From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: First Reports, DMN, 12-12-63A
Date: 7 Jul 1997 08:07:42 GMT

First Reports, The Dallas Morning News, 12-12-63A

All emphasis is my own..................Michael Parks

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OSWALD'S ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE RECALLED

   Lee Harvey Oswald had been trying to learn to drive a car during the period just prior to his 
arrest for killing President John F. Kennedy and Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit.
   BUT HE NEVER DID MASTER THE STEERING WHEEL.  On fatal Nov. 22, he had to resort to a Dallas 
Transit Co. bus for getaway-car purposes.
   Mrs. Ruth Paine, an Irving Russian teacher who befriended Oswald's wife has told The News 
that she gave Oswald a couple of driving lessons on a vacant lot.
   "He wasn't familiar with the use of the wheel.  When he turned corners, he always turned too 
far," she said.
   She said Oswald phoned the Irving residence to tell his wife he had gone to a Department of 
Public Safety station to try to get a learner's permit on Nov. 16 - six days before the 
President was slain.
   Mrs. Paine said she understood Oswald failed to get the permit because the station was 
crowded and closed before he could make his application.
   Oswald, who lived at an Oak Cliff rooming house during the week but visited his family in 
Irving on weekends, failed to come to Irving that particular weekend.
   Mrs. Paine said that she had the feeling that Oswald's wife had perhaps asked him not to come 
that weekend.  He'd spent a long Veterans Days weekend in Irving the week before.
   Mrs. Paine's impression was that the wife feared her husband would wear thin his welcome and 
requested him not to come.
   Mrs. Paine said that it was on two earlier weekends that she had given Oswald driving 
lessons.
   She said he was making normal progress but hadn't learned to drive.
   Mrs. Paine's remarks seemed to punctuate with question marks those reports of Oswald being 
seen several places driving a car.
   The Irving woman said she certainly wouldn't have loaned her car to Oswald.  And she said 
she'd never heard him mention any friends who might have provided him with a car.

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How in the hell can someone make the shots Oswald is said to have made and not be coordinated 
enough to drive a car?  Only a fool could believe that.     

Also, had Oswald been involved in the assassination, why was he concerned with getting a 
driver's license?  Dead men and men in jail don't need them.        MP