Mr. Specter. You were wearing gloves on that day?
Mr. Rowland. Yes.
Mr. Specter. Was it a chilly day?
Mr. Rowland. The sun was shining, it was a fair day but the wind was blowing and it was breezy.
Mr. Specter. Was it cold enough to have gloves?
Mr. Rowland. Yes; I had on my overcoat and my wife had a fairly heavy coat.
Mr. Specter. Proceed, and tell us what you did.
Mr. Rowland. I handed this pen to the officer and I started thinking and I went to him and told him again just before the motorcade came I saw a man in the building with a rifle, and he immediately took me to Sheriff Decker which, in turn, asked two other deputies to take me to his office. We went there to his office. There was quite a few reporters around, such as this. They took my wife and I to a back room and shut us off completely from the reporters and everyone. There was no one in that room for 4 hours but this sheriff and a FBI agent, Agent Sorrels, and a stenographer, and I think another lady and a man that had seen another man carrying a rifle in a case on the other end of town earlier prior to this time.
Mr. Specter. Are you sure there was a court reporter present?
Mr. Rowland. It was one of the secretaries from the office of the sheriff, stenographer who was taking, using an electric typewriter every time.