Mr. Frazier. Yes, sir.
Mr. Eisenberg. One other question on the cartridge cases.
Did you examine the cartridge cases for chambering marks, extraction marks, or ejection marks?
Mr. Frazier. Yes, I did, but I did not make any comparisons of either extractor or ejector marks or chambering marks, since the purpose of my examination was primarily to determine whether they were fired in this rifle, and such marks would not have assisted in that determination. They were not necessary because they would have indicated only that it may have been loaded into and extracted from the weapon, whereas the marks which I found served to identify it as having been fired in the weapon, actually.
Mr. Eisenberg. Mr. Chairman, unless you have further questions on the cartridge cases or bullets, I would like to move on to another subject.
Mr. McCloy. From your examination of the actual bullets that you have been told were fired on the day of the assassination from this rifle, and from your—how many separate bullets do you identify?
Mr. Frazier. Two, at the maximum—possibly three, if these two jacket fragments came from different bullets. If they came from one bullet, then there would be a maximum of the whole bullet 399 and this bullet in two parts.
Mr. McCloy. And you cannot tell whether these two particles came from one bullet or two separate ones?
Mr. Frazier. No, sir.
Mr. Eisenberg. When you say "two at the maximum," do you mean two at the minimum?