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
She never lived with the Taylors. I think she spent 1 night with
them, and that is all. She lived, I think--I think both of them lived
somewhere in the neighborhood. I think she spent 1 night with my
daughter, when she happened to be in Dallas for this medical care. And
since they are about the age of my daughter--she is a little bit older,
but about the same age--I don't remember how it happened, but either I
or my wife introduced Marina to my daughter, and also Lee. This is very
vague in my mind, what happened there.
Mr. JENNER. Well, your recollection is that within a few days George
Bouhe brought Marina to your home?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think so.
Mr. JENNER. For the purpose of having your wife take Marina to get some
dental care?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And where was she taken?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She was taken to the Baylor Dental Clinic.
Mr. JENNER. That is located where?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It is right in the center of Dallas, near the
Slaughter Hospital--what a name for a hospital. It is the name of the
man who founded it.
Well, the dental clinic is right there next door. They give you dental
care gratis, or almost for nothing.
George Bouhe was giving her money, by the way.
Mr. JENNER. He was giving her money?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I mean small amounts of money, you know, either
for injections or something like that--because she didn't have anything.
Mr. JENNER. She was destitute, was she?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Completely destitute--because Lee was at the time
losing his job. I don't recall when he told me that--maybe already at
the first meeting. He told me that he was about to lose his job. He was
working somewhere in Fort Worth as a manual laborer, some ironworker.
Mr. JENNER. Leslie Welding Co.?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I don't know the name of it. This company
was going bankrupt, or that he was going to lose his job. At least that
was his version. Maybe he was fired.
Mr. JENNER. That was his version. That wasn't the fact.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. It was a fact?
Mr. JENNER. It was not. Your wife also took the baby for some medical
care?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Now, this I am not so sure. She told Marina
where to go, and told her, "You have to give the baby such and such
injections." And this I remember well--that she didn't do it. She
didn't go to that children's clinic, because of pure negligence. She
is that type of a girl--very negligent, poor mother, very poor mother.
Loved the child, but a poor mother that doesn't pay much attention. And
what amazed us, you know, that she, having been a pharmacist in Russia,
did not know anything about the good care of the children, nothing.
Mr. JENNER. How did you find out she had been a pharmacist in Russia?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, that eventually came--the second time or
the third time that we met her--she told us the story of her life.
Mr. JENNER. Do you have a recollection as to what she told you?
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