(Testimony of Alwyn Cole)
Mr. Eisenberg.
card show, in relation to your earlier examination, conducted simply of the Exhibit 795?
Mr. Cole.
May I say something off the record.
(Discussion off the record.)
Senator COOPER. Back on the record.
Would you please state on the record your reasons for making your prior answer to the question of counsel?
Mr. Cole.
I have some question whether this is actually the card which I had previously examined, although I am sure I did examine a Selective Service card, and it will take just a moment of close examination of this one to determine that, and I would suggest that if there are any other Selective Service cards available belonging to this group or grouped with this card that I should see them at the same time.
Senator COOPER. Your statement is then that you just desired to examine----
Mr. Cole.
Yes, sir.
Senator COOPER. This card and any other Selective Service card that may be available?
Mr. Cole.
Yes, sir.
Senator COOPER. I suggest that the Commission recess for a sufficient time to permit the witness to examine the Selective Service card.
Mr. Eisenberg.
Before that recess, let me introduce another card relating to the Selective Service System, which is the registration certificate of Lee Harvey Oswald. Did you examine did you examine this registration certificate, Mr. Cole? And perhaps you can now, Mr. Reporter, note a recess while he examines both the registration certificate and the Selective Service System notice of classification.
Senator COOPER. So ordered.
(Short recess.)
Mr. Cole.
Yes, sir; I did examine this registration certificate.
Mr. Eisenberg.
Did you examine the Selective Service System notice of classification?
Mr. Cole.
Yes, sir; I did. I did examine the notice of classification.
Mr. Eisenberg.
That is 801. May I have the registration certificate admitted as 802?
Senator COOPER. Let it be admitted.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit 802, and was received in evidence.)
Mr. Eisenberg.
This was also found in the wallet of Oswald following his. apprehension. Now, on the basis of your examination of these cards and the negatives, did you find yourself reinforced in your earlier conclusion, Mr. Cole?
Mr. Cole.
I did. This confirmed my earlier conclusion which was formed at a time I had only the photographic prints. Exhibit----
Mr. Eisenberg.
No. 795, together with photographs thereof, is that what you are referring to now?
Mr. Cole.
That is correct; yes.
Mr. Eisenberg.
Can you discuss the negatives, Exhibit 800, that you referred to in your examination?
Mr. Cole.
Yes; there are two negatives which are of Selective Service System notice of classification. Both of these negatives show extensive retouching, sometimes called opaquing, for the purpose of preventing certain material which appeared on an original from printing on a photographic print. The two negatives are apparently related to a single original. One of them has a somewhat greater amount of retouching than the other It is my view that the second negative, that is, the one showing the smallest amount of retouching, was probably made from a photographic print of the first one. In other words, the retouching operation has involved two steps which resulted in the production of two separate negatives. A possible reason for the second step was that on the negative showing the most extensive retouching there is still some material remaining from the original document, namely the lower extensions of two letters "f' which pass through certain wording at the right side of the document, reading "local board," and another word reading "violation." Now on
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