The Last Days of Lee Harvey Oswald: A Conversation with Ruth Paine

As part of the “Four Days in November” program series to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented an intimate conversation with Ruth Paine, moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin.

A housewife in Irving, Texas, Ruth Paine met Lee and Marina Oswald in February 1963 and became a central figure in the assassination story. Marina Oswald and her daughters were living with Paine on November 22, 1963, and Paine had previously helped get Lee Harvey Oswald a job at the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald had hidden his rifle in her garage. Paine actively cooperated with investigators following the assassination, and she testified at length to the Warren Commission in 1964.

This conversation was presented at the Museum on November 19, 2019, in partnership with the Irving Archives and Museum/Ruth Paine House Museum. In 2009, the City of Irving purchased Paine’s former home and restored it to its 1963 appearance, where it is now open to the public as a museum.

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