Mr. Brennan.

As Mr. Sorrels and some more men were discussing this, I mentioned these two colored guys.

Mr. Belin.

Yes.

Mr. Brennan.

Came out of the book store, running down the steps.

Mr. Belin.

You mean the two

Mr. Brennan.

That I had previously saw on the fifth floor.

Mr. Belin.

All right.

Mr. Brennan.

And I immediately identified these two boys to the officers and Mr. Sorrels as being on the fifth floor.

Mr. Belin.

Do you have anything else you wish to add now?

Mr. Brennan.

No; that concludes that.

Mr. Mccloy.

They were running out of the building?

Mr. Brennan.

They came running down the front steps of the building on the Elm street side.

Mr. Mccloy.

Did they then disappear in the crowd?

Mr. Brennan.

No; they took them in custody, I suppose, and questioned them.

Representative Ford.

The law enforcement officers stopped them, and you did what, then?

Mr. Brennan.

No. I believe Mr. Sorrels or the Secret Service man stopped them.
I am not sure, but I don't believe an officer of the police department stopped them.

Representative Ford.

But you were standing on the steps of the Texas School Book Depository Building talking to whom?

Mr. Brennan.

Mr. Sorrels and another man, and I believe there was an officer standing there, a police officer.

Representative Ford.

And these two Negroes came out of the front door?

Mr. Brennan.

Yes, sir.

Representative Ford.

And you did what then?

Mr. Brennan.

I---

Representative Ford.

Spoke to Mr. Sorrels?

Mr. Brennan.

Spoke to Mr. Sorrels, and told him that those were the two colored boys that was on the fifth floor, or on the next floor underneath the man that fired the gun.

Representative Ford.

You positively identified them?

Mr. Brennan.

I did, at that time.

Mr. Belin.

Is there anything else now up to the time you got down to the Dallas Police Station?

Mr. Brennan.

Well, nothing except that up until that time, through my entire life, I could never remember what a colored person looked like if he got out of my sight. And I always thought that if I had to identify a colored person I could not. But by coincidence that one time I did recognize those two boys.

Representative Ford.

Did those two Negro men say in your presence that they had been in the fifth floor window

Mr. Brennan.

I don't recall. I don't recall.

Mr. Belin.

Is there anything else, sir, now up to the time you got down to the Dallas Police Station?

Mr. Brennan.

On Friday evening, you are speaking of?

Mr. Belin.

Yes.

Mr. Brennan.

No.

Mr. Belin.

All right.
What happened when you got down to the Dallas Police Station?

Mr. Brennan.

Mr. Patterson, if I am correct in the Secret Service that picked me up, directed me to go to the fourth floor, a certain room on that floor.
(At this point, Mr. Warren and Representative Ford withdrew from the hearing room. )

Mr. Brennan.

I later was introduced to several men-Captain Fritz in Mr. Sorrels office, and several more men. I do not remember their names.

Mr. Belin.

All right.

Before I go any further, do you remember the name of the officer you talked to in front of the School Book Depository Building?

Mr. Brennan.

I don't believe I ever heard it I do not remember his name.