Mr. Stern. Did Oswald answer all the questions you put to him in the course of your interview?
Mr. Quigley. No; he did not answer all of them.
Mr. Stern. Do you recall the nature of the questions he didn't want to answer or he evaded?
(At this point Mr. McCloy left the hearing room.)
Mr. Quigley. When I began asking him specific details with respect to his activities in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans as to where meetings were held, who was involved, what occurred, he was reticent to furnish information, reluctant and actually as far as I was concerned, was completely evasive on them.
Mr. Stern. Did he tell you why he had requested the interview?
Mr. Quigley. No; he did not, sir.
Mr. Stern. Did you form any impression as to why he had requested the interview?
Mr. Quigley. Well, he was in police custody at the time, involved in a disturbing of the peace charge, was becoming involved in a fight with three Cubans on the street in the distribution of Fair Play for Cuba literature. I felt that he was probably making a self-serving statement in attempting to explain to me why he was distributing this literature, and for no other reason, and when I got to questioning him further then he felt that his purpose had been served and he wouldn't say anything further.
Mr. Stern. Why do you think it might have been important for him to explain to you what he was doing——