Mr. Hubert. Would it have been possible for you to have made the investigation and the interrogation of Oswald that was made on Saturday and Sunday morning at the county jail rather than in the homicide office?
Captain Fritz. No, sir; that wouldn’t have been good at all.
Mr. Hubert. Can you tell us why?
Captain Fritz. Well, there are many reasons. First our records wouldn’t be there, would be one thing, and we wouldn’t have the witnesses at the county jail for the lineups and would be out of contact with the office for incoming information. The city hall would be quite a distance from us. There are certain other things that might interfere with questioning at the county jail. It was bad enough where we were.
Mr. Hubert. As a matter of fact, where you were was a pretty bad situation for it?
Captain Fritz. Ordinarily it wouldn’t be such a bad situation. It was a bad situation because of all that news media that had turned into a mob.
Mr. Hubert. That is what I was getting at, whether or not any consideration was given to moving Oswald to the county jail actually to get away from the crowd and conduct the investigation under the conditions that wouldn’t involve the crowd?
Captain Fritz. No, sir; I don’t think that would have been good at all. That would be completely away from the office and the records and the some 15 or 20 officers that were required to conduct the investigation, and we would have to move our entire organization to the county jail, which would have been impossible.
Mr. Hubert. Now did you tell Chief Curry that you were concerned about the mass of people on the third floor?
Captain Fritz. No. I am not sure that I spoke to him about this. I did speak to some of the officers about giving us some help in the hall, because the people were crowding us. They did assign two uniform men to my door. I didn’t have to ask for that. Some of the chiefs did that. They could no doubt see what I could see. They assigned two men to my door, and kept the door locked, and we only admitted the officers and people who should come in. Then they supplied some other officers to move the people down the hall so we could get back, because we had to go back and forth to the chief’s office or to the elevator.