics will claim this to be a monumental co-incidence, apparently
believing that there were hundreds of editions of this totally obscure book
in print in the US in 1963.)
See below.
<quote>
..
Mr. Jenner.
In the household goods and paraphernalia transferred to your house [from
N.O.] , were there any books, pamphlets, literature?
Mrs. Paine.
I didn't see any.
Mr. Jenner.
You did not see any?
Mrs. Paine.
I did not.
Mr. Jenner.
Any particular books in which he was interested?
Mrs. Paine.
I don't know of any books.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mrs. Paine.
None that I saw him read.
..
<unquote>
Ruth is shown a DPD list of literature removed from the Irving house.
(See
http://www.jfk-assassination.de/WCH/paine_r3.html
bottom of page, for the list)
It includes such items as:
"Books, Russian (18) Irving"
(showing Greg how well the old cosmopolitan DPD read Russian).
<quote>
Mr. Jenner.
Now, would you go through that list and arrest our attention to any item
which had come to your attention prior to November 22, 1963?
...
Mr. Jenner.
And is it also your testimony that having examined all those items which are
listed as having been found by the police in your home in Irving, that you
don't recall having seen any of those in your home?
Mrs. Paine.
I'm quite certain I did not see well, let's see, any of those with the
possible exception of a newspaper from Minsk.
<unquote>
..
Thus we can be quite sure that Ruth saw NO books, in Russian or English,
belonging to Lee, at her house, at any time prior to March 64.
Whatever Mary Ferrell really saw on the bookshelf, it had never been in the
possession of Lee Oswald.