Assassination of John F. Kennedy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Dallas Police=== [[File:Lee Harvey Oswald 1963.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Oswald in police custody|[[Lee Harvey Oswald]] in police custody.]] At the Dallas Police headquarters, officers interrogated Oswald about the shootings of Kennedy and Tippit; these intermittent interviews lasted for approximately 12 hours between 2:30 p.m. on November 22 and 11 a.m. on November 24.<ref>[[#Warren|Warren (1964)]], p. 180.</ref> Throughout, Oswald denied any involvement and resorted to statements that were found to be false.<ref name="warren180195"/> Captain [[J. W. Fritz]] of the Homicide and Robbery Bureau did most of the questioning and kept only rudimentary notes.<ref name="fritz"/><ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], pp. 113β116, 126, 123β132.</ref> Days later, Fritz wrote a report of the interrogation from notes he made afterwards.<ref name="fritz">[[#Fritz|Report of Capt. J. W. Fritz, Dallas Police Department]], Warren Commission Hearings.</ref> There were no stenographic or tape recordings. Representatives of other law enforcement agencies were also present, including the FBI and the Secret Service, and occasionally participated in the questioning.<ref name="warren180195"/> Several of the FBI agents who were present wrote contemporaneous reports of the interrogation.<ref>[[#FBI|Reports of Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1964)]], Warren Commission Hearings.</ref> On the evening of November 22, Dallas Police performed [[paraffin test]]s on Oswald's hands and right cheek in an effort to establish whether or not he had recently fired a weapon. The results were positive for the hands and negative for the right cheek. Such tests were unreliable,<ref name="warren180195"/><ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], pp. 164β165.</ref> and the Warren Commission did not rely on these results.<ref name="warren180195">[[#Warren|Warren (1964)]], pp. 180β195.</ref> The Dallas police forced Oswald to host a press conference after midnight on November 23, and, early in the investigation, made many leaks to the media. Their conduct angered Johnson, who instructed the FBI to tell them to "stop talking about the assassination".<ref name="kurtz2"/> Dallas Police, after the FBI expressed concerns that someone might try to kill Oswald, assured federal authorities that they would provide him adequate protection.<ref>[[#Pappalardo|Pappalardo (2017)]]</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page