
Ruth and Michael Paine, arriving for Warren Commission hearings, after their lives and the Oswalds’ intersected. Photo Bettmann Getty Images
Ruth Hyde Paine (September 3, 1932 – August 31, 2025)
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2 September, 2025 | Paine died at a Quaker retirement residence in Santa Rosa, California, on August 31, 2025, after being in a coma for five days; she was three days shy of her 93rd birthday.
Related: Included among the extraordinary research materials contained within the Talbot-Croft Archive are two audio files and transcripts of an interview with Ruth conducted by David Talbot and Karen Croft.
Transcripts: