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. He liked Russia more than she did. I think he
liked the conditions in Russia more than she did.
Mr. JENNER. Why?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Because he was a foreigner there, and he had
a privileged position. He had a nice apartment. He said that people
were interested in him, you see. That very often--he worked in a TV
factory--the workers would come to him and ask him questions about the
United States and so on, and that pleased him very much, because he was
that type of an individual who needed attention.
Marina was more inclined to criticize the living conditions there than
he did--as far as I remember. Yet she was not too critical, you see. It
was a livable way of life.
Actually, they came to think that possibly their life was better there
than in Fort Worth. In other words, both were disappointed in what
happened to them after they came back to the United States. And I think
that Lee more than Marina. Because as the time went on, Marina was
getting more and more things from people--people like the Clarks, like
ourselves, like George Bouhe, started giving her gifts, dresses and so
on and so forth. She had some hundred dresses.
Mr. JENNER. A large number of dresses?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. About a hundred dresses.
When we carried them out to live with the Mellers, my car was loaded
with her dresses. It was all contributions from the various people, in
Fort Worth and Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. In addition to dresses and clothing, what other things?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, mainly baby things. She had two cribs, I
remember. She had a baby carriage.
I think George Bouhe gave it to her. Toys for the baby. Many things
like that.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you say you carried her out and took her to the
Mellers?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. This was already possibly 2 weeks after we
met them.
Mr. JENNER. Now, what was the occasion that you did that, and why did
you do it?
That was a pretty forward thing to do, was it not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. In the meantime, Lee lost his job and George
Bouhe told him that he should move to Dallas, he will give him an
introduction at the Texas Employment Agency--he knew somebody there.
And eventually he got a job through that Texas Employment Agency. I
don't remember the name of the person who was there--some Texas lady
whom George Bouhe knew.
And I told him that I would help him, too, to find a job, and even
spoke to Sam Ballen about it, can he give him a job. And that is
probably the only time that Sam Ballen met Oswald. I told him to go to
Mr. Ballen's office--he has a reproduction business, a very large one
in Texas.
Mr. JENNER. Reproduction?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Reproduction, electric log reproduction service.
When they reproduce electrical logs from the oil wells. And also, they
print catalogs and things like that in his office. It is quite a large
business that he has--with branch offices all over Texas, and even in
Denver, Colorado.
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