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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]stopbush
(24,392 posts)Until one realizes that almost NO police departments taped or kept notes on interrogations back in 1963.
The LAPD began recording and keeping notes on interrogations only in 1981. In fact, no police department in TX was recording interrogations until 1992.
This is a case of your using a fact to suggest some nefarious reason behind the fact, when all that was behind the fact was bad SOP.
But perhaps you can point us to other investigations anywhere in the USA that took place in 1963 where statements by subjects were typically recorded for later use. That would show us just how egregious the non-actions in the Dallas PD were.
As far as Oswald's chief interrogator - Capt Fritz - between the DPD, the FBI, the SS and the US Marshall's office, over 25 people were involved in the various interrogations of Oswald. Capt Fritz was, in fact, called out of the room on many occasions to deal with Dallas police business that was chaotic after the shooting. He was actually the last person one would have expected to be able to keep copious, continuous notes on the interrogations as he was constantly being called away.
Still, Capt Fritz along with all of the other interrogators involved did file reports on their interrogations of Oswald, as was SOP in 1963. Those reports are included in Appendix XI of the WCR and include:
Pages 599 through 611 reproduce the report of Capt. J. W. Fritz, Dallas Police Department.
Pages 612 through 625 reproduce reports of Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Pages 626 through 632 reproduce reports of Inspector Thomas J. Kelley, U.S. Secret Service.
Pages 632 through 636 reproduce a report of U.S. Postal Inspector H. D. Holmes.
As these reports all agree in the main with the recollections of Capt Fritz, one might assume that the good captain had a pretty reliable memory, a memory honed by the fact that police investigators at the time typically conducted interrogations without the aid of stenographers etc, and were somewhat practiced in the ability to recall what was said in even the lengthiest interrogations.
OR, you can believe that all of these law enforcement types were part of the conspiracy and got together to align the reports of their Oswald interrogations.