Quotes from Jim Bishop

A dent was found in the upper frame of the windshield. This too was measured and observed. Frazier thought that a bit of flying metal might have hit it.* Inch by inch, the FBI men examined the exterior of the automobile,

The radiating crack on the windshield was examined, measured, and photographed. The glass was double, fused together

Lieutenant J. C. Day's work was that he couldn't find fingerprints. Normally there would be prints on the barrel of the rifle and the stock.

they could hold him in the murder of Officer Tippit. The evidence was far from overwhelming but it was sufficient. For Oswald, the real

involved. For the sake of Dallas it would be a good thing to present the assassination as solved to the press of the world.

Frazier realized that many suppositions would never be proved. There were possibilities and probabilities and few provabilities.

headquarters said that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably a communist. He had spent years in Russia;

Carter. The mystery caller asked Waggoner Carr if he had heard a rumor that the Dallas County authorities were going to draw up an indictment alleging an "international conspiracy." The White House would be interested in having this eliminated unless there was proof of a conspiracy.

I happen to know that the State Department furnished the money for my son to return back to the United States,

Richard Nixon reached his home in New York and dialed J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI Director said that the Dallas police had picked up a suspect named Lee Harvey Oswald.

was sorry that all that evidence had gone up to Washington. If Chief Curry had given the captain one full day, he would probably have traced that cheap rifle to some shop in Dallas and from there right to Oswald.

Nixon sat thinking of his Texas statement that Lyndon Johnson might be dropped from the Kennedy ticket.

family. The doctors at Bethesda were aware, from radio and television reports, that the dying President had been taken to a place called Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. No Navy doctor thought of phoning Parkland to ask what procedures had been tried, what wounds had been treated, to ask to what surgical abuses the body had been submitted. Nor did it occur to Parkland, when the news was broadcast that the remains were headed for Bethesda, to phone with a summary report of Texas procedures.

child. No man who had a grave crime on his mind could relinquish it so easily.

Can you tell us any of the evidence against him so far, sir?" The D.A. shook his head. "No. We are still working on the evidence. This has been a joint effort

he was a member of the movement—the Free Cuba movement." "Fair Play for Cuba," said Ruby. He had heard it on the radio. "What's the make of the rifle, sir?" "It's a Mauser, I believe." "Does he have a lawyer?

an instrument and made a small indentation on each object. "This is my mark," he said to the FBI man. "I will be able to identify it in court." Bardwell

He has not been arraigned on the assassination?" "No." "Have there been ballistic tests made locally on the gun?" "No, sir.

I think we have sufficient evidence." "Sufficient evidence to convince—to convict him of the assassination of the President?" "Definitely. Definitely.

stop. In addition, there was the question of what had happened to such a bullet.

He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.

The man on the other end of the wire was a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He asked if Mr. Olds knew whether the civil rights of Oswald had been protected. Olds said he knew nothing about the case.

He had asked again and again for a lawyer. He had requested the services of John Abt of New York and, when Oswald had reminded the police inoffensively that they had taken his thirteen dollars away from him, he was told to make the phone call collect. This gave him an unnecessary hurdle

On at least one other occasion, Oswald had told the officers that, if he could not locate Abt, he would consult the American Civil Liberties Union. He had also declared that he was a member of the ACLU. Will Fritz, surprised, asked how much Oswald had paid in dues, and the prisoner told him five dollars.