Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
The arrangement of boxes at the window from which the shots were fired
was studied to determine whether Oswald required any assistance in
moving the cartons to the window. Cartons had been stacked on the
floor, a few feet behind the window, thus shielding Oswald from the
view of anyone on the sixth floor who did not attempt to go behind
them.[C6-32] (See Commission Exhibit No. 723, p. 80.) Most of those
cartons had been moved there by other employees to clear an area for
laying a new flooring on the west end of the sixth floor.[C6-33]
Superintendent Roy Truly testified that the floor-laying crew moved
a long row of books parallel to the windows on the south side
and had “quite a lot of cartons” in the southeast corner of the
building.[C6-34] He said that there was not any particular pattern that
the men used in putting them there. “They were just piled up there more
or less at that time.”[C6-35] According to Truly, “several cartons”
which had been in the extreme southeast corner had been placed on
top of the ones that had been piled in front of the southeast corner
window.[C6-36]
The arrangement of the three boxes in the window and the one on which
the assassin may have sat has been described previously.[C6-37] Two
of these four boxes, weighing approximately 55 pounds each, had been
moved by the floor-laying crew from the west side of the floor to the
area near the southwest corner.[C6-38] The carton on which the assassin
may have sat might not even have been moved by the assassin at all.
A photograph of the scene depicts this carton on the floor alongside
other similar cartons. (See Commission Exhibit No. 1301, p. 138.)
Oswald’s right palmprint on this carton may have been placed there as
he was sitting on the carton rather than while carrying it. In any
event both of these 55-pound cartons could have been carried by one
man. The remaining two cartons contained light block-like reading aids
called “Rolling Readers” weighing only about 8 pounds each.[C6-39]
Although they had been moved approximately 40 feet[C6-40] from their
normal locations at the southeast corner window, it would appear that
one man could have done this in a matter of seconds.
In considering the possibility of accomplices at the window, the
Commission evaluated the significance of the presence of fingerprints
other than Oswald’s on the four cartons found in and near the window.
Three of Oswald’s prints were developed on two of the cartons.[C6-41]
In addition a total of 25 identifiable prints were found on the 4
cartons.[C6-42] Moreover, prints were developed which were considered
as not identifiable, i.e., the quality of the print was too fragmentary
to be of value for identification purposes.[C6-43]
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