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In reply to the discussion: 10 Facts about Lee Oswald that make 70% of Americans Wonder... [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)205. Bush's name, kids' names, personal info was in De Mohrenschildt's address book.
BUSH, GEORGE H. W. (POPPY), 1412 W. OHIO ALSO ZAPATA PETROLEUM MIDLAND.
Bush And The JFK Hit, Part 5: The Mysterious Mr. De Mohrenschildt
By Russ Baker
WhoWhatWhy.com on Oct 14, 2013
EXCERPT...
Bush and de Mohrenschildt Families: Deeply Intertwined
In 1920, Ferdinands nephew Dimitri von Mohrenschildt, the older brother of George, arrived in the United States and entered Yale University. His admission was likely smoothed by the connections of the Harriman family, which soon persuaded the Bolshevik Russian government to allow them to reactivate the Baku oilfields. At that point, the Harriman operation was being directed by the brilliant international moneyman George Herbert Walker, the grandfather of Poppy Bush.
The Soviets had expropriated the assets of the Russian ruling class, not least the oil fields. Though ultimately willing to cooperate with some Western companies, the Communists had created an army of angry White Russian opponents, who vowed to exact revenge and regain their holdings. This group, trading on an American fascination with titles, was soon ensconced in (and often intermarried with) the East Coast establishment. The New York newspapers of the day were full of reports of dinners and teas hosted by Prince This and Count That at the top of Manhattan hotels.
Dimitri von Mohrenschildt plunged into this milieu. After graduating from Yale, he was offered a position teaching the young scions of the new oil aristocracy at the exclusive Loomis School near Hartford, Connecticut, where John D. Rockefeller III was a student (and his brother Winthrop soon would be). There, Dimitri became friendly with Roland and Winifred Betty Cartwright Holhan Hooker, who were prominent local citizens. Roland Hooker was enormously well connected; his father had been the mayor of Hartford, his family members were close friends of the Bouviers (Jackie Kennedys fathers family), and his sister was married to Prince Melikov, a former officer in the Imperial Russian Army.
While Dimitri von Mohrenschildt clearly enjoyed the high-society glamour, in reality his life was heading underground. Dimitris lengthy covert resumé would include serving in the Office of Strategic Services wartime spy agency and later cofounding Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. In 1941, Dimitri also founded a magazine, the Russian Review, and later became a professor at Dartmouth.
When the Hooker marriage unraveled, Dimitri began seeing Betty Hooker. In the summer of 1936, immigration records show that Dimitri traveled to Europe, followed a week later by Betty Hooker with her young daughter and adolescent son.
Bettys son, Edward Gordon Hooker, entered prep school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. There, he shared a small cottage with George H. W. Poppy Bush. Bush and Hooker became inseparable. They worked together on Pot Pourri, the student yearbook, whose photos show a handsome young Poppy Bush and an even more handsome Hooker. The friendship would continue in 1942, when both Bush and Hooker, barely eighteen, enlisted in the Navy and served as pilots in the Pacific. Afterward, they would be together at Yale. When Hooker married, Poppy Bush served as an usher. The relationship between Bush and Hooker lasted for three decades, until 1967, when Hooker died of an apparent heart attack. He was just forty-three. Six years after Hookers death, Poppy Bush would serve as surrogate father, giving away Hookers daughter at her wedding to Ames Braga, scion of a Castro-expropriated Cuban sugar dynasty.
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http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/10/14/bush-and-the-jfk-hit-part-5-the-mysterious-mr-de-mohrenschildt/
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And you reached that conclusion after reading the Warren Commission Report, right?
stopbush
Nov 2013
#15
Where does it say he hasn't read it? You know what they say about people who make assumptions....
madmom
Nov 2013
#81
It's not my "opinion" that Ruby was diagnosed with cancer in 1966. it's a fact.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#38
Jack Ruby was a lone nut who killed a lone nut. There was no conspiracy and I think
duffyduff
Nov 2013
#145
lol. When point number 1 is as baldfaced as this, I don't need to read the rest.
Schema Thing
Nov 2013
#5
#1 is way off base. All the other points are accurate, but unimportant given the CIA admission.
ieoeja
Nov 2013
#40
Thanks! What I saw at the time said "personnel". I didn't delve into it because I find all of this
ieoeja
Nov 2013
#49
No, I'm not wrong. His son said his father had a different view in private.
former9thward
Nov 2013
#198
Ever notice how the CTists find it "fishy" that the Dallas Police could nab Oswald so quickly
stopbush
Nov 2013
#24
Oh, the DPD had plenty, especially as they were working with the Fed agencies from the get-go.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#189
While I never believed Oswald acted alone, something's fishy here. A Marine working on the U2???
Scuba
Nov 2013
#10
I was assigned to Andrews AFB, home of Air Force One. Doesn't mean I worked on it.
Scuba
Nov 2013
#29
Thanks for the factual corrective, not that it will change the minds of the easily duped.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#18
Why did Ruby go to the police station armed with a pistol with every intent on coming back?
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#52
Ruby went to the police station several times after Oswald had been arrested as my post# 55
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#69
Security was lax even for that day and age especially considering the prisoner they held.
Uncle Joe
Nov 2013
#96
Yes: "I believe that Kennedy was murdered for the same reason and by the same people who murdered...
villager
Nov 2013
#127
It's no great feat to get you. But truth is more important here at DU than your BS.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#123
FACT: Policeman ID'd Oswald having a Coke in the lunch room about a minute after the shootings.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#115
and Victoria Adams and Sandra Stiles use the same set of stairs that Oswald would have
KurtNYC
Nov 2013
#139
That must be why I said ''about'' and said 90 seconds in the post. Picture this...
Octafish
Nov 2013
#150
Right. The diagram is to show how how far the Warren Commission goes to pin it on Oswald.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#163
The Russians wouldn't have him. The Cubans wouldn't have him. The CIA wouldn't have him.
duffyduff
Nov 2013
#146
"What American goes to the USSR during the height of the Cold War, comes back like nothing happened"
JVS
Nov 2013
#168
I agree. When someone performs an assassination, there's little incentive for his...
JVS
Nov 2013
#173
If you want to believe that Ruby shot Oswald and spent the rest of his life in prison
KurtNYC
Nov 2013
#157
He and a handful of conspirators.....yet many believed, and still do, that the leaders of the South
cbdo2007
Nov 2013
#250
Bush's name, kids' names, personal info was in De Mohrenschildt's address book.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#205
George DeMohrenschildt knew the Bouvier family when Jackie Kennedy was a child
zappaman
Nov 2013
#206
I don't find JFK's assassination or anything about it a "source of amusement"
zappaman
Nov 2013
#216
Here's what I found regarding the Connally perception v. the single bullet evidence
Camballo
Nov 2013
#226
I started this thread to talk about why the large majority doubt parts of the WCR
KurtNYC
Nov 2013
#229
Actually, Connally was correct in thinking he had been hit by the second bullet fired.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#245
"1. No Motive." Oswald was a strange man, with a history of strange behavior. It is unrealistic
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#251