Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. ELY. Were you there for any of the interrogation of Friday evening?
Mr. DHORITY. No.
Mr. ELY. None at all?
Mr. DHORITY. No.
Mr. ELY. Is it correct that you were at the police station until 2 a.m.
on Saturday morning, is that what time you went home?
Mr. DHORITY. That sounds about right.
Mr. ELY. Do you know what time Oswald was checked into the jail on
Friday night?
Mr. DHORITY. I sure don't.
Mr. ELY. You had nothing to do with it, taking him up there?
Mr. DHORITY. No.
Mr. ELY. How would you characterize Oswald's behavior on Sunday morning
when you were present in Fritz' office? Was he at that time--did he
seem calm or excited?
Mr. DHORITY. Very calm.
Mr. ELY. Did he seem fatigued to you, or did he seem to be about the
same?
Mr. DHORITY. He was very calm and fresh.
Mr. ELY. Just one more thing I would like to cover and that is the
conditions in the police station surrounding Fritz' office, I mean,
special with regard to newspapermen being present--were the corridors
filled with newspapermen--do you recall how much of a crowd was there?
Mr. DHORITY. When?
Mr. ELY. Well, let's say when you were there on Friday evening.
Mr. DHORITY. They were so thick you couldn't walk through them. You had
to shove your way through them to get in and out of the office. There
wasn't any in the office at all, but from the elevator to the office,
cameras and lights were set up so thick you just had to work your way
through.
Mr. ELY. All right, Mr. Ball, I don't believe I have anything else.
Mr. BALL. Mr. Dhority, this will be written up.
Mr. DHORITY. The only other thing that I had to do with that that
we didn't go into--now, I rode in the ambulance with Oswald to the
hospital.
Mr. BALL. Did he say anything?
Mr. DHORITY. Well, I held his pulse all the way out there. It was very,
very weak all the way and as we was turning into the hospital, the
only time he showed any signs of life and he started a muscle reaction
then----
Mr. BALL. He was unconscious, was he?
Mr. DHORITY. He was unconscious all the time, and when he went into the
operating room, Detective Graves went in with him there and Captain
Fritz left and told me to arrange for the security of Oswald in the
hospital, and I was talking to Mr. Price, who is the administrator of
the hospital, and we were looking over a wing, when we got word that
he was dead, so I went back then and contacted Captain Fritz by 'phone
and then got Oswald's clothing and had Oswald's mother and wife look at
Oswald's body and then carried him to the morgue where I got Dr. Rose
to photograph him with color pictures before he did the autopsy.
Mr. BALL. Now, this will all be written up and it will be submitted to
you if you wish, and you can read it over and correct it and sign it
if you want to, or you have the option to waive your signature, and
in which event this young lady will write it up and send it on to the
Commission.
Mr. DHORITY. Well, I will just waive my signature.
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