B E F O R E: THE HONORABLE EDWARD A.
HAGGERTY, JR., JUDGE, SECTION "C"
MRS. RUTH HYDE PAINE, a witness called by and on behalf of the Defense, having been first duly affirmed, was examined and testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. DYMOND:
Hearsay? For crying out loud! She was right there......
A: Well, officers had arrived and said they had Lee Oswald in
custody for shooting an officer, and asked if they could come
in, and --
Q: Let me caution you this is hearsay you are going into, what
these officers said.
It's hearsay when she's claiming they said something to her. FBI agents back then used no recorders and would make written notes, which they later turned into reports and sometimes affidavits to be signed. Those documents are allowed in court; an agent on the stand recalling something additionally said to him would be hearsay, as it's not contemporaneous. Like when Trump said this in 2015:
"Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down.
And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and
thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.
Thousands of people were cheering. So something’s going on.
We’ve got to find out what it is."
The Warren worshipers won't read this post because like Ruth Paine ...ignorance is bliss.
"Warren worshippers? LOL! You fooler. Like LNers here are always citing long-winded passages from the Warren Report.