Were there some people by the name of Jackson at that party who had a very lavish house?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Jackson? I know a Jackson who has a very lavish house. He is a geologist also. But I do not recall seeing them at the party.

Mr. Jenner.

There is some testimony that in the early morning hours the party adjourned to the Jackson's house.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, we had already left.

Mr. Jenner.

John and Elena Hall. They were there.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I do not recall that. I met them, I think, only once I met her twice or three times. I recall her pretty well. But I do not recall him.

Mr. Jenner.

Tatiana Biggers.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is the person I could not identify. I don't know who she is.

Mr. Jenner.

Also present, Lydia Dymitruk.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think so. I think I remember her.

Mr. Jenner.

A single person, divorced.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I think I remember her.

Mr. Jenner.

Slightly built, slender, short.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I remember her. She was married to some "cuckoo nut," another "cuckoo nut" who escaped from Soviet Russia--Dymitruk. He came to ask me for a job, her husband. He came to ask me for a job several times, and then he disappeared.

Mr. Jenner.

Lydia Dymitruk's husband?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; her ex-husband. I understand she is a very nice person, very hard working, and is making a living for herself, and that she left him. That is my recollection.

Mr. Jenner.

You brought the Oswalds to the party?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Having asked previously either myself or my wife---having asked Mrs. Ford would she mind having the Oswalds, because they seemed to be bored to death, especially Marina seemed to be bored to death. And she said yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And after a while you folks left, around midnight?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And did you take the Oswalds with you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think we did. And this is the reason why--because I think they left the child in our house while they came to the party, and we asked another friend of ours, an elderly lady, Mrs. Frangipanni, to take care of the baby while they were gone, which she did.

Mr. Jenner.

Did Oswald drink at that party?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That I do not recall. I know I drank quite a few glasses.

Mr. Jenner.

What impression did you have as to how the people at the party reacted to Marina and to Oswald--take them separately.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I did not pay any attention. I left them to their own devices. I spoke to various people. I thought I had done my duty by bringing them along. What really impressed me that particular night was an extraordinary interest which developed between this Japanese girl, Yaeko--I don't remember her last name--but I already had given that impression of mine at the American Embassy so they could check on that. She was a Japanese girl, very good looking, who worked, I think, at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, and was brought into Dallas from Japan by some people in the cotton business to take care of their babies.
Now, this girl is a much superior girl as to be just a baby caretaker. She eventually left that couple that is all hearsay, you see, and became sort of a girl friend of a Russian musician who lives in Dallas by the name of Lev Aronson. And I do not recall whether he was at the party or not. But Yaeko was, and they developed an immediate interest in each other--Oswald and

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