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. Yes; and Cuellar, another attorney. He is still a
good friend of mine.
Mr. JENNER. You then returned to the United States?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. They said, "That is the best way for you, to
leave, because you cannot fight against the constitutional forces of
Mexico."
Mr. JENNER. While in Mexico, you engaged in no espionage for anybody?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No.
Mr. JENNER. You were in love with this lady?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And you saw her frequently, and her friends and other
friends, and did some traveling around Mexico?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Where did you get the money to do that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, $6,000, you know. And then we shared alike.
And I told you that life in Mexico was very cheap at the time. You
could live on a hundred dollars a month. One of my best friends there
at the time was a young MacArthur boy.
Mr. JENNER. General MacArthur's son?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Nephew, the son of MacArthur, the playwright.
He was also living in Mexico, very close friends. We made some trips
together. The son of John MacArthur.
Mr. JENNER. You eventually returned to America, to the United States?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You went back to New York?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. By train?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. As a matter of fact, you went by chair car?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That I didn't remember. How did you know that? I
don't remember, frankly. Those FBI people are excellent in following a
chair car. But, believe me, they are very often----
Mr. JENNER. Was it about this time when you returned that you started
to work on your book, "A Son of the Revolution"?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, we are in what year--about 1942, 1943?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, about that.
Mr. JENNER. 1942, I think.
Now, upon your return to New York, what did you do?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I was working on that book. I sold that interest
in the sugar company--that is, the Mexican outfit I told you about--and
then I remember once I went to Palm Beach.
Mr. JENNER. Now----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. What else did I do then?
Mr. JENNER. When you reached Palm Beach you met the lady who became
your first wife, Dorothy Pierson?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me who was Dorothy Pierson?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Dorothy Pierson was an attractive girl, the
daughter of a local real estate man whose mother was married to an
Italian, Cantagalli, Lorenzo Cantagalli, from Florence. And the mother
and daughter came back to the United States during the war. She was
the daughter of Countess Cantagalli by the first husband, who was an
American. That is why her name was Pierson. And, anyway, Dorothy and I
fell in love with each other and got married.
Mr. JENNER. She was quite young, was she not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Very young.
Mr. JENNER. About 17 or 18?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
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