Ruth Paine Has Passed Away

[Bill Brown]

Ruth Paine passed away Sunday evening.
Her son Chris sent me an email early this morning.

[Tim Nickerson]

Ruth Paine passed away Sunday evening.
Her son Chris sent me an email early this morning.

I read it first from Freda and then came here and posted it. I soon deleted it. After seeing your post on TBT, I knew that you'd soon be posting it here. Ruth took a lot of abuse over the years from many in the CT camp. She seem to hold up quite well against it though. May she sleep well.

[Bill Brown]

Me with Ruth in 2023 at Tenth & Patton...

[Bill Brown]

I read it first from Freda and then came here and posted it. I soon deleted it. After seeing your post on TBT, I knew that you'd soon be posting it here. Ruth took a lot of abuse over the years from many in the CT camp. She seem to hold up quite well against it though. May she sleep well.

Maligned unjustly.

[Charles Collins]

Ruth Paine passed away Sunday evening.
Her son Chris sent me an email early this morning.

I remember from probably about the same era as the JFK assassination a couple of older ladies complimenting my grandmother by telling a few of us grandkids that my grandmother would go straight to heaven when she passed away. My grandmother wasn’t ill or anything. And she lived a long time after this happened. The two ladies were just saying, in their own way, how much they admired and respected my grandmother. Anyway, even though I have never met her in person, this is what Ruth Payne’s passing reminded me of. I feel like I knew her from just reading about her and her actions and apparent intents.

RIP  Ruth Payne

[Richard Smith]

I'm very sorry to hear that news.  She seemed like a very intelligent and kind person.  If there was anyone in history for whom the saying "no good deed goes unpunished" it was Ruth Paine.  Opening her home to strangers like Oswald and his family only to get caught up in this event.  I once mailed her a copy of "Mrs. Paine's Garage" and she graciously signed it and returned it to me.  She certainly led a long and interesting life. 

[Tom Graves]

I'm very sorry to hear that news.  She seemed like a very intelligent and kind person.  If there was anyone in history for whom the saying "no good deed goes unpunished" it was Ruth Paine.  Opening her home to strangers like Oswald and his family only to get caught up in this event.  I once mailed her a copy of "Mrs. Paine's Garage" and she graciously signed it and returned it to me.  She certainly led a long and interesting life.

Ever since I became a Lone Gunman Advocate around 2016, I've wondered if she or her husband knew Oswald's mentor, George DeMohrenschild, whom a CIA Counterintelligence analyst by the name of Clare Edward Petty determined, by reading some WW II VENONA decrypts in the early 1970s, was very probably a long-term KGB "illegal."

[Lance Payette]

The demonizing of Ruth Paine was to me always one of the most despicable things about the CT community. She seemed so completely decent, open and honest that the effort to cast her as a dark and sinister character just seemed (and seems) flat-out insane to me. All of it says far more about the lunacy within some segments of the CT community than it ever said about Ruth. As Richard says, she epitomized the truism that no good deed goes unpunished. I hope that perhaps she could find humor in it and perhaps even enjoyed her curious fame.