Frank Sturgis on Two Oswalds

[Jim Hargrove]

Q. Have you heard the tape?

A. Yes.

How well do you remember it? Can you get close to quoting it verbatim? What did Sturgis say?

A. I wouldn't think that Sturgis knew he was being recorded, my father had this recording device that had a mic which he had to unscrew part of the phone, the part you spoke into and he would put that part of the device into the phone, the other part of the device was a suction cup he would attach to the receiver or the hearing part of the phone, the tape looked like a regular cassette tape. My father did this often, there were a few times I watched him do it.

So this was a phone conversation between your father and Sturgis, correct? Any chance the recording still exists anywhere?

Q. Are there any other living witnesses who can confirm the existence of the tape, who actually heard it?

A. Yes, four people that I know of who are still alive, my mother, Rudy Junco, Nino Diaz and myself.

Wow! Are any or all of these people willing to go on the record somehow? Is any of this included in that book you have coming out? Does it--or will it--appear anywhere else?

This will be hard for many people to accept without all kinds of confirmation, but to me it at least has the ring of truth. I can't think of the number of times John Armstrong and I talked on the phone and he named Sturgis/Fiorini as one of the prime suspects in the hit. This stuff belongs to history, and I hope you are able to make a record of it... and the people who confirm it. Thanks.