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
Mrs. LESLIE. I will tell you something--I don't know if Bouhe told you
or others too. When she was out at a place--she had a black eye and she
has her tooth out, one tooth was out, so a second man it was raised a
question how she had this black eye and so on, and she said, "Oh, I
hit the kitchen door. The baby was crying and I didn't want to make a
light, the door was open and I hit it--the kitchen door."
And then, later, I heard from Mrs. Meller that he beat her, he
was beating her, that he was always beating her and everybody was
sympathetic with her. Frankly now, it is understandable. She was
Russian, you know, it is some kind of a feeling of a Russian toward a
Russian and they were mad at him and how he could beat his wife--this
is not proper--to beat his wife.
Mr. JENNER. Well, now, we don't approve of that in America.
Mrs. LESLIE. No. All I say now is what other people like Mellers and
like Fords told me that once he beat her so hard and threw her out
in the street, so she took her baby as a result in just a little
blanket--she didn't know where to go and she came to Mellers and she
said, "I don't know where to go," that she wasn't talking good English
and he wanted to talk Russian at home, so she didn't know what to do
and the Mellers are very nice people, so they took her in their house
and she stayed there a few days until they found a place for her. I
don't remember, but they said, "Oh, the awful things," and they took
her--I think, you know, that she was staying with them.
I didn't know she was staying with Fords. I didn't know when, because I
lost trace of her and so that's all I know about Oswalds. Actually, I
didn't see her until when she was on television.
Mr. JENNER. Now, I want to ask you about a certain George De
Mohrenschildt.
Mrs. LESLIE. I do not know him very much, he is a friend of my
daughter's and he is in Haiti.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; I know that.
Mrs. LESLIE. And he was patronizing Oswalds.
Mr. JENNER. What kind of fellow was George De Mohrenschildt?
Mrs. LESLIE. You know, my daughter is ballerina and so even I have
pictures somewhere with her. He was taking her out, you know, courting
her. She is a very beautiful girl, my daughter--Nattialie Krassooska
of the stage, and she is a very, very attractive girl and a very prima
ballerina many, many years and he was courting her. They were going
together, swimming together, and I don't know where--that's why she
invited me to come here. She said, "I have here some friends," but when
I came, he already married this Jeanne.
Mr. JENNER. Jeanne?
Mrs. LESLIE. She's Russian--I don't know her maiden name, Jeanne or
Jane or something in Russian, but I could not tell what her maiden name
is and he was married four times and she was married, I don't know,
a few times, and then they took this trip, a walking trip in South
America or somewhere, you know, they walked.
Mr. JENNER. From the Mexican border down to Panama?
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