Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. SPECTER. Well, knowing that, at that time, did you attach any
particular significance to the presence of the Negro gentleman, whom
you have described, that you saw in window "A"?
Mr. ROWLAND. Yes; that is why I brought it to the attention of the FBI
agents who interviewed me that day. This was as an afterthought because
I did not think of it firsthand. But I did bring it to their attention
before they left, and they----
Mr. SPECTER. That was at the interview on the Saturday morning November
23?
Mr. ROWLAND. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you think it of sufficient significance to bring it
to the attention of any of the other interviewing FBI agents on the
balance of the interviews you have described?
Mr. ROWLAND. Yes; I did on the following Sunday to the agents who
interviewed me where I worked.
Mr. SPECTER. How about the following Sunday?
Mr. ROWLAND. No; I did not.
Mr. SPECTER. Mr. Chief Justice, at this time I move for the admission
into evidence of the three exhibits which we have shown this witness.
The CHAIRMAN. They may be admitted.
Mr. SPECTER. Exhibits Nos. 356, 357, and 358. That completes our
questioning, Your Honor.
(The documents referred to were marked Commission's Exhibits Nos. 356,
357, and 358 for identification and admitted into evidence.)
The CHAIRMAN. Senator Cooper, have you any questions?
Senator COOPER. You said earlier that you had been much interested in
and pursued studies in sounds, I believe?
Mr. ROWLAND. I have studied quite a bit of electronics, sound. Math and
science is what I like.
Senator COOPER. You said you had read books on this subject. Did you
ever conduct any experiments yourself?
Mr. ROWLAND. Yes; in the form of--there is a theory that sound is a
basis of a transmitter and a receiver, that you have to have a receiver
to have sound. There is a theory that if a tree falls down in the
middle of a forest and there is nobody around where they can hear it,
there is no sound.
Well, I have conducted experiments on this, and I--it is very
interesting, very fascinating, but you can't prove it or you can't
disprove it because if you have got a microphone there you have got a
receiver.
Senator COOPER. Did you ever conduct any experiments with rifles,
firing a rifle in relation to sound?
Mr. ROWLAND. Yes; in a firing range.
Senator COOPER. Beg pardon?
Mr. ROWLAND. Firing range.
Senator COOPER. Yes.
Mr. ROWLAND. I did conduct a few experiments. One of them was firing a
bullet over water; you know, we were using a set of wood blocks to fire
into, so we had a big vat of water that we were firing over, and we
had several different articles and composition floating on the water,
trying to measure the effect of the sound wave upon that. Such as this
we did conduct.
Senator COOPER. I think you did say that when you heard the first
report that you considered it to be a rifle shot?
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