Mr. HOSTY. Yes.
Representative FORD. Was knowledgeable about the Oswald case?
Mr. HOSTY. Right.
Representative FORD. Now how knowledgeable would a person in that
capacity be about this case?
Mr. HOSTY. Well, I might point out where I would have 25 to 40
cases that I was working on, he might have 500 to 700 cases he was
supervising, so obviously he couldn't pay as much attention to the
details of the case as the agent to whom it was assigned.
Representative FORD. He saw all the documents that came in or went out
involving this case?
Mr. HOSTY. This case and many other cases.
Representative FORD. Did you and Mr. Howe ever discuss the Oswald case
prior to the assassination?
Mr. HOSTY. I have no recollection of any discussion of the case; no.
Representative FORD. Is this unusual or is this typical?
Mr. HOSTY. There would be a discussion if in my opinion there was
something I wanted to consult him on or if in his opinion there was
something he wanted to consult me on. If he thought I was handling the
case all right, and I had no questions, we would not discuss the case.
Representative FORD. Your recollection is that in this instance you and
Mr. Howe had no such discussion?
Mr. HOSTY. That is my recollection.
Mr. McCLOY. After this one interview in which you participated at least
in part with Lieutenant or Captain Fritz, I forgot what his rank is----
Mr. HOSTY. Captain Fritz.
Mr. McCLOY. Captain Fritz, did you ever interview or were you ever a
participant in an interview of Oswald thereafter?
Mr. HOSTY. No; this was the only time I participated.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you return to the police headquarters the next day?
Mr. HOSTY. No, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. You weren't there when Oswald was shot?
Mr. HOSTY. No, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much, Mr. Hosty.
Mr. HOSTY. Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice.
The CHAIRMAN. Thank you for your help. We are very glad to have seen
you, sir.
The meeting will adjourn.
(Whereupon, at 5:10 p.m., the President's Commission recessed.)
Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant
preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Misspellings in quoted evidence not changed; misspellings that could be
due to mispronunciations were not changed.
Some simple typographical errors were corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation of compound words retained.
Ambiguous end-of-line hyphens retained.
Occasional uses of "Mr." for "Mrs." and of "Mrs." for "Mr." corrected.
Dubious repeated words, (e.g., "What took place by way of of
conversation?") retained.
Several unbalanced quotation marks not remedied.
Occasional periods that should be question marks not changed.
Occasional periods that should be commas, and commas that should be
periods, were changed only when they clearly had been misprinted (at
the end of a paragraph or following a speaker's name in small-caps at
the beginning of a line). Some commas and semi-colons were printed so
faintly that they appear to be periods or colons: some were found and
corrected, but some almost certainly remain.
The Index and illustrated Exhibits volumes of this series may not be
available at Project Gutenberg.
Page 21: "intransit to the FBI" perhaps should be "in transit".
Page 21: "Mr. Dulles. Is is likely" should be "Is it likely".
Page 36: "With you permission" should be "your".
Page 48: "Frankly, I don't know what there conclusion was" should be
"their".
Page 68: "protrusion" was misprinted as "protrustion"; corrected here.
Page 79: "this cotton of this cotton" should be "or".
Page 107: "Several sutures of chromic gut where used" probably should
be "were used".
Page 138: "alignement" was printed that way.
Page 139: "alinement" was printed that way.
Page 159: "we had a plane to fall" was printed that way.
Page 279: "so help you God" was misprinted as "held"; corrected here.
Page 320: "We would has asked them" was printed that way.
Pages 394 and 395: "Hideel" and "Hidell" both used.
Page 397: "October 13 1958" was printed without a comma after "13".
Page 439: "Mr. Quigley. I show you an envelope" was printed as though
Mr. Quigley was the speaker, but in context, this must have been spoken
by Mr. Stern.
Page 467: "harassing his wife in anyway?" probably should be "any way".