Thursday, October 29, 2015

Good news. I am already making good progress on the new article, which I am going to publish here piecemeal. Then, when it's finished, I will publish the whole thing in its entirety and put up pictures of it on the site and of course the link. 

It's going to be long. I'll be holding nothing back. It's going to include everything. It's going to be my magnum opus on the subject. 


“Out with Bill Shelley in front”: Oswald’s alibi

On November 20, 1997, the Assassination Record Review Board (ARRB) announced that the person left in charge of the papers of the late Captain Will Fritz had donated his handwritten interrogation notes to them. It was 13 years after his death in 1984.

Officially, Fritz denied taking any notes during the 12  hours of interrogations with Oswald.  But, there was a clue that he did, for in Holmes’ report, he stated that when Fritz asked Oswald, again, about the Hidell identity, Oswald said, sarcastically,

“I am not saying any more about that. You’ve been taking notes, so why don’t you read them and refresh your memory?”

I maintain that it is untenable that Fritz didn’t take the notes during the interrogations for the following reasons:

1) There was reportedly no stenographer or tape recorder in use, and the idea that Fritz would expect he could to keep every detail in his head is preposterous. The notes contain details such as street addresses, dates, times, names, places, a cab fare, etc. It would have taken an encyclopedic memory to retain it all.

  2)  What’s worse is that Fritz did not say that he transferred his mental contents onto paper at the end of each day. He actually maintained that he wrote nothing down- at all- until days after Oswald was dead; then he got started. That is NOT tenable.
  3) The Fritz Notes look like they were written hurriedly in cryptic shorthand, and that defies the idea that he wrote them at his leisure days later.
 4) We know that Fritz lied to the Warren Commission. He told them that Oswald told him that he was “eating lunch with other employees” at the time of the assassination.  It’s amazing that he didn’t name those employees, since he was citing them as Oswald’s alibi. And, it’s even more amazing that Warren Commission lawyer Joseph Ball didn’t ask him to name them.  Did I mention that Joseph Ball was a lawyer who knew the importance and significance of a defendant’s alibi? We know from the Fritz Notes that Oswald said he ate his lunch in the 1st floor lunch room at a time that James Jarman and Harold Norman were milling around- which was well before the assassination since they wound up watching the motorcade from the 5th floor window, where they were photographed. Bonnie Ray Williams joined them.

    
 5) Oswald’s reference to Fritz taking notes, as reported by Postal Inspector Harry Holmes, has tremendous credibility.
So, we can safely dismiss Will Fritz’ claim of not taking interrogation notes during the interrogations.  Chalk it up as another lie.

But, (and this is probably the most important point) since the notes were taken during the interrogations- which is a very hurried situation for writing- and since Fritz was taking them only for himself, with no intention of revealing them to anyone or even admitting their existence to anyone, there is no reason to think that he lied. First, one doesn’t lie to oneself, at least not in that manner. And second, there was no time to lie. Oswald was talking; he was writing; and they quickly went on to something else. There was barely enough time to write down what Oswald said- never mind recraft it into something else.  That’s what makes the Fritz Notes so valuable, the fact that they were spontaneous, extemporaneous, and quick.



This article deals with only the first page which has the famous inclusion: “out with Bill Shelley in front.” That line was Oswald’s alibi for the shooting, and it is the single most important piece of evidence to be discovered in the JFK assassination since November 22, 1963.  

To be continued. 

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