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bill will you next be telling is one of your favorite lines where you say benavides identified oswald as tippits killer ? . you tried that before at different times . you know he never identified oswald at the time of the line ups nor during his testimony in 1964.
Mr. BENAVIDES - Later on that evening, about 4 o'clock, there was two officers came by and asked for me, Mr. Callaway asked me---I had told them that I had seen the officer, and the reporters were there and I was trying to hide from the reporters because they will just bother you all the time.
Then I found out that they thought this was the guy that killed the President. At the time I didn't know the President was dead or he had been shot.
I was just trying to hide from the reporters and everything, and these two officers came around and asked me if I'd seen him, and I told him yes, and told them what I had seen, and they asked me if I could identify him, and I said I don't think I could. It this time I was sure, I wasn't sure that I could or not. I wasn't going to say I could identify and go down and couldn't have.
Mr. BELIN - Did he ever take you to the police station and ask you if you could identify him?
Mr. BENAVIDES - No; they didn't.
but you did once try to claim he did identify oswald in testimony , because YOU SAID he mentioned oswald by name lol .
Mr. BELIN - What did you see then?
Mr. BENAVIDES - I then pulled on up and I seen this officer standing by the door.
The door was open to the car, and I was pretty close to him, and I seen Oswald, or the man that shot him,
standing on the other side of the car.
now lets read further .
Mr. BELIN - You used the name Oswald. How did you know this man was Oswald?
Mr. BENAVIDES - From the pictures I had seen. It looked like a guy, resembled the guy. That was the reason I figured it was Oswald.
Mr. BELIN - Were they newspaper pictures or television pictures, or both, or neither?
Mr. BENAVIDES - Well, television pictures and newspaper pictures. The thing lasted about a month, I believe, it seemed like.
so benavides did not identify oswald the day tippit was killed . he never went to a line up because he said quote " they asked me if I could identify him, and I said I don't think I could " .
but you did not stop there bill in the past did you ? . when the above failed you again claimed that benavides identified oswald . now we first need to mention the fact that you have said that statements made some time after the fact are unreliable , and usually you refuse to accept them . i recall you used that argument one time in relation to oswalds landlady earlene roberts . you said her statement about seeing a police car outside was only made about a week after the fact . but when it comes to witnesses who say that which you like you make an exception dont you ? . yes you accept a statement by benavides that oswald was the person who shot tippit . a statement given quite a few YEARS after the fact .