Oswald's name had been on the media from 2.42pm. I'm sure DVP will correct me but I think I got it from him. You think Marina and Ruth were not aware of this nearly an hour after? Would Marina not check the blanket immediately? Wouldn't she have told Ruth about the rifle then? Wouldn’t Michael have called with the news? He arrived about 15 minutes after the cops.
What do you think?
I came across this information on DVP’s website recently:
Times that Oswald’s name first aired:
ABC - 2:40 PM CST
CBS - 2:59 PM CST
NBC - 3:20 PM CST
WBAP radio - 2:43 PM CST
I have no definite evidence of which TV channel that the Paine’s television was actually tuned to. But based on the testimony that they were unaware of Oswald’s arrest when the police arrived, it appears likely that they were watching the NBC broadcast.
And it occurred to me that a possible reason that Ruth Paine said that she was expecting the police when they came to her door is this:
The FBI had been out to her house twice in recent weeks looking for LHO. Therefore Ruth was aware that the FBI was interested in talking to him. She did testify that they already had heard that the shots had reportedly come from the TSBD (where she knew LHO worked) before the police arrived. So Ruth might have assumed that at least some of the plain clothed officers were FBI, and therefore she wasn’t totally surprised when they showed up at her house.