Mr. De Mohrenschildt. In my opinion, if Lee Oswald did kill the President, this might be the reason for it, that he was insanely jealous of an extraordinarily successful man, who was young, attractive, had a beautiful wife, had all the money in the world, and was a world figure. And poor Oswald was just the opposite. He had nothing. He had a bitchy wife, had no money, was a miserable failure in everything he did.
Mr. Jenner. Well, do you have a view, perhaps, that this might be a way of this man—of what he thought of raising himself up by his own bootstraps?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Exactly. It made him a hero in his own mind—it made him a hero in his own mind. He did not realize possibly that he was doing it at the expense to the whole Nation. He might have had a mental blackout.
Mr. Jenner. Then you make the comment "better precautions should have been taken."
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. That is my very strong opinion, that better precautions should he taken by whatever authorities were in Dallas at the time to protect the President.
Now, I do not consider myself an exceedingly—a genius. But the very first thought after we heard that some character was mixed up in the assassination of the President, when we were listening to the radio in the house of an employee of the American Embassy in Port au Prince, and he mentioned that the name of the presumable assassin is something Lee, Lee, Lee—and I said, "Could it be Lee Oswald?"
And he said, "I guess that is the name."
Mr. Jenner. That occurred to you?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. That occurred to me.
Mr. Jenner. As soon as you heard the name Lee?