Mr. De Mohrenschildt. In a court in Denver, Colo., but I do not recall the date.
Mr. Jenner. 1949 or 1950?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Something around that.
Mr. Jenner. Were any children born of that marriage?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. No children. We were married in Grand Junction, Colo. And the divorce was entered—the reason was desertion, which was actually true, because she did not come back to me. She stayed in New York, or eventually—she drank, also, an awful lot. Today she is an alcoholic—poor girl.
Mr. Jenner. You entered the oil consulting business in Denver?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes. First of all, as just an ordinary consultant. I got helped by a friend of mine who has a small oil company in Denver.
Mr. Jenner. What was his name?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Jimmy Donahue. And he facilitated by giving his office, the secretary and so on. Because it is rather expensive to start on your own.
But very soon afterwards I started getting consulting jobs—doing evaluations on the wells and things like that. And one night—this will be interesting for you, how to start an oil business—one night I was driving through Oklahoma, tired as hell, and I said to myself, by God, everybody is making money in the oil business except me, I am just a flunky here for all these big operators—I should go in the oil business on my own, really in the oil business, drilling and producing, which was interesting to me. And then I recalled that my ex-nephew, Eddie Hooker, in New York, asked me to go in business with him. He had visited me in Colorado and was very much interested in the work I had done. I gave him a telephone call from some place in Oklahoma.