Mr. Specter. Did you ask them at that time to include the information in the statement which they took from you?
Mr. Rowland. No. I think I told them about it after the statement, as an afterthought, an afterthought came up, it came into my mind. I also told the agents that took a statement from me on Sunday. They didn't seem very interested, so I just forgot about it for a while.
Mr. Specter. Was that information included in the written portion of the statement which was taken from you on Sunday?
Mr. Rowland. No, it wasn't. It shouldn't but the agent deleted it though himself, I mean I included it in what I gave.
Mr. Specter. When you say deleted it, did he strike it out after putting it in, or did he omit it in the transcription?
Mr. Rowland. Omitted it.
Senator Cooper. I think you said a while ago that when you told the FBI agents on Saturday that you had seen this Negro man in the window, that they indicated to you that they weren't interested in it at all. What did they say which gave you that impression?
Mr. Rowland. I don't remember exactly what was said. The context was again the agents were trying to find out if I could positively identify the man that I saw. They were concerned mainly with this, and I brought up to them about the Negro man after I had signed the statement, and at that time he just told me that they were just trying to find out about or if anyone could identify the man who was up there. They just didn't seem interested at all. They didn't pursue the point. They didn't take it down in the notation as such.
Mr. Specter. It was more of the fact that they didn't pursue it, didn't include it?
Mr. Rowland. Yes.