Mr. Griffin. But in order—of course, the tape is a result of a microphone, which may or may not pick up everything that the human ear picks up. Maybe we can work into this by my asking you, was this a directional mike or to what extent did the microphone itself that you were using limit the ability of the recording apparatus to pick up the kinds of sounds that the human ear would have heard?
Mr. Pappas. It didn’t limit it at all—from my knowledge of the instrument. It is nondirectional microphone. Its field travels in a slightly elliptical fashion. But it encompasses a greater area.
Mr. Griffin. I have here a number of pictures which I think you provided to the FBI.
Mr. Pappas. Yes.
Mr. Griffin. What I would like to do is to have you look at them. But I want to mark them first. And I would like to get some idea of what distances are really involved in these pictures. I am going to mark a single large photograph which shows a picture of Jack Ruby approaching Lee Oswald, and Oswald in this picture is not looking at Ruby—I am going to mark this Icarus M. Pappas Deposition, July 29, 1964. Exhibit No. 1.
(The document referred to was marked Icarus M. Pappas Deposition Exhibit No. 1 for identification.)
Mr. Griffin. I want to ask you to look at it with me. Now, you are in this photograph, and I take it you are the person who someone has circled in ink.
Mr. Pappas. Yes.
Mr. Griffin. About how far are you actually standing from Jack Ruby as you recall in that picture?
Mr. Pappas. From Ruby, I don’t know, because he was just a blur over to my left. I was approximately 5 feet—5 or 6 feet from Oswald.