Payne Family family
also: Paynes, the Paynes
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She would grow to love Marina as a sister. But despite Ruth's best intention, she helped lay waste to the Oswald's life. And in the end, Marina wished she had never met her. Ruth Payne has always scoffed at the idea that she played an intel…
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meaning Ruth and her husband, Michael. In fact, Alan Dulles himself knew all about the unusual family background of the Paynes. It's a very interesting story. Ruth Payne's parents, Carol and William Hyde, met at Stanford University in the 1…
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In short, the young Della's housewife who took the Oswald family into her care was not simply a Quaker do-gooder, but a woman with a politically complex family history. She grew up in a strongly anti-communist wing of America that overlappe…
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Appearing before the Warren Commission, Ruth and Michael Payne seemed confused and tentative when it came to assigning guilt to Oswald. They both agreed that while he was a man of headstrong conviction, he did not impress them as dangerous.…
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I accepted the common view that he did it. In truth, Michael never knew Oswald very well. They only talked at length on four occasions. They would run into each other on some weekends when he was visiting his kids. One evening, Michael took…
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like that because it was insufficiently militant. Neither of the Paynes were fond of Oswald. To Ruth, he was self-involved and ill-tempered. He was just part of the equation that she had to put up with in order to have Marina in her life. I…
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and Wesley Leibler, as well as Dulles. The couple painted a portrait of Oswald as a grim subversive. But the panes also confirmed Oswald's guilt by just being themselves. Here were two oddballs. Their appearance before the panel seemed to s…
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whom you would expect to unwittingly harbor a dangerous man like Oswald. Not at all. The Paynes reunited for a time after the assassination, but later divorced. In old age, they now live in the same Quaker retirement compound north of San F…