Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

 So, Ruth Paine didn't know anything, and she was not framing Oswald. She really believed that he did it, and she does to this day. As someone said, this was a "need to know" situation, and there was nothing she needed to know about the operation.

Several people have suggested that Ruth had sex feelings for Marina. It's possible. After all, she drove from Dallas to New Orleans to get Marina, which is a long way. And she dragged her two kids along. How selfish was that? A very long car ride, and as soon as they got there, turning around and coming right back, where there was nothing in it for those kids except drudgery? That was some selfish mothering. And it was all so that she could start supporting Marina on her estranged husband's money? It's bizarre, and it goes way beyond friendship. And she did it twice. It was Ruth who drove Marina and June down there in May to be with Oswald.

But, what about Michael Paine? What did he know?

But first, we need to recognize something: there was no rifle. There was never any rifle. Oswald said that he didn't own a rifle. It's what he told interrogators. And anyone who claims to be an Oswald defender has got to believe what Oswald said. You can't defend him and also call him a liar. Oswald was innocent, so he had nothing to lie about.

This article by John Armstrong proves that the whole mail order rifle story was an FBI scam:

https://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html

So, if there was no rifle, then the whole story of how the rifle got from New Orleans to Ruth Paine's garage is a crock.

And the story never made any sense. Why would Oswald need or want to store his rifle in Ruth Paine's garage? He had friends in New Orleans he could have left it with. And knowing that she was an anti-gun pacifist, she could have disposed of his rifle. Why would he risk that? And why would he load his rifle into her station wagon and assume that it would get moved into her garage without being detected? And why would Marina go along with it? You can't tell me that she offered to sneak it in.

So, not knowing what was going to happen when they got there, Oswald just sent his rifle on its way and hoped for the best? Is that it? It's only in JFK-land that bull shit is claimed.

So, there was no rifle; it was entirely made up. And yet, in his Warren Commission testimony Michael Paine said that he emptied the station wagon after his estranged wife got back, either the day she got back or the next day. And he said that all he could remember was duffle bags. But, we are talking about a rifle srapped in a blanket, which is very different from duffle bags.

But apparently, he did a lot of tinkering in that garage, and he liked to move things around. He said the first time he picked up the rifle wrapped in a blanket, he thought it was camping equipment. But, he said he didn't check to see because that would be like opening someone's mail. I beg to differ. It was not like opening someone's mail. But then, the next time he picked it up to move it somehwere, he thought it was a folding shovel like they had in the Army. I thought a rifle was a folding shovel? And still, his curiosity didn't get the best of him to check? And he went on and on about the shovel. In his testimony, the word "shovel" occurs 15x.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/paine_m2.htm

And again: the rifle didn't exist. So, there were no metal parts wrapped in a blanket. It was entirely made up. Yet, Michael Paine went on and on about and in great detail.

So, as much as I am sure that Ruth Paine didn't know anything, and I am very open to the possibility that Michael Paine knew everything; that what they were doing with the help of his ditsy wife was setting up Lee Harvey Oswald for the State murder of John F. Kennedy.