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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IV - Page 247« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of J. W. Fritz)

Mr. Mccloy.
They never were in your office when you were examining Oswald?
Mr. Fritz.
Never. I think one of them got inside of the outer office but someone immediately put him out.
Mr. Dulles.
What is the jurisdiction of the city manager as compared to the chief of police, does he have authority over the chief of police?
Mr. Fritz.
The city manager is our big boss, he is over all of us. He is over the chief of police and he operates the city. He is responsible only to the mayor and city council. And I think that they give him a pretty free hand.
We have got a city manager and he tells, he sets the policies, of course, maybe I made a mistake when I told you that the chief of police sets the policies of our police department, but the city manager would set the policies for the city as a whole.
Mr. Ball.
I have no further questions.
Mr. Mccloy.
Do you have anything else that you think that is on your mind that might help us in getting at the rockbottom of either the Oswald murder or the President's murder?
Mr. Fritz.
I believe that you people know about everything that we know. We have tried to get everything in this book. We have tried not to withhold anything, and I will tell you something about this case that I told some people in the beginning.
I don't know of anything about this case that we can't tell all about, the truth about it from start to finish now. I think the truth fits it better than anything we can do to it. I hope I have gotten this story to you correctly. I hope I haven't made some mistakes in some of my testimony about time and the dates and things because if I have----
Mr. Mccloy.
Are there any further leads that you would like to follow up or do you feel that the case is from your point of view closed in terms of----
Mr. Fritz.
We won't ever close it. We never close any murder case and we won't ever close it. I will tell you what, if anything came up about this case that we thought we could do to help on it, and it came up 10 years from now we would work on it. We would work on it regardless of what time it came up. I do think this, that there have been a lot of things about this case that we won't be able to handle. If we get any information about anything that involves foreign relations we will pass that on to the people who know what to do with it. We won't try to handle anything like that because we might do a very wrong thing. We would give that to either the FBI or the Secret Service, depending on the type of information it was, and they would pass it on to wherever they wanted to.
Mr. Mccloy.
Are there any pending leads in this case that you feel that you would like to follow up beyond?
Mr. Fritz.
Right now?
Mr. Mccloy.
Right now.
Mr. Fritz.
I don't believe we have one. Do you think of any lead to follow up? I can't think of one. If I thought of one we would sure start on it. But I don't think we have.
Mr. Ball.
There is one problem here in your records that we asked about. Where was Oswald between 12:35 a.m., and 1:10 a.m., on Saturday, November 23, that is right after midnight?
Mr. Fritz.
Right after midnight.
Mr. Ball.
The jailer's records show he was checked out.
Mr. Fritz.
I think I know where he was right after midnight. I think he went to the identification bureau to be fingerprinted and have his picture made.
Mr. Ball.
You know. You can probably advise him and he can tell us. What is it?
Mr. Fritz.
I think that, if it is the time that I am thinking about, if it is the time that after he was, after he had his arraignment, I think from what we found out since then that he went there for picture and fingerprints.
Mr. Ball.
I have no further questions.
Mr. Fritz.
Maybe you should ask Lieutenant Baker here something that I don't know anything about, that he knows, that might help to clarify that question you asked me just then. I thought he went for the picture, but tell him.

T.L. Baker

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