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

Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML: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 a… (more)