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. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I went to school, then to Belgium--I was
free now to go to school to Belgium. And I went to Institut Superieur
de Commerce a Anvers.
Mr. JENNER. The translation of that is the institute of higher
commercial studies, Antwerp, Belgium. When attending the institution of
higher commercial studies in Antwerp, you returned to Poland, did you,
from time to time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. In connection with your summer maneuvers?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And what was the requirement in that connection?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Just to come there when they called you, and go
with the Army--summer maneuvers, summer exercises. I think I did that
twice. I don't recall.
Mr. JENNER. And this was still in the cavalry?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Still in the cavalry.
Mr. JENNER. Were you ultimately commissioned?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; always stayed a sergeant.
Mr. JENNER. You entered the institute of----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. By the way, which was a commission--that is very
hard to explain to you. It is like midshipman in the Navy. That is what
it is. And since I did not pursue the military career, I remained a
candidate officer.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I was not disqualified for any reason. On the
contrary, I was the best actually, if I may say so.
Mr. JENNER. Let me pass for a moment in this connection so we can get
it on the record here--your brother, Dimitri, 11 years older than you,
he also devoted his time to the service, but to the Navy.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, that was the Russian Czarist Navy, was it not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And tell us about that, please.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, he joined the naval academy when I think he
was 11 or 12 years old. That is what they have out there. They start
very young. Do you want a little bit of the background of my brother?
Mr. JENNER. Yes, sir; go right ahead.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He is really a ferocious anti-Communist, so you
would be very happy to hear about that. He was in the Russian Imperial
Navy, became a midshipman.
Mr. JENNER. Give me some dates.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, he was a midshipman in 1918, in Sebastopol,
which is the headquarters there.
Mr. JENNER. Now, he was born March 29, 1902, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. I thought he was born in 1900.
Mr. JENNER. Well, his records at the passport office give his birth as
March 29, 1902, and he gives his birth in his biographical material at
Dartmouth and Yale.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, anyway, he was a young edition of a
midshipman. He was a midshipman in 1918, which is like graduation from
Annapolis here.
Mr. JENNER. And did he actually serve in the Czarist Navy?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. All the time you are in that school you are in
the navy, all the time--even when you are 12 years old, you are a
member of the navy. It is not like here.
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