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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 307« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Jeanne De Mohrenschildt Resumed)

Mr. Jenner.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Nothing at all.
Mr. Jenner.
Now----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't even know when they came.
Mr. Jenner.
Had you heard anything about them at all, that he had been in Russia?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Before?
Mr. Jenner.
Before, and then had married her, and come back, he attempted to defect?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; nothing at all--in spite that it was in some press somewhere I believe it was printed.
Mr. Jenner.
But you didn't see it?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Never saw it. Never had no idea.
Mr. Jenner.
Had there been any discussion among you people, any of you--Bouhe, Clark, and Meller, Voshinins, Mamantov, Gravitis, Dymitruk, Raigorodsky----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is a character--Dymitruk was also imported recently, I think after we were there.
Mr. Jenner.
What do you mean imported?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I mean he arrived--I call him imported. He was really a sad sack.
Mr. Jenner.
He was the husband of Lydia Dymitruk?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I will ask you about her.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. But I know very little about them.
Mr. Jenner.
It may be important to us that you don't. But the part I want to emphasize here is--if it is the truth--I don't want to put any words in your mouth--that you had no advance notice that either of these people were coming, and you knew nothing whatsoever about them, never heard anything?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Absolutely.
Mr. Jenner.
And was that generally true of all these people?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. From what we know; yes. I don't think anybody knew anything at all. All of a sudden they arrived on the horizon. And actually, who discovered them for the first time, I don't even know that.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I cannot even tell. I would like to know, myself, now, how it came about.
Mr. Jenner.
They were brought to your attention?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And your recollection is it was George Bouhe?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. My recollection is that he finally--we were sort of ashamed of ourselves that we still didn't meet her, and we still didn't do anything, you know, for that girl. So, finally--I don't remember how, but either we drove, or whether they brought her to us for the first time. That is how it happened.
Mr. Jenner.
And this was in the late summer of 1962?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. And I told him, Bouhe, at that particular time, we were financially not very well off, and I could not contribute any money, but I had time and a car, and I could take the baby to the clinic, and I could take her with her teeth, and anything of that sort I would be glad to do.
Mr. Jenner.
We might digress a moment. In the summer of 1962 you and your husband were not as financially affluent as you had been?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, we were draining pretty well, because for a year we didn't make any money, on our trip.
Mr. Jenner.
I am not criticizing. All I am doing is seeking the facts.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Well----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Not enough to be charitable.
Mr. Jenner.
By the way, your husband, he is a fine geologist and petroleum engineer. He is not a man who likes to concentrate on business, finances, is he?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I would say he is pretty good with money. I am the one---I made money too easily, so I squandered money. He doesn't. But you see I always had a steady income. He doesn't have a steady income. He
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