Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. HUBERT. Now, of course, a large part of that was due, I take it,
to the fact that Oswald was being interrogated on the third floor in
Captain Fritz’ office, which is the normal place where a person charged
with murder would be interrogated?
Captain KING. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. But, do you know if anyone thought of removing Oswald to
another place and thus avoid the press in the room?
Captain KING. That, I do not know, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. You had not heard that discussed?
Captain KING. I don’t recall having heard it discussed.
Mr. HUBERT. Did it occur to you that that might be one way to get
around this situation which you found?
Captain KING. No; actually it did not.
Mr. HUBERT. Were there other places available so it could actually have
been done?
Captain KING. I am sure that some place could have been found--I don’t
know whether a place could have been found that would have solved more
problems than it raised or not--I don’t know.
Mr. HUBERT. Then, in what way?
Captain KING. Well, because this is the normal--this is the place where
these homicide officers are assigned. This is the place where their
equipment is, this is the place where they normally work and this is
something that had not even occurred to me--moving him to some other
location and moving the interrogation or the investigation of him to
some other place--this is something again in which I was not involved
in and in which I was not in.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, I have read the transcript of the speech that you
made before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington,
which I will introduce into this deposition in a little while.
Captain KING. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. And I gather from it that to a considerable extent the
police department was influenced to tolerate this condition to a large
extent by the fact that this was an extraordinary case and that any
effort to run the press away might be misconstrued in some manner.
Captain KING. I think that it very definitely might have. I think
probably that these are things that were put into words after the
conditions returned more to normal over there. They were not things
that were actually said. We didn’t sit down, frankly, we didn’t really
have much time to sit down to do anything, but we didn’t just sit down
and say, “We are going to let the press remain here for this reason,
for this reason, or for this reason,” even if they might have been the
reasons that we did in fact.
Mr. HUBERT. There were no staff meetings or anything of that sort to
consider and determine that problem--the problems?
Captain KING. No; there were meetings of the administrators of the
departments, certainly, but these were informal meetings.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, was this problem discussed at any of those meetings,
and by “this problem,” I mean the problem of the press conditions?
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