First look inside childhood home of JFK's killer Lee Harvey Oswald Texas woman Ruth Paine opened her home in Irving, Dallas. to Marina Oswald and her two daughters following her separation from husband Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald came to stay the night of November 21, 1963 - which was out of character because he usually came on weekends - leaving the next morning with a brown paper bag that was much later realized to have contained a dissembled rifle Now 50 years later, the home will be opened to the public from Wednesday as part of the anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy It features eerie ghost-like projects of Ruth, Marina and Lee Harvey as part of the retrospective By Ap Reporter Baby bottles sit on the kitchen counter in this small two-bedroom home in the Dallas suburb of Irving, just as they would have on Nov. 22, 1963. Also the same: the rolled-up blanket where Lee Harvey Oswald had stored his rifle among the stacked boxes in the garage. The home that once belonged to Ruth Paine, the woman who befriended Oswald's wife and let her live there with her two young daughters, has been restored and will open Wednesday as a museum. It will be the first time the public's had a look inside and comes as the nation marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in downtown Dallas. 'The whole story is now kind of larger than life,' said Kevin Kendro, archives coordinator for the city of Irving, which runs the Ruth Paine House Museum. It started here in a little house where average stuff was going on. Eerie: Using a technique called Pepper's Ghost, a projection of an actress portraying Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, is shown in the garage of the new Ruth Paine House Museum in Irving. The museum inside the small, two-bedroom home that once belonged to Ruth Paine, who had befriended Marina and let her live there with her two daughters, will open Wednesday. Shirley Smith and Lawrence Crow talk in the garage at the Ruth Paine House Museum as the image of a man portraying Lee Harvey Oswald projects in the background. The museum will be open to the public on Wednesday Bedroom: Kevin Kendro, an archive coordinator for the city of Irving, Texas, demonstrates a projection in the bedroom used by Marina Oswald at the Ruth Paine House Museum. The museum in the small, two-bedroom home that once belonged to Ruth Paine, who had befriended Lee Harvey Oswald's wife Marina and let her live there with her two daughters, will open Wednesday The night before Kennedy's assassination, Oswald made a surprise visit, as he usually saw his family on weekends. When he left the morning of the 22nd, investigators say, he was carrying a brown paper package that held the disassembled rifle. That day, Marina Oswald and Paine did laundry and cared for their young children as usual while watching coverage of the presidential visit. But a few hours after the assassination, Kendro said: 'The police were knocking on their door and their lives were changed forever after that.' Paine, 81, now lives in California. She visited her old home Monday, and said she was brought to tears by the museum's re-creation of the washing machine she and Marina once used. 'We spent a lot of time washing,' said Paine, who befriended the Russian-born Marina Oswald in February 1963. The 1,250-square-foot house allows visitors to step back in time. Retrospective: A 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested following the Kennedy Assassination on November 22, 1963. He had left the home of Ruth Paine that morning carrying a brown paper bag, which contained a dissembled rifle Among the pieces in the new museum, correspondence between Marina Oswald and Ruth Paine is on display. There are also affidavits given to police at the time of President Kennedy's assassination Modest: This is the bedroom Marina Oswald lived in. The museum is expected to draw plenty of visitors from JFK followers Toys are scattered in a corner of the living room floor, and in the kitchen, dishes are drying beside the sink. In some of the rooms, projections onto glass panes show actors recreating scenes, including one in which a police officer asks Paine whether Lee Harvey Oswald had a gun. She replies 'no', and then translates the question into Russian for Marina. Paine is taken aback when Marina Oswald replies that yes, he does, and kept it wrapped in a blanket in the garage. Paine lived in the house until 1966 and over the decades it had several owners before the city bought it in 2009. After a renter's lease expired in 2011, Irving began restoring the home, which included everything from replacing windows to the garage door. The knotty pine cabinetry in the kitchen remained untouched over the decades, and one piece of furniture has been returned to the house: the Hi-Fi speaker belonging to Paine's husband, whom she'd amicably separated from by the time Marina Oswald moved in. This is Ruth Paine, the woman who opened her home to Marina Oswald and her two daughters. Paine is now 81 and lives in California. She left her home in Iriving in 1966. It has now been turned into a museum as part of the commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of the Kennedy assassination Otherwise, city workers pored over photos from Paine, Life magazine and the Warren Commission as they searched for similar items everywhere, said Shirley Smith, the city's capital improvement program coordinator. Tours start at Irving's Central Library, where visitors are greeted by a bank of television sets that include one playing interviews with Paine. Documents are also on display, including a letter from Paine inviting Marina Oswald to dinner and her response. Visitors are then taken by van to the nearby house, where a large oak tree still stands in the front yard where Lee Harvey Oswald played with his 21-month-old old daughter, June, the night before Kennedy was killed.