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
In the evening we got back home, and we stayed in bed, and all of
a sudden the idea came back to me that somebody must have been in
my apartment and checked my book and read through that and took
photographs. And it was such a horrible idea that Jeanne and I just
could not sleep all night. And the next morning we both of us went
to see Walter Moore and told him, "Now, look what happened to us.
Have you Government people"--and I think I asked him point blank, you
know--"Have you FBI people looked through my book?" He said, "Do you
consider us such fools as to leave marks on your book if we had? But we
haven't." I said, "Can't you give me some protection against somebody
who has?" He said, "Do you have any strong enemies?" I said, "Well, I
possibly have. Everybody has enemies." But I never could figure out who
it was. And it is still a mystery to me.
So I am not so sure whether I asked point blank Clark or Walter
Moore about Oswald. I probably spoke to both of them about him. My
recollection is, and also my wife's recollection is, that either of
them said he is a harmless lunatic. Later on Max got disgusted with
him and said that he is a no-good b-----d, a traitor, and so on and so
forth. But by that time we already forgot Oswald--got Oswald out of
your lives, you see. This is one point.
The second point is as you can see the whole of the Russian colony in
Dallas were interested in Oswald one way or the other, because they
represented somebody who had been to their old country just recently,
and could give them the latest information on what was going on. As
I said, the old guard were naturally against them right away. The
others were just curious. But this particular couple, Natasha and Igor
Voshinin, refused to see them. And I insisted several times, "Why don't
you see them? You love all the Russians. Why don't you meet Marina
Oswald?" And she said, "We don't want to, and we have our reasons for
not meeting them." And it kept on in my mind. I did not want to raise
that question. But why didn't they want to meet them?
Mr. JENNER. Well, tell me what is your speculation as to why they did
not want to meet them?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I do not have the slightest idea. Maybe they knew
something about Oswald, of some connection.
Mr. JENNER. Or maybe they were alarmed, and didn't want to take any
chances.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Maybe just that.
Mr. JENNER. But they were pretty firm in not having any traffic with
them.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Absolutely firm. The only ones. Maybe they were
just more recently arrived in the United States and they were not so
secure like we were, you see. And possibly they were just alarmed of
meeting somebody who just came from Soviet Russia.
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