Mr. Belin. What did you do?
Mr. Benavides. I left right after. I give the shells to the officer. I turned around and went back and we returned to work.
Mr. Belin. Then what happened? Did the officers ever get in touch with you?
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. So 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.
At 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.
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.