De Mohrenschildt, George

George de Mohrenschildt was born in 1911 in the present-day Republic of Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1938, sixteen years after his family escaped to Poland from the Soviet Union. Fluent in several languages and already well-educated, he received a master's degree in petroleum geology from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1945. In 1952, he moved to Dallas, where he lived--with a few years' sojourn in Haiti--until 1977, when, shortly after learning that a congressional committee investigating the assassinations of the 1960s wanted him to testify, he took his own life.