ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET: CALL FROM DAN WATSON OF DALLAS MORNING NEWS RE GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT/CLIPPINGS FROM DALLAS TIMES HERALD AND DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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DATE Isiv� UNCLASSIFIED ''CrIlailaariMit S UU5 e Anns C.TIONAL FORM NO. 11, �4114111,"".'6.1A MAY 1X2 F_ID1T1ON GSA FPNIR (41 CFR) 101-1 1.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum DAL-31-77 : Chief, Domestic Collection Division ATTN : Deputy Chief, Operations (Ed Watts) FROM : Chief, Dallas Office DATE: 1 April 1977 SUBJECT: Call from Dan Watson of Dallas Morning News re George de Mohrenschildt/Clippings from Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News 1. Dan Watson, reporter from the Dallas Morning News, called on 31 March 1977 and wanted to discuss our relationship with George de Mohrenschildt. I told him this was documented in the Warren Commission Report and I had nothing further to add. Watson then advised that Dallas was overrun with out of town reporters looking for a story on De Mohrenschildt and asked me if the name Robert Morris meant anything to me. He promised our conversation would be off the record and I then told him the only Robert Morris I knew of in the Dallas area was the Robert Morris who had been chief counsel on Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigative committee on un-American activities, and who was the former president of Plano University. (Plano is a suburb of Dallas.) I told Watson I had never met Robert Morris. He said this was the Robert Morris he was talking about, that he understood Morris was supposed to have had some connection with the CIA in Taiwan. He said Morris was reported to have autographed a book to J. Moore but could furnish no details. He did not explain how Morris was supposed to have been involved with either Lee Harvey Oswald or George de Mohrenschildt. 2. A search of the files of the Dallas Field Office produced a Weekly Activity Report (WAR) by Major Charles Piver stating he had called on Dr. Robert Morris, Chancellor of the University of Plano on 30 November 1973. His comments on the WAR are as follows: "Met Morris. Has info on sea oil but he is too tied up in politics to give straight answers. Very conservative. Will try one more visit." (No further visit is listed.) 3. As you can see from the attached clippings De Mohrenschildt's death is getting a lot of play in the local press. So far my name hasn't surfaced but it may be just a matter of time before my asso- ciation with De Mohrenschildt comes out. JWMoore/slm ,4.011e Ilk � 0.114u ttitaiN, WALTON MOORE. �4.,Z."�-r-r; , :��.'4111111...111.13."..3 at, 567:11 or-. 5610-6141 98th Year�No: 90 � HUGH AYNESWORTH �'' )yright 197, Dallas Times Herald , . ALMH.BEACH, Fla. For George Mobrensehildt, .the 65-year-old Dal- petroleum engineer turned French ructor who. was a friend of Lee Ear- Vswald, life Was often unusual. tit when .he ended it with a single frorn!a :shotgun this week, the fi- was truly. bizarre: - 4nbeknOwnst to de Mohrenschildi, had been living for the past two *** DALLAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 31;1977 ' Other Dept, 744-611E , ' Circulation, 744-8101 � Classified, 748-1414 fnen .nr"---.7".7,-������tenenmift,hrig,IM , fl !e.; � : '6 'Sections "- Price Fifteen Cents eath tape-recor 'k! weeks in a swank mansion owned by, a l'' death, police said. ,.,:- : � the continuing sounds from the eharric; , Select Committee On , Assassinations, - a i to .1.:t. � Sheets offer ,l no, untisuah, former sister-in-law; a maid had planted.: ", Authairities.have told The Times Her- ters in the soap opera. ' .. ' ' ' .� ' ;'.'' Palm Beach County coroner Wednesday . peas: ib ci:, ;').i re.141:;it't*Ix4.,0o,1,:, a tape recorder in a bedroom to record aid that the',inald turned the recorder on Next �,. , �, , � . ,. . , ... , do Molorensehdrit'e daughter, .'afternO6n, . said:, the ' pUtoPSy.:. findings; � :,','If he was .1r) Jll: healh t or anYt 1 her favorite soap opera. Thus de Moh. '''' but then left the, room and went. down-,.. Alexandre, 33, can be heard Calling her::"Were'"Contrlticiiie� to; i self-inflicted gun' like ' 'that, I "..i0,..i'''fief'rfltitiii'?itad!ligfti rensehildt's' last movements and final stairs: ' ;.: ' �12',..''. -..`.. :. ' - . � : : ', ' father's' name. Then, after a few steps, shot wound." ' '.'' ' '. t '''','1'.' ,'-'''''-i "'"': -',"'" Sheeik added. .ft:,...!1.4,tor..tii._.,:i,5,,, seconds are recorded On tape.. ' De .Mohierischildt can be heard on the her 'scream as, he...foiinct her ' father'''IP 'If he weren't famous and this wasn't. Sheets Said. tli, nil, ter;81.0.01:-the.* ' ,Investigators With the Palm Beach recording : coining ,,, into the : bedroom, dead. �-� ,' '. ' .� ' .� � '-?:' ''''" Of : taaistial interest beeauSe ,Of who he, topsy would be made.publie acion:';':.i,- County sheriff's office were able to pin- Despite some speculation that de knew, it would be rated as fuit another Funeral arrangeMenti cr�aid tto le point the exact time of the suicide, 15 Mohrensehildt might have been killed said Det.,:fLt. :Bichard :Sheets, ' , incOMPlefe earlY. today, seconds past 2:21. pan. Tuesday, because because of his reported statemats, that ' ;Who headed the sheriff's;inYeatigatiOn: 'ftteinberi Were'eXPected:t&itgreg*dely, :of the -recording.' The suicide was he had advance Itnolvledge of the Ken-. lDr�Gainbinaf quellak;'aSsiitant medi-'1,' tails later in the:ilify41�,koiit.5 44).04 matched to a monitoring of the televi- pulling ',open a dresser drawer where Mrs. Charles E.' 'Tilton HE' kept a 20- gauge 'Shotgun, red-laving the gtin and walking away, ,presumably into-,an ad- joining bedroom. � � .! sion program to .determine the time of ,.t'.1rt � PO( , as a potential witness before .the House �one-half hour autepsy herelis repo A shot can then be heard, followed by nedy assassination kmd Ms "Importance" cal 'examiner, performedlthe:-twe and ' De MohrenSchildtt eit ann 20 411.w.Lcing *efas Friday, April 1, 1977 *** Two Texans whose stories were not By EARL GOLZ Two Texas women whose stories were not told to the Warren Commis- sion 13 years ago are among the key witnesses the House Assassinations Committee intends to use in probing the possibility of a conspiracy in the slaying of President John F. Kennedy here Nov. 22, 1963. Miss Audrey N. -Bell, supervisor of the operating room at Parldand Me- morial Hospital in 1963, told The News she recalls four or five bullet frag- ments were taken from then Gov. John Connally rather than three as the War- ren Commission found. Committee investigators say they be- lieve the bullet that supposedly struck Kennedy in the back and then passed through Connally's body would have weighed too much if more than three fragments were removed. The other witness, a Iexarkana area resident who prefers not to identify herself, has told committee probers she was introduced to Lee Harvey Oswe by Jack Ruby in Ruby's Carousel Cl' here in the fall of 1963. The Warren Commission said found no evidence that Ruby, who sb Oswald to death in the basement of t Dallas police station two days after t assassination, knew each other. The Texarkana area woman, who 1963 was an entertainer in a nightcli near Ruby's club, also told committ investigators that movie film she to Oswald friend vowed suicide, psychi By EARL GOLZ A psychiatrist told The News one week before George de Mohrenschildt committed suicide Tuesday that during � an examination last October De Moh- renschildt told him, "I am depressed, I � am killing myself?' The psychiatrist, who asked not to be identified at this time, said De Mohren- schildt, 65, came to him Oct. 29 and asked that he be committed as a mental patient to Terrell State Hospital. Four days later, after the psychiatrist had made arrangements for admitting him voluntarily, De Mohrenschildt � changed his mind and decided not to go to TerrelL The psychiatrist said: the Russian- born De Mohrenschildt didn't mention that he had personally known Lee Har- vey Oswald before the Kennedy assassi- nation, but he "was very depressed and came for help." The News had relayed the psychia- trist's identity and telephone number the same day to Robert Tannenbaum, the House Assassinations Committee's chief investigator of the Kennedy case. Neither Tannenbaum nor any other committee representative had con- tacted the psychiatrist by the time De Mohrenschildt had shot himself eight days later in West Palm Beach, Fla. On Nov. 9, one week after De Moh- renschildt changed his mind about entering Terrell State Hospital, the for- mer Mrs. De Mohrenschildt filed court papers with the Dallas County Mental Illness Department to force his com- mitment to the psychiatric unit of Parkland Memorial Hospital. , De Mohrenschildt agreed to go to Parkland voluntarily and stayed eight weeks until Dec. 30. He received elec- tric shock treatment as a psychotic de- pressive. A Dutch journalist, Willem Oltmans; about a month ago told the congres- sional committee he interviewed De Mohrenschildt seven weeks after he left Parkland Hospital. It was that interview, in which Oltmans said De Mohrenschildt asserted he knew in ad- vance what Oswald was going to do be- fore the assassination, that put ti spotlight on De Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt, who had friended Oswald and his wife wh( , they came to the Dallas-Fort Wor area from Russia in 1962, left his post , a professor of French at Bishop Colle here March 1, a week after the Oltma 'interview. They went to Belgium ai Holland before De Mohrenschildt turned to this country March 17 to ta up residence in the West Palm Bea( mansion of a cousin of one of his fa former wives. = De Mohrenschildt's last wi: Jeanne, in seeking to commit him Parkland Hospital Nov. 9, told coun � authorities he had tried to commit 51 cide four times. .. The last attempt, she told autli( ities, was Oct. 28, one day before he h come to the psychiatrist with a rep( .to be committed to Terrell State Nor tal. That amounted to an attempt � "drown himself in the bath tub," s: told county authorities: - � � Other suicide attempts, the form - Mrs. De Mohrenschildt said, involv � told to Warren panel will testify of the assassination in Dealey Plaza was taken from her two days later by two men who said they were CIA or FBI agents. The film, not mentioned by the Warren Commission, was never re- � turned to her, she told probers. Cleburne architect J. Gary Shaw, who located the Texarkana area woman for the committee, quoted her � as saying Ruby introduced Oswald to her and at least two others as "'Lee Os- wald of the CIA.� "I met with committee investigators trist claimed - cutting his wrists and consuming en- tire bottles of drugs. The mental illness history of De � Mohrenschildt, as given county au- . thorities by his former wife, related that he asserted "his telephone is bug- ged. The house is bugged � voices and people eavesdropping to what he says." The former Mrs. De Mohrenschildt's � mental illness history also stated he thought the FBI was "after him" and "the Jewish Mafia is closing in on him." She said he was having delusions of "ghosts of FBI and Jews." The psychiatrist who made arrange- ments .for De Mohrenschildt's commit- ment to Terrell State Hospital said one week before De Mohrenschildt killed himsPlf he thought last October he was "suicidal." - - � "Obviously this man was depressed, wanted to escape, wanted freedom from his depression," the psychiatrist - said, "and was suffering from delu- sions, which, of course, goes together. This doesn't make anyone crazy . . . We are dealing with an extremely intellig;ent man."' � for about three hours in Dallas before they talked with her," Shaw said. "She called me .a couple of days after they saw her. She said she has agreed to testify." Shaw said she had been reluctant to come forward with the information be- cause she "is scared to death" for rea- sons not directly connected with the assaKsination "and rightfully so." But Shaw declined to specifically state why. Shaw said he also supplied investiga- tors with another Dallas area witness who will testify that Ruby, Oswald and other men from Mexico and New. Or- leans met one morning on another occasion in the fall of 1963 in the Carousel Club. The witness was called by Ruby to come to the club early that day to serve drinks to some of those present, Shaw said. Miss Bell,. now supervisor of the operating suite at Children's Medical Center, said committee investigators probably sought her out March 12 as a result of what "all started in an incor- rect statement in Jim Bishop's book ("The Day Kennedy Was Shot," pub- lished in 1968) . . . He (Bishop) had me finding the bullet and all this sort of stuff.!' Miss Bell said Bishop found her, story through an article she had writ- ten for a publication of the National As-' sociation of Operating Room Nurses about the operating room scene the' day of the assassination. She said she; recalled seeing four or five bullet frag- . ments being placed in a glass. "But please bear in mind, this hap- pened 13 years ago," she said. "I have: no proof of anything. I have no records. It was strictly on a recall." Robert Tannenbaum, the commit- tee's chief investigator of the Kennedy, assassination, said if probers "can la cate" the four or five fragments and show they weigh more than the metal missing from the almost perfect bullet that allegedly fell from Connally's stretcher "then the very cornerstone and basis of the entire Warren Coin- mthsion report is no longer valid." Thursday, March 31, 1977, DALLAS TIMES HERALD Fr'i�....3aysT4e'M�h,ren.schiI Continued from Page One fciund his body.- For the past 15 years he load in bothRussian and French. daughter, Aleicandra. � been' married to Jeanne- LeGon, a According to his immediate suPervi- De Mohrenschildt told the committee former New York fashion designer whorn sor, Dr. Roy Watson, chairman of the of his friendship with Oswald, a one- most recently designed tennis garments English and foreign language depart- me defector to the Soviet Union who under the trade name Smash Line. . ; meats,' de.�Mohrenschiklt 'was an effec- returned to live in Dallas with his Sovi- His personnel folder at Bishop Col- tire and well-liked professor. � et-born wife. The two families, though lege, the predominantly black college in "He taught mostly tutorial courses vastly different in background and edu- South Dallas where he taught Russian and was well liked by the students," cation, had exchanged gifts and often and French beginning in 1969 and for said Watson_ "He-was a good supporter discussed politics, he told the Warren which he was a devoted' and successful ' of the college and, had contacts with Commission. fund-raiser, states that he held a rnas-: people who could-financially help the De Mohreltachildt, horn to a family ter's degree from the University of Tex- college." '� that fled Russia-to Belgium at the time as. . - .-. And according. to Watson and other ef the Russian revolution, was said by Friends said that he Was