Mr. Dowe.

the tremendous overload. I fed news stories to our radio on the phone about the assassination.

Mr. Griffin.

Were you in contact with your newspaper people out in the field on the 22d?

Mr. Dowe.

I don't know any of them except the newsmen that work for us.

Mr. Griffin.

That is what I mean.

Mr. Dowe.

Was I in contact with them on the 22d?

Mr. Griffin.

Yes.

Mr. Dowe.

On the 22d of November, you mean?

Mr. Griffin.

The day that the President was shot.

Mr. Dowe.

Oh, yes; I was.

Mr. Griffin.

In other words, did you have KLIF reports at the police station and Dealey Plaza that were called into you?

Mr. Dowe.

No; I was strictly taking reports written by the newsmen and calling other stations in the country and giving them reports.

Mr. Griffin.

Where were your newsmen getting their information?

Mr. Dowe.

Some of them were probably covering the assassination. I recall one was at Parkland Hospital, and some were inside the station, and they were moving in and out all the time.

Mr. Griffin.

Do you remember the names of the newsmen who were inside the station who were passing information on to you, passing reports on to you?

Mr. Dowe.

I got one report from Glenn Duncan. I remember that Gleam gave me one report; it seems that he did. The rest of them, I wrote myself. And at that time, I think it could have been Roy Nichols, because Roy, I believe, was at Parkland Hospital.

Mr. Griffin.

I don't understand how you were writing the report yourself unless you were in contact with somebody who was giving you information.

Mr. Dowe.

I was getting information off the wire service. We have a wire service of reports that I heard. In other words, I would listen to our report from the air, ad-lib them for the most part, and put together any statistics I needed off the unit press wire service.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, when you got off the air at about 7 p.m., what did you do?

Mr. Dowe.

I went home. I would imagine I must have. Maybe I was around the station for a little while, but I didn't go any place besides the station and home.

Mr. Griffin.

Did you come to work the next day?

Mr. Dowe.

Yes; that day I was--I came in, of course, early. It was about I o'clock. I usually am there before 2:30 or 3, and my regular shift is from 3 to 7. And that day I was there from I to 7. The next day probably I must have gotten there earlier. I am sure in a situation like this I would have been there earlier. What time, I don't know, but in between times I was only at the station and only at my house. The next day was Saturday, wasn't it?

Mr. Griffin.

That is right.

Mr. Dowe.

The next day was Saturday, so I came to work at noon.

Mr. Griffin.

Did you go right on the air at noon?

Mr. Dowe.

Yes; we didn't--there was no air work per se done by the disk-jockey. There was constant news coverage of the events that had taken place, and we were just, I was just sitting there running the control board monitor gains and things like that. Purely technical. I was on from 12 to 6. That was my shift that day, same as today, Saturday, 12 to 6.

Mr. Griffin.

Did you have occasion to hear from somebody that you subsequently believed was Jack Ruby?

Mr. Dowe.

Yes; I did that afternoon. Honestly, it has been too long, and I have told the story so many times, that I am really not sure, so I am going to give you the facts as I remember them as of this moment. At that time I got a telephone call.

Mr. Griffin.

What time?

Mr. Dowe.

Four or five o'clock. It seems to me in the afternoon.

Mr. Griffin.

How do you fix the time?

Mr. Dowe.

Well, because I didn't have but a couple of hours left. I watched the clock constantly. That was part of my job. I give the time every few minuteS, or after every record. And it seems that it was around 4 or 5. We