(Testimony of J. W. Fritz)
Mr. Fritz.
None at all.
Mr. Ball.
The killing of Tippit?
Mr. Fritz.
No; we found nothing. We checked it.
Mr. Ball.
Any connection between Oswald and Warren Reynolds or Ruby and Warren Reynolds?
Mr. Fritz.
We found no connection. We had all kinds of rumors, of course, that they were connected, and we didn't find anything.
Mr. Ball.
Did you investigate it?
Mr. Fritz.
Yes, sir; I had some officers investigate it, and the forgery bureau investigated him because they were already working on the shooting case. They handled all the shootings where people are not killed.
Mr. Ball.
I see.
Had you originally planned to be in the motorcade, had you been ordered to be?
Mr. Fritz.
At first?
Mr. Ball.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Fritz.
I had been; yes, sir.
Mr. Ball.
Then it was changed, what day?
Mr. Fritz.
Ten o'clock the night before the parade, I got a call at home telling me that my assignment had been changed and told me to go to the speaker's tent.
Mr. Ball.
Who called you?
Mr. Fritz.
Chief Stevenson.
Mr. Ball.
Do you think that made any difference?
Mr. Fritz.
I don't know. I wouldn't want to say because it is like telling about those transfers, where we would have been in that parade we would have been pretty close under that window we might have had a man shot or have good luck or bad luck.
Mr. Dulles.
I didn't quite get you where were you to be in the motorcade if you had been?
Mr. Fritz.
Right behind the Vice President's car.
Mr. Dulles.
Behind the Vice President's car?
Mr. Fritz.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Dulles.
Had there been a plan for a car in front of the President's car?
Mr. Fritz.
I don't know, I didn't make the arrangements for the parade. That was only--those were the only instructions I had--was that one assignment.
Mr. Ball.
Did you--do you feel any resentment toward the Secret Service or the FBI men because they were in your office?
Mr. Fritz.
Oh, no, no, because I work with them all the time.
Mr. Ball.
You do?
Mr. Fritz.
Mr. Bookhout is in my office with the FBI. My books are all on the outside and they check my books as often as I do.
Mr. Ball.
Well, do you think you could have done a better job perhaps if there hadn't been some investigators?
Mr. Fritz.
I don't know, that would be kind of a bad question.
Mr. Ball.
I mean questioning Oswald.
Mr. Fritz.
Maybe they would have done better if I hadn't been there.
Mr. Dulles.
How was the cooperation, was it pretty good between the Secret Service and the FBI?
Mr. Fritz.
We got along fine with the Secret Service and FBI a hundred percent.
Mr. Mccloy.
Captain Fritz, did you have charge of the attempted shooting of General Walker?
Mr. Fritz.
No; that wasn't homicide, it would be handled by Captain Jones, it would have been the other bureau.
Mr. Mccloy.
Captain Jones. Have we examined Captain Jones?
Mr. Hubert.
A deposition has been taken.
Mr. Dulles.
You had nothing to do with the investigation of the Walker case?
Mr. Fritz.
Not at all That happened to be Captain Jones and Lieutenant Cunningham.
Mr. Dulles.
Did that case come up at all in any of your interrogations of
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