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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 315« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Jeanne De Mohrenschildt Resumed)

Mr. Jenner.
And we came over late at night. It was 10 o'clock, or maybe later. And I remember they gave us something to drink.
Mr. Jenner.
You arrived there. Were they--had they retired for the night?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think they were halfway in bed already, because the house was dark. I remember we banged on the door. It was dark.
Mr. Jenner.
And Lee came to the door?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't remember who came to the door, Marina or Lee.
Mr. Jenner.
They turned the light on. And where were they living then?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That was their last apartment--not Elsbeth, but the other one. I have the address, Elsbeth address. But the other address I don't have. It is just around the corner.
Mr. Jenner.
214?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't know the address.
Mr. Jenner.
Was it upstairs or downstairs?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Upstairs. There was a little terrace, and a big tree growing right next to the terrace.
Mr. Jenner.
Had you been there before?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No.
Mr. Jenner.
That is the first time you had ever been there?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't remember. Maybe I was. I don't think so.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't think so.
Mr. Jenner.
You got there. Now, just relax----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I am trying to think hard, because every little fact could be important.
Mr. Jenner.
But you are excited. Relax, and tell me everything that occurred, chronologically, as best you can on that occasion. You came to the door and either Marina or Oswald came to the door, and you and your husband went in the home?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. Jenner.
Then, go on. Tell me about it.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. And I believe from what I remember George sat down on the sofa and started talking to Lee, and Marina was showing me the house that is why I said it looks like it was the first time, because why would she show me the house if I had been there before? Then we went to another room, and she opens the closet, and I see the gun standing there. I said, what is the gun doing over there?
Mr. Jenner.
You say---
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A rifle.
Mr. Jenner.
A rifle, in the closet?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In the closet, right in the beginning. It wasn't hidden or anything.
Mr. Jenner.
Standing up on its butt?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I show you Commission Exhibit 139. Is that the rifle that you saw?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It looks very much like it.
Mr. Jenner.
And was it standing in the corner of the closet?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You want me to show you how it was leaning? Make believe I open the closet door this way. And the rifle was leaning something like that.
Mr. Jenner.
Right against the wall?
Mrs. DE .MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; and the closet was square. I said, what is this?
Mr. Jenner.
It was this rifle?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't know. It looks very much like it, because something was dangling over it, and I didn't know what it was. This telescopic sight. Like we had a rifle with us on the road, we just had a smooth thing, nothing attached to it. And I saw something here.
Mr. Jenner.
I say your attention was arrested, not only, because when the
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