That was live. It wasn't even on 5 second delay. Anything he blurted out went to the world. There was no taking it back. If they thought that he knew who did it or who was behind it, they never would have given him a world microphone.
What he said was that he didn't know anything.
"I don't know what this situation is about. Nobody has told me anything. I only know that I am accused of killing a police officer. I know nothing more than that. And I ask that someone come forward to give me legal assistance."
The Midnight Press Conference was a DPD affair, but the audience was crawling with FBI agents. The FBI was really in charge. And that's true of the Oswald interrogations as well. Consider the first one, which involved Fritz, Bookhout and Hosty. It was an hour long, from 3:15 to 4:15. That's a pretty long time, don't you think? Oswald had been arrested for killing Tippit. But, there isn't a word in the Fritz Notes about the Tippit murder. They didn't solicit Oswald's alibi for it. They asked him if he owned a rifle, and he said he didn't. But, there isn't a word about the pistol, whether it was his, where he bought it, etc. There is nothing about whether he was at 10th and Patton. There is nothing about whether he knew Tippit. I presume he didn't know him because he referred to him as "a police officer." I should think that if he knew Tippit, he would have referred to him as Officer Tippit.
Instead, they wanted to know about him living in Russia and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. How did that come up? You know Oswald didn't bring up the FPCC. Why would he? So, it must have come from them. And at that point, there is no reason to think that Fritz knew about it. And that means that Bookhout/Hosty must have brought it up. Do you see what I mean now that they are the ones who really ran the interrogation?
But, what did this have to do with the Tippit murder? Nothing. So, why didn't they want to ask him about it? Because they knew he had nothing to do with it. I am speaking of the FBI agents. If they asked him for his alibi, he would have given it to them, and it may have been something iron-clad, something that could definitely establish that he was not at 10th and Patton. They didn't want to hear that.
But, how did they explain it to Fritz? Doesn't it seem like he would instinctively conduct the interrogation properly? So, did they say something to him ahead of time? We don't have any record of them ever asking Oswald about the Tippit murder, the particulars of it. There were statements made that he denied everything, but by the time of the Midnight Press Conference, they had yet to inform him that he was accused of killing the President. And we know that because Oswald told reporters, "No one has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard of it was when a reporter in the hall asked me that question." (whether he killed the President)
So, it's obvious that they did not want to solicit alibis from Oswald.
And the fact is that the formal reports about the interrogations didn't start until after Oswald was dead. Do you realize what it means? It means that at that point, they could fabricate anything and get away with it. And look what got fabricated: Postal Inspector Harry Holmes claimed that on Sunday morning Oswald waxed on and on about his trip to Mexico City, reversing his previous denial of having gone there. No one else claimed this; just Holmes. There is absolutely NO CHANCE that Oswald went to Mexico City, and of course, he would not have said that he did. He said that the only place in Mexico he ever went was Tijuana. Marina, when first asked, denied that he went to Mexico City, although by the time of her WC testimony, it came back to her. But, Mark Lane figured out by December 7, 1963, in other words, 2 weeks after the assassination, that Oswald never went there.
But, it's even worse than that. The truth is that there was hardly any interrogation Sunday morning. And Bookhout even admitted that "nothing important was said." The official story has it that Oswald was checked out of the 5th floor jail at 9:30, meaning that he wasn't going back there, that he was brought to Fritz office for a long interrogation that went all the way to 11:15, and then he was brought downstairs for the jail transfer, where he was fatally shot. It's bull. We have a video footage of Oswald AFTER the Sunday morning interrogation, leaving Fritz' office. He's not even dressed yet for the jail transfer. And instead of taking him downstairs, they took him into the private elevator room- there was a public elevator on the 3rd floor that only went as high as the 3rd floor, and there was a private elevator that went to the higher floors that were closed to the public. So, after that interrogation, they took him into the private elevator room, and you can hear a reporter say that they are taking him back up to the 5th floor. And it had to be much earlier than 11:15 because by 11:15 all the action was downstairs. So, not only did Oswald not wax about going to Mexico City, he didn't wax about anything because that meeting was very short, and I mean extremely short.
This is Oswald on Sunday morning from the video. He's wearing his stretched, sunken t-shirt which looks like a vee-neck in the TSBD doorway of the Altgens photo.
He spoke to someone, at length. But, they muted it.
He is not talking to the guy on the left that we see. He is talking to someone we don't see. But, we saw him earlier.
That's the guy that Oswald is going to talk to. Notice that he's short; like Bookhout. And then, the image of him distorts.
The image of him comes back after that.
Then, the short guy disappears in front of the bald guy closest to us. He moves in to interact with Oswald.
So, we don't see him at all any more. He is directly in front of that other guy, and he's short.
So then, Oswald reaches him, and they interact.
And then they pull Oswald through the door. But, Oswald spoke at some length, and they muted it. We hear other voices but not his.
You can watch it yourself. Here's the link. It's towards the end. Start at 5:27.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00hSX0Fvvo
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