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Agent knows oswald and jfk { November 25 1964 } WASHINGTON POST
Russian-Born Society Figure Knew Kennedy's Family and His Assassin
November 25, 1964
p. A13
Associated Press
A Russian-born society figure was a friend of both the family of the President Kennedy and his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. A series of strange coincidences providing the only known link between the two families before Oswald fired the shot killing Mr. Kennedy in Dallas a year ago was described in testimony before the Warren Commission by George S. de Mohrenschildt. It was disclosed with the Commission's release of the transcripts of the hearings.
De Mohrenschildt, a business promoter now living in Haiti, where he has a series of business ventures in which he is associated with the government of President Francois Duvalier, told of his friendship with the two families in two days of testimony last April.
He said that when he came to the United States in 1938 and worked as a perfume salesman in New York City, he and his brother spent the summer at Belport Long Island, where he met Mrs. Jack Bouvier and her daughter.
"We were very close friends," he testified. "We saw each other every day. I met Jackie there, when she was a little girl."
The friendship, he said, has continued through the years--he still corresponds with and occasionally sees Mrs. Kennedy's mother now Mrs. Hugh D Auchincloss.
His first meeting with the Oswalds, he testified, was through mutual acquaintances, in a Russian colony in Dallas who told him Lee Oswald who once lived in Minsk, his birthplace, was living in poverty in the slums of Fort Worth.
He said he visited Oswald and his wife Marina, in Fort Worth and later after they moved to Dallas, where despite their poverty they were accepted and aided by wealthier persons with Russian connections.
De Mohrenschildt testified that the assassination "was always amazing to me": that he had know Oswald as an admirer of President Kennedy."
"I think I once mentioned to him that I met Mrs. Kennedy when she was a child you know, she was a very strong-willed child, very intelligence and very attracted child you see, and a very attractive family, and I thought Kennedy was doing a very good job with regard to the racial problem, you know," he said in testimony published by the Commission.
"...and he (Oswald) also agreed with me, 'yes, yes, yes; I think it (sic) is an excellent President, young, full of energy, full of good ideas.'"
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