Ruth Paine
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:13 pm
In our investigation we were fortunate enough to have located and befriended a Oklahoma man by the name of Steven Martin who along with his Mother Shirley Martin and sisters were one of the very first to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy back in the months following the actual event.The Martin family investigation would span years with endless hours of research and first hand interviews with many of the key individuals that were tide to the case.Shirley Martin was a gifted writer and a very talented woman and was one of the very first researchers in America to cast doubt on the Warren Commissions findings.It was Shirley Martins findings that would launch a nation into disbelief and mistrust of who had committed the act and who was the driving force behind the assassination of President Kennedy. Steven Martin told me personally that it was his Mother Shirley who had first used the now famous phrase "The Magic Bullet".Steven Martin went on to tell how his Mother would load the family up and off they would go to interview individuals that were tided directly to the key people involved in the assassination.He told how his Mother had sewn a small tape recorder in his coat pocket so all the information they obtained could be saved for future use and how he had used a somewhat unsophisticated spy camera for 1963-1964 to take pictures of there interviews.The Martins went straight to Ruth Paine in the weeks after the assassination. Martin tells that Ruth Paine was very loud and very suspicious acting. He even went as far as to say the entire Martin family felt very frightened by her. She took the Martins into the garage area were there Ruth Paine pointed out the shelf were Lee Oswald's rifle was suppose to have been stored. Martin went on to say that his mother never really trusted Ruth Paine.It was later that Martin tells how they found out that Ruth had contacted J Edgar Hoover and was reporting directly to him.The FBI report tells how Ruth Paine describes Shirley Martin as a "bright Nut" with an excellent mind . Martin went on to say there search uncovered a memo from J Edgar Hoover regarding his mother, J. Edgar Hoover wrote that "Shirley Martin is a bright nut...possibly a mental case." Steven Martin said that has always seemed odd to him that Ruth Paine and J. Edgar Hoover were so in tune with one another.