Mr. McCloy. Of course, you knew Officer Tippit?
Mr. Fritz. I didn't know him. I didn't know him. No, sir.
Mr. McCloy. He didn't work directly under you?
Mr. Fritz. I looked at his record and saw that the chief of the personnel file and I looked at the personnel file and I talked to a number of officers who did know him and they speak very highly.
Mr. Dulles. Have you ever reviewed his record since these events?
Mr. Fritz. I didn't exactly review it but I read a good part of it and the chief read a good part of it to me.
Mr. Dulles. The record is good?
Mr. Fritz. The record is good. It was average, it looked better than a lot of them do. It is all right. It had the same little things that happen to most officers, maybe some little complaint about something minor, nothing of any consequence.
Mr. McCloy. So far as you know he had no connection with Ruby?
Mr. Fritz. I am sure he did not. I think I know what you people have probably heard. We hear all kinds of rumors down our way and I am not trying to volunteer a lot of things here. I know you have a lot of business to do, have you heard something about some connection between Oswald and Ruby and Tippit, and some fourth person. I heard some story, we didn't find any ground for it at all. We didn't find any connection of any kind that would connect them together. I can't even find a connection between Ruby and Oswald and I can't place them in the same building at the same time nor place them in the same building together, YMCA, one of them lived there and one of them was taking some kind of an athletic course there.