Mr. Jenner. What gave you the impression that he had or might have had homosexual tendencies?
Mr. Powers. Again, this is an unqualified opinion, and——
Mr. Jenner. Did you say "unqualified"?
Mr. Powers. Yes, because obviously, I'm not qualified to say one is or is not, but having seen a number of them and seeing their characteristics, as far as manner of walk, dress, and just their personality, I would say possibly his was similar to them in some respects.
Mr. Jenner. You found him a feminine——
Mr. Powers. I would say yes; a lot of his mannerisms were closely related to other homosexuals that I had seen in my life up to that period of time.
Mr. Jenner. You said, in the course of your general statement, that your group had the impression that he might be easily led. Can you elaborate on that?
Mr. Powers. Well, let's not say the group felt that he was easy to lead. I felt—let's say that I felt he was easily led, and the group felt that it was kind of a group response that you would get here if what was good for the group was good for everyone, and he would go along with what the group went along with, and he wouldn't go out on the limb as one individual; at least at this particular period of time he did not.
And I would say he was a group response—he was easily led; he was responsive to the group as a whole.
At the same time I felt that he was an individual such as I see today. I see individuals that they are fascinated by education, and of course, not knowing what his IQ was, and what his capacity for education was—still at the time he impressed me as an individual who was quite intelligent and he would read quite a lot, and so I would say he, by "being led," it would be more of a personal opinion of my own that he was an individual that you could sway.