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. I removed the debris from the inside of the bag by
opening the bag as best I could, and tapping it and knocking the
debris on to a small piece of white paper, and I found a very small
number of fibers. Upon examining these fibers, I found a single brown,
delustered, viscose fiber and several light-green cotton fibers from
the inside of the bag. I also found a minute particle of wood and a
single particle of a waxy substance.
Mr. EISENBERG. Did you attach any significance to the particle of wood,
Mr. Stombaugh?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; it was too minute for identification purposes. It
could have come from any surface, including the bag itself. Sometimes
all of the wood used in the manufacture of paper doesn't go into a
pulp, and this might be a very tiny such fragment.
Mr. EISENBERG. Did you examine the wood fragment?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. I looked at it microscopically.
Mr. EISENBERG. Did you attempt to compare it with the wood of the
Exhibit 139, which is a rifle?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes; the wood particle from the bag was too minute for
comparison purposes. There wasn't much you could do with it, it was
very small.
Mr. EISENBERG. Did you attach any significance to the body wax--or to
the wax, I should say?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The wax particle I noticed, and I recalled having seen
wax on the shirt, Exhibit No. 673, so therefore I put that aside for a
spectrographic examination and comparison of the wax particle from the
inside of the bag with the wax from the shirt.
Mr. EISENBERG. And what were the results?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. They were entirely different.
Mr. EISENBERG. Was there any analysis made of the wax in the bag as to
its origin, do you know?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. It was examined by the spectrographic examiner and he
found it was just common wax.
Mr. EISENBERG. When you say common wax, do you mean the kind you wax a
floor with?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; more like that which could have come from a candle,
candle wax.
Mr. EISENBERG. What about the wax on the shirt as to origin?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. It was paraffin.
Mr. EISENBERG. Now you also said there were several fibers, Mr.
Stombaugh?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes, sir; I did. There was a single brown delustered
viscose fiber and several light-green cotton fibers.
Mr. EISENBERG. Did this single brown viscose fiber match the fibers
from the blanket, Exhibit 140?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes; it did.
Mr. EISENBERG. In what characteristics were they matched?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The fibers in the blanket had a large number of brown
viscose fibers, delustered and one fiber I found in the bag was also a
viscose fiber of the same type and color as seen under a low-powered
microscope. The delustering spots seen on the fiber were the same size,
and both fibers were approximately the same diameter.
Mr. EISENBERG. How common is viscose, Mr. Stombaugh, as a fiber?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Viscose is fairly common. It is used in many types of
garments; it depends on the quality of the garment.
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