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KRLD reporter Bob Huffaker's notes from the Dallas Police Headquarters
KRLD reporter Bob Huffaker's notes from the Dallas Police Headquarters

KRLD reporter Bob Huffaker's notes from the Dallas Police Headquarters

Object number1997.052.0049
Date11/23/1963
ClassificationsDocuments
Author Robert Huffaker
ObjectNote
Credit LineBob Huffaker Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumPaper
Dimensions6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Collections
DescriptionKRLD reporter Bob Huffaker's notes from the Dallas Police Headquarters, November 23, 1963, written on the backs of three small "Police Report on Prisoner Found Injured" forms. Page one of notes: "Lee Harold Oswald is now back upstairs above us in a cell. Homicide officers questioned him for about 2 hours this morning, and no one knows the outcome - if any... Oswald's young Russian wife and his mother have been inside the homicide office, closeted with officers, but they reportedly have not yet seen Oswald. They left a short while ago...the wife weeping-the mother speechless." Page two: "Amid the suspenseful tension outside in the corridors of Dallas City Hall, one can only speculate upon just what is transpiring inside. It must be shaping up to be a war of nerves - a war with Lee Harold Oswald...the man accused of perhaps the single most infamous crime in decades. The man who is trying to break the case is perhaps the best-known and most talented interrogator in the Southwest-Dallas Homicide Captain Will Fritz. Fritz is known for his ability to clear cases through intricate" Page three: "deduction and masterful questioning. No doubt, one of the dramas of the century is taking place behind the closed doors of Captain Fritz's office. Officers say Oswald has been belligerent and arrogant from the moment of his arrest. As he passed us in the hall with one swollen eye and a few cuts on his face, that arrogance seemed to show through. Oswald said nothing, but walked through, quietly scowling."
Curatorial Commentary
KRLD Radio and TV broadcaster Bob Huffaker recorded oral history interviews with the Museum in 1994 and 2006 and has also participated in more than twelve public programs at the Museum. - Stephen Fagin, Curator  
Between the time he was arrested on Friday, November 22, 1963, and the time he was shot on Sunday, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated for hours by members of the Dallas Police Department.  At that time, interrogations were not routinely recorded, and because Oswald died before he could stand trial, there are no public records of first-person testimony from Oswald about his actions the day of the Kennedy assassination.  Documents such as this one give a rare glimpse of what people who were in the police headquarters building, at the heart of the action, observed about Oswald and the police officers who were dealing with him, in those few hours before Oswald's death. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections