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
Also present in the cortex you will occasionally find air spaces
located among the pigment granules which are known as cortical fusi.
These will vary in size, shape, form, and location on the hair. Many
hairs do not have any.
Basically that is what a hair looks like, and the basic component parts
of the hair.
Mr. EISENBERG. May I have this admitted as 666, this diagram of the
hair?
The CHAIRMAN. Yes; it may be admitted.
(Commission Exhibit No. 666 was marked, and received in evidence.)
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Now, keeping the diagram of the hair on the side
where we can refer to it, our first differentiation in the hair, of
course, would be separating the human from the animal hairs. These are
photomicrographs of human hairs which I took through a microscope.
Here are the animal hairs.
The first thing we look for, of course, would be the color, length,
and texture of the hair. This comes from experience from looking at
thousands of hairs, and we can usually pick one up and tell by the
naked eye whether it is animal or human.
Mr. EISENBERG. Pardon me. You are referring to a chart which has on the
upper right, "Human Hairs" and on the upper left, "Animal Hairs" as
captions?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
However, when we place these hairs under a microscope we find that
animal hairs vary from human hairs in many different aspects.
One, the medullary structure. In animal hair the medullary structure
is much wider than that in a human hair. You will find that it exceeds
more than one-third of the width of the hair shaft.
Secondly, the shape of the medulla, as in this rabbit hair, varies
greatly. You can see the individual medullary cells very distinctly. In
this chart I have some photographs of human hairs in which a medulla is
not present. But the medulla in a human hair would look just about like
this, very thin.
We move down to the pigmentation of the hair, which is located in the
cortex. In the human hair the pigmentation is very fine and granular,
and in this animal hair it is very coarse and elongated.
The size and shape of a root on the animal hair differs from the size
and shape of the root in the human hair. Here we see the root of a dog
hair which is very long and very thin. The root of a human hair is more
or less shaped similar to a light bulb. The scales of animal hairs are
very large. The scales of the human hairs are much smaller.
Mr. EISENBERG. Mr. Chairman, may I have this chart which the witness
has been using introduced as 667?
The CHAIRMAN. It may be admitted.
(The chart referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 667, and
received in evidence.)
Mr. EISENBERG. You are looking at a new chart called "Racial
Determination of Hairs" with the subcaption "General Appearance of
Shaft"?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Once we have separated the animal hairs from the human hairs, our
next problem is determining the race of the individual from whom the
particular human hairs in which we are interested originated.
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