Mr. Ball. So Bookhout and Hosty came into your office?
Mr. Fritz. Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball. Was anyone else present?
Mr. Fritz. I don't remember whether there was anyone else right at that time or not.
Mr. Ball. Do you remember what you said to Oswald and what he said to you?
Mr. Fritz. I can remember the thing that I said to him and what he said to me, but I will have trouble telling you which period of questioning those questions were in because I kept no notes at the time, and these notes and things that I have made I would have to make several days later, and the questions may be in the wrong place.
Mr. Ball. What is your best memory of what you said to him when he first came in?
Mr. Fritz. I first asked him as I do of most people something about where he was from, and where he was raised and his education, and I asked him where he went to school and he told me he went to school in New York for a while, he had gone to school in Fort Worth some, that he didn't finish high school, that he went to the Marines, and the Marines, and finished high school training in the Marines.
And I don't remember just what else. I asked him just the general questions for getting acquainted with him, and so I would see about how to talk to him, and Mr. Hosty spoke up and asked him something about Russia, and asked him if he had been to Russia, and he asked him if he had been to Mexico City, and this irritated Oswald a great deal and he beat on the desk and went into a kind of a tantrum.
Mr. Ball. What did he say when he was asked if he had been to Mexico City?