Agent Hosty is giving this misleading account years later, when the risk of Mr. Oswald's presence on the steps coming to light has receded. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for us, his own contemporaneous draft interrogation report came to light in 2019, and it says something completely different
Kelly says he was at the 10:30 interview on Saturday, Nov. 23rd. Those he states present were Bookhout, Fritz, US Marshall Robert Nash, Secret Service agents Grant and Sorrels, and Boyd and Hall.
"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
a little short negro boy. He said his lunch consisted of cheese, bread,
fruit, and apples, and was the only package he had with him when he
went to work."
Bookhout, at the same interview, wrote:
"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 a short individual whose name he
could not recall but whom he would be able to recognize."
The part of Capt. Fritz's report dealing with the Saturday morning interview stated Oswald:
"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. He said he had a cheese sandwich
and some fruit and that was the only package he had brought with him
to work and denied he had brought the long package described by
Mr. Frazier and his sister."