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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. II - Page 372« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Comdr. James J. Humes)

The Chairman.
Commander HUMES. To the best of my recollection, Mr. Chief Justice, it would not.
The Chairman.
Mr. McCloy.
Mr. Mccloy.
May I ask this question?
The Chairman.
Go right ahead.
Mr. Mccloy.
Do you have any knowledge as to whether or not any Photographs were taken in Dallas?
Commander HUMES. I have none, sir, no knowledge.
Mr. Mccloy.
No knowledge that any were taken?
Representative Ford.
May I ask what size are the pictures to which you refer?
Commander HUMES. We exposed both black and white and color negatives, Congressman. They were exposed in the morgue during the examination. They were not developed. The kodachrome negatives when developed would be 405. They were in film carriers or cassettes, as were the black and white. Of course they could be magnified.
Representative Ford.
Have those been examined by personnel at Bethesda?
Commander HUMES. No, sir. We exposed these negatives; we turned them over. Here I must ask the counsel again for advice to the Secret Service.
Mr. Specter.
Yes; it was the Secret Service.
Commander HUMES. They were turned over to the Secret Service in their cassettes unexposed, and I have not seen any of them since. This is the photographs. The X-rays were developed in our X-my department on the spot that evening, because we had to see those right then as part of our examination, but the photographs were made for the record and for other purposes.
Representative Ford.
But they had never been actually developed for viewing.
Commander HUMES. I do not know, sir.
Mr. Specter.
Doctor Humes, back to the angles for just a moment.
Commander HUMES. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter.
Hypothesize or assume, if you will, that other evidence will show that the wound inflicted on Commission Exhibit 385 at point C occurred while the President was riding in the rear seat of his automobile approximately 100 feet from a point of origin in a six-floor building nearby, and assume further that the wound inflicted in 388 at point A occurred when the President was approximately 250 feet away from the same point.
With those assumptions in mind, there would be somewhat different angles

of declination going from C to D on 385 and from A to B on 388.
Commander HUMES. I would expect there would.
Mr. Specter.
You have already testified earlier today that you were unable to pinpoint with precision angle A to B on 388 because of the reconstruction of the scalp.
Now my question to you, in that elongated fashion, is from what you know and what you have described, are the angles, as you have expressed them to be in your opinion, consistent with a situation where the two wounds were inflicted at the angles and at the distances just described to you?
Commander HUMES. I believe they are consistent. I would state that the path outlined on 388-A to B is to a certain extent conjectural for the reasons given before.
Mr. Specter.
Now, Doctor Humes, I hand you a group of documents which have been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 397 and ask you if you can identify what they are?
Commander HUMES. Yes, sir; these are various notes in long-hand, or copies rather, of various notes in long- hand made by myself, in part, during the performance of the examination of the late President, and in part after the examination when I was preparing to have a typewritten report made.
Mr. Specter.
Are there also included there some notes that you made while you talked to Doctor Perry on the telephone?
Commander HUMES. Yes, sir; there are.
Mr. Specter.
Are there any notes which you made at any time which are not included in this group of notes?
Commander HUMES. Yes, sir; there are.
Mr. Specter.
And what do those consist of?
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