JFK assassination figure breaks silence

DALLAS, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work the day Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy 45 years ago in Dallas has broken his long-running silence.

Buell Frazier, 64, was thrust into the national spotlight after the Warren Commission, the high-level panel that investigated Kennedy's death, concluded that Oswald carried a rifle to work in Frazier's car, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday.

Frazier said he hardly noticed the bundled package Oswald laid on the back seat when Oswald got in his car Nov. 22, 1963. Investigators said the bundle contained the Italian-made rifle Oswald used to kill Kennedy.

"He told me he was taking some curtain rods for his room," Frazier said. "I didn't think much about it."

Frazier said that day shaped the rest of his life and personality.

"I have had to be more careful and aware of what is going on around me at all times," he said. "Being able to trust someone is very hard for me. I simply do not trust people in general."

He told the newspaper he is comfortable staying anonymous.

"Though I did nothing wrong," he said, "some of them think I am guilty, that I was involved with him."