Mr. Jenner. All right; now tell me about your boy. Had he ever been in trouble before this thing occurred?
Mr. Steele. He never had a police record, or anything like that.
Mr. Jenner. Are you Catholic?
Mr. Steele. My family is; I am not. I am Presbyterian, but the children are Catholic.
Mr. Jenner. Then I take it your boy has never been in any serious trouble?
Mr. Steele. He had better not be.
Mr. Jenner. You heard his story, didn't you, Mr. Steele, about what happened on this occasion?
Mr. Steele. I started that story off with him from the minute he hit that front door, and I have been right with him on down through the FBI, the Secret Service, and everybody, right on through, and this is the only time that he has ever been questioned outside of my presence.
Mr. Jenner. Well, he is your son, and I know you have his welfare in mind all the time, and there is a possibility that fathers might become prejudiced in matters of this kind, but knowing him as you do and being his father, and knowing his weaknesses and so forth, do you think now that he is telling the truth about this?
Mr. Steele. Well, let me put it this way. In my experience, being a battery commander and handling 60 to 70 men at one time, and I have been in court, and with my experience and all that, I have honestly tried to trick him, using the same tactics that you might say the best attorneys would use, and I feel that he is honestly telling the truth. I feel he has told that story over and over again in exactly the same way, so that's the only conclusion I can come to. In my own mind, I am positive he didn't know what he was doing at the time.