And did that have an effect on your partnership?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; it was more or less, I would say, a social problem and personal dislike. Ed is very much devoted to his wife. He told me one day, "We cannot continue this partnership in such unpleasant circumstances, and I think we should break our partnership and sell out what we have." We had some oil properties and we sold it out and divided the proceeds.
Oh, yes--also, Ed was dissatisfied that I moved away from the oilfield--another reason we broke our partnership. Because I was staying in the oilfields before that all the time. But now I moved to Dallas, and I could not be right in the center of the oil activity, according to him. It turned out to be that this actually was much better for the oil business, to be in Dallas than to be in Abilene.

Mr. Jenner.

Why is that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, because we are more or less in the center of things than just in a small hick town, you see.

Mr. Jenner.

You----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. At the same time about, when we were breaking this partnership, my wife's uncle, Col. Edward J. Walz, from Philadelphia, who is an investment man and a man who is fascinated by the oil business, offered me to form a partnership with him, and we formed a partnership just about the same time.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you identified this new man?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; Col. Edward J. Walz, this was my wife's uncle, Miss Sharples' uncle much younger than his--than her mother, but a man of substance, from Philadelphia--with whom we developed friendly relationship. He liked me and I liked him. And we decided to form a partnership, and we called this partnership Waldem Oil Co.--with the idea of doing the same thing I did with Ed Hooker--that I would do the fieldwork and he would do, more or less, the financial end of the business in Philadelphia.
We had several very successful dealings together. On our first drilling venture we found oil. I kept producing that little field for quite some time.

Mr. Jenner.

What field?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Post field, in Texas--a small part of this field belonged to us, and we kept on producing. We did other operations in the oil business, selling leases, buying leases, and things like that.
But we didn't do anything spectacular because he never could provide any large amounts of money for anything spectacular. We did small things. It was a small operation. But we always made money together. Eventually, after my wife and I got divorced.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, you mention divorce. You and Wynne Sharples were divorced?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And when did that take place?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That, I think, was in 1957, I guess, or 1956. We were married for 5 years.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, it must have been 1957, then.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1957, yes; it turned out to be that both of our children had cystic fibrosis--it is a terrible illness of genetic nature. The children who have it have no hope to recover, as yet.
Now, my ex-wife and I started a foundation, National Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis in Dallas, of which Jacqueline Kennedy was the honorary chairman.
Now, my ex-wife says that I didn't have much to do with this foundation, this Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, but actually I did, because I collected most of the

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