THE "PAINE / VON PEIN" CONNECTION
David Von Pein
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ALBERT JENNER -- "We have now reached the summer period of 1963, and
covered some of it in part. My recollection of your testimony is that
you vacationed in the summer of 1963."
RUTH PAINE -- "That is right."
ALBERT JENNER -- "You visited various members of your family up
north?"
RUTH PAINE -- "Yes. .... I saw also friends...in Richmond, Indiana,
and then from there I headed directly south to New Orleans."
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The above testimony about Mrs. Paine visiting Richmond, Indiana, in
the late summer of 1963 really hits home (literally) with this writer,
because Richmond just happens to be the small town in eastern Indiana
where I was born in 1961.
Perhaps some crackerjack conspiracy theorist can now link me (as a
"conspirator") to the Kennedy assassination, by way of Ruth Paine's
visit to my hometown just two months (approximately) before the
President was killed.
Of course, I wasn't even two years old when Ruth visited with some of
her friends in my hometown in September 1963, but that shouldn't
eliminate me as having possibly hosted a clandestine meeting with Ruth
Paine, from my crib, to talk over plans of the assassination. <grin>
When I first saw the words "Richmond, Indiana" in Ruth's WC testimony,
I nearly fell off my chair, due to the somewhat remarkable coincidence
of Mrs. Paine, an acquaintance of President Kennedy's assassin, having
actually been in the very small town where I was born* only two-plus
months prior to JFK's death.
* = When I lived in Richmond (1961-1977), the population was 43,999
(via the 1970 Census). The population has dropped slightly since
then.
The topic of Richmond comes up one more time in Mrs. Paine's Warren
Commission sessions too, when she talks about "Earlham College", which
was located within just a few miles of my house in Richmond:
ALBERT JENNER -- "In some of the materials I have seen there is
mention of a Young Friends meeting or conference at Earlham College in
Richmond, Indiana. I think you made some reference to that yesterday,
did you not?"
RUTH PAINE -- "There was a conference, a Young Friends Conference at
Earlham in 1947. That was the first one I ever attended."
It's quite possible that Mrs. Paine and her immediate family visited
Richmond at other times through the years as well, seeing as how Ruth
and her brother went to college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which is only
52 miles from Richmond.
Off-Topic Note Re. Richmond:
Here's a "BTW" notation (since the topic of my hometown has come up)
-- This month (April 6, 2008) marks the 40th anniversary of the most
newsworthy event to ever occur in the city of Richmond, Indiana:
At 1:47 PM on Saturday, April 6, 1968, just two days after the country
was shocked by the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., downtown
Richmond, Indiana, was rocked by a series of deadly explosions,
sparked by a gas leak underneath Main Street.
41 people were killed and dozens more were injured by the massive
explosions, which totally destroyed several city blocks of downtown
Richmond.
A "green light" on Main Street very possibly saved this writer's life
that April day in 1968. My brothers and I were on Main Street, riding
in my father's 1967 Chevrolet Impala, when the tragedy occurred. If it
hadn't been for the green traffic lights that were in our favor, my
dad's car would have very likely been sitting on "Ground Zero" just as
the first explosion occurred on Main Street. (Green became one of my
favorite colors as of that day in 1968.)
A new movie about the Richmond explosion, entitled "1:47", premiered
at Indiana University East on April 4, 2008:
www.147film.com/index.html
"1:47" MOVIE TRAILER:
www.147film.com/video/index.html
"DEATH IN A SUNNY STREET":
http://gates.mrl.lib.in.us:8080/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/fulltext&CISOPTR=1981&REC=1