Mr. DAY. To the right.
Mr. BELIN. You mean as you face the picture to the right.
Mr. DAY. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Do you want to circle on Exhibit 723 your fingerprint
equipment?
Mr. DAY. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Now, I will ask you to state if you know if this picture was
taken before any of the boxes shown on 723 were moved.
Mr. DAY. To the best of my knowledge they had not been moved.
Mr. BELIN. And straight ahead the camera is pointed toward it?
Mr. DAY. To the south.
Mr. BELIN. At which window?
Mr. DAY. Toward the window where the hulls were found.
Mr. BELIN. I'm going to hand you what has been marked as "725," and ask
you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. DAY. That is a view of the same window as 723 except it shows the
full length of the aisle.
Mr. BELIN. Was 725 taken before the boxes were moved, if you know?
Mr. DAY. I beg your pardon?
Mr. BELIN. Was Commission Exhibit 725 taken before any boxes were
moved, if you know?
Mr. DAY. To the best of my knowledge, nothing had been moved.
Mr. BELIN. I'm going to hand you what has been marked as 726 and ask
you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. DAY. This is the next aisle over, or the next aisle west of the
aisle shown in 723. Actually, this was taken on November 25. Some
movement had been made of the boxes as shown in 723.
Mr. BELIN. All right. So you now are saying Commission Exhibit 726 was
taken on November 25----
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. And there had been some movement of the boxes?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Generally did it depict the area as you saw it on November
22?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. I am handing you Commission Exhibit 727 and ask you to state
if you know what that is.
Mr. DAY. 727 is the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository,
taken looking east along the inside of the south wall.
Mr. BELIN. When was that taken?
Mr. DAY. November 25, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Just by general means of identification, perhaps it might
help to see when some pictures were taken and some pictures were not
taken. I think you can see on Exhibit 727 that the shadows show that
the sun would not as yet have reached a due south position. Is that
correct?
Mr. DAY. That is correct. It was taken in the morning. This is the
morning shadow.
Mr. BELIN. Handing you what has been marked 728, would you state if you
know what this is?
Mr. DAY. This is the third aisle from the east side of the building,
sixth floor, Texas School Book Depository.
Mr. BELIN. Was that taken on November 22 or November 25?
Mr. DAY. It was taken on November 22, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Again you can note the shadows at this time, and it would
appear as a southwesterly sun.
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. I notice a pop bottle there. Do you know whether or not that
pop bottle was there at the time you got to the scene?
Mr. DAY. It was, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Was it in the same relation as that two-wheeler cart, if you
know?
Mr. DAY. To the best of my knowledge nothing had been moved there.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see anything else with the pop bottle when you were
in that area?
Mr. DAY. There was a brown-paper sack, like a lunch sack.
Mr. BELIN. About how large?
Mr. DAY. It does not show in the picture.
Mr. BELIN. Where would the sack have been located?
Mr. DAY. Sir?
Mr. BELIN. Where would that sack have been located, if you know?
Mr. DAY. I don't remember.
Mr. BELIN. Would this have been at the third pair of windows counting
from the east; when you meant the third aisle, did you mean the third
set of windows also?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You mentioned a sack that would have been at that third
aisle. Was any kind of a sack found on the sixth floor, if you know?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. What other kind of a sack was found?
Mr. DAY. A homemade sack, brown paper with 3-inch tape found right in
the corner, the southeast corner of the building near where the slugs
were found.
Mr. McCLOY. Near where the hulls were found?
Mr. DAY. Near where the hulls. What did I say?
Mr. McCLOY. Slugs.
Mr. DAY. Hulls.
Mr. BELIN. I'm going to hand you what has been marked as Commission
Exhibit 729 and ask you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. DAY. 729 is a photograph of the inside wall, south and east walls,
right at the corner of the building at the sixth floor of the Texas
Book Depository.
Mr. BELIN. I notice some pipes on the right portion of this picture as
you face it, and I also notice a box.
I will first ask you to state if this picture was taken before or after
anything was removed from the area.
Mr. DAY. The sack had been removed.
Mr. BELIN. Had any change been made of the position of that box that is
set off by itself in the center of the picture?
Mr. DAY. I don't think the box--well, it is possible the box had been
moved. This is an approximate position of it. The box had been dusted
for powder and--dusted for prints. The black powder is visible on it.
It is possible the box may have been moved a tiny bit.
Mr. BELIN. Where was the sack found with relation to the pipes and that
box?
Mr. DAY. Between the sack and the south wall, which would be the wall
at the top of the picture as shown here.
Mr. BELIN. You mean between--you said the sack.
Mr. DAY. I mean the pipe. The sack was between the pipe and the wall at
the top of the picture.
Mr. BELIN. That wall at the top of the picture would be the east wall,
would it not?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; laying parallel to the south wall.
Mr. BELIN. Did the sack--was it folded over in any way or just lying
flat, if you remember?
Mr. DAY. It was folded over with the fold next to the pipe, to the best
of my knowledge.
Mr. BELIN. I will now hand you what has been marked as Commission
Exhibit 626 and ask you to state if you know what this is, and also
appears to be marked as Commission Exhibit 142.
Mr. DAY. This is the sack found on the sixth floor in the southeast
corner of the building on November 22, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Do you have any identification on that to so indicate?
Mr. DAY. It has my name on it, and it also has other writing that I put
on there for the information of the FBI.
Mr. BELIN. Could you read what you wrote on there?
Mr. DAY. "Found next to the sixth floor window gun fired from. May have
been used to carry gun. Lieutenant J. C. Day."
Mr. BELIN. When did you write that?
Mr. DAY. I wrote that at the time the sack was found before it left our
possession.
Mr. BELIN. All right, anything else that you wrote on there?
Mr. DAY. When the sack was released on November 22 to the FBI about
11:45 p.m., I put further information to the FBI reading as follows:
"FBI: Has been dusted with metallic magnetic powder on outside only.
Inside has not been processed. Lieut. J. C. Day."
Mr. BELIN. Did you find anything, any print of any kind, in connection
with the processing of this?
Mr. DAY. No legible prints were found with the powder, no.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know whether any legible prints were found by any
other means or any other place?
Mr. DAY. There is a legible print on it now. They were on there when it
was returned to me from the FBI on November 24.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know by what means they found these?
Mr. DAY. It is apparently silver nitrate. It could be another compound
they have used. The sack had an orange color indicating it was silver
nitrate.