Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. JENNER. Do you--the United States Army?
Mr. MAMANTOV. United States Army, was in Germany, and studied Russian
in Heidelberg. When he came back, he did graduate work after the Army.
He did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and had studied
Russian, so when he came to my class he had a very good background of
the Russian language already.
Mr. JENNER. Now, there was an occasion, was there not, in which this
student, Norman Fredricksen, said something to you about Oswald; isn't
that correct?
Mr. MAMANTOV. May I point out, I lost him for a while after I finished
that semester, that interrupted Russian, and this was in the spring of
1961, and if I am right, about a semester or two semesters later, he
and Volkmar Schmidt came to my home and asked me to conduct private
lessons for both of them.
Mr. JENNER. Had you also been tutoring Volkmar Schmidt?
Mr. MAMANTOV. They came--right now, they came to my house. Not
before--the first time I met Volkmar Schmidt was when Fredricksen and
Volkmar Schmidt came to my home, and I said, "All right, I'll take both
of you," and I talked to Fredricksen, and Volkmar Schmidt was described
as knowing the same amount of the Russian language, and I found out he
didn't know half as much as Fredricksen did and I offered to split and
I would continue to teach for the same amount of money Fredricksen,
and Volkmar Schmidt would take from my mother-in-law, who had time and
willingness to teach individual students, so we split--I was tutoring
Fredricksen and she was teaching Schmidt.
Mr. JENNER. And did there come this occasion when Fredricksen spoke to
you about the Oswalds one night?
Mr. MAMANTOV. That's right, and Fredricksen and his wife came to visit
with us.
Mr. JENNER. Your home?
Mr. MAMANTOV. That's correct, and this was, I would say,
sometime--March, April, might be of 1963, and so they told us yesterday
or day before yesterday that they went to a very interesting party
where the person present just came in from the Soviet Union and his
wife, and the party was held at Glover's home. I asked him who was
present. He said Mrs. Paine was present, of course, both Oswalds were
present, and the De Mohrenschildts were present. Of course, Glover was
present and I don't remember who else he mentioned, and we started the
conversation.
Mr. JENNER. Was Fredricksen present?
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