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; they decided we better forget about this
marriage. We remained very fond of each other. But we finally came to
an agreement to have a divorce. And I filed a suit for divorce.
Mr. JENNER. When was that decree entered?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, that I do not remember.
Mr. JENNER. When did you get your divorce decree from Phyllis
Washington?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In a court in Denver, Colo., but I do not recall
the date.
Mr. JENNER. 1949 or 1950?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Something around that.
Mr. JENNER. Were any children born of that marriage?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No children. We were married in Grand Junction,
Colo. And the divorce was entered--the reason was desertion, which was
actually true, because she did not come back to me. She stayed in New
York, or eventually--she drank, also, an awful lot. Today she is an
alcoholic--poor girl.
Mr. JENNER. You entered the oil consulting business in Denver?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. First of all, as just an ordinary
consultant. I got helped by a friend of mine who has a small oil
company in Denver.
Mr. JENNER. What was his name?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Jimmy Donahue. And he facilitated by giving his
office, the secretary and so on. Because it is rather expensive to
start on your own.
But very soon afterwards I started getting consulting jobs--doing
evaluations on the wells and things like that. And one night--this
will be interesting for you, how to start an oil business--one night
I was driving through Oklahoma, tired as hell, and I said to myself,
by God, everybody is making money in the oil business except me, I am
just a flunky here for all these big operators--I should go in the oil
business on my own, really in the oil business, drilling and producing,
which was interesting to me. And then I recalled that my ex-nephew,
Eddie Hooker, in New York, asked me to go in business with him. He had
visited me in Colorado and was very much interested in the work I had
done. I gave him a telephone call from some place in Oklahoma.
I said, "Eddie, how about it?"
He was working for Merrill Lynch at the time.
And he said, "George, I am ready. I am tired of Merrill Lynch."
Mr. JENNER. Merrill Lynch, Fenner and Beane at that time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. "I am tired of that Merrill Lynch, Fenner
and Beane."
We formed a limited partnership together.
Mr. JENNER. And that is the partnership of Hooker and De Mohrenschildt?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And that was when--1950?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I think so--1950.
Mr. JENNER. And did it last very long?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It lasted, I think, 3 years.
Mr. JENNER. About 2 years?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 2 or 3 years.
Mr. JENNER. And----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Now, we made money, we lost money, but it was a
pleasant relationship. We are still very good friends.
Mr. JENNER. What did you do in connection with that partnership?
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