Clothing

(1)

Two holes were found on the President's long-sleeve white undershirt, corresponding to the two ends of the abdominal wound. (They are the purported entrance and exit holes.)

(2)

Only one hole was found on the President's dress shirt. Similarly there is only one hole on the campaign jacket¹⁷. (They are the purported entrance holes.)

(3)

There are black marks on the entrance hole on the jacket, shirt and undershirt, and also on the exit hole on the undershirt. Tests by the CIB lab detected lead residue in the three entrance holes and the exit hole on the undershirt. No gunshot residue was found on the clothing.

(4)

The entrance hole on the jacket is approximately 1.12 cm long and 0.4 cm wide.

(5)

The entrance hole on the shirt has an irregular shape, approximately 2.4 cm long and 0.5 cm wide.

(6)

The entrance hole on the undershirt has an irregular shape, approximately 1.0 cm long and 0.6 cm wide.

(7)

The exit hole on the undershirt has an irregular shape, approximately 1.1 cm long and 0.4 cm wide.

(8)

The distance between the entrance hole and the exit hole on the undershirt is approximately 8-9 cm.

(9)

There is an L-shaped damage on the lower left side on the shirt. (The entrance hole on the shirt is on the lower right side.) The longer (vertical) side is approximately 2.6 cm long; the shorter (horizontal) side is approximately 1.8 cm long.¹⁸

(10)

CIB agents examined the shirt with a microscope, and found no sign of penetration on the L-shaped damage on the shirt.¹⁹

(11)

There is no horizontal burn mark or graze mark on the President's undershirt, corresponding to the abdominal wound.²⁰

(12)

The fibers near the entrance hole on the jacket showed modest signs of melting.

Sources:

(a)

(1), (2) and the first sentence of (3) were announced by CIB in a news conference on March 23; a diagram indicating which clothing was penetrated on entrance or exit was released during that news conference. See for instance page A5 of China Times, March 24, 2004. See also [CIB1] and [L1].

(b)

The first two sentences of (3) are confirmed in the CIB Forensic Report [CIB1] and the Lee Committee Report [L1]. The last sentence of (3), about the absence of gunshot residue, comes from p. 46, item 4 of [L1].

(c)

The size of the bullet entrance hole on Chen's jacket in (4) appeared on page 48 of the Lee Committee Report [L1]. In [CIB3], the size of the bullet entrance hole is described as ``having an irregular shape, approximately 1.4 cm long and 0.4 cm wide''.

(d)

(5)-(7), (9), (10) are in a three-page letter [CIB3], from the CIB to Legislator Chou Hsi-Wei. In [CIB3], the distance between the two bullet holes on Chen's undershirt was put at ``approximately 9 cm'', while on page 2 of United Nightly News, June 24, 2004, the CIB was quoted to put the distance between the two bullet holes at 8 cm. These figures can be verified from the close-up photos in [L1].

(e)

(12) comes from p. 9, section VI.2.4 of the CIB Forensic Report [CIB1]:

``The area near the suspected bullet entrance hole was examined under a microscope. Black stains were noted in the damaged area on the front side of the jacket. (Modest melting of fibers in that area was also noted.) ...''

Remark  (i) In the CIB Forensic Report [CIB1], the measurement of the L-shaped damage on the shirt was reported to be ``approximately 2.5 cm on the longer side, 2 cm on the shorter side'', slightly different from the numbers in (9).

(ii) The dimensions of the entrance and exit holes on the shirt, and the dimensions of the entrance hole on the undershirt were absent in [L1]; the dimensions of all entrance and exit holes on both the shirt and the undershirt were absent in [CIB1] The dimensions of these bullet holes can be verified from the close-up photos in the Lee Report [L1].