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Joint Congressional Committee, Pearl Harbor Attack: Part 3 797
Gearhart: Well, do you shut it out as being an utter impossibility
that you and he could have been in each other’s company
that night?
Stark: I do not shut it out as an utter impossibility that we
could have been in each other’s company, but I think we were
not.
Gearhart: You do not remember that.
Stark: No; but I feel that perhaps we both would have remembered
it if that had occurred.
Gearhart: Well, you not remembering where you were certainly
you cannot remember that you were not with General
Marshall on that night, can you?
Stark: Well, I think that may be a reasonable assumption.
Gearhart: You were together a great deal all the time, were
you not?
Stark: We were together either talking by telephone or interoffi
ce visits a great deal during offi ce hours. We were not together
a great deal in the evening. . . . I have heard that an eff ort was
made to locate me.
Gearhart: And you also have learned that a courier called at
your quarters and you were not there?
Stark: No; I have not heard that.
Gearhart: Did you have any telephone call that evening from
Colonel Knox, the Secretary of the Navy?
Stark: Not that I recall. 225
225 Ibid., part 5, pp. 2291–92.