(Testimony of Igor Vladimir Voshinin)
Mr. Voshinin.
denomination here on McKinney and a few other just useful things---nothing in particular.
Mr. Jenner.
All right. Well, the main thing I wanted--when you came to Dallas, you didn't know anybody?
Mr. Voshinin.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
You then became acquainted with Mr. Bouhe?
Mr. Voshinin.
Bouhe and Mr. Raigorodsky. Mr. Raigorodsky we kind of liked--and Mr. Bouhe we kind of disliked.
Mr. Davis.
Was there any special reason for that other than just-----
Mr. Voshinin.
Well, Mr. Bouhe, he likes to help people but he likes to mix in their affairs----
Mr. Jenner.
Their personal affairs?
Mr. Voshinin.
And tell them what to do and what not to do. And I don't need a nurse here now. I like to listen to people's advice but I don't like to have a nurse. I'm grown up. That's why I don't like didn't like his approach too well.
Mr. Jenner.
Bouhe, while a well meaning and helpful man, he was a little aggressive in your personal affairs?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah. Well, he is with everybody. He is an old bachelor, you know, and he doesn't have anything else to do.
Mr. Jenner.
May I inquire with respect to that--your aversion, at least initially, to Mr. Bouhe was confined to the fact, was it not that you thought him a little too aggressive insofar as your personal affairs--particularly advising you and directing you as to what to and what not to do?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yes. Well, everybody complaining the same way.
Mr. Jenner.
I see.
Mr. Voshinin.
Yes. Although I don't mind him helping people.
Mr. Jenner.
Specifically, however, that aversion has nothing to do, has it, with any political views that Mr. Bouhe may entertain?
Mr. Voshinin.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
And I mean "political" in the sense of his views on government--communism---conservatism--whatever it might be?
Mr. Voshinin.
No. But my impression is that he is rather conservative in Russian politics, I mean. He always talks about the Czarist times and about the times his father was some big shot somewhere.
Mr. Jenner.
In Russia?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you regard him, however, as a loyal American?
Mr. Voshinin.
Uh--well, I don't know. We never talked about any American politics with him. So I regard him as far as I don't have any proof otherwise.
Mr. Jenner.
You don't suspect him, however, of any Communist affiliation?
Mr. Voshinin.
Well--uh---one is accustomed to suspect everybody.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, no more than that?
Mr. Voshinin.
But--uh--no more than that, I would say.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, your acquaintance with people here in Dallas broadened, did it not, as time went on?
Mr. Voshinin.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
I take it that, initially at least, your acquaintance was largely among that segment of the community or society here of people from Russia, Yugoslavia, and Central European countries?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah--and Lebanon.
Mr. Jenner.
Lebanon, also?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah--well, those people who come to church.
Mr. Jenner.
Your acquaintance, initially, was among church folks----
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah.
Mr. Jenner.
Who attended your church?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And that was the Greek Orthodox Church here in Dallas?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yes; the Greek Orthodox Church, here on McKinney Avenue-- because there is another Greek Orthodox Church on Swiss. That's the church where all the Greek people go, and all the non-Greek people went on McKinney, because on McKinney the service was in the English language.
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