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Key witness in the JFK Assassination with CIA Links Dies
The woman who opened up her Texas home to Lee Harvey Oswald the night before he assassinated President John F. Kennedy has died at age 92.
Oswald's wife, Marina, and their children had been staying at Paine's home in the Dallas of suburb of Irving in the fall of 1963.
Paine and her estranged husband Michael met the couple at a dinner party and the two women formed a friendship because Paine wanted to practice speaking Russian with Marina, who was born in the Soviet Union.
Marina lived at Paine's house with her first daughter after she and her husband moved back to Dallas from New Orleans two months before the assassination.
Paine also got the future killer his job at the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald shot the president from the sixth floor window.
Oswald, who was living in a rooming house near the city's downtown, would usually visit his family at Paine's house on the weekends.
But, he made an unexpected visit on Thursday, November 21, 1963, and stayed at the house the night before the assassination.
Ruth Paine (pictured in 2004, died at age 92 at a senior living facility in Santa Rosa, California , on August 31
Key witness in the JFK assassination with CIA links dies
Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night a Ruth Paine's (pictured) suburban Texas home the night before he assassinated JFK.
