| From: | Commanding Officer, National Naval Medical Center |
| To: | The White House Physician |
1. Forwarded.
C. B. GALLOWAY
Commission Exhibit No. 391
APPENDIX X
Expert Testimony
FIREARMS AND FIREARMS IDENTIFICATION
Three experts gave testimony concerning firearms and firearms identification: Robert A. Frazier and Cortlandt Cunningham of the FBI, and Joseph D. Nicol, superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation of the State of Illinois. Frazier has been in the field of firearms identification for 23 years, following a 1-year course of specialized training in the FBI Laboratory. Cunningham has been in the field for 5 years, having also completed the FBI course. Nicol has been in the firearms identification field since 1941, having begun his training in the Chicago police crime laboratory. Each has made many thousands of firearms identification examinations.[A10-1] Frazier testified on the rifle, the rifle cartridge cases, and the rifle bullets; Cunningham on the revolver, the revolver cartridge cases, the revolver bullets, and the paraffin test; and Nicol on all the bullets and cartridge cases and the paraffin test.[A10-2] Nicol’s conclusions were identical to those of Frazier and Cunningham, except as noted.