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| | Behind the Book- Assassin at the Dinner Table; At the Center of a National Tragedy - December 15, 2001 - Library Journal |
 | | In February 1963, Ruth Paine, a young mother living in Irving, TX, and newly separated from her husband, met Lee and Marina Oswald at a local party. |
 | | Of Paine's friendship with Marina, Mallon explains, 'There was something about this girl that appealed to her-her Russianness, the language, Ruth's natural desire to help.' She also tried to accommodate Marina's moody and erratic husband, when he wasn't living in nearby boarding houses under heroic aliases. |
 | | Paine gave Lee driving lessons and even helped get him his job at the Texas School Book Depository, from whose window, on November 22, 1963, he fired a $20 rifle he had kept wrapped up in her garage and killed the President of the United States. |
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