02-05-2018, 11:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-05-2018, 03:08 PM by Milo Reech.)
So far no success locating DPD, FBI or SS statements by Benavides. Also, statements either confirming or referring to Benavides' role as Tippit murder eyewitness are absent from the following, excluding his WC testimony. (First two from the "Records of the JFK Assassination Collection: Key Persons Files.")
1. SS Report CO-2-34,030 (CR87 12/1/63) -- list of "witnesses to the [Tippit] shooting." Benavides not listed.
2. Key Persons List (CR81b undated, unattributed) -- witness list ("case report of Tippit's murder"). Bowley made this list. Benavides did not.
3. Armstrong's Benavides papers at Baylor, surprisingly slim.
Leavelle's WC testimony is also interesting --
Mr. BALL. You also talked to Domingo Benavides?
Mr. LEAVELLE. yes.
Mr. BALL. D-o-m-i-n-g-o B-e-n-a-v-i-d-e-s [spelling]. I would think it would be spelled differently.
Mr. LEAVELLE. He was supposed to be Mexican descent but that Benavides is actually an Italian name, I believe.
Mr. BALL. Well, did you talk to him also?
Mr. LEAVELLE. I talked with him but I do not believe we ever took an affidavit off him that I recall--may have.
Mr. BALL. Didn't he tell you that he picked up some empty hulls?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Yes, he told me he picked them up and gave them to the officer. I remember the officer told me he had gotten the hulls from someone who gave them to him, and when I talked to Domingo, he said he was the one picked them up and give them to the officer.
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Mr. BALL. Do you know why Domingo Benavides was never brought down for the showup?
Mr. LEAVELLE. I think he said he never saw the man actually. I believe he said later on he did not see the man.
Mr. BALL. He testified here he saw the man running.
Mr. LEAVELLE. But he---either that or he told me he could not recognize him, one or the other.
WC VII pp.263-4
So vague! Guess Leavelle forgot about the Supplementary Offense Report. The ethnic discussion is a hoot -- he should have stuck to badgering witnesses & manufacturing evidence.
I am unfamiliar with Benavides' TV statement. When did he make it?
1. SS Report CO-2-34,030 (CR87 12/1/63) -- list of "witnesses to the [Tippit] shooting." Benavides not listed.
2. Key Persons List (CR81b undated, unattributed) -- witness list ("case report of Tippit's murder"). Bowley made this list. Benavides did not.
3. Armstrong's Benavides papers at Baylor, surprisingly slim.
Leavelle's WC testimony is also interesting --
Mr. BALL. You also talked to Domingo Benavides?
Mr. LEAVELLE. yes.
Mr. BALL. D-o-m-i-n-g-o B-e-n-a-v-i-d-e-s [spelling]. I would think it would be spelled differently.
Mr. LEAVELLE. He was supposed to be Mexican descent but that Benavides is actually an Italian name, I believe.
Mr. BALL. Well, did you talk to him also?
Mr. LEAVELLE. I talked with him but I do not believe we ever took an affidavit off him that I recall--may have.
Mr. BALL. Didn't he tell you that he picked up some empty hulls?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Yes, he told me he picked them up and gave them to the officer. I remember the officer told me he had gotten the hulls from someone who gave them to him, and when I talked to Domingo, he said he was the one picked them up and give them to the officer.
...
Mr. BALL. Do you know why Domingo Benavides was never brought down for the showup?
Mr. LEAVELLE. I think he said he never saw the man actually. I believe he said later on he did not see the man.
Mr. BALL. He testified here he saw the man running.
Mr. LEAVELLE. But he---either that or he told me he could not recognize him, one or the other.
WC VII pp.263-4
So vague! Guess Leavelle forgot about the Supplementary Offense Report. The ethnic discussion is a hoot -- he should have stuck to badgering witnesses & manufacturing evidence.
I am unfamiliar with Benavides' TV statement. When did he make it?