| George de Mohrenschildt | |
| Born | April 17, 1911 Mozyr |
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| Died | March 29, 1977 (aged 65) |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Nationality | American naturalized |
| Occupation | petroleum geologist |
| Known for | Allegations made by Jim Garrison during his investigation of the John F. Kennedy Assassination |
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George de Mohrenschildt (April 17 (Gregorian calendar), 1911 – March 29, 1977) was a petroleum geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison ( November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) &mdash who changed his first name to Jim in the John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18 1939 &ndash November 24 1963 was according to three United States government investigations the assassin of U This is an article about the New Orleans businessman See E Clay Shaw Jr David William Ferrie ( March 28, 1918 - February 22, 1967) was a private investigator and The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC was an activist group set up in New York in April 1960 The Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front was founded in May 1960 by anti-Castro Cuban exiles and was initially headquartered in Mexico On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Petroleum geology refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for Hydrocarbons ( Oil exploration) Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18 1939 &ndash November 24 1963 was according to three United States government investigations the assassin of U The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of
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Early life
George de Mohrenschildt was born in Mozyr in Czarist Russia, near the border of Poland (his birthdate was April 4, old-style Russian Julian calendar). Mazyr, also Mozyr (Мазы́р ma'zɨr Мо́зырь Lithuanian Mozyrius is a city in the Homiel Province of Belarus on the Pripyat River Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 Ab urbe condita His wealthy father, Sergius Alexander von Mohrenschildt, an anti-Communist, was arrested and put in prison by the Bolsheviks shortly after the Russian Revolution. The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists ( Большевик Большевист (singular, derived from bolshe, "more" were a faction The October Revolution (Октябрьская революция Oktyabrskaya revolyutsiya) also known as the Soviet Revolution After being sentenced to life as an exile in Siberia, he managed to escape with his family to Poland during the 1920s, where George graduated from a military academy in 1931. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland He received the equivalent of a doctor of science of international commerce from the University of Liège in 1938. The University of Liège ( ULg) in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major Public university in the French Community of Belgium
When de Mohrenschildt immigrated to the United States in May 1938, British intelligence reportedly notified the U. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the S. government they suspected he was working for German intelligence and by some accounts he was under FBI surveillance for a time. At first, de Mohrenschildt worked for the Shumaker company in New York City, purportedly under Pierre Fraiss, who had connections with French intelligence and according to de Mohrenschildt (see his Warren Hearing testimony) was engaged in gathering information about people engaged in "pro-German" activities, such as Nazi bidding for U. The City of New York S. oil leases before the U. S. became involved in the war. In his testimony, de Mohrenschildt makes it clear that his data-collection was anti-Nazi activity, since it was aimed at helping the French, by out-bidding the Germans.
De Mohrenschildt spent the summer of 1938 with his older brother Dimitri on Long Island, New York, where he became acquainted with the Bouvier family, including young Jackie, future wife of John F. Kennedy, and became a close friend of Jackie's aunt Edith Bouvier Beale. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ( October 5, 1895 — February 5, 1977) aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, made world headlines
He dabbled in the insurance business from 1939 to 1941, but failed to pass his broker's examination. In 1941, de Mohrenschildt became associated with Film Facts in New York, a production company owned by his cousin Baron Maydell who was said to have pro-Nazi sympathies (de Mohrenschildt flatly denied any Nazi sympathies of his own, since he was helping raise money for the Polish resistance). De Mohrenschildt made a documentary film about resistance fighters in Poland but when the United States entered World War II his application to join the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was rejected. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II.
George's elder brother Dimitri von Mohrenschildt was a staunch anti-Communist and member of the OSS and one of the founders of the CIA's Radio Free Europe and Amcomlib (aka Radio Liberty) stations. His contacts included top officials of the agency. Dimitri died at the age of 100 in 2002.
George received a master's degree in petroleum geology from the University of Texas in 1945. Petroleum geology refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for Hydrocarbons ( Oil exploration)
Dallas, Oswald and Haiti
After the war de Mohrenschildt settled in Dallas, Texas, and took a job with oilman Clint Murchison as a petroleum geologist. Clint William Murchison Jr ( September 12, 1923 – March 30, 1987) was the founder of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football Petroleum ( L petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit A geologist is a contributor to the Science of Geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system He became a U. S. citizen in 1949. Described as sophisticated and articulate, he became a respected member of the Russian emigre community in Dallas, teaching at a local college, working for various oil companies as a geologist and traveling throughout the Americas with his fourth wife, Jeanne, whom he married in 1959. [1]
De Mohrenschildt met Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18 1939 &ndash November 24 1963 was according to three United States government investigations the assassin of U Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. George and Jeanne befriended Lee and Marina Oswald, trying to help them as best they could along with introducing them into Dallas' Russian community. Marina Oswald Porter (born Marina Alexandrovna Medvedeva Nikolayevna Prusakova on July 17, 1941) was the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending In his Warren Commission testimony in 1964, de Mohrenschildt stated that he believed he had discussed Oswald with J. Walton Moore, of the Dallas office of the CIA, whom de Mohrenschildt had known since 1957. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all De Mohrenschildt asserted that shortly after meeting Oswald he asked Moore and Ft. Worth attorney Max Clark about Oswald to reassure himself that it was "safe" for the de Mohrenschildts to assist Oswald. According to his testimony, de Mohrenschildt was told by one of the persons he talked to about Oswald, although he said he could not remember who it was, that "the guy seems to be OK. " (Moore said in a 1978 interview for the House Select Committee on Assassinations that the allegations that de Mohrenschildt asked Moore's "permission" to contact Oswald were false. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F )
In June 1963, de Mohrenschildt moved to Haiti, where he and other investors had set up an industrial development enterprise whose work was to include conducting a geological survey of Haiti to plot out oil and geological resources on the island. Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: After Kennedy was assassinated, he testified before the Warren Commission in 1964. The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963 (For this testimony in the hearing record, see [2] and following pages). The de Mohrenschildts left Haiti in 1967 and returned to Dallas.
Later life & death
According to Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, a "serious and famous Dutch clairvoyant" called Gerard Croiset had a vision in 1967 of a conspirator who had manipulated Oswald [2]: his description led Oltmans to de Mohrenschildt, and the two stayed in touch. Willem Oltmans (born on June 10, 1925 in Huizen, died September 30, 2004 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Journalist
For reasons unknown, George and Jeanne de Mohrenschildt quietly obtained a divorce in Dallas, Texas on 3 April 1973, after nearly fourteen years of marriage. [3] It was not reported in the local newspapers, and the couple continued to present themselves as husband and wife. [4]
By the early 1970s, reportedly, de Mohrenschildt's behavior leaned towards the erratic. On September 17, 1976, the CIA requested that the FBI locate de Mohrenschildt, because he had "attempted to get in touch with the CIA Director. Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "[5] De Mohrenschildt had "written a letter to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency asking for his assistance. It seems that Subject feels he is being harassed as a result of his involvement with the OSWALD case. "[6] George Bush wrote back:
Let me say first that I know it must have been difficult for you to seek my help in the situation outlined in your letter. I believe I can appreciate your state of mind in view of your daughter's tragic death a few years ago, and the current poor state of your wife's health. I was extremely sorry to hear of these circumstances. In your situation I can well imagine how the attentions you described in your letter affect both you and your wife. However, my staff has been unable to find any indication of interest in your activities on the part of Federal authorities in recent years. The flurry of interest that attended your testimony before the Warren Commission has long subsided. I can only speculate that you may have become "newsworthy" again in view of the renewed interest in the Kennedy assassination, and thus may be attracting the attention of people in the media. I hope this letter had been of some comfort to you, George, although I realize I am unable to answer your question completely. George Bush, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence [CIA Exec Reg. # 76,51571 9. 28. 76][7]
On November 9, 1976, Jeanne had him committed to a mental institution in Texas for three months, and listed in a notarized affidavit four previous suicide attempts while he was in the Dallas area. In the affidavit she stated that George suffered from depression, heard voices, saw visions, and believed that the FBI and the Jewish Mafia were persecuting him.
In 1977 Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans went to Texas and brought de Morenschildt to Hollan. Willem Oltmans (born on June 10, 1925 in Huizen, died September 30, 2004 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Journalist [8] What happened then is disputed. Michael Eddowes says Oltmans plied Morenschildt with pharmaceuticals, which Oltmans denies, saying instead that he rescued Morenschildt from a mental institution to bring him to "famous" clairvoyant Croiset (see above). According to Oltmans, Croiset supposedly agreed Morgenschildt was the man he saw in his vision. About this episode Lobster Magazine subsequently commented: Between psychiatrists on one side and a psychic on the other — and even if the CIA were not involved — [de Mohrenschildt] did not have much of a chance[9]
On March 16, 1977, de Mohrenschildt returned to the United States from a business trip in Belgium. Lobster is a twice yearly British magazine (June and December focussing on Parapolitics. His daughter talked with him at length and found him to be deeply disturbed about certain matters and had expressed a desire to commit suicide. De Mohrenschildt contacted Kennedy assassination researcher Edward Jay Epstein, told him that he needed money, and accepted $4,000 for an interview to be published in Reader's Digest, during which he claimed that in 1962 a CIA operative in Dallas named Moore asked him to learn what he could about Oswald's activities in the Soviet Union. Edward Jay Epstein (born 1935 is an American Journalist. Epstein attended Cornell University during the 1960s where he received his BA Reader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family Magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 De Mohrenschildt said that in exchange he received help in an oil transaction he was attempting to negotiate with Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Dr François Duvalier, known as " Papa Doc " ( April 14, 1907 – April 21, 1971) was the President of When the Haitian government gave de Mohrenschildt the contract in March 1963, he presumed it was payment for assisting the CIA. On March 29, 1977, while on a break from the interview, de Mohrenschildt received a card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F That afternoon, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun) is a Firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number [10]
Edward Jay Epstein, an author who interviewed de Mohrenschildt shortly before his death, wrote the following diary entry (29th March, 1977)
David Bludworth, The State's Attorney, was a folksy, charming and savvy interrogator. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays He began by telling me that De Mohrenschildt had put a shotgun in his mouth and killed himself at 3:45 p. m. There were no witnesses — and no one home at the time of the shooting. The precise time of his death was established by a tape-recorder, left running that afternoon to record the soap operas for the absent Mrs. Tilton, and which recorded a single set of footfalls in the room and the blast of the shotgun, which was found on the Persian carpet next to him. No suicide note or other clue was found. He said I was probably the last person to talk to him. Then, he asked whether I had in my possession De Mohrenschildt's black address book. I replied "No. " He politely rephrased the question, and asked me again — about a half-dozen times, whether I had the black book.
(In fact, three people were at home at the time: the housekeeper was downstairs in the kitchen, and the cook and gardener were in the backyard. )
Another backyard photo
Days later, on April 1, 1977, Jeanne de Mohrenschildt gave the House Select Committee on Assassinations a photograph taken of Lee Harvey Oswald, by his wife Marina, standing in his Dallas backyard holding two newspapers and a rifle with a pistol on his hip. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18 1939 &ndash November 24 1963 was according to three United States government investigations the assassin of U The existence of this print, while similar to others which had been found among Oswald's effects on November 23, 1963, was previously unknown. Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
On the back was written To my friend George from Lee Oswald, and the date “5/IV/63” [this is in non-USA convention with day in front and month in Roman numerals, and means 5 April 1963] [11] along with the words “Copyright Geo de M”' and a Russian phrase translated as “'Hunter of fascists, ha-ha-ha!” Handwriting specialists later concluded that the words “To my friend George…” and Oswald's signature were written by Lee Harvey Oswald but could not determine whether the rest was the writing of Lee Oswald, George de Mohrenschildt or Marina Oswald. Some historians have speculated the Russian line was written by Marina, in sarcasm. (George de Mohrenschildt in his memoir translated it as "This is the hunter of fascists, ha, ha, ha!" and also assumed that Marina had written it sarcastically).
George de Mohrenschildt wrote in his manuscript (reference and pages cited above) that he had missed Oswald's photograph in packing for the move to Haiti in May, 1963, and this was why he hadn't mentioned it to the Warren Commission (though he had noted in his manuscript that Oswald had a rifle in April, 1963, because he had seen it in the apartment at Easter and scoffed to Lee that he had missed General Walker, remembering in memory that Lee had blanched at the joke). According to de Mohrenschildt, the photo was not found among his stored papers until his wife found it in 1967. When analyzed by the HSCA in 1977, this photo turned out to be a first generation print of the backyard photo already known to the Warren commission as CE-133A, and which had probably been taken on March 31, 1963.
Memoir
Jeanne de Mohrenschildt also gave the HSCA committee a copy of a manuscript called I Am a Patsy! I Am a Patsy! which George de Mohrenschildt had recently written about his relationship with his "dear, dead friend" Oswald, wherein he said that the Lee Oswald he knew, while capable of violence and petty meanness, would not have been the sort of person to have killed John F. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F Kennedy. In part this judgment was based on de Mohrenschildt's estimation of Oswald's political views and Kennedy's liberal ideas. The memoir has never been published as a trade book but has been available online since the entire typescript was published as an appendix in the HSCA report [3]. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F (For a partial re-type see [4]). De Mohrenschildt's testimony to the Warren Commission in early 1964, however, paints a quite different view of Oswald — a man de Mohrenschildt said he considered a "kid" and not a friend. Due to the largely complete conflict in point of view between these two accounts (one given under some duress and the other written ostensibly for money) most historians give neither account of de Mohrenschildt great historical value [5].
George de Mohrenschildt has been widely described as a sociable, talkative and gregarious provocateur, and no direct connection between him and any intelligence agency — including the CIA — has ever been established (De Mohrenschildt denied in his manuscript ever having worked for the CIA, and openly admitted to detesting the FBI). Traditionally an agent provocateur ( Plural: agents provocateurs, French for "inciting agent" is a person employed by the police or However, his apparent family (brother) and social ties to the OSS and later CIA officials are beyond reasonable doubt.
Depictions in the Popular media
De Morenschildt was played by Willem Oltmans in the 1991 film JFK and by Bill Bolender in the 1993 TV movie Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald. Willem Oltmans (born on June 10, 1925 in Huizen, died September 30, 2004 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Journalist JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. The film was released on December 20 1991 Bill Bolender is an American actor He has appeared in many popular movies including RoboCop 2, JFK, Reality Bites, Fatal Deception Mrs Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1993 Television film directed by Robert Dornhelm and starring Frank Whaley and Helena
References
- ^ Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Jeanne de Mohrenschildt.
- ^ Gallery (magazine), April 1977
- ^ Ancestry. Gallery is a men's magazine published by Montcalm Publishing since 1972 com. Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc. , 2005. Original data: Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2002. Texas, USA: Texas Department of State Health Services.
- ^ For example, from the death investigation report by Thomas Neighbors of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office:
At 2315 hours, on 29 March, 1977, this writer made contact with the victim's wife, MRS. Palm Beach County is located in the state of Florida. As of 2007 the county had a population of 1351236 according to the University of Florida Bureau of Economic JEANNE deMOHRENSCHILDT, in California … and advised her of her husband's demise; a fact which she had already been made aware of by several newsmen who had telephoned her seeking a story. She stated that she has been married to the victim for the past twenty-one years and noted that over the past several years he has been acting in an "insane manner".
- ^ CIA Message Reference Number 915341.
- ^ CIA MFR Raymond M. Reardon SAG 9. 20. 76.
- ^ George H. W. Bush recalled, "I first met de Mohrenschildt in the early 1940s. George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 He was an uncle to my Andover roommate. Phillips Academy (also known as Phillips Andover or PA or simply Andover) is a co-educational University preparatory school for boarding A roommate is a person with whom one shares a residence who is not a relative or Significant other. " (The roommate, Edward G. Hooker, was actually Dimitri von Mohrenschildt's stepson).
- ^ Gallery (magazine), April 1977
- ^ Lobster Magazine 24, 1992. Gallery is a men's magazine published by Montcalm Publishing since 1972 Lobster is a twice yearly British magazine (June and December focussing on Parapolitics.
- ^ Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, Death investigation of George de Mohrenschildt.
- ^ This date was confirmed by de Mohrenschildt in his memoir, see [1], pp. 254-262]
External links
- I Am A Patsy! I Am a Patsy, de Mohrenschildt’s memoir. This is only part of the manuscript (see the HSCA report on him below [6] for the full and complete typescript manuscript). The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F
- [7] De Mohrenschildt's 118-page Warren Commission testimony, taken over two days, provides a great deal of biographical information on him, starting from earliest memories and aided in specifics and dates by many public documents available to the commission.
- [8] The HSCA staff report on the (by then late) de Mohrenschildt. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F This includes analysis of his politics and useful insight into his government contacts. Appended is a photocopy of the full typescript of I Am a Patsy! I Am a Patsy!. De Mohrenschildt's analysis of his Oswald photo is pp. 254-262 (citations to page in the HCSA analysis of the manuscript on this point appear incorrect).
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