Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes, sir; I asked the photographer about this when he
developed this and I said, "Why did we get this, this is not in the
slide at all," and he said that is one of the orange fibers. They use
different techniques in bringing out the blue and the yellow-orange in
a photomicrograph.
Mr. DULLES. The shades are the fiber of the blanket?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; this shade in the photograph is different from what
that fiber actually is. It is in the development process. I am not too
familiar with color photography. There is an art to it. However, I do
know that there are times and technical limitations on the accuracy of
color reproductions.
Mr. EISENBERG. Mr. Stombaugh, were the shades in--were the shades of
the dark blue cotton fibers uniform throughout the shirt which is
pictured in Commission Exhibit 673?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No sir; the dark blue fibers had some lighter shades and
some slightly darker shades.
Mr. EISENBERG. About how many different shades?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. There were only about three in this.
Mr. EISENBERG. Do you recall how many dark blue fibers you got from the
butt plate?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. I believe a total of six or seven fibers from the butt
plate and three of them are blue fibers and all matched.
Mr. EISENBERG. Do you recall whether they were one or more shades?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Two shades.
Mr. EISENBERG. So that two of the fibers were two different shades of
blue?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes.
Mr. EISENBERG. And they matched two different shades of blue in the
shirt out of a total of three different shades of blue?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. And you testified before there were about 50 to 100
ranges of shade of green cotton. What about the ranges in shades of
blue cotton?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The same would apply to blue cotton.
Mr. EISENBERG. And the ranges in shades of orange yellow cotton?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The orange-yellow cotton I have here----
Mr. EISENBERG. 674.
Mr. STOMBAUGH. This is a shade of a yellow cotton fiber, it appears
orange yellow under a microscope. Sometimes you get greenish yellow.
These will vary, the orange-yellow shade itself might be only two
variations in orange yellow, but in a greenish yellow it might be 50 to
100.
Mr. EISENBERG. There was a gray-black cotton fiber in the shirt. Were
they uniform between themselves as to color?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes; these were uniform.
Mr. EISENBERG. How many shades of gray, in the gray-black area, can you
distinguish?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The gray-black in itself would be similar to the
orange-yellow and would be possibly two or three.
Mr. EISENBERG. And in the black taken as a broader----
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Black taken in itself would go from, all the way from,
very grayish-light gray all the way down to dense black.
Mr. EISENBERG. How many different shades can you distinguish?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Black is different. There are only about 25 or 30
shades, I would say, in black.
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