Mr. Day.

bottle down there. The chicken bones, I finally threw them away that laid around there.
In my talking to the men who were working on that floor, November 25, they stated, one of them stated, he had eaten lunch over there.

Mr. Mccloy.

Someone other than Oswald?

Mr. Day.

Yes, sir; so I discarded it, or disconnected it with being with Oswald. Incidentally, Oswald's fingerprints were not on the bottle. I checked that.

Mr. Mccloy.

They were not on the bottle?

Mr. Day.

No, sir.

Mr. Mccloy.

Did you go on the fifth floor and make any investigation on the fifth floor?

Mr. Day.

I was there but I didn't have any photographs taken or do much investigating there.
My work was mostly confined to the sixth, second and the first floors.

Mr. Mccloy.

I noticed that in the picture you took of the sixth floor window, the picture that had the hulls on the floor, there seemed to be a break in the floor between--against the wall where the wood did not reach the brick of the wall. Was that hole, so far as you recall, all the way through from the sixth floor to the fifth floor?

Mr. Day.

No, sir; I checked that. A hull could not go down through there. You could see the bottom of it. There was no hull in there.

Mr. Mccloy.

I'm not saying there was any hull in there. I was wondering whether that aperture, whatever it was, not related to the hulls, whether that went all the way through to the fifth floor.

Mr. Day.

No, sir; I don't think so. I think it was tight there and nothing----

Mr. Mccloy.

The colored man testified he could see air from the fifth floor to the sixth floor.

Mr. Day.

I may be wrong, but I did make a search in that area for the hulls and determined none could be in there. As far as from the bottom looking up, I couldn't say.

Mr. Mccloy.

I don't think I can think of anything else to ask you, anything else I would like to ask you, Lieutenant Day.

Mr. Belin.

Lieutenant Day, we want to thank you for your splendid cooperation here. We appreciate your coming up and staying over and staying late tonight, and we know it has taken time on your part.

Mr. Day.

I hope I have helped you and not confused you.

Mr. Mccloy.

You indicated one thing, Lieutenant, that you didn't have quite the proper equipment here tonight to make the comparisons that you might want to make.

Mr. Day.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Mccloy.

Did I hear that you were going to stay over and go to the FBI laboratory in the morning?

Mr. Day.

Well, they are trying to make reservations to leave tonight if they can get them. I do not know whether they can. On that print it would take me some work to do that before I could eliminate all possibility of it not being his print. I feel it is his from what I have seen of it, but before I can take the witness stand and say that is his, I would want to do some more work on it. What it would take, I don't know. I understand that it was identified. What process they used I don't know.

Mr. Mccloy.

By someone else, by some other agency?

Mr. Day.

Yes.

Mr. Mccloy.

Can you restate again for the record what you can positively identify in terms of fingerprints or palmprints and Oswald's----

Mr. Day.

The palmprint on the box he apparently sat on I can definitely say it is his without being in fear of any error. The other, I think it is his, but I couldn't say definitely on a witness stand.

Mr. Mccloy.

By the other, you mean the other palmprint?

Mr. Day.

The palmprint and that tracer print aside the trigger housing or the magazine housing.

Mr. Mccloy.

Thank you very much.
(Whereupon, at 9:15 p.m. the President's Commission recessed.)