Mr. Latona. They were empty. They had been opened and the books removed or the contents, whatever it was.
Mr. Dulles. The contents were apparently these cubes, as we were told, and small children use them and roll them on the floor and then they got the A's and the B's and the C's.
Representative Boggs. In the opening process, this would not have any effect on the fingerprints or the palmprints?
Mr. Latona. It could. I mean in the sense that somebody else's prints, the people opening them if they didn't take the time and effort to protect themselves, they could have left their prints there. I don't know how that was done.
Mr. Dulles. Do you recall whether the testimony shows whether the boxes were presumably filled when they were originally moved from their normal place in the Book Depository to the window?
Mr. Eisenberg. I think they were, although I haven't read the testimony.
Mr. Dulles. I am not sure there is testimony on that point but I think that is the general assumption.
Mr. Eisenberg. Based on reproduction photographs we have seen——
Mr. Latona. That is the understanding that we have, that this was the depository for new material. I think there was new material in these boxes. They were simply stored there.
Representative Boggs. They wouldn't have acted as a very good rest had they been empty.