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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 188« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of George S. De Mohrenschildt)

Mr. Jenner.
General MacArthur's son?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Nephew, the son of MacArthur, the playwright. He was also living in Mexico, very close friends. We made some trips together. The son of John MacArthur.
Mr. Jenner.
You eventually returned to America, to the United States?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
You went back to New York?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
By train?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
As a matter of fact, you went by chair car?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That I didn't remember. How did you know that? I don't remember, frankly. Those FBI people are excellent in following a chair car. But, believe me, they are very often----
Mr. Jenner.
Was it about this time when you returned that you started to work on your book, "A Son of the Revolution"?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, we are in what year--about 1942, 1943?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, about that.
Mr. Jenner.
1942, I think.
Now, upon your return to New York, what did you do?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I was working on that book. I sold that interest in the sugar company--that is, the Mexican outfit I told you about--and then I remember once I went to Palm Beach.
Mr. Jenner.
Now----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. What else did I do then?
Mr. Jenner.
When you reached Palm Beach you met the lady who became your first wife, Dorothy Pierson?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Tell me who was Dorothy Pierson?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Dorothy Pierson was an attractive girl, the daughter of a local real estate man whose mother was married to an Italian, Cantagalli, Lorenzo Cantagalli, from Florence. And the mother and daughter came back to the United States during the war. She was the daughter of Countess Cantagalli by the first husband, who was an American. That is why her name was Pierson. And, anyway, Dorothy and I fell in love with each other and got married.
Mr. Jenner.
She was quite young, was she not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Very young.
Mr. Jenner.
About 17 or 18?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And you subsequently married where?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In New York.
Mr. Jenner.
In New York City?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. New York City.
Mr. Jenner.
And that marriage subsequently ended in divorce, did it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
When?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. About a year later.
Mr. Jenner.
You were married just a short time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Just a short time. A child was born.
Mr. Jenner.
There was a child born of that marriage?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And that child's name was Alexandra?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. Jenner.
Is she still alive?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I will deal with her subsequently, if I might. The divorce took well, we might as well close up with Lilia. You never married her?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No.
Mr. Jenner.
When you got back to the United States----
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