Mr. Benton. I can only say between—some time between 1 p.m. and 1:30. I don’t know exactly.
Mr. Hubert. But it was after you had spoken to Senator Yarborough?
Mr. Benton. That’s correct. Senator Yarborough was the first person that I spoke to when I arrived at the hospital.
Mr. Hubert. And that was 1 o’clock, you said, approximately?
Mr. Benton. I can only guess. Approximately 1 o’clock.
Mr. Hubert. Then you went across to the nurses’ home to make your telephone call and came back and it was after that the announcement was made to congregate? Perhaps we can approach it this way: Do you remember how long you had been in the room, after the announcement by Mr. Hawks?
Mr. Benton. Not very long. I would say 10 minutes.
Mr. Hubert. So that backing off of 1:30, it would be fair to say Mr. Hawks must have announced that the correspondents should collect about 1:20 or somewhere——
Mr. Benton. Mr. Hawks did not say gather at any time. I just recall his saying: let’s go up. We set up a pressroom. Something to that effect.
Mr. Hubert. And that would have been about 1:20 or some time——