17-02-2011, 11:41 AM
Interesting topic, Steve, and I would never be able to keep up with Bernice.
I just wonder if there isn't more to the Paine story on the husband's side, Michael's.
His moving out in 1962 - opening up the house for when the Oswalds' returned to Texas, so that Marina could be living with Ruth - seems to have left Ruth just a convenient aider and abetter of whatever secret government came up with, as events showed so graphically.
I would like to know more about the Quaker Hydes and Paines of Philly, especially if there is a John Paine in there somewhere - say Michael's brother.
John Paine and his wife Rita went to the greatest lengths to make sure that my father and me never got hooked up in any JFK assassination inquiry. My father, the most outspoken American general against the Vietnam war, was doused with red paint when he spoke against the war in Dallas for supporting the communists, and I was always going on at Holy Cross College and beyond about the cock-up in the Dallas conspiracy, though I never recall any serious discussion with him about the tragedy.
These Paines befriended both my parents, and me and my wife, and it all seemed to be intended to keep tract of what we were doing, especially if we were getting togther to do something publicly.
I shall never forget when me and she were invited to say with them in Weston, MA when a JFK assassination forum was taking place at Boston University. They had a dinner with guests who asked me so many questions about my research that we arrived well after the forum started, and were seated only well in the back so that it was impossible to me to ask anything if I had wanted to.
Then, the next day, John Paine had arranged without consulting me for a day's long interview with a stringer from the Boston Globe about my research - an opportunty I could hardly turn down - though nothing - surprise, surprise! - ever appeared in the newspaper.
Was John Paine Michael's brother?
I just wonder if there isn't more to the Paine story on the husband's side, Michael's.
His moving out in 1962 - opening up the house for when the Oswalds' returned to Texas, so that Marina could be living with Ruth - seems to have left Ruth just a convenient aider and abetter of whatever secret government came up with, as events showed so graphically.
I would like to know more about the Quaker Hydes and Paines of Philly, especially if there is a John Paine in there somewhere - say Michael's brother.
John Paine and his wife Rita went to the greatest lengths to make sure that my father and me never got hooked up in any JFK assassination inquiry. My father, the most outspoken American general against the Vietnam war, was doused with red paint when he spoke against the war in Dallas for supporting the communists, and I was always going on at Holy Cross College and beyond about the cock-up in the Dallas conspiracy, though I never recall any serious discussion with him about the tragedy.
These Paines befriended both my parents, and me and my wife, and it all seemed to be intended to keep tract of what we were doing, especially if we were getting togther to do something publicly.
I shall never forget when me and she were invited to say with them in Weston, MA when a JFK assassination forum was taking place at Boston University. They had a dinner with guests who asked me so many questions about my research that we arrived well after the forum started, and were seated only well in the back so that it was impossible to me to ask anything if I had wanted to.
Then, the next day, John Paine had arranged without consulting me for a day's long interview with a stringer from the Boston Globe about my research - an opportunty I could hardly turn down - though nothing - surprise, surprise! - ever appeared in the newspaper.
Was John Paine Michael's brother?