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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VIII - Page 434« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Igor Vladimir Voshinin)

Mrs. Voshinin.
she was married to her first husband--but not too close with her after she married Declan. I just met them several times.
Mr. Davis.
Did you attend the Christmas party that they had?
Mrs. Voshinin.
No, sir; I did not--oh wait a minute. That was not Christmas party. That was New Year's party.
Mr. Davis.
New Year's party?
Mrs. Voshinin.
This year's New Year's party; yes. We attended that. Yes; uh-huh.
Mr. Davis.
Did you meet Lee Oswald there?
Mrs. Voshinin.
No, sir. That was after the assassination of the President that we attended the New Year's party.
Mr. Davis.
Well, the one the year before?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Oh, no. We went elsewhere.
Mr. Jenner.
Tell me about George De Mohrenschildt's personality--other than in this area of argumentation and provocation.
Mrs. Voshinin.
Well, I thought that he was a neurotic person. He had some sort of headaches and sometimes he would flare into a rage absolutely for no reason at all practically. And I knew that he complained to me several times that he could not concentrate very well. And once he mentioned something about seeing a psychiatrist or something. He had some difficulty on the nervous background.
Mr. Jenner.
Was he unconventional?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Uh--what does that mean exactly?
Mr. Jenner.
He didn't dress normally----
Mrs. Voshinin.
That's true; yes.
Mr. Jenner.
He would come to church in shorts?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Exactly.
Mr. Jenner.
He would walk into your home without invitation?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Right. He was that way.
Mr. Davis.
Sort of a beatnik?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Well, no; not beatnik---but he was definitely nonconformist. He would just love to do exactly what people would, you know, object to.
Mr. Jenner.
He was not sensitive to the feelings of others?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Not at all. I believe that sometimes he definitely enjoyed in teasing people in his own way. He used to--in any way. For example, if people are not politically inclined, he would shock them with some statement about a free marriage, you know. If they are politically inclined, it would depend on who they are. The conservative, he would shock with communism, you know; the Jewish people, he would shock by praising nazism, you know.
He was that type of person, you know, really, they were like children in that respect--honestly. And what the trouble is with George and Jeanne, both of them, I think, their main trouble is their extreme bitterness extreme bitterness, I believe which goes back to their former life.
Mr. Jenner.
Bitterness?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Toward life, toward people, toward--you know, they thought, for example, that almost everybody's a bigot. For example, Igor and I were bigots because we went to church. You know, that sort of thing. And so and so on.
Mr. Jenner.
They were unreligious people?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Yes, sir; they were actually fighting atheists.
Mr. Jenner.
They were aggressive atheists?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Aggressive, definitely. And they would just state it in, sometimes, quite rude fore. One definitely would object against the form, mainly--because, after all, everybody should have his own belief. There is nothing criminal to be an atheist either, but the fore in which they did it, you know, the impoliteness.
Mr. Davis.
Did you ever notice that they tended to want to help people?
Mrs. Voshinin.
To help people?
Mr. Davis.
Were they the type persons that were always trying to help someone that needed help?
Mrs. Voshinin.
No; not always; uh-uh. But, I think that by nature, they
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