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
Then, I never met them--sometimes I was getting calls--how was this
Russian couple getting along, and they tried to find for them new work
for him--he was not satisfied with what he was doing. I think too
little and always not enough money and Bouhe was trying to help them
financially.
Mr. JENNER. Bouhe solicited money from you and others?
Mrs. LESLIE. No, I didn't give. He was just helping because he is a
quite wealthy man. He is alone and he doesn't have any limitation or
anything. He always takes interest in some poor people. He sends money
and he is supporting some old people. I do not know exactly which they
are and so on.
Mr. JENNER. This interest of Mr. Bouhe, and this course of conduct that
you have related was, as far as you are concerned, there was nothing
extraordinary about it, it was something you normally would expect of a
man like George Bouhe?
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes, and I will tell you now, even now I do not meet
with Mr. Bouhe and there is a completely different reason why. He is
a temperate man, a little bit--he can tell you--insult you sometimes
without thinking, and I am a little bit older than he is, a few years,
so it was a case which probably will interest you because it was one of
the finest things which happens.
When I was a child and close with my mother, I saw a photograph of
my mother which was taken by some artist that was collecting Russian
costumes of art, you know, peasant's costumes and her brother was in
an academy, he was a painter, and this painter came from London and he
wanted to help to make a book about Russia as an artist. So, he wanted
to take photographs of the girls in these costumes and my mother was
pretty, very pretty when she was young. She was 17 then--she was very
pretty then, but that was long ago, that was 70 years ago, so they took
her photograph in the costume and when I was 5 years old, I sold this
photograph to a man, nothing else, you know, just a photographer and I
forgot about it, and already being in America, I was living in Boston
with my husband. I visited one of my friends and she was collecting
Russian things, embroideries and books and she showed me some books and
it was art books and I was looking at those costumes and then I see a
portrait of my mother.
It was, you know, very big thing for me because being already 13 years
out of Russia and I find a portrait of my mother in America and it was
a very rare case.
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