He was 15 feet away from Tippit's killer and said he got a really, really good view of the man.
Why the heck wouldn't they use him in a line up.
The only reason that makes sense is he wouldn't have identified LHO as the person he saw.
The description he gives of the shooter in his WC testimony exculpates Ozzie.
Nonsense.
Leavelle called Ted Callaway and asked him to come to city hall to view a lineup. Leavelle asked Callaway to bring Guinyard and Benavides with him. Guinyard went with Callaway but Benavides did not. In 1996, Callaway told Dale Myers that the reason Benavides did not go with them to view a lineup was because Benavides felt that he did not really get a good look at the killer.
Callaway said he and Benavides were talking about it...
Callaway:
"Well, you saw the son-of-a-bitch, didn't you?"Benavides:
"Hell no, I didn't see him. When I heard that shooting, I fell down into the floorboard of my truck and I stayed there. It scared me to death."
Callaway went on to tell Myers, regarding the 1967 CBS special "The Warren Report" (which interviewed the Tippit witnesses on film)...
"He (Benavides) put together a pretty good story and he made the people (CBS) believe he was there and saw everything. This is a guy that used to come by my lot every day. In fact, he's been to my home. But he told me "I ain't gonna go down there and tell them my story unless they give me something".
Callaway claimed that Benavides ended up with a new Pontiac Firebird, half of which was paid for by CBS.