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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 305« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Jeanne De Mohrenschildt Resumed)

Mr. Jenner.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. We were trying to go by boat. We went to Colon, to get the boat. There was no boat. So we had to fly.
Mr. Jenner.
You flew to Haiti?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
What was the purpose of that visit to Haiti?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The main purpose was to rest, and another purpose was to see a very, very old friend of my husband's father, 75-year-old man that according to his letters to George, he loved him like a son, and he had the same feelings to me. So I told George, if we don't go now, we might never see him.
Mr. Jenner.
What was his name?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Michael Breitman. And he died within the next year.
Mr. Jenner.
But that was--that visit to Haiti at that time was to visit this gentleman?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. And to rest.
Mr. Jenner.
From your long, arduous trip through Central America?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
You then returned to the United States?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
By boat?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. By boat, by Lykes Line.
Mr. Jenner.
And your harbor was what--St. Charles, or Lake Charles?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think it is Lake Charles. They changed in the last month. They never know which port. We were met by friends over there, the Savages.
Mr. Jenner.
And the Mitchells?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. And we crossed straight to their house, stayed with them a few days. Then a friend of ours loaned us a car and we drove to Dallas. And then he came over and picked up the car.
Mr. Jenner.
Your friend----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. From Houston. We have quite a few friends in Houston.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, I am going to, in a moment, bring you to the period when you met the Oswalds.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
But I want you to tell me first, if you will, slowly, the nature of the Russian colony in Dallas at that time.
Now, as I understand it, you met the Oswalds in the summer of 1962.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In the late summer.
Mr. Jenner.
There was a small Russian colony?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You see, I wouldn't classify it as a colony. There are some odds-and-ends Russian people.
Mr. Jenner.
I am using a reference to identify a more or less heterogeneous group of people in Dallas who had a measure of common interests arising out of the fact that either they or their parents had been born or had a relatively immediate contact with Russia.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, you see, there are two types of Russian people there--some that came in after the revolution, and there are some new ones that escaped during the Second World War, from Germany.
Mr. Jenner.
You are now telling me about this situation in Dallas, are you not?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I am trying to classify who was before and who came in later.
Mr. Jenner.
But you are telling me about people in Dallas?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
All right. Go ahead.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. From what I know, the latest arrivals to the United States was, of course Marina was, and I think there was another one, Declan Ford.
Mr. Jenner.
Mrs. Declan Ford?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. She was on What's My Life, or something, a
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