ruth paine jfk assassination.

Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92. Tamarin Laurel-Paine said Thursday that her mother died on Sunday in a senior living facility in Santa Rosa, California. Oswald’s wife and children had been staying at Paine’s home in the Dallas of suburb of Irving in the fall of 1963, and the morning of the assassination Oswald retrieved the rifle he had — unbeknownst to Paine — been stowing in her garage.