Mr. Dulles. Thank you.
Mr. Eisenberg. Mr. Chairman, may I have these admitted, these last photographs, as 614 and 615?
Mr. Dulles. 614 and 615, exhibits as described, will be admitted.
(The photographs referred to were marked Commission Exhibits Nos. 614 and 615 and received in evidence.)
Mr. Nicol. Now, this again illustrates Q-48 and K-1 with the position now such that the division of the field is moved over approximately a sixteenth of an inch from the position we looked at previously. And again at the points indicated by the arrow, there are individual characteristics running across the dividing line of the comparison in both the top and bottom region.
Mr. Eisenberg. Now, from the position of the firing-pin hole on Q-48, on this last exhibit, it appears that it is not perfectly aligned with the position of the firing-pin hole on K-1, Mr. Nicol. I am looking at the mark on the right-hand side of Q-48.
Mr. Nicol. Yes. And the purpose for the mis-alignment was in order to show these smaller marks that appear right at the edge of the firing-pin impression.
Mr. Eisenberg. So that at the top the markings on Q48 and K-1 will not run into each other, as well as on the bottom?
Mr. Nicol. If they are divergent, of course, they will not. If they are parallel, it makes no difference where the position is.
Now, this is another setting, going to the opposite side of the firing-pin impression, just translating the two cartridge cases the same distance, so that we are now looking at a division at the other side, and a comparison of the breech-block markings on the other side of the two shells.