George de Mohrenschildt Biography and Timeline

Birth of George de Mohrenschildt

Birth of George de Mohrenschildt. Birth of George de Mohrenschildt

Meeting

Mohrenschildt meets Lee Harvey Oswald & introduces him to the Russian Dallas community

Backyard Photos

According to Mohrenschildt, the photograph was not found among his stored papers until he and his wife found it in February 1967. When analyzed by the HSCA in 1977, this photo turned out to be a first generation print of the backyard photo already known to the Warren Commission as "CE-133A" and which had probably been taken on March 31, 1963

Backyard Photos

Mohrenschildt assumed that Marina had written it sarcastically.

Backyard Photos

On the back was written To my friend George from Lee Oswald, and the date -5/IV/63- (5 April 1963) along with the words -Copyright Geo de M- and a Russian phrase translated as -Hunter of fascists.

Backyard Photos

ha-ha-ha!- Handwriting specialists later concluded that the words -To my friend George-- and Oswalds signature were written by Lee Harvey Oswald, but could not determine whether the rest was the writing of Lee Oswald, Mohrenschildt.

Backyard Photos

or Marina Oswald.

Backyard Photos

Discovers a photo of Oswald holding his guns prior to the Walker shooting

Hunter of Fascists

Inscribed with "Hunter of fascists", discoverred at the end of the Warren Commission

Central Intelligence Committe (CIA)

Congressional researcher Gaeton Fonzi noted that in late 1963 "several large deposits popped up in de Mohrenschildts Haitian bank account including one for two hundred thousand dollars from a Bahamian bank. This occurred when de Mohrenschildt and Charles were supposedly running a sisal plantation, a derelict operation they never went near"

Warren Commission

Inscribed with "Hunter of fascists", discovered at the end of the Warren Commission

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

CIA-related assassination records become part of later investigations.

Death of George de Mohrenschildt

Death of George de Mohrenschildt, suicide

Death of George de Mohrenschildt

Mohrenschildt received a business card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, telling him that he would like to see him. The HSCA considered him a "crucial witness".

Death of George de Mohrenschildt

That afternoon, Mohrenschildt was found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head in a house where he was staying in Manalapan Florida. The coroner's verdict was suicide

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Shortly after Chief Counsel Richard Sprague declined to sign CIA secrecy oaths and began asking pointed questions about Oswald's visit to Mexico City, he began to be denounced in the press and by his own committee chairman, Henry Gonzalez.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The Church Committee's unfinished business fell to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The committee was almost terminated before it got started, rescued only by the resignations of Gonzalez and Sprague, and the apparent suicide of key witness George de Mohrenschildt

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Mohrenschildt received a business card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, telling him that he would like to see him. The HSCA considered him a "crucial witness".

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

That afternoon, Mohrenschildt was found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head in a house where he was staying in Manalapan Florida. The coroner's verdict was suicide

Oswald Meeting

Mohrenschildt gave an interview to author Edward Jay Epstein, during which he claimed that in 1962, Dallas CIA operative J. Walton Moore and one of Moore-s associates had handed him the address of Lee Harvey Oswald in nearby Fort Worth and then suggested that Mohrenschildt might like to meet him

HSCA Witness

Dies before the committee can question him in person.

Role range: 1911-1977

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Russell, who was Mohrenschildt's attorney, said "I definitely feel there was a conspiracy and that definitely was the opinion of George."

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Willem Oltmans told the House Select Committee on Assassinations that Mohrenschildt had implicated himself in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. And Pat S.