Captain Fritz. I don’t suppose that I did. We remarked about them, but I wouldn’t remember what the remarks were or who they were to.
It was well known to all officers. You didn’t have to tell anyone on the third floor. They could see from the front office as well as they could from my office because of the large crowd located outside my office and in the entire hallway.
Mr. Hubert. I understand that a suggestion had been made that Oswald be moved at night, possibly Friday night or Saturday night.
Captain Fritz. Who made the suggestion? By whom, please, sir?
Mr. Hubert. I don’t know. I think it was passed on to you, and I understand that you recommended against it.
Captain Fritz. A call at home—no, sir; I didn’t exactly recommend against it. If you would ask me now, I really don’t favor nighttime moves, because I can’t see any further at night than I can in the daytime, and if a man shoots a man, you can see him just as far in daylight as at night, and with proper security, you should be able to move anyone through town without waiting for nightfall.
We don’t go to court at night, and we take prisoners back and forth to court all the time during the daylight, so I wouldn’t see any particular need to wait for nighttime.
I did have a call out to my home from a uniformed captain who told me they had had a threat which sounded very much like a trick, the FBI got a call, I believe, near the same time saying we had better transfer him, that 200 or 300 men are going to take him away from us.
I certainly wouldn’t send a man out with two or three officers. Two or three hundred men could be just as bad at night as during the day.
I told him he had better talk to the chief, because he was making some preparations. And I found out later that he did. He called the chief, but I don’t think he could reach him, and he decided not to transfer him, I was told.