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TWO BOYS INTERTWINED IN TOO MUCH
One day in October 1963, Buell Wesley Frazier, an employee at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, was paged by his supervisor, William Shelley.
“I was working, filling an order. Mr. Shelley asked me to come in his office, where he was sitting with a young man. He said, ‘He is going to be working with us, I want you to teach him how to fill an order, teach him everything that you can do.’ For several days, Lee was just like my shadow,” Frazier recalled. “Everywhere you would see me, Lee was right there. One day, I said, ‘I think it’s time we find out what he has learned.’ Lee didn’t back off, he wasn’t scared. He was very eager to learn, and he learned very quickly. The questions he would ask were good questions.”
The new hire was 23-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald.
Meanwhile Oswald says, "After I was employed at the Texas School Book Depository, they gave me a fellow worker to help guide me. But he became a buddy and though he was a little slow, he seemed to need a strong figure to guide him in life, which is a role I quickly filled," said Oswald.
Oswald has told Dallas authorities he would get a ride from Frazier so he could spend weekends with his wife, Marina, and their two young children, who lived in the Dallas suburb of Irving, just down the road from where Frazier lived.
But Frazier maintains that his relationship with the shy, subdued Oswald was “strictly business,” not personal.
“On the way home, we never stopped to have a beer or talk about the weekend,” Frazier said. “We just left work, went straight out to Irving and I dropped him off. I knew Lee was married, I knew his wife and that they had a daughter. I didn’t want to take any more time away from his family.”
Frazier said that rumors of them being seen together at doughnut shops and rifle ranges around town are false. “We never went anywhere together,” he said. Oswald however said, "Wesley seemed to really take a liking to me and I liked him. I enjoyed his company in many ways."
Already there are rumors starting to circulate the two men may have had more than meets the eye in a relationship of an unnatural way. Also, Oswald and Frazier reportedly have been seen a few times, closer than usual, in a dark corner of the Carousel Club.
Both Oswald & Frazier have made accusations against the Dallas Police Department of brutality.
Dallas police Capt. Will Fritz, who was in charge of the homicide department, came into the room with a typed statement. He handed Frazier a pen and demanded he sign it. It was a confession. Frazier and Oswald's story is similar in these accusations and they both refused.
“This was ridiculous,” Frazier said. “Captain Fritz got very red-faced, and he put up his hand to hit me and I put my arm up to block. I told him we’d have a hell of a fight and I would get some good licks in on him. Then he stormed out the door.”
The investigation is continuing. One issue Frazier has been asked about is a package another TSBD saw Oswald getting out of the backseat of Frazier's car.
When Fritz asked Frazier about it, he said Oswald had said he had bought curtain rods for his apartment. The unknown witness said, "Must have been a lot of curtain rods. Maybe for a love nest."
One day in October 1963, Buell Wesley Frazier, an employee at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, was paged by his supervisor, William Shelley.
“I was working, filling an order. Mr. Shelley asked me to come in his office, where he was sitting with a young man. He said, ‘He is going to be working with us, I want you to teach him how to fill an order, teach him everything that you can do.’ For several days, Lee was just like my shadow,” Frazier recalled. “Everywhere you would see me, Lee was right there. One day, I said, ‘I think it’s time we find out what he has learned.’ Lee didn’t back off, he wasn’t scared. He was very eager to learn, and he learned very quickly. The questions he would ask were good questions.”
The new hire was 23-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald.
Meanwhile Oswald says, "After I was employed at the Texas School Book Depository, they gave me a fellow worker to help guide me. But he became a buddy and though he was a little slow, he seemed to need a strong figure to guide him in life, which is a role I quickly filled," said Oswald.
Oswald has told Dallas authorities he would get a ride from Frazier so he could spend weekends with his wife, Marina, and their two young children, who lived in the Dallas suburb of Irving, just down the road from where Frazier lived.
But Frazier maintains that his relationship with the shy, subdued Oswald was “strictly business,” not personal.
“On the way home, we never stopped to have a beer or talk about the weekend,” Frazier said. “We just left work, went straight out to Irving and I dropped him off. I knew Lee was married, I knew his wife and that they had a daughter. I didn’t want to take any more time away from his family.”
Frazier said that rumors of them being seen together at doughnut shops and rifle ranges around town are false. “We never went anywhere together,” he said. Oswald however said, "Wesley seemed to really take a liking to me and I liked him. I enjoyed his company in many ways."
Already there are rumors starting to circulate the two men may have had more than meets the eye in a relationship of an unnatural way. Also, Oswald and Frazier reportedly have been seen a few times, closer than usual, in a dark corner of the Carousel Club.
Both Oswald & Frazier have made accusations against the Dallas Police Department of brutality.
Dallas police Capt. Will Fritz, who was in charge of the homicide department, came into the room with a typed statement. He handed Frazier a pen and demanded he sign it. It was a confession. Frazier and Oswald's story is similar in these accusations and they both refused.
“This was ridiculous,” Frazier said. “Captain Fritz got very red-faced, and he put up his hand to hit me and I put my arm up to block. I told him we’d have a hell of a fight and I would get some good licks in on him. Then he stormed out the door.”
The investigation is continuing. One issue Frazier has been asked about is a package another TSBD saw Oswald getting out of the backseat of Frazier's car.
When Fritz asked Frazier about it, he said Oswald had said he had bought curtain rods for his apartment. The unknown witness said, "Must have been a lot of curtain rods. Maybe for a love nest."
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