Mr. De Mohrenschildt. From Haiti.
Mr. Jenner. You expressed your sympathy to her with respect to the death of her son-in-law, John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Do you recall making this statement in the letter: "Since we lived in Dallas permanently last year and before, we had the misfortune to have met Oswald, and especially his wife Marina, sometime last fall."
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. What do you mean by the misfortune to have met Oswald and especially his wife Marina?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, now, since all this happened, it causes—it is not pleasant to have known the possible assassin of the President of the United States. And since he is dead, it doesn't matter. But we still know Marina. We had the misfortune of knowing her—it caused us no end of difficulty, from every point of view.
Mr. Jenner. That is what you meant by misfortune?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes; and misfortune—also now, when you look the situation over, it was just a misfortune that we helped them, that is all. We shouldn't have done it. We should have known better. And, actually,——
Mr. Jenner. Why should you have known better, Mr. De Mohrenschildt? What was wrong with what you did?