Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. SPECTER. Without breaking the seal, I will ask you if the cardboard
which has been set up here--may the record show it is a large
cardboard. I will ask you for the dimensions in just a minute.
Does the printing on the cardboard represent an exact duplication of
the tracing which you have in your hand?
Mr. GAUTHIER. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. May it please the Commission, we will mark the tracing
Commission Exhibit No. 882, and not take it out, since the cardboard
represents it, and place Commission Exhibit No. 883 on the cardboard
drawing itself, and I would like to move for the admission into
evidence of both Exhibits Nos. 882 and 883.
The CHAIRMAN. They may be admitted.
(The documents referred to were marked Commission Exhibits Nos. 882 and
883 for identification, and received in evidence.)
Mr. SPECTER. Will you now describe what Exhibit No. 883 is, Inspector
Gauthier, indicating, first of all, the approximate size of the
cardboard?
Mr. GAUTHIER. This is a copy of the tracing measuring 40 inches in
width, 72 inches in length. It is made to a scale of 1 inch equals 10
feet.
From the data compiled on that day by the surveyor, this tracing was
prepared.
The area is bounded on the north by the Texas School Book Depository
Building, and on further here by railroad property.
Mr. SPECTER. Indicating a general westerly direction from the School
Book Depository Building?
Mr. GAUTHIER. Yes; I am pointing towards the west.
On the east it is bounded by Houston Street.
On the south by Main, which is a roadway going through Dealey Plaza.
And on the west by the triple underpass.
Located on this plat map are street lights accurately located, a
catch basin, certain trees, location of trees, the delineation of the
concrete pergola, which you see here on the photograph, the outer
boundaries of the pericycle, and the reflecting pool--locating exactly
the window in the Texas School Book Depository Building, in the
southeast corner, and also a tabulation of the measurements and angles
that the surveyor has compiled from certain positions identified for
him on the street by an observation from this window, an observation
from the position of Mr. Zapruder----
Mr. SPECTER. When you say this window, which window did you mean?
Mr. GAUTHIER. The window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book
Depository Building, the one in the southeast corner, the farthest
window.
Mr. SPECTER. And when you identify the Zapruder position, what did you
mean by that?
Mr. GAUTHIER. This is a concrete abutment of the pergola, located in
the area upon which Zapruder was standing at the time the movies were
made.
(At this point, Senator Cooper entered the hearing room.)
(At this point, Representative Ford withdrew from the hearing room.)
Mr. SPECTER. Are there any other positions noted on the diagram that
you have been describing showing where other movies were made?
Mr. GAUTHIER. Yes.
(At this point, Chief Justice Warren withdrew from the hearing room.)
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