PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
STATE OF TEXAS,
_County of Dallas, ss_:
I, John Joe Howlett, being duly sworn say:
1. I am an agent in the Dallas office of the United States Secret
Service.
2. On March 20, 1964, counsel to the President's Commission on the
Assassination of President Kennedy timed me as I walked from the
southeast corner of the sixth floor to the second floor lunchroom by
the stairway in the Texas School Book Depository Building.
3. During this test, I carried a rifle from the southeast corner of the
sixth floor northerly along the east aisle to the northeast corner,
then westerly along the north wall past the elevators to the northwest
corner. There I placed the rifle on the floor. I then entered the
stairwell, walked down the stairway to the second floor landing, and
then into the lunchroom.
4. After the second test which was run at a "fast walk," I was not
short-winded.
Signed this 11th day of August 1964, at Dallas, Tex.
(S) John Joe Howlett,
JOHN JOE HOWLETT.