Mr. Liebeler. Ruperto Pena?
Mr. Rodriguez [answering directly]. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. Carlos Bringuier?
Mr. Rodriguez [answering directly]. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. We have information that you saw a man whom you believe to be Lee Harvey Oswald in the bar some time in 1963. Would you tell us all about that?
Mr. Rodriguez. These men came into the bar, two men came into the bar, one of them which I learned later through TV and pictures and newspapers was Oswald. These men came into the bar. One of them spoke Spanish and the one who spoke Spanish ordered the tequila, so I told him that the price of the tequila was 50 cents. I brought him the tequila and a little water. The man protested at the price, thought it was too high, and he made some statement to the effect that he was a Cuban, but an American citizen, and that surely—words to the effect that surely the owner of this bar must be a capitalist, and we had a little debate about the price, but that passed over. Then the man who I later learned was Oswald ordered a lemonade. Now I didn't know what to give him because we don't have lemonades in the bar. So I asked Orest Pena how I should fix a lemonade. Orest told me to take a little of this lemon flavoring, squirt in some water, and charge him 25 cents for the lemonade, and that's the incident surrounding that situation.
Mr. Liebeler. You did not know the names of these men at that time, did you?
Mr. Rodriguez. I didn't know the names of them then; no.
Mr. Liebeler. Did both of the men speak Spanish or just one of them?
Mr. Rodriguez. Only the man that appeared to be a Latin or Cuban spoke Spanish.