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
I repeat again--I liked the fellow, and I pitied him all the time. And
this is--if somebody did that to me, a lousy trick like that, to take
my wife away, and all the furniture, I would be mad as hell, too. I am
surprised that he didn't do something worse.
I would not do it to anybody else. I just didn't consider him a
dangerous person. I would not do it to somebody else.
Well, anyway, later on--this is from hearsay again, now--Marina moved
to Declan Ford's house, because I think the Mellers got tired of her,
and then she moved eventually to somebody else's house--the name you
mentioned here before--a Russian girl who married an American--Thomas
something.
Mr. JENNER. Ray?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Ray. She moved to Ray's house, and then----
Mr. JENNER. Excuse me. You took her to the Mellers?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And she went from the Mellers to the Halls?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That I do not remember any more. I do not recall
that. I thought she moved from the Mellers to Mrs. Ford, and from Mrs.
Ford to the house of the Rays.
What I recall now is that she had moved before to Mrs. Hall's house.
Mr. JENNER. You learned that she had already been at Mrs. Hall's home?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Something like that is in my mind--that she had
already tried to go away from Lee, and stayed with Mrs. Hall. But I am
not 100 percent sure.
I know that for the second time she was at Mrs. Hall's house, a little
bit later.
Mr. JENNER. What was your understanding of the difficulties they were
having?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Why was he physically beating her?
The difficulties were this: She was--just incompatibility. They were
annoying each other, and she was all the time annoying him. Having had
many wives, I could see his point of view. She was annoying him all the
time--"Why don't you make some money?", why don't they have a car, why
don't they have more dresses, look at everybody else living so well,
and they are just miserable flunkeys. She was annoying him all the
time. Poor guy was going out of his mind.
Mr. JENNER. And you and your wife were aware of this, were you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And had discussed it----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. We told her she should not annoy him--poor
guy, he is doing his best. "Don't annoy him so much." And I think I
mentioned before one annoying thing. She openly said he didn't see her
physically--right in front of him. She said, "He sleeps with me just
once a month, and I never get any satisfaction out of it." A rather
crude and completely straightforward thing to say in front of relative
strangers, as we were.
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I didn't blame Lee for giving her a good whack on
the eye. Once it was all right. But he also exaggerated. I think the
discussions were purely on that basis--purely on a material basis, and
on a sexual basis, those two things--which are pretty important.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; they are.
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