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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XV - Page 691« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt)

Mr. Redlich.
have heretofore designated, the results of your investigation concerning the
question of the specific issues of the two publications held by Lee Harvey Oswald in Commission Exhibit No. 133-A ?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22 is a chart that I made better to illustrate the results of my examination, and it consists of three photographs, lettered A, B, and C. The center photograph, being photograph A, is an enlargement of the newspaints being held by Oswald in Commission Exhibit No. 133-A. By an examination of this enlarged photograph, I find it is possible to see the headlines and certain portions of the two papers being held, one of them being the Militant, and one of them the Worker.
I obtained copies of both of these papers for an extended period of time, and went through them and found that the Militant for Monday, March 11, 1963, which is volume 27, No. 10, and has been marked as Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 20, conforms to the copy of the Militant being held by Oswald in picture A of Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22.
Picture C of Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22 is a photograph of the headlines of that issue of that paper. In examining this material I found that the Militant portion, printed on the upper right hand portion of the page, is in the same location as in the photograph A of Oswald holding the papers, as it is in the copy of the Militant which is Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 20.
In addition, the general configuration of the headlines in the center column which read "Miss.," abbreviation for Mississippi, "Racists Shoot Down a Rights Worker," those headlines are not readable in the photograph of the newspaper being held by Oswald, but the general configuration of the type is the same.
There is a photograph• of Bertram Powers reproduced in the second column near the top of the Militant for Monday, March 11, 1963, which is Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 20. The top of this photograph is visible in the same location and has the same characteristics in the newspaper being held by Oswald in photograph A of Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22.
Mr. Redlich.
Before passing to the other publication, did you find that in your examination of the prior issues of the Militant, that there was considerable variation in the typography of the publication
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; I found the name block for the Militant did not always appear in the upper right-hand corner. It was sometimes in the left. Sometimes the headlines ran across the top of the name block and there was great variety in the typography of the headlines of the papers.
Mr. Redlich.
Do you recall the period of time of the issues that you examined ?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Approximately 1 year. Mr. REDLICH. One year prior to what date?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Prior to November.
Mr. Redlich.
Would you say it was a period.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
End of November.
Mr. Redlich.
Approximately November 1962 to November 1963?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; through November 1963.
Mr. Redlich.
And it is your opinion that based upon an examination of those issues and these photographs that the issue which appears in Commission Exhibit No. 133-A is the issue of March 11, 1963?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is correct
In the examination of the other newspaper held by Oswald in Commission Exhibit No. 133-A, I reviewed issues of the Worker for approximately I year from November issues of 1962 through all of the November issues for 1963, and found that the March 24, 1963, issue of the Worker, which is volume 28, No. 124, matches the newspaper being held by Oswald in Commission Exhibit No. 133-A.
Again, the enlarged photograph of this newspaper in photograph A of Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22, shows some of the type of the headlines and the block of the title "The Worker."
B photograph of Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22 shows this same area of the headline of the March 24, 1963, issue of the Worker. The headline of that newspaper, which has been designated as Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22, is "War Hogs Fight At TFX Plane Profit Trough."
In the photograph A of Oswald holding the paper on Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 22, you can clearly see the Worker and you can clearly see the "At TFX" which
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