Mr. JENNER. And was De Mohrenschildt married at that time?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. To whom?
Mr. VOSHININ. To the Sharples girl.
Mr. JENNER. What are they--Quakers?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yes, I guess so. Dee Dee, I think, was her name. I don't
know what it stands for. She was a medical doctor--his wife.
Mr. JENNER. What do you know of De Mohrenschildt's background?
Mr. VOSHININ. Only what he told me, of course.
Mr. JENNER. And what was said by others in this community of people?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yes; something what was said by others.
Mr. JENNER. All right. You give me his background as you learned it by
reputation among the people you have described.
Mr. VOSHININ. Yeah.
Well, De Mohrenschildt comes from a Swedish family.
Mr. JENNER. You mean, by reputation, he was born in Sweden?
Mr. VOSHININ. No. He was born, as I heard, in Baku in Azerbaijan. This
is part of Southern Russia and Baku is in Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea.
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. VOSHININ. And I understand that his father was a nobleman and born
in Russia somewhere from Swedish parents--and that he was a rich man
and----
Mr. JENNER. His father was a rich man?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yes; and they had some big land, too, and probably some
other interests which led him to go to Baku, because Baku is the oil
town in Russia.
So, probably a very substantially rich man.
As he said, during the revolution, his father was arrested--I don't
know by whom--and I think his mother, too, as I understand, and he,
as a small boy, was running on the streets, was completely wild and
hungry. And then his father somehow managed, and his mother, managed to
get out of prison, and they moved to Poland.
He told us that he got his high school education in Poland and then
went to the military school in Poland and finished the military school
and became a Polish cavalry officer--and he was proudly showing his
picture, you know, of him on a horse in a wonderful uniform. So--but,
somehow, he did not like the military life, so he resigned and went to
school in France and Belgium, I guess, and, as he told us--I never saw
his diploma--but he told us he has a Ph. D. degree in economics.
Mr. JENNER. From a school in Belgium?
Mr. VOSHININ. Belgium or in France. I don't know. I--you know, I don't
like to question people too much.
Mr. JENNER. No. All you're doing is giving me what he said and what is
at large in the community we talked about.
Mr. VOSHININ. Yeah. So--but I don't know exactly, you know, if I would
think if it would be of interest for anybody I would try to remember,
of course, better but--somewhere, I don't know. He probably told me
from which school it was, but I don't remember.
After that, he decided to emigrate to the United States, came here and
saw that what he learned was of no use, so he went to school again--and
he went to school in Austin.
Mr. JENNER. Austin, Tex.?
Mr. VOSHININ. Austin, Tex.--and in Colorado. Now, whether it was
Colorado the University or Colorado the School of Mines, I don't know.
But he finally became a petroleum engineer. As I understand, he earned
his master's degree.
After that, he went to work in some southern American country or--I
think he was sometime in Mexico and in some other country--I think it
was Venezuela, which I'm not sure again, it might be something else.
And--uh--then I think he returned here again during the war.
Mr. JENNER. That's the Second World War?