Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92.

Paine died on Sunday, Aug. 31, in a senior living facility in Santa Rosa, California, her daughter Tamarin Laurel-Paine said Thursday.

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Oswald's wife and children stayed at Paine's home in the Dallas suburb of Irving in the fall of 1963. Oswald stayed at the house the night before the assassination, and before setting off to his job at the Texas School Book Depository, retrieved his rifle that he had stowed in the garage, unbeknownst to Paine.

Laurel-Paine said she admired her mother's willingness over the years to grant interviews and sp

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