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

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 Com-mission�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 and secrets, of suppressed memories and tragic might-have-beens, of coincidences more eerie than conspiracy theory. His book is unlike any other work that has been published on the murder of President Kennedy.