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. When I looked at the bag and examined it, it struck me
as being a homemade bag such as I could make. Occasionally I will have
a need for something like this at home. Therefore, I will take some
brown paper and a strip of tape home with me. Then when I get home I
will fold the tape--fold the paper rather--in the shape I need--and to
seal it up I will tear strips of the sealing tape from the little piece
I have.
Here we find that this tape has been torn at several places, such
as one would do in an instance like that. Due to these torn edges,
I was under the impression, from looking at the bag, that it was a
homemade bag which someone had made at home and they did not have a
tape dispenser which machine-cuts tape. Therefore, they had to tear it,
which they did--or cut it, of course--with a knife. And this is the
case where pieces of tape were torn.
Mr. EISENBERG. You were pointing to various torn edges as you
testified, is that correct?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes; that is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. How many, if any, square-cut edges did you notice?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. I found--according to my drawing--two machine-cut edges.
Mr. EISENBERG. Would that indicate--well, do you form any opinion as
to, on the basis of that, as to the origin, possible origin, of the
tape?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The origin of the tape as far as the manufacturer----
Mr. EISENBERG. What I am referring to is this: on the basis of that
would you draw an inference that the person had taken--whoever made
this bag--had taken two lengths of tape from a dispensing machine and
had subsequently torn it up into smaller strips, or do you think he had
one length of tape from a dispensing machine which he subsequently tore
up into smaller strips?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. From the ends that I could see, now I don't know whether
there were any ends underneath which I did not have a chance to look
at, I don't have anything in my notes, but from what I can see it would
appear he took a strip of tape, machine-cut from a dispenser, and used
that entire strip, thus using up both ends of the tape because we have
two machine-cut ends.
Mr. EISENBERG. In other words, it would be a machine-cut strip at the
beginning of the tape which the person pulled out, left over from the
last cut?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is right.
Mr. EISENBERG. And a machine-cut at the end, where the person himself
ripped the tape from the machine?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. And you infer that he then divided it into smaller
strips on the occasion when he made the bag?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes, sir; he pulled one strip, of course, he could have
pulled two or three strips, I don't know, but it would appear he took
one strip of tape and tore it into smaller pieces to be used on the bag.
Mr. EISENBERG. Did you notice any bulges or creases or folds apart from
the fold used in making of the bag?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; I didn't. I noticed that one end of the bag had been
torn.
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