(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 887 for identification.)
Mr. Shaneyfelt. Commission Exhibit No. 887 is a picture of me that was taken on May 24, 1964. My location was at the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository that we have designated as our control point. I have the rifle that is the assassination rifle mounted on a tripod, and on the rifle is mounted an Arriflex 16-mm. motion picture camera, that is alined to take photographs through the telescopic sight.
This Arriflex motion picture camera is commonly known as a reflex camera in that as you view through the viewfinder a prism allows you to view directly through the lens system as you are taking your photographs so that as I took the photographs looking into the viewfinder I was also looking through the scope and seeing the actual image that was being recorded on the film.
Mr. Specter. Was the view recorded on the film as shown on Exhibit No. 886 the actual view which would have been seen had you been looking through the telescopic sight of the Mannlicher-Carcano itself?
Mr. Shaneyfelt. Yes.
Mr. Specter. How did you determine the level and angle at which to hold the rifle?
Mr. Shaneyfelt. I placed the rifle in the approximate position based on prior knowledge of where the boxes were stacked and the elevation of the window and other information that was furnished to me by representatives of the Commission.
Mr. Dulles. You used the same boxes, did you, that the assassin had used?
Mr. Shaneyfelt. No; I did not.
Mr. Specter. Were those boxes used by Mr. Frazier.