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. It is a group.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me all the societies or groups, whether you call them
political or otherwise, of which you have been a member.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. None political. You call the Dallas Petroleum
Club political?
Mr. JENNER. No.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I am a member of the Dallas Petroleum
Club. I used to be a member of the Abilene Country Club. I used to be,
because I don't live there any more.
I am a member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
I am a member of the American Association of Mining Engineers. I think
my dues are due. Maybe they expelled me by now.
I am a member of the Dallas Society of Petroleum Geologists.
I am a member of the Abilene Society of Petroleum Geologists. I am a
registered petroleum engineer in Colorado. That is about it.
Purely professional organizations.
Mr. JENNER. Have you ever participated in the affairs of--whether you
have been a member of--irrespective of whether you have been a member
of, I should say--any political action group, even such things as the
American Civil Liberties Union?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; never even knew that it existed. I never even
knew it existed.
You can see very clearly, I did not have time to do that. I am not
interested in it. I told you before, I am not interested in politics,
except when I want to improve something in our way of life.
Mr. JENNER. In our own way.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In our own way of life, then I start criticizing.
But I certainly am not interested in somebody's political organization,
because I am sufficiently independent to do it by myself.
Mr. JENNER. And even when you become interested, as you suggest, in
improvement or change, that has been largely an individual activity on
your part?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. Occasionally I write letters to
Congressmen--if you call that political action. I do. I write, I bitch
very often. I write letters to the Congressmen and complain. I know the
Congressman from Texas here, and I know--I write letters to people in
Washington when I want to have something done about something.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, you spent 2 months in Haiti.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you returned to the United States.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Returned to the United States.
Mr. JENNER. Where did you land?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. We landed in--we came by Lykes--Lykes Line ship
directly from Haiti to Louisiana, I think Port Arthur, La.
Mr. JENNER. Lake Charles?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Lake Charles.
And the friends met us there and drove us back to Houston and then to
Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. Who were your friends that met you there?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The friends there were two employees of
Kerr-McGee Oil Co., by the name of George Kitchel, vice president, and
Jim Savage, engineer.
Mr. JENNER. You had known Jim Savage for some time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
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