Tumultuous Atmosphere On The 3rd Floor

[Bill Brown]

 

Inside the office of Capt. Will Fritz, there were sometimes as many as seven or eight (Special Agent James Bookhout, Postal Inspector Harry Holmes, etc.) who cramped inside to sit in on the interrogations of Lee Oswald.

Homicide & Robbery Captain Will Fritz stated that he was constantly asked to leave his office momentarily to receive a report from a detective and/or give an assignment to an officer. During these times, the others inside the office would take the opportunity to ask Oswald questions.

Chief Jesse Curry felt that the cramped office and the hectic atmosphere throughout the third floor (members of the press randomly questioning Oswald) made it difficult for the interrogators to gain Oswald's confidence and to encourage him to be truthful.

"We were violating every principle of interrogation. It was just against all principles of good interrogation practice." -- Police Chief Jesse Curry

 

[Denise Hazelwood]

3 hours ago, Bill Brown said:

We were violating every principle of interrogation. It was just against all principles of good interrogation practice." -- Police Chief Jesse Curry

Can you please give us the details of the quote? Especially your source?

[Sean Coleman]

Don’t understand what argument you’re trying to instigate here? 

[Joe Bauer]

Most everyone agrees the interrogation effort by the DPD of Oswald was that out-of-control bad and violating all the principles of good interrogation practice. No tape recordings? No notary present?

A breakdown in control with Captain Fritz being called out and distracted and others shouting questions at Oswald?

Yet there are no words that even come close to adequately describing the following, most epic criminal suspect security failure in American big city history.

The complete failure of the DPD to protect Oswald from harm with him being shot dead right inside of their own building while in their custody?

Mind blowing!

Oswald was the most important AND threatened criminal suspect in Dallas and maybe even American history.

So, in response, the DPD announces to the public they are going to physically transfer the lynch mob threatened suspect Oswald from the city jail to the county one. They announce the physical location of the transfer. The general time frame which is in broad daylight.

An angry crowd was assembling right across the street from the DPD building basement exit ramp. It was close to becoming a popcorn vendor, unicycle riders, T-Shirt selling affair.

Curry decides to allow a pushing, shoving, bright light shining press corps into the cramped basement and tight hallway area where his security team somehow misses a sleazy, armed strip joint owner who slips unnoticed into the press corps crush where he is able to leap out a couple of feet and get within inches of Oswald's totally unguarded front and blow his guts out.

Thus, we had the greatest criminal suspect security failure in American history.

Curry and anyone else on his staff who ignored the many seriously concerned warnings from others in his department to move Oswald at night and unannounced to the public should have been fired on the spot. 

 

Edited May 11 by Joe Bauer

[Richard Bertolino]

13 hours ago, Bill Brown said:

 

Inside the office of Capt. Will Fritz, there were sometimes as many as seven or eight (Special Agent James Bookhout, Postal Inspector Harry Holmes, etc.) who cramped inside to sit in on the interrogations of Lee Oswald.

Homicide & Robbery Captain Will Fritz stated that he was constantly asked to leave his office momentarily to receive a report from a detective and/or give an assignment to an officer. During these times, the others inside the office would take the opportunity to ask Oswald questions.

Chief Jesse Curry felt that the cramped office and the hectic atmosphere throughout the third floor (members of the press randomly questioning Oswald) made it difficult for the interrogators to gain Oswald's confidence and to encourage him to be truthful.

"We were violating every principle of interrogation. It was just against all principles of good interrogation practice." -- Police Chief Jesse Curry

 

Maybe Bill Brown is trying to explain how the DPD so thoroughly bungled the case, the old Keystone Kops Theory. Anything but a conspiracy!

Edited May 11 by Richard Bertolino
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[Evan Marshall]

I was assigned to Detroit Homicide on two sperate occasion and having more than two investigators with a suspect was absolutely forbidden. This was in the 1980's.