(Testimony of Paul M. Raigorodsky)
Mr. Raigorodsky.
in Jamaica together with some other friends here and we organized a club called Tryall, T-r-y-a-l-l [spelling] Golf Club, and I go there every year now. That's about all. My wife divorced me in 1943 for the primary reason that I wouldn't retire. I have two daughters, one is Mrs. Harry Bridges. That has nothing to do with the----
Mr. Jenner.
With the Longshoremen?
Mr. Raigorodsky.
That has nothing to do with the Longshoremen. And off the record now.
(Discussion between Counsel Jenner and the witness off the record.)
Mr. Raigorodsky.
In fact, I just came from the wedding. That's the second marriage. Then, I have another daughter--maybe you know my son-in-law, Howard Norris?
Mr. Davis.
Where is he----in Washington?
Mr. Raigorodsky.
Howard Lee Norris, he graduated, I think, in 1951 or 1952.
Mr. Davis.
No, I don't think so. What business is he in?
Mr. Raigorodsky.
Lawyer of the University of Texas.
Mr. Davis.
No, I don't think so.
Mr. Raigorodsky.
I am very proud of that. That's my child.
(At this point the witness exhibited wedding pictures to Counsel Jenner.)
Mr. Jenner.
This is your daughter on the left?
Mr. Raigorodsky.
Yes. And, I will answer anything else you want to now.
Mr. Jenner.
All right. While living in the Dallas area, and I listened to your splendid career, I assume that--and if this assumption is wrong, please correct me---that the people of Russian descent who came into this area of Texas would tend to seek your advice or assistance, that you in turn voluntarily, on your own part, had an interest in those people in the community and that in any event you became acquainted with a good many people from Europe who settled in this general area---in the Dallas metropolitan area and even up into Houston?
Mr. Raigorodsky.
Yes--Louise, will you get me my church file?
(Addressing his secretary, Mrs. Louise Meek.)
Mr. Jenner.
Will you be good enough to tell me first, and Mr. Davis, in general of the usual--if there is a usual pattern of someone coming in here? How they become acquainted? What is the community of people of Russian descent, and I do want to tell you in advance that the thought I have in mind in this connection is trying to follow the Oswalds.
Mr. Raigorodsky.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
What would be the common manner and fashion in which the Oswalds would become acquainted, or others would become acquainted with them, and before you get to that, that's kind of a specific, I want you to give me from your fund of knowledge and your interests--tell me what your interests have been, what the expected pattern would be of people coming--like Marina Oswald, for example, into this community?
Let's not make it Marina Oswald--I don't want to get into a specific, but let's take a hypothetical couple?
Mr. Raigorodsky.
All right. I can just summarize what happened in the many years that I have been both in Houston and in Dallas.
There are methods of, I would say, of immigration into the communities in Dallas of the Russians I'm talking about. One is via friendship, acquaintanceship somewhere in Europe or in China or somewhere else, but with different Russians and the order by the Tolstoy Foundation--you are acquainted with the Tolstoy Fund?
Mr. Jenner.
I think for the purposes of the record, since the reader may not be acquainted with it, that you might help a little bit on the Tolstoy Foundation.
Mr. Raigorodsky.
Well, Miss Alexandra Tolstoy is a daughter of our great novelist, Leo Tolstoy, and I guess you know him, and she came to this country and she organized a Tolstoy Foundation, which takes care of Russian refugees throughout the world wherever they may be. They process them, which means that they know all about them before they come into here through their own organization or your different organizations. Like, you have a church in the United States--you have a church organization or all kinds of benevolent organizations that want to help refugees and they don't know who to help
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