Oswald’s Admission to Captain Fritz
On November 22, Oswald told Captain Fritz that he rode a bus to a stop near his home and then walked to his roominghouse. The following morning, when questioned about a bus transfer found in his possession at arrest, he admitted receiving it. He also admitted to leaving the slow-moving bus and taking a cab to his roominghouse.
Timeline to the Roominghouse
If Oswald left the bus at 12:44 p.m. and walked directly to the terminal, he would have entered the cab at 12:47 or 12:48 p.m. With a 6-minute cab ride, he would have reached his destination at approximately 12:54 p.m. If discharged at Neely and Beckley, the 5-minute walk would have him arriving at 12:59 to 1:00 p.m. From the 500 block, the walk would be slightly longer, but in either case he would have reached the roominghouse at about 1 p.m.—matching Earlene Roberts’s account of when he entered.
Arrival and departure from roominghouse
Earlene Roberts, housekeeper at 1026 North Beckley, knew Oswald as “O.H. Lee” and had known him since he rented a room on October 14, 1963. On November 22, at about 1 p.m., Oswald entered in unusual haste after the President was shot. He stayed no longer than 3 or 4 minutes, hurried to his room, and left zipping up a jacket. He was seen a few seconds later at a bus stop on the east side of Beckley.
Movements After the Roominghouse
Oswald was next seen about nine-tenths of a mile away at the southeast corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue, moments before the Tippit shooting. If he left the roominghouse shortly after 1 p.m. and walked at a brisk pace, he would have reached 10th and Patton shortly after 1:15 p.m. Tippit’s murder was recorded on the police radio tape at about 1:16 p.m.
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