20-05-2012, 01:11 AM
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REPORT OF CAPT. J. W. FRITZ, DALLAS POLICE
DEPARTMENT
INTERROGATION OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD
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"Immediately after I reached my office, I asked the officers who
had brought in a prisoner from the Tippit shooting who the man was who
shot the officer. They told me his name was Lee Harvey Oswald, and I
replied that that was our suspect in the President's killing. I
instructed the officers to bring this man into the office after talking
to the officers for a few minutes in the presence of Officers R. M. Sims
and E. L. Boyd of the Homicide Bureau and possibly some Secret Service
men. Just as I had started questioning this man I received a call from
Gordon Shanklin, Agent in Charge of the FBI office here in Dallas, who
asked me to let him talk to Jim Bookhout, one of his agents. He told
Mr. Bookhout that he would like for James P. Hosty to sit in on this
interview as he knew about these people and had interviewed them before.
I invited Mr. Bookhout and Mr. Hosty in to help with the interview.
After some questions about this man's full name I asked him if he worked
for the Texas School Book Depository, and he told me he did. I asked
him which floor he worked on, and he said usually on the second floor
but sometimes his work took him to all the different floors. I asked
him what part of the building he was in at the time the President was
shot, and he said that he was having lunch about that time on the first
floor. Mr. Truly had told me that one of the police officers had
stopped this man immediately after the shooting somewhere near the back
stairway, so I asked Oswald where he was when the police officer topped
him. He said he was on the second floor drinking a coca cola when the
officer came in. I asked him why he left the building, and he said
there was so much excitement he didn't this there would be any more work
done that day, and that as this company wasn't particular about their
hours, that they did not punch a clock, and that he thought it would be
just as well that he left for the rest of the afternoon. I asked him is
he owned a rifle, and he said that he did not. He said that he had seen
one at the building a few days ago, and that Mr. Truly and some
employees looking at it. I asked him where he went to when he left
work, and he told me that he had a room on 1026 North Beckley, that he
went over there and changed his trousers and got his pistol and went to
the picture show. I asked him why he carried his pistol, and he
remarked, "You know how boys do when they have a gun, they just carry
it."
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"During this conversation he told me he reached his home by cab and
changed his shirt and trousers before going to the show. He said his
cab fare was 85 cents. When asked what he did with his clothing, he
took off when he got home, he said he put them in the dirty clothes. In
talking with him further about his location at the time the President
was killed, he said he ate lunch with some of the colored boys who
worked with him. One of them was called "Junior" and the other one was
a little short man whose name he did not know. He said he had a cheese
sandwich and some fruit and that was the only package he had brought
with him to work and denied that he had brought a long package described
by Mr. Frazier and his sister."
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"At that time I showed him a map of the City of Dallas which
had been recovered in the search of his room on North Beckley. This map
had some markings on it, one of which was about where the President was
shot. He said that the map had nothing to do with the President's
shooting and again, as he had done in previous interviews, denied knowing
anything of the shooting of the President, or of the shooting of Officer
Tibbit. He said the map had been used to locate buildings where he had
gone to talk to people about employment."
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"Inasmuch as this report was made from rough notes and memory, it is
entirely possible that one of these questions would be in a separate
interview from the one indicated in this report."
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REPORT OF CAPT. J. W. FRITZ, DALLAS POLICE
DEPARTMENT
INTERROGATION OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD
-snip
"Immediately after I reached my office, I asked the officers who
had brought in a prisoner from the Tippit shooting who the man was who
shot the officer. They told me his name was Lee Harvey Oswald, and I
replied that that was our suspect in the President's killing. I
instructed the officers to bring this man into the office after talking
to the officers for a few minutes in the presence of Officers R. M. Sims
and E. L. Boyd of the Homicide Bureau and possibly some Secret Service
men. Just as I had started questioning this man I received a call from
Gordon Shanklin, Agent in Charge of the FBI office here in Dallas, who
asked me to let him talk to Jim Bookhout, one of his agents. He told
Mr. Bookhout that he would like for James P. Hosty to sit in on this
interview as he knew about these people and had interviewed them before.
I invited Mr. Bookhout and Mr. Hosty in to help with the interview.
After some questions about this man's full name I asked him if he worked
for the Texas School Book Depository, and he told me he did. I asked
him which floor he worked on, and he said usually on the second floor
but sometimes his work took him to all the different floors. I asked
him what part of the building he was in at the time the President was
shot, and he said that he was having lunch about that time on the first
floor. Mr. Truly had told me that one of the police officers had
stopped this man immediately after the shooting somewhere near the back
stairway, so I asked Oswald where he was when the police officer topped
him. He said he was on the second floor drinking a coca cola when the
officer came in. I asked him why he left the building, and he said
there was so much excitement he didn't this there would be any more work
done that day, and that as this company wasn't particular about their
hours, that they did not punch a clock, and that he thought it would be
just as well that he left for the rest of the afternoon. I asked him is
he owned a rifle, and he said that he did not. He said that he had seen
one at the building a few days ago, and that Mr. Truly and some
employees looking at it. I asked him where he went to when he left
work, and he told me that he had a room on 1026 North Beckley, that he
went over there and changed his trousers and got his pistol and went to
the picture show. I asked him why he carried his pistol, and he
remarked, "You know how boys do when they have a gun, they just carry
it."
-snip
"During this conversation he told me he reached his home by cab and
changed his shirt and trousers before going to the show. He said his
cab fare was 85 cents. When asked what he did with his clothing, he
took off when he got home, he said he put them in the dirty clothes. In
talking with him further about his location at the time the President
was killed, he said he ate lunch with some of the colored boys who
worked with him. One of them was called "Junior" and the other one was
a little short man whose name he did not know. He said he had a cheese
sandwich and some fruit and that was the only package he had brought
with him to work and denied that he had brought a long package described
by Mr. Frazier and his sister."
-snip
"At that time I showed him a map of the City of Dallas which
had been recovered in the search of his room on North Beckley. This map
had some markings on it, one of which was about where the President was
shot. He said that the map had nothing to do with the President's
shooting and again, as he had done in previous interviews, denied knowing
anything of the shooting of the President, or of the shooting of Officer
Tibbit. He said the map had been used to locate buildings where he had
gone to talk to people about employment."
-snip
"Inasmuch as this report was made from rough notes and memory, it is
entirely possible that one of these questions would be in a separate
interview from the one indicated in this report."
-snip
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