Your son's statement was based only on his observation of the rifle, is that correct?
Dr. WOOD. On his observation of the rifle and what he knows about guns, which is quite a bit. He studies about guns a lot.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you think your son would be qualified to make a statement in this regard?
Dr. WOOD. I feel sure more so than I am. I know very little about guns, but he knows quite a bit.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you observe this fellow leave the rifle range before you?
Dr. WOOD. I did not, but I didn't notice when the change was made, but my son said he did. He noticed that the fellow came there after my boy had sat down and this fellow had left before my boy had finished. The reason for that was, that my boy was having some trouble sighting in his scope, and he asked the keeper to help him. This fellow was there less than most of the fellows that was out there.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you remember the name of the keeper?
Dr. WOOD. I do not. He was a tall fellow; all I know.

Mr. Liebeler.

Slender?
Dr. WOOD. Slender, yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you know Mr. Floyd Davis?
Dr. WOOD. No, sir; he might have been the fellow that was he!ping my son, I don't know. But I recognized his picture later in the paper when it came out, and--that this fellow was there practicing, and I recognized the fellow as the fellow that helped my son.

Mr. Liebeler.

Helped your son sight in his scope?
Dr. WOOD. Helped my son sight in his scope, and I don't know who owned the range. I have no idea.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did there come a time subsequent to that that you were able to identify this man that you had seen there as Lee Harvey Oswald?
Dr. WOOD. Would you repeat that?

Mr. Liebeler.

After you saw this man, you left the rifle range. Then later on the next Friday the President was assassinated, and at sometime subsequent to that time, did you connect up Lee Harvey Oswald with this man that you saw at the rifle range?
Dr. WOOD. I did.

Mr. Liebeler.

Tell me when and how you did that?
Dr. WOOD. I saw him flashed on the television screen at home several times. They would interrogate him and bring him down the hall and bring him back to his cell. This particular time I mentioned to my wife, I said to her, "Honey, that looks exactly like the fellow that was sitting next to Sterling at the rifle range. But I am not going to say anything to Sterling because I want to see if he recognizes him and if he thinks it was."
Well, I would say within 30 minutes or an hour he was flashed hack on the screen and he said to me, "Daddy, that is the fellow that was sitting next to me out on the rifle range."

Mr. Liebeler.

So that you, independently of your son, first noticed the resemblance between Oswald.
Dr. WOOD. And mentioned it to my wife.

Mr. Liebeler.

And Sterling was not in your presence at that time?
Dr. WOOD. No, sir; he was not in the room.

Mr. Liebeler.

Then later he came into the room, saw Oswald's picture on the television, and said to you that that was the guy that was out at the rifle range that previous Saturday, is that correct?
Dr. WOOD. Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

You did not mention to Sterling in any way the resemblance between Oswald and the fellow at. the rifle range prior to the time he mentioned it himself?
Dr. WOOD. No. They mentioned on the newscast that he was an ex-Marine. Well, I figured an ex-Marine would be a husky sort of fellow, and I kept watching him, and he didn't look like a Marine to me. But he was a Marine but he didn't seem to me to have the build.

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