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
Is there any corresponding characteristic that should be marked or
indicated on a hair that was found on the blanket?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Well, I testified as to all the characteristics I found.
Mr. DULLES. Yes.
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Now, the difficulty in using a photomicrograph, you are
trying to photograph a round object and as a result of this all of
these characteristics just won't appear in focus.
Mr. EISENBERG. To be more specific, Mr. Stombaugh, that circle marked
"A" was to show a nobbiness in Oswald's hair. As I recall, you
testified there was very little nobbiness present in that pubic hair,
as opposed to the normal amount of nobbiness of pubic hair?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. On the right-hand side of 672, I suppose we don't see
much or any nobbiness in either the known or----
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; there is none present here.
Mr. EISENBERG. So that would correspond with the point you made as to
"A," that there was very little nobbiness?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Very little.
Mr. EISENBERG. And that is why there is no corresponding mark for
nobbiness characteristic on the right-hand side, is that correct?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. The right-hand side of 672?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct. Oswald's hairs, where the nobbiness did
appear was in the lower third, in other words, the area from the root
out on the shaft approximately one-third. The remaining two-thirds of
the hair shaft all the way out to the tip was relatively straight, no
nobbiness at all present. This was characteristic. Ordinarily a pubic
hair will have this nobbiness two-thirds to three-fourths of the way
up. So this was a characteristic which exists in Oswald's pubic hairs
which is different from the ordinary or average.
Mr. DULLES. And you found that both on the hairs taken from Oswald
himself and on the hairs found in the blanket?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes; I did.
Mr. EISENBERG. Mr. Stombaugh, on this general point, when you make your
comparison examination, do you come to your conclusions on the basis of
what you see under the microscope, or on the basis of the photographs
you take?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. On the basis of what I see under the microscope.
Mr. EISENBERG. Do you usually take photographs?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG. And you took them--can you explain why you took them
here?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. I took these at your request as an exhibit just to show
what the hairs looked like. In a photograph it is very hard to try to
point out the characteristics of hairs because they aren't clear. Under
a microscope you can see each of these points by focusing up and down.
If I am looking at the pigment on the hair, I can focus the comparison
microscope up and down and see exactly the same characteristics, the
pigment is exactly the same size, dispersed about the same, and there
is approximately the same amount of pigment in a given area.
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