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...George de Mohrenschildt, quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Assassination: Now a Suicide Talks | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

That grotesque confession should be sufficient to discredit the man who made it, a Russian-born teacher and friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's named George de Mohrenschildt. But nothing ever seems sufficient to still Kennedy assassination stories; time and events merely complicate them. Last week-only an hour after a congressional investigator asked to meet with him in Manalapan, Fla. -De Mohrenschildt apparently committed suicide, by putting a 20-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Suddenly there was intense interest in what he might have told the investigator. Sure enough, within 48 hours, a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Assassination: Now a Suicide Talks | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Oltmans' testimony-given under oath-was sensational stuff. De Mohrenschildt, said Oltmans, claimed he had been the middleman in a conspiracy of rich Texas oilmen, headed by the late H.L. Hunt, and anti-Castro Cubans to kill Kennedy. Oswald was one gunman, but supposedly several Cubans were also assigned to shoot the President. One could even be identified. Oltmans provided the committee with a picture of a Cuban whom he said fired shots at Kennedy. But apart from the dramatic backdrop provided by De Mohren-schildt's suicide, the story was just another series of rumors that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Assassination: Now a Suicide Talks | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...time of the Kennedy assassination, De Mohrenschildt was an oil geologist employed by the U.S. State Department in Haiti. He had known Oswald for a year (they were members of a Russian-speaking group in Dallas), and he told the Warren Commission in 1964 that he knew nothing of Oswald's role in the Kennedy killing. But during a series of meetings with Oltmans beginning in 1966, De Mohrenschildt began to remember things differently By 1975, during an interview with Oltmans on Dutch television, he insisted that Oswald was led by others. Oltmans told colleagues, "De Mohrenschildt knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Assassination: Now a Suicide Talks | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Divorced. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles Taylor, second of the five daughters of California's ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (by his three wives,* he had respectively three sons and three daughters; two daughters; no children); from her third husband, Francis Taylor, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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