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George de Mohrenschildt Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for George de Mohrenschildt, based on 24 World History Database records associated with United States of America.

24 records1911–197711 events3 places

Chronological biography

1911

Birth of George de Mohrenschildt17 April 1911
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Birth of George de Mohrenschildt. Birth of George de Mohrenschildt

1962

MeetingOctober 1962
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Fort Worth

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

1963

Central Intelligence Committe (CIA)1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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"

Backyard Photos31 March 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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 PhotosApril 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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

Hunter of FascistsApril 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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

Backyard Photos5 April 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Mohrenschildt assumed that Marina had written it sarcastically.

Backyard Photos5 April 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

This record states: 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 Photos5 April 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

This record states: 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 Photos5 April 1963
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

This record states: or Marina Oswald.

1964

Warren CommissionApril 1964
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Witness · Dallas

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

1977

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

CIA-related assassination records become part of later investigations.

Death of George de Mohrenschildt29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Death of George de Mohrenschildt, suicide

Death of George de Mohrenschildt29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Manalapan

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 Mohrenschildt29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Manalapan

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)29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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)29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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)29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Manalapan

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)29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Manalapan

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

HSCA Witness29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Witness · Manalapan

Dies before the committee can question him in person.

Oswald Meeting29 March 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)2 April 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Manalapan

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)2 April 1977
Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF · Manalapan

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

Titles and roles

Witness

Record provenance

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