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. I will digress for a moment. Ferdinand De Mohrenschildt
was some officer, or had a connection with the Russian Embassy here in
Washington?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that, please.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, he was First Secretary of the Czarist
Embassy, the last Czarist Embassy here in Washington. He married
McAdoo's daughter.
Mr. JENNER. William Gibbs McAdoo's daughter. She is now Mrs. Post.
Is she still alive?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; she is still alive.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall her first name?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Nona.
Mr. JENNER. Your uncle is deceased?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He is deceased; yes.
Mr. JENNER. They were eventually divorced, were they not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, sir; no--he died. They were never divorced.
She was divorced many times--remarried and divorced many times. But he
died--I guess in 1925 or 1924.
Mr. JENNER. Sometimes people refer to you as Baron De Mohrenschildt.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Would you explain that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't refer to myself as that, you know. But
supposedly the family has the right to it, because we are members of
the Baltic nobility.
Mr. JENNER. Through what source?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Through the Swedish source, from the time of
Queen Christina. But my father never used the title, because of his
perhaps liberal tendencies. Neither did Ferdinand, I think.
Mr. JENNER. And as near as I can tell, your brother never has?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. My brother--I don't think so; no.
Mr. JENNER. At least I don't find it in any of the papers.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You are an interesting person, Mr. De Mohrenschildt, to
many people. They have gathered ideas about you, and many of them in
the past at least have felt that you might have been, or that you
perhaps were--had a title of some kind. I just wanted to explain that
of record.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, we have you in Wilno, Poland. You are 11 years old.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I have some papers which say that we are barons,
in my files. But, frankly, I don't--I think it is sort of ridiculous to
use the title. My ex-wife loved the idea.
Mr. JENNER. Which one?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The very last one, Sharples.
Mr. JENNER. Am I correct that there were two children, yourself and
your brother Dimitri?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And no others--just two children?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you stayed in Wilno, Poland, how long?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Stayed in Wilno until I graduated from gymnasium,
which is the equivalent of high school. A little bit more than a high
school. That must have been 1929. Not constantly over there, but that
is where our home was.
Mr. JENNER. What did your father do in Wilno?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In Wilno he fought for the--tried to regain back
our estate. It happened to be we had an estate, a piece of land.
Mr. JENNER. In Russia?
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