Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

There is an interesting write-up today by Charles Wallace in which he speculates that Bookout may have copied Fritz' notes. Charles agrees that Fritz definitely took those notes during the interrogation, and not days later. No one would take notes like the ones he took days later. No one could remember all that stuff, all those details, such as Oswald's address in New Orleans, days later. The idea that he held all of that in his head and only started writing days later is preposterous. 

Oswald's alibi

DPD Captain Fritz started his interview with Oswald at 3:00 pm at the DPD. It was not until 3:15 pm that FBI Bookhout and Hosty joined in the interview with Oswald and started taking notes. Questions put to Oswald by Fritz were not repeated. The first question put to Oswald in my opinion was 'where were you when the shots were fired?' The answer "out with Bill Shelley in front". Fritz was interrupted a number of times during the interview and left his notes while taking care of other matters. I believe Bookhout copied Fritz's notes that had been taken before the FBI joined the interview during one of Fritz's absences. Later I believe Bookhout guessed at what the copied notes meant when he was preparing his report.

Fritz's notes physically are written (this portion) like below: ...
"claims 2nd floor Coke when off. came in"
"to first floor had lunch"
"out with Bill Shelley in front"

Bookhout's report excerpt:
"......Oswald stated that he took this Coke down to the first floor and stood around and had lunch in the employee's lunch room. He thereafter went outside and stood around for five or ten minutes with foreman Bill Shelley, and thereafter went home. ....."

Please notice that both accounts of what Oswald said are basically the same and in the same order. I believe this is proof Bookhout copied Fritz's notes. Fritz said that his notes are not in any order. In fact he has an arrow pointing to the note "out with Bill Shelley in front" with the comment "1st" at the start of the arrow.

What I think Oswald told Fritz without the FBI being present was that he went to the first floor and had lunch. Then went outside and was with Shelley during the shooting. He was outside for a total of about 5 minutes before going to get a coke. Then HE DECIDED to leave because he didn't think there would be anymore work that day.