Mr. Belin. Could you relate what transpired to cause 649 to be torn from 648?
Mr. Day. After I returned to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository after delivering the gun to my office, we processed the boxes in that area, in the area of the window where the shooting apparently occurred, with powder. This particular box was processed and a palmprint, a legible palmprint, developed on the northwest corner of the box, on the top of the box as it was sitting on the floor.
Mr. Belin. Then what did you do when you developed this print?
Mr. Day. I placed a piece of transparent tape, ordinary Scotch tape, which we use for fingerprint work, over the developed palmprint.
Mr. Belin. And then what did you do?
Mr. Day. I tore the cardboard from the box that contained the palmprint.
Mr. Belin. Then what did you do?
Mr. Day. The box was left in its position, but the palmprint was taken by me to the identification bureau.
Mr. Belin. Did you make any identification of it?
Mr. Day. Yes, sir. Later that night when I had a chance to get palmprints from Lee Harvey Oswald. I made a comparison with the palmprint off of the box, your 729, and determined that the palmprint on the box was made by the right palm of Lee Harvey Oswald.