LHO stated every possible scenario from eating with the colored boys to eating alone to not eating at all. He always claimed to have exited from the front of the building. He admits to the lunchroom encounter with Trully and Baker. Ultimately LHO also states to Inspector Holmes he was finishing up his work when the commotion started which brought him down from the upper portion of the building and the encounter with Trully and Baker.
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Appendix XI - Reports Relating to the Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Department
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo/app11.htmReport of Capt. J. W. Fritz, Dallas Police Department
Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald
When asked what he did with his clothing, he took off when he got home, he said he put them in the dirty clothes. in talking with him further about his location at the time the President was killed, he said he ate lunch with some of the colored boys who worked with him. One of them was called "Junior" and the other one was a little short man whose name he did not know.
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Reports of Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Report #1
Oswald stated that he went to lunch at approximately noon and he claimed he ate his lunch on the first floor in the lunchroom; however he went to the second floor where the Coca-Cola machine was located and obtained a bottle of Coca-Cola for his lunch. Oswald claimed to be on the first floor when President John F. Kennedy passed this building.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation - Report #3
Oswald stated that on November 22, 1963, at the time of the search of the Texas School Book Depository building by Dallas police officers, he was on the second floor of said building, having just purchased a Coca-cola form the soft-drink machine, at which time a police officer came into the room with pistol drawn and asked him if he worked there. Mr. Truly was present and verified that he was an employee and the police officer thereafter left the room and continued through the building. Oswald stated that he took this Coke down to the first floor and stood around and had lunch in the employees lunch room.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation - Report #4
Oswald stated that on November 22, 1963, he had eaten lunch in the lunch room at the Texas School Book Depository, alone, but recalled possibly two Negro employees walking through the room during this period. He stated possibly one of these employees was called "Junior" and the other was short individual whose name he could not recall but whom he would be able to recognize
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Reports of Inspector Thomas J. Kelley, U.S. Secret Service
First Interview of lee Harvey Oswald
He said he ate his lunch with the colored boys who worked with him. He described one of them as "Junior," a colored boy, and the other was little short negro boy.
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U.S. Secret Service- Preliminary Special Dallas Report #3
November 29, 1963
He said when he was standing in front of the Textbook Building and about to leave it, a young crew-cut man rushed up to him and said he was from the Secret Service, showed a book of identification, and asked him where the phone was. Oswald said he pointed toward the pay phone in the building and that he saw the man actually go to the phone before he left.
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Report of U.S. Postal Inspector H.D. Holmes
"When asked as to his whereabouts at the time of the shooting, he stated that when lunch time came, and he didn't say which floor he was on, he said one of the Negro employees invited him to eat lunch with him and he stated "You go on down and send the elevator back up and I will join you in a few minutes." Before he could finish whatever he was doing, he stated, the commotion surrounding the assassination took place and when he went down stairs, a policeman questioned him as to his identification and his boss stated that "he is one of our employees" whereupon the policeman had him step aside momentarily. Following this, he simply walked out the front door of the building.
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