I am a member of the Abilene Society of Petroleum Geologists. I am a
registered petroleum engineer in Colorado. That is about it.
Purely professional organizations.
Mr. JENNER. Have you ever participated in the affairs of--whether you
have been a member of--irrespective of whether you have been a member
of, I should say--any political action group, even such things as the
American Civil Liberties Union?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; never even knew that it existed. I never even
knew it existed.
You can see very clearly, I did not have time to do that. I am not
interested in it. I told you before, I am not interested in politics,
except when I want to improve something in our way of life.
Mr. JENNER. In our own way.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In our own way of life, then I start criticizing.
But I certainly am not interested in somebody's political organization,
because I am sufficiently independent to do it by myself.
Mr. JENNER. And even when you become interested, as you suggest, in
improvement or change, that has been largely an individual activity on
your part?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. Occasionally I write letters to
Congressmen--if you call that political action. I do. I write, I bitch
very often. I write letters to the Congressmen and complain. I know the
Congressman from Texas here, and I know--I write letters to people in
Washington when I want to have something done about something.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, you spent 2 months in Haiti.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you returned to the United States.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Returned to the United States.
Mr. JENNER. Where did you land?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. We landed in--we came by Lykes--Lykes Line ship
directly from Haiti to Louisiana, I think Port Arthur, La.
Mr. JENNER. Lake Charles?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Lake Charles.
And the friends met us there and drove us back to Houston and then to
Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. Who were your friends that met you there?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The friends there were two employees of
Kerr-McGee Oil Co., by the name of George Kitchel, vice president, and
Jim Savage, engineer.
Mr. JENNER. You had known Jim Savage for some time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you had known Kitchel for some time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. We are now into 1962, are we?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. In the early part of the year?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And you returned to Dallas?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. We returned to Dallas. We took another apartment
in the same place--very close to the same neighborhood we used to
live--6628 Dickens Avenue. I felt an urge to write a report on our
trip. I sat down and worked like hell writing this report. My wife
started working--because we were getting short of money. We spent all
the money on our trip--including this Haiti stay. And at the same time
I started pursuing my profession and making oil deals like we do, doing
consulting work, in Dallas.
Now, I should repeat again--I am glad you reminded me of some of those
dates, because you have them written down, and I don't.
So I cannot vouch for some of the dates.
Mr. JENNER. Well, as a matter of fact, I have most of them in my head
at the moment.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You have a better memory for dates than I do.