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. Not as far as I remember. Maybe a dollar--maybe
50 cents, something like that, for a bus. But never any money. I was in
very difficult financial condition myself at that time. I don't think I
gave her even 50 cents.
Sometimes we would invite them to eat a little bit, you see, in the
house.
Mr. JENNER. You invited them to your home to eat?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. I think maybe once or twice they came to the
house to eat.
Mr. JENNER. Your home on Dickens Street?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. All right, tell us the circumstances----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Of how we took her away?
Mr. JENNER. And why.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, George Bouhe started telling me that
"George, Lee is beating Marina. I saw her with a black eye and she was
crying, and she tried to run away from the house. It is outrageous."
And he was really appalled by the fact that it actually happened. And
Jeanne and I said, let's go and see what is going on.
George Bouhe gave me their address, as far as I remember, there in Oak
Cliff, because I didn't move them--it was my daughter who moved them, I
think.
So we drove up there to that apartment, which was on the ground floor,
and indeed Marina had a black eye. And so either my wife or I told Lee,
"Listen, you cannot do things like this."
Mr. JENNER. Was he home at this time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think he was. Or maybe he wasn't. I just am
not so sure. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. But anyway, he appeared a
little later.
Mr. JENNER. While you were still there, he appeared?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And when you entered that apartment on the first floor, you
observed that she had a black eye?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A black eye, and scratched face, and so on and so
forth.
Mr. JENNER. Did you inquire about it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What did she say?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She said, "He has been beating me." As if it
was normal--not particularly appalled by this fact, but "He has been
beating me", but she said "I fight him back also."
So I said, "You cannot stand for that. You shouldn't let him beat you."
And she said, "Well, I guess I should get away from him."
Now, I do not recall what actually made me take her away from Lee.
Mr. JENNER. Now, Mr. De Mohrenschildt, there has to be something.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, I know.
I do not recall whether she called us in and asked us to take her away
from him or George Bouhe suggested it. I just don't recall how it
happened. But it was because of his brutality to her. Possibly we had
them in the house and discussed it, and I told him he should not do
things like that, and he said, "It is my business"--that is one of the
few times that he was a little bit uppity with me.
And then again George Bouhe told me that he had beaten her again. This
is a little bit vague in my memory, what exactly prompted me to do
that. My wife probably maybe has a better recollection.
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