PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
STATE OF TEXAS,
_County of Dallas, ss._:
Before me, Mary Rattan, a Notary Public in and for said County, State
of Texas, on this day personally appeared J. W. Fritz, Dallas Police
Department, who, after being by me duly sworn, on oath deposes and
says: I wish to supplement the evidence given by me on Wednesday, April
20, 1964, before the President's Commission on the Assassination of
President Kennedy, as follows:
_The Spent Rifle Hulls_
Three spent rifle hulls were found under the window in the southeast
corner of the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building,
Dallas, Texas, on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. When the officers
called me to this window, I asked them not to move the shells nor
touch them until Lt. Day of the Dallas Police Department could make
pictures of the hulls showing where they fell after being ejected
from the rifle. After the pictures were made, Detective R. M. Sims of
the Homicide Bureau, who was assisting in the search of the building,
brought the three empty hulls to my office. These were delivered to
me in my office at the police headquarters. I kept the hulls in an
envelope in my possession and later turned them over to C. N. Dhority
of the Homicide Bureau and instructed him to take them to Lt. Day of
the Identification Bureau. I told Detective Dhority that after these
hulls were checked for prints to leave two of them to be delivered to
the FBI and to bring one of them to my office to be used for comparison
tests here in the office, as we were trying to find where the
cartridges had been bought. When Detective Dhority returned from the
Identification Bureau, he returned the one empty hull which I kept in
my possession. Several days later, I believe on the night of November
27, Vince Drain of the FBI called me at home about one o'clock in the
morning and said that the Commission wanted the other empty hull and a
notebook that belonged to Oswald. I came to the office and delivered
these things to the FBI. We have Mr. James P. Hosty's receipt for these
items in our report.
_Reference to the Testimony of Roger Craig_
I don't remember the name Roger Craig, but I do remember a man coming
into my outer office and I remember one of my officers calling me
outside the door of my private office. I talked to this man for a
minute or two, and he started telling me a story about seeing Oswald
leaving the building. I don't remember all the things that this man
said, but I turned him over to Lt. Baker who talked to him. Lee Harvey
Oswald was in my office at this time. I don't remember anything about
Lee Harvey Oswald jumping up or making any remarks or gestures to this
man or to me at this time, and had I brought this officer into my inner
office I feel sure that I would remember it. There were other officers
in my inner office at the time, and I have found no one who knows about
the remarks that you have asked about.
Signed this 9th day of June 1964.
(S) J. W. Fritz,
J. W. FRITZ.