[xvii] Michael always considered himself more a member of the Forbes family than the Paine family: 12/10/63 FBI memo by SAs James Hosty and Bardwell Odum, FBI - Ruth and Michael Paine Files/NARA Record Number: 124-10137-10105.
[xviii] Michael sang in the choir of the First Unitarian Church, and pastor Byrd Helligas described him as an active member: FBI memo re James Hosty interview of Rev. Byrd Helligas, 2/5/64. Commission Document 437 - FBI Hosty Jr. Report of 20 Feb 1964 re: Michael Paine
[xix] An avowed pacifist: Supplemental Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Warren Commission Document 107, p. 32. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10507&relPageId=38
Artillery infantryman: SA A. Raymond Switzer and James Hosty interview with Michael Paine, 6/25/64, Warren Commission Document 1245, p. 197.
40th Division: Nancy Wertz, "Michael Paine -- A Life of Unanswered Paradoxes", Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Winter 1998, p. 20.
[xx] Paine refused to take the oath of allegiance when inducted in 1952: Supplemental Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Warren Commission Document 107, p. 32.