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. In your office?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Go directly from the showup room up there?
Mr. FRITZ. Well, I am not sure whether directly, but shortly, there
wouldn't be too much time when we talk to him after that.
Mr. BALL. Your records show the showup for Helen Markham was 4:45.
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Do you think that is about right?
Mr. FRITZ. I think that is about right.
Mr. BALL. All right, now how long after that would you say you went
back to your office and talked to him again?
Mr. FRITZ. I would say within, it would take us a few minutes, you
know, to get him back from the showup, probably 15 minutes, something
like that.
Mr. BALL. Who was present?
Mr. FRITZ. Twenty minutes.
Mr. BALL. Who was present at this questioning?
Mr. FRITZ. This particular questioning?
Mr. BALL. Yes.
Mr. FRITZ. I believe--I don't want to be sure about whether Mr. Hosty
stayed at this next time or not because he left at some time. Mr.
Bookhout stayed and my officers were there.
Mr. BALL. Now, there was a time when you asked him where he worked and
what he did?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And was that the first----
Mr. FRITZ. That was the first time.
Mr. BALL. The first question--what did he tell you about that?
Mr. FRITZ. He told me he worked at the Texas School Book Depository.
Mr. BALL. Did he tell you----
Mr. FRITZ. I asked him how he got his job down there, too.
Mr. BALL. What did he say?
Mr. FRITZ. He told me that someone that he knew, a lady that he knew
recommended him for that job and he got that job through her. I believe
the records show something else but that is what he told me.
Mr. BALL. Did you ask him what happened that day; where he had been?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What did he say?
Mr. FRITZ. Well he told me that he was eating lunch with some of the
employees when this happened, and that he saw all the excitement and he
didn't think--I also asked him why he left the building. He said there
was so much excitement there then that "I didn't think there would be
any work done that afternoon and we don't punch a clock and they don't
keep very close time on our work and I just left."
Mr. BALL. At that time didn't you know that one of your officers,
Baker, had seen Oswald on the second floor?
Mr. FRITZ. They told me about that down at the bookstore; I believe Mr.
Truly or someone told me about it, told me they had met him--I think he
told me, person who told me about, I believe told me that they met him
on the stairway, but our investigation shows that he actually saw him
in a lunchroom, a little lunchroom where they were eating, and he held
his gun on this man and Mr. Truly told him that he worked there, and
the officer let him go.
Mr. BALL. Did you question Oswald about that?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir; I asked him about that and he knew that the
officer stopped him all right.
Mr. BALL. Did you ask him what he was doing in the lunchroom?
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