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
Mr. BALL. Yes.
Mr. FRITZ. I am sure I had no way of asking him where he lived but I am
not too sure about that--just how quick he told me because he corrected
me, I thought he lived in Irving and he told me he didn't live in
Irving. He lived on Beckley as the officer had told me outside.
(At this point Mr. Dulles entered the hearing room.)
Mr. FRITZ. And I asked him about that arrangement and I am again, I
can't be too sure when this question was asked. I asked him why his
wife was living in Irving and why he was living on Beckley and he said
she was living with Mrs. Paine. Mrs. Paine was trying to learn to speak
Russian and that his wife, Mrs. Oswald, had a small baby and Mrs. Paine
helped with the baby and his wife taught Mrs. Paine Russian and it
made a good arrangement for both of them and he stayed over in town.
I thought it was kind of an awkward arrangement and I questioned him
about the arrangement a little bit and I asked him how often he went
out there and he said weekends.
I asked him why he didn't stay out there. He said he didn't want to
stay out there all the time, Mrs. Paine and her husband didn't get
along too well. They were separated a good part of the time and I asked
him if he had a car and he said he didn't have a car, he said the
Paines had two cars but he didn't use their cars.
Mr. BALL. Did you ask him anything about his address or did he
volunteer the address?
Mr. FRITZ. He volunteered the address at Beckley?
Mr. BALL. Yes.
Mr. FRITZ. Well, I will tell you, whether we asked him or told him one,
he never did deny it, he never did deny the Beckley Street address at
all. The only thing was he didn't know whether it was north or south.
Mr. BALL. Did you ask him whether it was north or south?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, but he didn't know. But from the description of
surroundings we could tell it was North Beckley.
Mr. BALL. Up to that time you hadn't sent any men out to North Beckley,
had you?
Mr. FRITZ. Well, I sent them out there real soon and Officer Potts
called me back from out there and talked to me on the telephone and
gave me a report from out there on the telephone, and I am sure that
that is the time that he told me about the way he was registered, and I
asked Oswald about why he was registered under this other name.
Mr. BALL. What other name?
Mr. FRITZ. Of O. L. Lee.
Mr. BALL. O. H. Lee?
Mr. FRITZ. O. H. Lee. He said, well, the lady didn't understand him,
she put it down there and he just left it that way.
Mr. BALL. Did you ask him whether he had signed his name O. H. Lee?
Mr. FRITZ. No, I hadn't asked him.
Mr. BALL. Did you know that he had personally registered?
Mr. FRITZ. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. BALL. He said the lady didn't understand him?
Mr. FRITZ. He said the lady didn't understand him and he just left it
that way.
Mr. BALL. How long did this first questioning take?
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