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. I am in New York City. I am called to the draft,
and they found I have high blood pressure.
Mr. JENNER. With the advent of the war in Europe, did you----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, I forgot to tell you.
Mr. JENNER. Did you volunteer?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. I was mobilized by the Polish Army in
1939--since being a candidate officer, I was mobilized by the Polish
Army, got the papers in 1939 that I have to return to New York, and I
did return to New York in 1939. That was just exactly after my Texas
experience with the Humble Oil Co.
Mr. JENNER. Your Louisiana experience?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Louisiana, Texas, the same company. And it was
just--I was intending to return to Poland, because my father was
there--I had very close connection with my father. Somehow I felt maybe
it was my duty to be in the Polish Army.
And it was too late. The last boat, Battory, which took the people--I
never arrived in Poland.
I reported to the Polish Embassy here in Washington. It was too late
to join the Polish Army. Maybe all for the best, because I probably
wouldn't be alive today.
Mr. JENNER. You have some----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You have to refresh my memory, because, as I say,
I never expected questions like this. Sometimes if I make a mistake, it
is not my intention.
Mr. JENNER. Well, I don't suggest you are ever making a mistake. You
are calling on your own recollection.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, yes; I am doing my best recollection.
Mr. JENNER. At this particular time, did you have some, oh, let me call
it, tenuous connection with some movie business?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; that is right.
Mr. JENNER. Facts, Inc.?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. That is another venture I went
into.
Mr. JENNER. This was 1941?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What was it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I have a distant cousin by the name of Baron
Maydell.
Mr. JENNER. Now, he was a controversial man, was he not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A very controversial person.
Mr. JENNER. In what sense?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In the sense that some people considered him
pro-Nazi.
Mr. JENNER. He was accused of being, was he not, during this period, a
German spy?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No. I don't know that. But he had been an officer
in the Czarist Army. He was a White Russian. And having lost everything
through Communism, he saw the future of his return to Russia, back
to his estates, through German intervention. Like many other White
Russians. He possibly was more German than Russian--although he had
been a Russian citizen, officer of the Czarist Army, and so forth and
so on. A controversial person, no question about it. But I liked him.
And he offered me to learn something about the making of documentary
movies.
Mr. JENNER. Documentary?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes--which is Facts--what was it called? Film
Facts Incorporated.
Mr. JENNER. Film Facts I think is the name of it.
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