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Model LS68, with a 36-foot boom and a Caterpillar Bulldozer, Model D6B, with a 10-foot bliade. The supervising contractor at the site representing the Hyde Construction Company of Jackson, Mississippl, wa Mississippi. a second bulldozer operator was = Mississippi, and a second dragline operator was aiso brought to the scene late on the evening of August 4, 1964, was hired articular operation. or this specific job by Hy &- m bIC II. DETERMINATION OF EXCAVATION POINT Upon evaluation based on the physical characteristics of the dam, a point approximately 150 feet from the west end of the dam was selected as the initial point of digging. The bulldozer operator [i was then instructed at 9 a.m. to begin to "blade off" the top of the dam to increase the width to approximately 12 feet and thereby permit the dragline to be placed on top of the dam for future operations. Upon positioning of the dragline, digging was begun at the point in the dam described above. 47¢ € III. OBSERVATIONS PRIOR TO BEGINNING OF EXCAVATION The dam in which the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers were believed to be buried was an earthen structure stretching from one hill to a second parpllel hill in a circular manner running in stru - 7 ot a generally east-west ted direction The dam had been con of earth removed from ee meee Whee FE ee Se