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He told John Hart of CBS: "I'm just a Patsy. .I This is incredible!
Oswald was, interrogated for about eight hours and apparently never
asked about whether he killed the President.
Oswald was not the only suspect arrested that day. Richard
Sprague, an idependent investigator, has found photographic evidence
of eight or nine persons under arrest following the assassinaton.
Three were tramps arrested near the railroad tracks; two were Negroes,
one was a Cuban, and one was arrested in Fort Worth. Only one,
Larry Florer, has been identified, and he was not questioned by
the Warren Commission. (R. Sprague, "The Kennedy Assassira tion,
Oct. 15, 1967. Edition #4)
But there were others. Minutes after the shots an unarmed 31
year old, man was arrested in the railroad yards adjacent to the
parking lot. He was arrested and booked on charges of "investigation
of conspiracy to commit murder. " These charges weren't dropped
until Dec. 2, eight days after Lee Harvey Oswald's murder. He
was held for eight days during which the Dallas police and nation-
wide news media were claiming the case was closed and Oswald was
the sole assassin. He was still being held on Dec. 8 on "city
charges" and there is no way, of knowing when, if ever, he was released
( Dallas Times Herald, Dec. 8, 1963)
Just after the shots, patrolman W. E. Barber noticed workers
on the 3rd floor of the Depositiory tapping on a window and pointing
to a man wearing horn-rimmed glasses, a plaid jacket, and a raincoat
He was immediately arrested and taken to Sheriff Bill Decker's
office for questioning. (Dallas Times Herald, Noy. 22, 1963)
At about 1:15 patrolman L. S. Debenport told the police radio dis-
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Jones, Penn, Forgive My Grief II, p. 11. The Midlothean Mirror,
Inc. , Texas, 1967.
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