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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 291« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Jeanne De Mohrenschildt)

Mr. Jenner.
Don't you have a brother by the name of----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Did he what?
Mr. Jenner.
He came to this country?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Oh, yes. I believe he came in 1930.
Mr. Jenner.
And he is still here?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Oh, yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And where is he located now?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He is in Woodland Hills, Calif.
Mr. Jenner.
Engaged in----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think it is 4560 Deseret Drive.
He is with North American Aircraft Co. He just switched. He was with Ramo Wooldridge. A few years before that he was with Linnet Co. in Beverly Hills, and before that with Howard Hughes, and before that he was with Berkeley, University at Berkeley, doing some research.
Mr. Jenner.
He attended the University of Chicago?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He attended after the war. But he originally came over to study in Berkeley. He graduated from Berkeley. But then when the war broke out he volunteered--he was 2 1/2 years in service. But he was never sent over, because he did so much important research work, that they kept him here.
And he met Professor Rasby of Chicago University. And then he went to work with him in Chicago University for very, very little money, but he had all the facilities for his work. That is where he met his second wife, a very lovely woman, and they are very happy now, I hope. Four little kinds, darling home.
Mr. Jenner.
And you eventually were divorced from your first husband?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
He retained the name Robert LeGon?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
He didn't change his name back to Bogoiavlensky?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No.
By the way, do you know he is in a rest home?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; I do.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. There was a lot of unpleasantness around in that time, because he was already going off completely.
Mr. Jenner.
And you were divorced from him in the summer of 1959?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Oh, no, no; before that. It was 1957, spring of 1957. Yes; it was in the spring of 1957.
I believe it was first of May or something. I don't remember exactly. But it is pretty close.
Mr. Jenner.
And you married your present husband, George De Mohrenschildt, in the summer of 1959?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1959, yes; in June, towards the end of June.
Mr. Jenner.
And your daughter who was born to you in New York City----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In Manhattan Hospital.
Mr. Jenner.
She was--her given name was----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Jeanne Elinor LeGon.
Mr. Jenner.
And she changed her name to Christiana?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; her father did it. She was just a youngster. You know what happened to him mentally. He went completely--I don't know, maybe when people go crazy, lots of things begin to bother them, maybe his conscience was bothering him because he dropped his father's name or something. But for a particular reason he didn't take it himself, but he put it--insisted that my daughter will take the name.
Mr. Jenner.
What name?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Bogoiavlensky--and drop the LeGon. And she was baptized--she was brought up as Episcopalian. I never baptized her, because I wanted her to choose her own religion when she grew up. I know too many people who have too many difficulties later when they find out they want something else. By the time she was baptized she liked the name Christiana and she took that name. And he changed her name to Bogoiavlensky again. So it was very, very unpleasant and horrible, what the poor fellow didn't do.
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