Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mrs. ROWLAND. Well, the people generally ran towards the railroad
tracks behind the School Book Depository Building, and so I naturally
assumed they came from there, because that is where all the policemen
and everyone was going, and I couldn't tell where the sounds came from.
Mr. BELIN. So you just started over after them?
Mrs. ROWLAND. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did your husband go with you?
Mrs. ROWLAND. Yes; I grabbed his hand and he couldn't go anyplace else.
Mr. BELIN. Were you running or walking over there?
Mrs. ROWLAND. It wasn't a very fast run, but it wasn't a walk.
Mr. BELIN. Did you talk about anything, about the man that you had seen
in the window?
Mrs. ROWLAND. No. But he was reluctant to start running, and he might
have been looking up there, I don't know. But we didn't say anything
about the man.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do when you got over there? Where did you run
to?
Mrs. ROWLAND. To the colonnade over on the north side of Elm Street.
Mr. BELIN. As Elm Street goes down to the freeway?
Mrs. ROWLAND. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Then where did you go?
Mrs. ROWLAND. We walked towards the railroad tracks, but the policeman
wouldn't let anybody go further.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mrs. ROWLAND. We just stood there and he was speculating on what had
happened, and he was looking around at everything, and the policeman
inspected a Coke drink bottle that was there, and my husband found a
pen, very cheap ballpoint pen that you get as an advertisement, and he
gave it to the policeman, and then he mentioned the man he had seen in
the School Book Depository Building, and then the man took us to the
records building.
Mr. BELIN. Who did your husband mention this to? Was this some police
officer?
Mrs. ROWLAND. I am not certain. The first man he mentioned it to was
wearing plain clothes, and we didn't see him again, I don't think. And
then there were some other men who took us to the building. I don't
know who they were.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do when you got to the building? Did you
stay with your husband?
Mrs. ROWLAND. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. He was questioned in the building?
Mrs. ROWLAND. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did you hear what your husband said?
Mrs. ROWLAND. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Could you describe what went on in the building?
Mrs. ROWLAND. When we first came in, we went into an office that had
glass windows around it. There was a man sitting there with a child. I
think it was a boy and he said that he had seen the President shot and
he said that--he didn't say there were three shots, I think he said
there was one, or maybe he said there were more than three, but he
didn't say there were three shots.
Then we went out into an open area in the building, a fairly open area,
and there were some reporters in there, and they started asking us
questions which we didn't answer, because mainly we didn't have time.
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