From john.mcadams@marquette.edu Sat Feb 01 16:52:24 2014
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk
Subject: Buffs Lie About Ruth Paine's Daughter
From: John McAdams <john.mcadams@marquette.edu>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:52:24 -0600

Needless to say, buffs hate Ruth Paine.

They typically think she was some sort of CIA spook.

One example (of many) comes from a presentation that one Steve Jones
made during a COPA conference.

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/26th_Issue/paine.html

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Perhaps the most compelling statement Jones made during his
presentation followed this. "The friend told me that the only time
Ruth ever even cracked the least bit about the Kennedy assassination
was once when she said, she kind of, with tears in her eyes, she said,
'My daughter isn't speaking to me any more, and the reason why she
isn't is because she says I really need to come to grips with the evil
that I've been associated with in my life.' And this was said during
the context of a discussion of the Kennedy assassination.

"And when the friend tried to probe further, and said 'What evil? What
do you mean?' then Ruth clammed up, didn't say another word. But the
indication was clear to the friend that it had to do with some kind of
evil that Ruth didn't want to talk about, what Ruth perceived as an
evil that had to do with the Kennedy assassination. And the friend got
the clear impression that it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald that she was
talking about."

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So Paine's daughter cut off relations because she believed that Ruth
was a JFK assassination co-conspirator?

Thomas Mallon actually talked to Ruth's daughter. He reports:

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One newsgroup legend claims an estrangement between Ruth and her
daughter, who supposedly knows the untold "truth" of her mother's
involvement in the assassination.  But Marin Paine (as Lynn now calls
herself) explains the distance in more ordinary mother-daughter terms.
"My real problem with being around my mother a lot is that I'm really
trying to be a different person than I was when I was a kid. . . . I
can say she's a nice person and I approve a lot of her values and all
that stuff, but [at] just an emotional level she hits trigger buttons
that I haven't found the cure for."  Marin's allergies tend to act up
during concentrated dealings with Ruth.  (MRS. PAINE'S GARAGE, pp.
159-160)

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It's one of the nastier things about the buff subculture:  the
willingness to smear and attack people whom they suspect.

.John
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