Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. BELIN. Now, your report says two of the three men came down to the
city hall and gave affidavits on views of Oswald in the lineup?
Mr. GRAVES. That would be lineup.
Mr. BELIN. From my interpretation here from what we have, Ted Callaway
and Sam Guinyard gave affidavits, but Domingo Benavides did not. Is
there any particular reason that you know of why Benavides did not come
down to give an affidavit or view a lineup?
Mr. GRAVES. No; I wouldn't have any idea.
Mr. BELIN. Well----
Mr. GRAVES. Because after this little episode with them, I never saw
them or had any occasion to talk to them any further.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember any conversation particularly with Domingo
Benavides?
Mr. GRAVES. No.
Mr. BELIN. Well, I am going to try and refresh your recollection to see
if I can help you a little bit.
I believe that he was driving a pickup truck at about the time of the
Tippit shooting, and actually was the first one to place a call over
Tippit's radio that Tippit had been shot. Does this strike a chord in
your memory?
Mr. GRAVES. Not to me. He didn't tell me that. Leavelle talked to him
to one side.
Mr. BELIN. Oh, I see. You weren't the one he talked to?
Mr. GRAVES. He didn't tell me that.
Mr. BELIN. But Officer Leavelle would be the one he talked to?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else on November 22?
Mr. GRAVES. I don't remember anything else of any consequence. I had so
many phone calls.
Mr. BELIN. You had a few phone calls to the police station that day?
Mr. GRAVES. Just a few, yes.
Mr. BELIN. What about on November 23?
Mr. GRAVES. That is the day I took the affidavit of Mrs. Bledsoe.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ever bring Mrs. Bledsoe down to view the lineup at
all, or not?
Mr. GRAVES. I didn't; no.
Mr. BELIN. Was there any particular reason why you elected not to take
her down, if this was your election? I don't know if it was.
Mr. GRAVES. What?
Mr. BELIN. Is there any particular reason why you didn't bring her down
to view a lineup?
Mr. GRAVES. Not that I can think of.
Mr. BELIN. Now she claimed that she had seen Lee Harvey Oswald on a bus
shortly after the assassination?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember whether or not you asked her to come down to
a lineup and she refused to come down?
Mr. GRAVES. No; I didn't ask her to come down to a lineup herself. I
asked her to come down and give an affidavit.
Mr. BELIN. Was she actually at the police department?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did anyone else ask--let me ask you this question. Whose
responsibility would it have been to have a lineup for certain people?
Is this the interviewing officer, or is this the person in charge of
the investigation, or what?
Mr. GRAVES. In a case like this, it would have to be the person in
charge of the entire investigation.
Mr. BELIN. Who would that have been? Insofar as Bledsoe?
Mr. GRAVES. Insofar as our bureau was concerned, it would have been
Captain Fritz.
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