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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IV - Page 252« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of J. C. Day)

Mr. Belin.
What you are pointing is, as you point to Exhibit 715, you are saying that the tier of boxes which is in the left foreground, if you were standing outside taking a picture, would be hidden by the heavy beam between the windows, but beyond that, to the east of that, there is another tier of boxes of which you think this other box in Exhibit 482 is one; am I correct? Is this correct?
Mr. Day.
That is correct.
Mr. Belin.
Handing you Exhibit 716, will you see this at all on Exhibit 716?
Mr. Day.
This is the box, I think, showing here.
Mr. Belin.
Do you want to make an X on the box on Exhibit 716 that you think is the other box showing in the window on Exhibit 482?
Mr. Day.
The corner that is showing I don't believe shows in the picture.
Mr. Belin.
All right. You put an X on a box which I would say, looking at this picture, appears to be the fourth box starting from the bottom count, and you believe that is the picture or--that is the box that is shown in the window?
Mr. Day.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Belin.
All right.
Mr. Day.
I don't know what time this was taken. Do you?
Mr. Belin.
Well, you are asking with regard to Exhibit 482? We know it was taken, I would say, not more than a minute after the shooting. This is our best recollection based on testimony of the two people in the window below, because this was their position as they saw the shooting, and the photographer himself says that after the shots were fired, he jumped out of the motorcade and took two shots of the building. This could have been the first or the second shot he took. He used two different cameras, so I don't imagine it would have been very long after the actual shots were fired.
For the record, I should add one other thing at this point. There is testimony by the deputy sheriff that found the shells, that after he found them he leaned out of the window to call down to try and tell someone that he found something, and it is conceivable that he moved a box, although he did not so testify. In other words, I don't want you to take this as the testimony of anyone----
Mr. Day.
What I am getting at, this box doesn't jibe with my picture of the inside.
Mr. Belin.
You are pointing now to the other box on Exhibit 482. You say that does not jibe with the chart that you have here that you brought with you of boxes that you had inside.
Let me ask you this: When did you prepare your chart of boxes inside?
Mr. Day.
This chart here was prepared on the 25th. However, pictures were made immediately after my arrival.
Mr. Belin.
You are talking now about Exhibit 715 and Exhibit 716?
Mr. Day.
Yes, sir; don't jibe with that box there.
Mr. Belin.
What I am asking you then is this: Is it possible that the box that is shown on Exhibit 482 is not shown on Exhibit 715 and Exhibit 716? By that I mean not the box that you see a corner of, but I am talking about the other box that is clear to the west of the easternmost window.
Mr. Day.
I just don't know. I can't explain that box there depicted from the outside as related to the pictures that I took inside.
Mr. Belin.
In other words, what you are saying is that on the sixth floor window the westernmost box on Exhibit 482, you cannot then relate to any of the boxes shown on Exhibits 715 or 716?
Mr. Day.
That is correct.
Mr. Belin.
Do you wish to correct your testimony with regard to the X you placed on the fourth box on the stack in Exhibit 716?
Mr. Day.
Yes; that is just not the same box. It is not the same box. This is the first time I have seen No. 482.
Mr. Belin.
All right. We will substitute for 716 then a copy of the picture without the X mark on it.
Mr. Mccloy.
482 was taken by the news photographer?
Mr. Belin.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Mccloy.
Immediately after the shooting?
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