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. BELIN. Did you have any conversation with him when you picked him
up at his jail cell?
Mr. GRAVES. No.
Mr. BELIN. Did you remember telling him he was going to be brought down
for interrogation?
Mr. GRAVES. I told him they were going to transfer him.
Mr. BELIN. That is what you told him?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. What did he say as to that?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, he didn't have anything to say. He didn't know what
transfer meant, I don't think. I think he meant from one jail cell to
another. He didn't know that meant going to the county.
Mr. BELIN. When you brought him down to Captain Fritz' office, he of
course had been there before, hadn't he?
Mr. GRAVES. Oh, yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did he have any comments as he walked in the office about
being interrogated or anything of that nature?
Mr. GRAVES. I don't know. He might have said something to the news
media, I don't remember what it was.
Mr. BELIN. What is the fact as to whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald ever
requested that he be provided a lawyer, insofar as your own personal
knowledge is concerned? Did he ever make any such request to you or in
your presence?
Mr. GRAVES. No, no; sure didn't.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know of your own personal knowledge whether or not he
was ever advised that he had a right to have a lawyer?
Mr. GRAVES. Not in my presence.
Mr. BELIN. This is what I am asking, then, just of your own knowledge?
Mr. GRAVES. No; he wasn't.
Mr. BELIN. He might have been by someone else, but it wasn't done
before you?
Mr. GRAVES. Might have been by someone else, but not in my presence.
Mr. BELIN. Was this as much contact as you had with Oswald? You
indicate you saw him in a showup and you picked him up in a jail cell
and you brought him down to be interrogated on November 24, when
you were present during about 10 minutes, the latter part of this
interrogation. Any other contacts with Oswald apart from these?
Mr. GRAVES. No; not that I had direct contact with him.
Mr. BELIN. What was your impression of him, as far as a person is
concerned? His demeanor, his action, what kind of a person he was?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, of course I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist,
but I would say he was an eight ball, in my vernacular.
Mr. BELIN. An eight ball in Army vernacular?
Mr. GRAVES. In any vernacular. We deal with a lot of people in our
business, as well as we run into all types of people. I would say that
he was egotistical.
Mr. BELIN. Let me stop right there. What gave you the impression he was
egotistical?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, I don't know. A person of his nature and cocky
attitude, I don't know exactly how to explain it.
Mr. BELIN. Any specific thing that he did that gave you that
impression, that you can remember at all, or not?
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