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  • Collection: The Investigators

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James Leavelle with unidentified homicide dectives

Many people who were involved in the President's assassination whether it was the investigation or just being a bystander were affected later in their lives. Many people suffered trauma from this event and it traveled with them till their dying day.…

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After J.C. Day's involvement in the investigation with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Day continued as a police officer at the Dallas Police Department. Day stayed with the police department until 1977 when he retired and then…

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12:45pm Day is working in the basement of City Hall
12:50pm Day goes back to his office in City Hall on the 3rd floor after hearing rumors about the President getting shot
12:55pm Day received a call from the police department to show up to 411 Elm…

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Lieutenant J.C. Day was heavily involved in the investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. As a lieutenant of the Dallas Police Department, Day played a key role in the investigation that took place at…

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In Lieutenant J.C. Day's Warren Commission Testimony, Day spoke a lot about the cardboard boxes in which he investigated and took the fingerprints of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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a diagram of the officers in the lead car of the Presidential motorcade in front of President Kennedy

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J.C. Day was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended from Sunset High School where he graduated. After graduation Day worked various jobs until applying to the Dallas Police Department where he settled for a dependable job in 1940. Shortly…

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"Lieutenant DAY stated that on Saturday, November 23, 1963, many persons unknown to him had apparently been on sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building and had taken a lot of photographs, in view of the fact that he noticed many empty…

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Lawman, Kennedy Assassination Figure. As head of the Dallas Police Department's Robbery-Homicide unit in 1963, he was Lee Harvey Oswald's primary interrogator. Law enforcement officers led by him interrogated Oswald over the less than 48 hours…

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Fritz pictured with 4 of his grandchildren and his second wife, Alma.

Fritz passed away April 19, 1984 and Alma passed away June 29, 2012.

This is a 62-page FBI folder from the Warren Commission. It relays information about Fleming being a key witness to the assassination of President JFK.

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Captain J.W. Fritz is questioned by Leon Hubert regarding whether or not he attended a midnight press conference meeting that was held in the station's basement assembly room.

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Captain J.W. Fritz denies any relationship to Jack Ruby prior to Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Department.

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Former defense attorney in Dallas, Texas, Travis Kirk, gives his opinion on the character of Dallas Police Captain J.W. Fritz and Fritz's possible involvement in the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Chief of Dallas Police Jesse Curry states that the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald to the Dallas County Jail was left entirely to the discretion of Captain J.W. Fritz.

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On the night of November 23, 1963, a threatening call was received regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's life, according to Captain W.B. Frazier. Frazier requested to Captain Fritz that Oswald be transferred to the Dallas County Jail, but Fritz said the…
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