Mr. BALL. Was there any other indentation on that box besides that
which is shown in the circle on 3?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No.
Mr. BALL. That's the only one?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes, you see, I dusted these first, because I figured
he might have stacked them up.
Mr. BALL. Did you find any prints?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No prints, and then I was standing right there and I
told Johnson and Montgomery that there should be a print, and I turned
around and figured he might have been standing right in there, and I
dusted all these poles here and there wasn't no prints on any of it and
started dusting this big box, No. 1 here, and lifted the print off of
that box.
Mr. BALL. Did you later examine that print that you lifted off of that
box in your crime lab?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. I was up in that building until 1 o'clock that morning
and got there at 1 and left at 1 and they had seized all of our
evidence and I haven't seen it since.
Lieutenant Day compared the print before it was released to Oswald's
print.
Mr. BALL. He did?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. He compared it as Oswald's right palm print.
Mr. BALL. Did you put some masking tape over that bit of cardboard
before you moved it?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. As soon as the print was lifted, you see, I taped it
and then they took the print down there. They just took the top corner
of this box down there.
Mr. BALL. They just took the top part of the box down there?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes, and when we took this picture, we took it
back--that stuff has been up there and back until I was so confused I
don't know what was going on.
Mr. BALL. You mean, when you took the picture which is marked Exhibit
J----
Mr. STUDEBAKER. This picture has the palm print on it.
Mr. BALL. It has the palm print--it had been removed and had been
identified and brought back and put in the box?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. It had been brought back and put in the box and as
being Oswald's right palm print.
Mr. BALL. So, in Exhibit J, you put the cardboard back on the box?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. On the box, yes, sir; where it was found.
Mr. BALL. Where you had found it? You put the Rolling Readers boxes
back where you first saw them?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes.
Mr. BALL. And then you took a picture?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes.
Mr. BALL. So, this Exhibit J, gives us the scene as you saw it?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Before the boxes were moved?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes.
Mr. BALL. And before the palm print was identified?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you find any prints on that sack that had the chicken
bones in it?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No.
Mr. BALL. Did you find any prints on boxes around where that sack was
found?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No, no prints.
Mr. BALL. Or the two-wheeler truck?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No.
Mr. BALL. No prints?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No.
Mr. BALL. You dusted around there for them?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. I dusted everything around that area. There was just
smears and smudges on the bottom.
Mr. BALL. Did you dust the rifle?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No, sir; Lieutenant Day handled the rifle part of it. I
didn't mess with the rifle at all. He took it down to the city hall and
they worked on it down there at the lab.
Mr. BALL. Do you have the measurements of the boxes?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes, I have all the measurements.
Mr. BALL. Where?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Down at the city hall.
Mr. BALL. Let's take Exhibit J--how did the height of the little
Rolling Reader box on the window sill compare with the height of the
box you have marked "3" that had the indentation on it?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. It was lower, approximately 3 or 4 inches lower than
the box marked "Exhibit 3, or No. 3" in the picture.
Mr. BALL. Which box was lower, tell us which box was lower?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. The box on the sill was lower than the box--do you want
to mark it "4"--the box in the window?
Mr. BALL. The box in the window, you mark it "4," if you wish.