things from people people like the Clarks, like ourselves, like George Bouhe, started giving her gifts, dresses and so on and so forth. She had some hundred dresses.

Mr. Jenner.

A large number of dresses?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. About a hundred dresses.
When we carried them out to live with the Mellers, my car was loaded with her dresses. It was all contributions from the various people, in Fort Worth and Dallas.

Mr. Jenner.

In addition to dresses and clothing, what other things?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, mainly baby things. She had two cribs, I remember. She had a baby carriage.
I think George Bouhe gave it to her. Toys for the baby. Many things like that.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, you say .you carried her out and took her to the Mellers?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. This was already possibly 2 weeks after we met them.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, what was the occasion that you did that, and why did you do it?
That was a pretty forward thing to do, was it not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. In the meantime, Lee lost his job and George Bouhe told him that he should move to Dallas, he will give him an introduction at the Texas Employment Agency--he knew somebody there. And eventually he got a job through that Texas Employment Agency. I don't remember the name of the person who was there some Texas lady whom George Bouhe knew.
And I told him that I would help him, too, to find a job, and even spoke to Sam Ballen about it, can he give him a job. And that is probably the only time that Sam Ballen met Oswald. I told him to go to Mr. Ballen's office---he has a reproduction business, a very large one in Texas.

Mr. Jenner.

Reproduction?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Reproduction, electric log reproduction service. When they reproduce electrical logs from the oil wells. And also, they print catalogs and things like that in his office. It is quite a large business that he has--with branch offices all over Texas, and even in Denver, Colorado.
I said, "Why don't you see if you can give him a job?" And I remember that Sam saw Lee Oswald and found him very interesting.
I remember I saw him the next day and said, "How did you like Lee Oswald?" and he said, "Nice fellow, very nice fellow, very interesting fellow."

Mr. Jenner.

But he did not have any work for him?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He didn't have a job for him. And at the same time he received a job at some other outfit--I forgot the name of it--the traffic outfit, and they moved from Fort Worth to Dallas.

Mr. Jenner.

You said you entered and took Marina out of the house, and the baby?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That was a little bit later on--when he already moved to Dallas, he already had the job. But now I am trying to recall who moved him from Fort Worth to Dallas, and I think that was Gary Taylor, my ex-son-in-law, and Alex, my daughter. I think they both drove to Fort Worth.
I told them to do so--"Go to Fort Worth and help them, they have no car, they have no money--help them to move."
I think in the meantime Lee found a job at Jaggars, and was looking for a place to live, and found a place to live himself in Oak Cliff, this address which I don't remember now--the first address in Oak Cliff. He had two addresses. I forget the exact address. My wife will remember that.
Anyway, my daughter and her husband went there and moved them.

Mr. Jenner.

When was this?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, maybe 2 weeks after we met the Oswalds.

Mr. Jenner.

September of 1962?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. About that time about September.
A little before that, I think, because in September we started the campaign on the cystic fibrosis, and we completely lost track of them--we were very busy on that. And I think it was in September that this campaign started.

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