Mr. Mccloy.

Questioning of his wife.

Mr. Fritz.

That is right.

Mr. Ball.

In the light of your experience in this case, do you think you should alter your regulations with the press, have a little more discipline when the press are around?

Mr. Fritz.

We can with the local press. We can't do much with those people that we don't know from those foreign countries, and from distant States, they don't ask us. They just write what they hear of and we read it.

Mr. Ball.

No; but I mean in the physical control of your plant there?

Mr. Fritz.

There at city hall?

Mr. Ball.

Do you think you should alter your policy?

Mr. Fritz.

We think we can control it normally, because those officers, those people from the press there wouldn't come in and start taking pictures without permission. They wouldn't do that without asking, and then usually I ask a prisoner because some prisoners don't want their pictures taken and sometimes they do, if they want it taken why it is all right. Sometimes we don't let them take them at all, depending on circumstances.

Mr. Ball.

Do you permit television interrogation of your prisoners in jail?

Mr. Fritz.

No, sir.

Mr. Ball.

Or in the----

Mr. Fritz.

In the jail I don't have charge of the jail but I am sure they don't because I haven't heard of that. We don't have it in the office either.

Mr. Mccloy.

But----

Mr. Fritz.

I don't think it is a good idea at all because I don't know what that man might say.

Mr. Ball.

I agree.

Mr. Mccloy.

You would have jurisdiction to keep out foreign correspondents if you wanted to?

Mr. Fritz.

Keep them out of the office; yes, sir.

Mr. Mccloy.

Keep them out of the building?

Mr. Fritz.

Yes, sir; I wouldn't have charge of the building but I can keep them out of my office, up to that door, I can have enough officers I can take care of that fine. Out in that building, that is more or less a job for the uniform division.

Mr. Dulles.

A job for the uniform division, the police?

Mr. Fritz.

A job for the uniform division, they can take charge of it and they have uniforms.

Mr. Dulles.

Who establishes the policy?

Mr. Fritz.

The chief of police establishes the policy. He has assistants, of course.

Mr. Mccloy.

You have testified that you were really hampered in your investigation, in your interrogation of Oswald by reason of the confusion.

Mr. Fritz.

I think so.

Mr. Mccloy.

By reason of too many people being around, isn't that right?

Mr. Fritz.

I think so, but I am not sure that could have been avoided under these circumstances.

Mr. Mccloy.

Well, couldn't you----

Mr. Fritz.

I think that----

Mr. Mccloy.

Couldn't you have demanded that your office be cleared so that you could have a quiet investigation?

Mr. Fritz.

I could hardly tell the Secret Service and the FBI or any other Federal agency--I had the outer office had Texas Rangers out there, several of them, and you could understand why they would be in there because the Governor had been shot and they work directly for the Governor out of Austin, so you could hardly tell people like that that you don't want them to help.
Now, if this were just an average case, just an average hijacking case we have, we could easily, we could handle it with all ease but where the President of the United States is killed it would be hard to tell the Secret Service and the FBI that they couldn't come in.

Mr. Mccloy.

But you could have told the newspaper people, the media people that they couldn't come in.

Mr. Fritz.

I didn't let them come in my office or in my part of the office.