Mr. DAY. Orange color. It is another method of processing paper for
fingerprints.
Mr. BELIN. Was there anything inside the bag, if you know, when you
found it?
Mr. DAY. I did not open the bag. I did not look inside of the bag at
all.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do with the bag after you found it and you put
this writing on after you dusted it?
Mr. DAY. I released it to the FBI agent.
Mr. BELIN. Did you take it down to the station with you?
Mr. DAY. I didn't take it with me. I left it with the men when I left.
I left Detectives Hicks and Studebaker to bring this in with them when
they brought other equipment in.
Mr. BELIN. By this you are referring to the bag itself?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ever get the kind of sample used at the School Book
Depository?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. I had the bag
listed as----
Mr. BELIN. Commission Exhibit 626 or 142.
Mr. DAY. On the first floor of the Texas School Book Depository, and
I noticed from their wrapping bench there was paper and tape of a
similar--the tape--as of the same width as this. I took the bag over
and tried it, and I noticed that the tape was the same width as on the
bag.
Mr. BELIN. Did it appear to have the same color?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. All right. Then what did you do?
Mr. DAY. Sir?
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mr. DAY. I directed one of the officers standing by me, I don't know
which, to get a piece of the tape and a piece of the paper from the
wrapping bench.
Mr. BELIN. Handing you what has been marked as Commission Exhibit 677,
I will ask you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. DAY. This is the tape and paper collected from the first floor in
the shipping department of the Texas School Book Depository on November
22, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Does this have any identification marks on it?
Mr. DAY. It has my name, "J. C. Day, Dallas Police Department," and
also in my writing. "Shipping Department."
Mr. BELIN. Any other writing on there that you recognize?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; Detective Studebaker, who was with me, and in his
writing it says. "Paper sample from first floor, Texas School Book
Depository, Studebaker, 11-22-63."
The tape also has Studebaker's writing on it, "Tape sample from first
floor."
Mr. BELIN. I will ask you to state if you know what are Exhibits 730,
731 and 732?
Mr. DAY. These are photographs of the wrapping bench on the first
floor, Texas School Book Depository, taken by me on April 13, 1964,
after I had talked to you when I was back in the building. I didn't
have a previous picture of this wrapping bench.
Mr. BELIN. Does that represent the location on the first floor of
the School Book Depository Building where you got the tape sample,
Commission Exhibit 677?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; it is approximately the same. I do not think the
benches had been changed since the November shooting.
Mr. BELIN. Do you recognize at any point on any of the exhibits the
actual tape machine that was used?
Mr. DAY. The one that we removed this from was the north roll and tape
on the east side of the bench.
Mr. BELIN. You are now pointing at Exhibit 730. I notice a roll of
paper underneath the bench in the center of the picture. Is that where
you got the big paper, the main paper on Commission Exhibit 677?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir. To the best of my knowledge that is the roll we tore
the paper off of.
Mr. BELIN. What about tape itself?
Mr. DAY. The tape was from the machine immediately above that roll of
paper on top of the bench.
Mr. BELIN. Were there other tape machines there also?
Mr. DAY. Yes; but I didn't notice them at the time.
Mr. BELIN. How did you get the tape from out of the machine, if you
remember?
Mr. DAY. Just pulled the tape off and tear it out and tear it off.
Mr. BELIN. Was there a lever at all that you used, if you remember if
there is such a lever?
Mr. DAY. I don't remember. I don't think we used the lever.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do with Commission Exhibit 677?
Mr. DAY. I released this, I released 677 to Vince Drain of the FBI,
11:45 p.m., November 22, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. I am going to hand you what has been marked as Commission
Exhibit 733 and ask you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. DAY. This is the southeast corner of the sixth floor at the window
where the shooting apparently occurred. The boxes in front of the
window, to the best of our knowledge, in the position they were in when
we arrived there on November 22, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. So 733 represents a reconstruction in that sense, is that
correct?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.