Mr. COMBEST. Again, I heard him talking when he came into the jail office proper, where the booking office is located. As I recall it, they laid him on the floor to put the handcuffs on him more securely. He was talking then as they led him past the spot where Oswald was laying, near the elevator, to take him to jail. He was also talking. He was looking in the direction of Oswald and was talking to the officers that were leading him away. I don't recall any specific statement he made. Mr. HUBERT. Did you hear Oswald say anything? Mr. COMBEST. No, sir. He--I didn't hear him say a word hardly, after he had been shot. He was moaning at the time Jimmy Leavelle, Graves, and I laid him down on the floor and removed the handcuffs that he had on him. Mr. HUBERT. That was in the jail office? Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir. At the time I asked him and talked to him trying to get him to make a statement to me at the time. Especially, after I realized how serious the wound was. When we first asked him he appeared to comprehend what I was saying. Mr. HUBERT. What did you ask him? Mr. COMBEST. Well, I told him was there anything that he wanted me to tell anybody or was there anything he wanted to say right now before it was too late, and I don't remember my--exactly the words that I did say to him, but after I realized the seriousness of the wound, of course, trying to let him know if he was ever going to say anything he was going to have to say it then. Mr. HUBERT. You thought he was dying? Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir; I did. Mr. HUBERT. And do you think you used language to him to convey to him your idea that he was dying? Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Did you get any indication that he actually understood what you were trying to convey to him? Mr. COMBEST. When I first started asking him he did. He looked up at me, seemed to recognize that I--who was talking to him. Mr. HUBERT. You don't mean that he recognized you as a person? Mr. COMBEST. He recognized that I was the person talking to him. Mr. HUBERT. But, he didn't say anything? Mr. COMBEST. No, sir; just shook his head and I said, "Do you have anything you want to tell us now," and he shook his head. Mr. HUBERT. He did not say the word "No"? Mr. COMBEST. No, sir; he did not say anything at all. Mr. HUBERT. Did you indicate to him that if he had any accomplices or wanted to clarify the shooting of the President, that he had better do it right quick? Mr. COMBEST. Not in those words. I didn't mention "accomplice," or anything. I was real excited at the time but I kept talking to him as long as I thought that he would try to answer me, hoping that he would give a dying declaration on the shooting. Mr. HUBERT. And you think you used language sufficiently clear to him to indicate to him that in your opinion he was dying and on account of the fact that he was dying it was just about the last time he would have a chance to say anything about the shooting of the President, or the shooting?