Dirk Kunert

[Tom Scully]

Consider that Dirk Kunert was born in 1941 and Volkmar Schmidt and Ruth Paine were both nine years older than Kunert ....
...and that Kunert supposedly did not arrive in the U.S. until September, 11 1963, begging the question, how many
young German fellows named Dirk, did Ruth Paine encounter in the Dallas area, 1962 - 1963?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Paine
Ruth Hyde Paine (born September 3, 1932)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90159112/volkmar-schmidt
Dr Volkmar Schmidt Birth 27 August, 1932.....

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http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ../testimony/paine_r1.htm

...Mr. JENNER - You had no conversations, no letters, no contact whatsoever with them either before or after this party?
Mrs. PAINE - That is correct, no contact whatsoever before or after. There was a roommate of Everett's. Dirk, I think, I forget the name.
Mr. JENNER - Are you attempting to recall his first name or his last name?
Mrs. PAINE - His first name. I may be wrong. It was a young German fellow.
Mr. JENNER - Schmidt?
Mrs. PAINE - Do you know the first name?
Mr. JENNER - No, I don't recall the first name.
Mrs. PAINE - And he had two roommates, so that is two other single men, and I don't recall their names.
Mr. JENNER - Was each of them there?
Mrs. PAINE - They were both there.
Mr. JENNER - There were two roommates.
Mrs. PAINE - Two roommates and they were both present at the party. I should remember their names but I don't.
Mr. JENNER - All right. ..

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Remind me of the rules explaining Ruth Paine testimony. If it is disagreeable, isn't it explained away as
simple mistakes, or....she was confused, or....there is no reason to not give Ruth the benefit of the doubt....or?

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/glover.htm
TESTIMONY OF EVERETT D. GLOVER

The testimony of Everett D. Clover was taken at 11 a.m., on March 24, 1964,
....Mr. JENNER. And you remarried when?
Mr. GLOVER. I remarried August the 26th of this same year, 1963.
Mr. JENNER. And remained in the same quarters, did you?
Mr. GLOVER. No; I moved about April 20 to 5723 Southwestern Boulevard after having sold the house at 4449 Potomac, which I owned, and made the divorce settlement.
Then I moved to 5723 Southwestern Boulevard where I rented a house with two colleagues of mine where I worked, who were all unattached, since I had to move from 4449 Potomac. One moved in on December 1, 1962, and another one on January 1, 1963.
Mr. JENNER. Now when you and your wife separated, that is when she went to Pennsylvania, Hershey, Pa., with her son for this period, did anyone join you in your quarters as roommates or persons living with you?
Mr. GLOVER. Well, these are the people I just referred to. One man, Richard L. Pierce, who works with me in the same section of my laboratory, joined me December 1, of 1962, and the second man, Volkmar Schmidt, who came from Germany and worked with the company as a geologist, came to live with me approximately January 1.
It was an arrangement we tried out to see if there would be mutual satisfaction.
Mr. JENNER. Do you have a German derivation?
Mr. GLOVER. I do not.
Mr. JENNER. What is yours?...

BTW, David Kaiser  also cites the SISS December 5, 1963 interview of Ruth Paine

[Richard Smith]

More likely, it was Dr. Robert J Morris, former president of University of Dallas, chief counsel of SISS twice, and as recently as
in 1958, behind Dirk, if Kunert indeed somehow got a clearance (as a foreigner in the US on a student visa, how is granting
of such clearance even possible?), and attorney to Edwin Walker.

According to the article, Morris left the University of Dallas in 1962.  I think all this sheds some light on how the German newspaper picked up the Walker and Oswald story with Kunert having connections to right wingers and involved in the investigation of the JFK assassination in some capacity in Dallas.  There would have been good reason to speculate that the Walker and JFK events were related and perpetrator might be the same person.  Would Kunert need some type of "clearance" to interview Paine on behalf of the SISS?  Maybe the someone at the SISS just reached out to a known acquaintance in Dallas (Morris or Kubek) for assistance and they recommended Kunert.  Wouldn't happen today but maybe in 1963.  I wonder if the Sept. 11, 1963 date is when Kunert first came to Dallas or whether he had previously been attending UD and just reflects his coming back from Germany to attend another year?