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In order to best utilize this information, you will need to match the Exhibits with their Findings. For the Chemistry Division Findings, the Print Findings, the Preliminary report and the reports R-R4, I have prepared cross reference files which will, I hope, be of some help in this task, since the cross reference will show you at a glance in which paragraph of those reports the findings for a particular exhibit are located. NOTE: Some exhibits appear in several places throughout the reports, and for effective research, all transcripts should be considered. Your computer’s Search or Find functions can be utilized to explore the exhibits and their findings.
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ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE READER:
All scans are 8-color grayscale GIFs. This provides much greater legibility than the hard-to-read 2-color BMP images posted in the defense’s (Fred Bost’s) Short Study, yet file sizes remain comparable. As I write this, these scans have deliberately NOT been cropped; however, at some point I probably will crop each one to a standard 8½” x 11” paper size.
Regarding the extended filenames I assigned to the GIF images in CID.zip, that was done to try to make finding particular documents a little easier. Conventional filenames (maximum 8 characters plus 3-character extension) would have resulted in the files being named something like CID001.gif, CID002.gif, CID003.gif, etc., but then finding certain documents would have been much more difficult (as it is with the defense’s Short files, which have filenames of Short#1, Short#2, etc.). Therefore, in most cases I have added “Exhibit” or “Prelim” or other designations to try to aid in this. In other cases, reports are designated with the “R” notation, which is how the Titles & Index page (and the defense and prosecution teams) refer to them (the “R” notation comes from the suffix at the end of the Lab Report number on these reports).
It should be noted here that two of the pages of various reports are missing. This is the way I received them. One is page 10 from the Preliminary report, the other is the first page of the Print findings. In the CID.zip file, these are shown as plain pages with just the notation “page missing” on them.
As I transcribed these documents, I noted (very) few misspellings and typographical errors here and there. I vacillated between leaving these alone so that the transcriptions would be as accurate as possible, and fixing them, with the idea in mind of providing consistency for any users who may be using Search or Sort functions while browsing these electronic documents. In the end, some typos were left alone, I fixed one or two others (very minor), and changed the misspelling of “Collette” to Colette where her name was misspelled. I felt that not only should she be honored with at least the proper spelling of her name, but also, since these transcriptions are meant for online use where Search functions may be used, I did not want the reader to miss references to her merely because of a misspelling, so took the liberty of fixing this error as I transcribed. Also note: any paragraph which was numbered 1-9 in the copies I received was renumbered by me in the database (to show a zero before the page number), so that the database will pull these paragraphs up in consecutive order.
Regarding the cross-reference files, those show only two columns: (1) the Exhibit number and (2) the paragraph number in the relevant document in which that Exhibit is mentioned. For example, next to each Exhibit number in CID003b.txt (referring to the Chemistry Division Findings) you will see a paragraph number; this means that that Exhibit is mentioned in that paragraph of the Chemistry Division Findings report.
One quick way to view the Exhibit list(s) and their Findings would be to open two browser windows, with Exhibits in one window and Findings in the other. Or, the data can be cut and pasted into two or more Notepads for comparison. Ideally, the information might be captured and imported into a database, which will allow comparisons via several different commands. Once you have prepared a database table with fields to match the columns shown in each file, you can command your database to import the data directly into the table you have created. This will let you do such things as instant sorting by various criteria, searches on any keys in any field, and creating relative tables containing information from one or more existing tables, etc. Very handy.
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