Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
* * * and the boy said he saw two men on the sixth floor of
the Book Depository Building over there; one of them had a
rifle with a telescopic sight on it--but he thought they were
Secret Service agents or guards and didn’t report it. This
was about--oh, he said, 15 minutes before the motorcade ever
arrived.[C6-74]
According to Craig, Rowland said that he looked back a few minutes
later and “the other man was gone, and there was just one man--the man
with the rifle.”[C6-75] Craig further testified that Rowland told him
that when he first saw the two men, they were walking back and forth in
front of the window for several minutes. They were both white men and
one of them had a rifle with a scope on it.[C6-76] This report by Craig
is contradicted by the testimony of both the Rowlands, and by every
recorded interview with them conducted by law enforcement agencies
after the assassination.
As part of its investigation of Rowland’s allegation and of the
general question of accomplices at the scene of the assassination,
the Commission undertook an investigation of every person employed
in the Texas School Book Depository Building. Two employees might
possibly fit the general description of an elderly Negro man, bald or
balding. These two men were on the first floor of the building during
the period before and during the assassination.[C6-77] Moreover, all
of the employees were asked whether they saw any strangers in the
building on the morning of November 22.[C6-78] Only one employee saw
a stranger whom he described as a feeble individual who had to be
helped up the front steps of the building. He went to a public restroom
and left the building 5 minutes later, about 40 minutes before the
assassination.[C6-79]
Rowland’s failure to report his story despite several interviews
until his appearance before the Commission, the lack of probative
corroboration, and the serious doubts about his credibility, have led
the Commission to reject the testimony that Rowland saw an elderly
balding Negro man in the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of
the Depository Building several minutes before the assassination.
Oswald’s Escape
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