George de Mohrenschildt (April 17, 1911-March 29, 1977) befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... This photo, showing Oswald wielding a rifle, a handgun, and the newspapers The Militant and The Worker, was one of three taken on March 31, 1963 in the backyard of his Dallas home by his wife Marina. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ...

Early life

George de Mohrenschildt was born in Russia. His wealthy father, Sergius Alexander von Mohrenschildt, was arrested and put in prison by the Bolsheviks shortly after the Russian Revolution. After being sent to Siberia he escaped with his family to Poland during the 1920s. The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... Siberia is also an album by Echo & The Bunnymen. ...

Young George traveled around Europe and later claimed he was part of a pro-Nazi plot to kill Joseph Stalin. When de Mohrenschildt came to the United States in 1938, British intelligence reportedly notified the U.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 some, de Mohrenschildt may have gathered information about people engaged in "pro-German" activities. By 1939 he was working for the company Humble Oil of Prescott Bush. (Russian, in full: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин [Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin]; December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...

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 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. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime (but not direct) precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. ...

George's brother Dimitri de Mohrenschildt was member of 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 100 years old in 2002.

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. Through his charisma and wide social connections he became acquainted with a young Jacqueline Bouvier (who later married John F. Kennedy). 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 wife Jeanne. Nickname: Big D Official website: www. ... It has been suggested that black gold (oil) be merged into this article or section. ... A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth. ... First official White House portrait. ...

De Mohrenschildt met Lee Harvey Oswald in October 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. George and Jeanne befriended Lee and Marina Oswald, trying to help them as best they could along with introducing them into Dallas' Russian community. In 1963, de Mohrenschildt moved to Haiti. After Kennedy was assassinated, he testified before the Warren Commission. This photo, showing Oswald wielding a rifle, a handgun, and the newspapers The Militant and The Worker, was one of three taken on March 31, 1963 in the backyard of his Dallas home by his wife Marina. ... Nickname: Cowtown Motto: Official website: ci. ... Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, according to the conclusions of two government investigations into the assassination. ... Warren Commission report cover page The Presidents Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963 by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. ...

Death

By the early 1970s, reportedly, de Mohrenschildt's behaviour in Haiti sometimes extended towards the erratic. In 1977, de Mohrenschildt returned to the United States, told a reporter he needed money and accepted $4,000 for an interview, 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. De Mohrenschildt said that in exchange he received help in an oil transaction he was attempting to negotiate with Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. When the Haitian government gave de Mohrenschildt the contract in March 1963, he presumed it was payment for assisting the CIA. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The CIAs seal features an eagle atop a sixteen-point compass. ... François Duvalier Dr. François Duvalier known as Papa Doc (c. ...

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. That afternoon he committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun. March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ... A pump-action and two semi-automatic action shotguns, 20 boxes of shotgun shells, a target thrower, and three boxes of clay targets. ...

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. The existence of this photograph, while similar to others which had been found among Oswald's effects on November 23, 1963, was previously unknown. Jeanne de Mohrenschildt said it had been stored with other family items in the U.S. for almost 14 years. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

On the back was written “To my friend George from Lee Oswald”' and the date “5/4/63” along with the words “Copyright Geo do 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 Harvey Oswald, George de Mohrenschildt or Marina Oswald. Some historians have speculated the “Hunter of fascists…” line was written by Marina, expressing her sarcastic wit.

Memoir

Jeanne de Mohrenschildt also gave the 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 Oswald, wherein he said that the Lee Oswald he knew could not have killed John F. Kennedy. The memoir has never been published as a trade book but has been available on the Internet and is considered by most historians to be of little historical value.

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. However, his apparent family (brother) and social ties to the OSS and later CIA officials are beyond reasonable doubt. An agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs) is a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another. ...

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 film, first released in Canada and the United States on December 20, 1991, which purports to tell the history surrounding the President of the United States John F. Kennedys assassination. ...

External links

• I Am A Patsy, de Mohrenschildt’s memoir.

• de Mohrenschildt brothers on Demopedia

• de Mohrenschildt brothers documents on Prescott & G.W.H. Bush connection