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. And I suppose a smattering of a number of other languages.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You have traveled widely?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Especially in Europe?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Now you can add Creole to it.
Mr. JENNER. From your experience in Haiti?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. And Yugoslav.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; you spent almost a year in Yugoslavia.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you pick up any Danish when you were there, or do they
speak French there?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. They speak German and French.
Mr. JENNER. Your father is deceased?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What do you know about his death?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. My father was----
Mr. JENNER. I think it might be well, Mr. De Mohrenschildt--I am trying
to make this informal. I want you to relax.
May I say, because of the considerations about which you are concerned,
I will tend to inquire into these things.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I am very glad that you do, because you know what
I mean--it is probably being in a controversial business like I am,
international business----
Mr. JENNER. Also, I gather that you are a pretty lively character.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Maybe so. I hope so. All sorts of speculation
have arisen from time to time. And I don't mind, frankly, because
when you don't have anything to hide, you see, you are not afraid of
anything. I am very outspoken.
Mr. JENNER. I understand that you are, from witnesses I have
interviewed, and from these mountains of reports.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I can imagine. By the way, those
reports--again, you see this inquiry is probably going to hurt my
business. I hope they are conducted somehow delicately.
Mr. JENNER. Now, I was asking you to tell me about your father.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Up to the time of his death, from what you understand to be
the circumstances of death.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; well, my father, then, therefore, was an
important official of the Czarist government. But he was a liberal--he
had very liberal ideas. He, for instance, was----
Mr. JENNER. Now, liberal, to me, over in that country would mean
nothing. You tell us what you mean by that.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Liberal means disliked anti-Semitism, the
persecution of Jews.
Mr. JENNER. He was opposed to that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Opposed to that. Disliked the oppression, some
elements of oppression of the Czarist government.
Mr. JENNER. He was opposed to that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Opposed to that. And preached constitutional
government. During the war he was a member--being an official--member
of the group which mobilized the Army, and all that.
Mr. JENNER. He mobilized the Czarist army?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You are talking now about World War I?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. World War I. It is such a long time ago.
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