Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
So, I got up from my desk and walked over to the lieutenant's office
and asked Mr. Bookhout to come in, the reason I asked both of them to
come in and Mr. Bookhout is in my office most of every day and works
with us in a lot of cases and asked him to come in with Mr. Hosty.
Mr. BALL. So Bookhout and Hosty came into your office?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Was anyone else present?
Mr. FRITZ. I don't remember whether there was anyone else right at that
time or not.
Mr. BALL. Do you remember what you said to Oswald and what he said to
you?
Mr. FRITZ. I can remember the thing that I said to him and what he said
to me, but I will have trouble telling you which period of questioning
those questions were in because I kept no notes at the time, and these
notes and things that I have made I would have to make several days
later, and the questions may be in the wrong place.
Mr. BALL. What is your best memory of what you said to him when he
first came in?
Mr. FRITZ. I first asked him as I do of most people something about
where he was from, and where he was raised and his education, and I
asked him where he went to school and he told me he went to school in
New York for a while, he had gone to school in Fort Worth some, that
he didn't finish high school, that he went to the Marines, and the
Marines, and finished high school training in the Marines.
And I don't remember just what else. I asked him just the general
questions for getting acquainted with him, and so I would see about how
to talk to him, and Mr. Hosty spoke up and asked him something about
Russia, and asked him if he had been to Russia, and he asked him if he
had been to Mexico City, and this irritated Oswald a great deal and he
beat on the desk and went into a kind of a tantrum.
Mr. BALL. What did he say when he was asked if he had been to Mexico
City?
Mr. FRITZ. He said he had not been. He did say he had been to Russia,
he was in Russia, I believe he said for some time.
Mr. BALL. He said he had not been in Mexico City?
Mr. FRITZ. At that time he told me he had not been in Mexico City.
Mr. BALL. Who asked the question whether or not he had been to Mexico
City?
Mr. FRITZ. Mr. Hosty. I wouldn't have known anything about Mexico City.
Mr. BALL. Was there anything said about Oswald's wife?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir. He said, he told Hosty, he said, "I know you."
He said, "You accosted my wife on two occasions," and he was getting
pretty irritable and so I wanted to quiet him down a little bit because
I noticed if I talked to him in a calm, easy manner it wasn't very hard
to get him to settle down, and I asked him what he meant by accosting,
I thought maybe he meant some physical abuse or something and he said,
"Well, he threatened her." And he said, "He practically told her she
would have to go back to Russia." And he said, "He accosted her on two
different occasions."
Mr. BALL. Was there anything said about where he lived?
Mr. FRITZ. Where he lived? Right at that time?
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