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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 179« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of George S. De Mohrenschildt)

Mr. Jenner.
There is some indication in the papers that it was as much as $10,000.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Maybe so.
Mr. Jenner.
You just don't have----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It was a very successful operation, this business, Sigurd.
Mr. Jenner.
Did you subsequently dissolve it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Dissolved it, quarreled with my girl friend, decided to come to the States.
Mr. Jenner.
Your brother had been over to see you in the meantime?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; and that is what, by the way, induced me into coming to the States, because my brother and his wife came to meet me. They sort of were not too much interested in meeting a mistress--let's face it--and eventually it led to a breakup between us, between my ex-girl friend and myself.
Mr. Jenner.
And you came to this country in 1938?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. May of 1938.
Mr. Jenner.
May of 1938, I think it was. What did you do to sustain yourself?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I brought some money with me. I brought some money with me something like $10,000, I would say.
Mr. Jenner.
And what did you immediately do in connection with that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. What did I do immediately?
Mr. Jenner.
I mean did you enter into----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I started looking for a job, very unsuccessfully, if I may say so. In New York in those days, in 1938. I even started selling perfumes, I remember, for a company called Chevalier Garde.
Mr. Jenner.
Did you have any interest in that company?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; just purely as a salesman. I even sold some materials for Shumaker and Company.
Mr. Jenner.
Where were you residing then, with your brother?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; part of the time. Then I had my own room.
Mr. Jenner.
Your brother was then living on Park Avenue, was he?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
750?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And you--how long did you stay with him?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think as soon as I arrived we went to spend the summer on Long Island, Belport, Long Island.
Mr. Jenner.
And at Belport, you made what acquaintances?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Lots of people, but especially Mrs. Bouvier.
Mr. Jenner.
Who is Mrs. Bouvier?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Mrs. Bouvier is Jacqueline Kennedy's mother, also her father and her whole family. She was in the process of getting a divorce from her husband. I met him, also. We were very close friends. We saw each other every day. I met Jackie then, when she was a little girl. Her sister, who was still in the cradle practically. We were also very close friends of Jack Bouvier's sister, and his father.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, bring yourself along.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That friendship more or less remained, because we still see each other, occasionally--Mrs. Auchincloss, and occasionally correspond.
Well, then, I realized there was no future selling perfume or materials in the State, and having had that background of the oil industry in my blood, because my father was the director of Nobel Enterprises, which is a large oil concern in Russia, which was eventally expropriated and confiscated, and I decided to come and try to work for an oil company. I arrived in Texas.
Mr. Jenner.
Excuse me, sir. Before we get there because that skips some things--one of your efforts was as an insurance salesman?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; that is right.
Mr. Jenner.
And----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. How did you know that?
Mr. Jenner.
You were unsuccessful in that, were you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Very unsuccessful.
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