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

These are James Hosty's notes from Oswald's first interrogation. Notice that they didn't ask him about having killed Tippit or Kennedy. If they had, then the notes would have been different. Since when do police interrogators do that? Haven't we all seen Law and Order enough times to know that interrogators get to the point? And the show paid police consultants to advise about authenticity. It is bizarre that they had Oswald in front of them, and they didn't make him aware that he was suspected of committing both murders. They also didn't ask him why he entered the theater. They didn't ask him why he snuck in rather than buy a cheap ticket. They didn't ask him how he got from his room to that location. They didn't ask him if he was at 10th and Patton. Instead, they asked him about Russia and about Mexico City and about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. 

I just realized something. Bookhout told the Warren Commissoin that he got to the interrogation late, that Fritz had already started, that he, Bookhout, walked in on it. That was a lie. Fritz was the one who was late. Fritz got delayed at the TSBD collecting the evidence there. Even though Oswald was brought in at 2:00, the first interrogation didn't start until 3:15, and it was because they were waiting on Fritz. I've known this for a long time, that Bookhout lied, but why did he lie? Now I think I know. It was because he wanted to hide the fact that he was the one who steered Fritz away from questioning Oswald about either crime. Boohkout knew that Oswald could have said things that were very exonerating to himself, which Bookhout did not want Fritz to hear. So, he probably told Fritz, "Let's not agitate him. Don't put him on the spot. It might shut him down. Let's just talk to him. Let's just try to win his confidence." I really think it was Bookhout who set the tone and direction of the questioning. And I suspect that Bookhout was very respectful and deferential to Oswald. Remember, it was just the next evening that Oswald went up to Bookhout in the hall to continue a conversation they had started. Oswald would not have done that if he perceived Bookhout as an enemy.