Lee Bowers was born in Dallas in 1925. He served in the US Navy during the Second World War. On his return to the United States he attended Hardin Simmons University and Southern Methodist University. After finishing his education Bowers he worked as a self-employed builder. Later he was employed as a signalman by the Union Terminal Company.
On 22nd November, 1963, Bowers was working in a high tower overlooking the Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He had a good view of the presidential motorcade and was able to tell the Warren Commission about the three cars that entered the forbidden area just before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Bowers also reported seeing two men standing near the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll. He added: "These men were the only two strangers in the area. The others were workers whom I knew." Bowers said the two men were there while the shots were fired.
Mark Lane interviewed Bowers for his book Rush to Judgment (1966): "At the time of the shooting, in the vicinity of where the two men I have described were, there was a flash of light or, as far as I am concerned, something I could not identify, but there was something which occurred which caught my eye in this immediate area on the embankment. Now, what this was, I could not state at that time and at this time I could not identify it, other than there was some unusual occurrence - a flash of light or smoke or something which caused me to feel like something out of the ordinary had occurred there."
According to W. Penn Jones Jr, the editor of the Texas Midlothian Mirror , Bowers received death threats after giving evidence to the Warren Commission and Mark Lane.
On 9th August, 1966, Lee Bowers was killed when his car left the road and crashed into a concrete abutment in Midlothian, Texas. Robert J. Groden later reported "Lee Bowers was heading west here on highway sixty-seven heading from Midlothian down to Cleburne and according to an eyewitness he was driven off the road by a black car. Drove him into this bridge abutment. He didn't die immediately, he held on for four hours and during that time he was talking to the ambulance people and told them that he felt he had been drugged when he stopped for coffee back there a few miles in Midlothian."
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD THE LEE BOWERS STORY
by David Perry 
On May 6, 1992, "Now It Can Be Told" aired a program with the
intriguing title "The Curse of JFK."* During that show Geraldo
Rivera and his staff of reporters discussed the death of Lee Bowers
Jr. Bowers died August 9, 1966 about four hours after the car he
was driving drifted off a north Texas road and struck a concrete
abutment.
At the time of the Kennedy assassination Bowers worked in a
railroad switch tower behind Dealey Plaza. As tower operator he had
an unobstructed view of the area in back of the picket fence. The
House Select Committee identified that location as the probable
position of a second gunman. The Warren Commission felt Bowers'
observations were important enough to depose him.
Over the years investigators have related conflicting accounts
of how Bowers died. Some individuals claim the auto accident was a
murder. The account usually follows the line that someone killed
Bowers because he saw too much, never told The Warren Commission
all he knew and could have identified participants in the
assassination.
To me, Geraldo Rivera is a sensationalist. His staff does not
take time to confirm witnesses' stories. His research consultants'
veracity is usually unquestioned. The search for documentation is
superficial. Opinions pass as facts. With "The Curse of JFK" this
led to inaccurate reporting.
My investigation of Bowers' death began about a year ago. I
spoke with family members, friends and checked public records.
During Geraldo's show a guest mentioned Lee's brother Monty. Monty
died a few years after Lee. I first contacted Monty's widow in
August 1991 and now because of this program called again to ask for
her help. She and her family provided leads and background
information concerning events of that period.
After speaking with Monty's widow, I decided to reopen my
probe into Bowers' death. I would retrace the steps taken by
Rivera's staff. Maybe I could come up with some names, conduct
interviews and find what parts of "The Curse of JFK" were fact and
what was fiction.
Geraldo opened the segment with the first of many inaccurate
statements. He claimed Lee Bowers wanted to know who killed JFK. "
. . . (He) was looking for the answer to that question until his
untimely death." There is no evidence that Bowers ever attempted to
learn who shot Kennedy.
Next assassination researcher Robert Groden appeared. He
remarked, "Lee Bowers was heading west here on highway sixty-seven
heading from Midlothian down to Cleburne and according to an
eyewitness he was driven off the road by a black car. Drove him
into this bridge abutment. He didn't die immediately, he held on
for four hours and during that time he was talking to the ambulance
people and told them that he felt he had been drugged when he
stopped for coffee back there a few miles in Midlothian."
Author, researcher Penn Jones Jr. in his book "Forgive My
Grief II" said, ". . . his car drifted, according to two
eyewitnesses, into a concrete bridge abutment at 9:30 a.m. going at
a speed of fifty miles per hour. The doctor from Midlothian who
attended Bowers stated that he did not have a heart attack and that
he thought Bowers was in some sort of 'strange shock'."
Since Groden and Jones appeared on the same show, I thought
Geraldo's staff would have talked to both men. They gave
conflicting versions of the same story!
Were there three witnesses? Groden found one, Jones two.
Groden discovered some ambulance attendants who claimed Bowers said
someone drugged him. Jones found a doctor who maintained Bowers was
in a strange shock? Did the car drift or was it forced into the
abutment? Who observed the mysterious black car?
I started my inquiry by examining a description of the
accident. The summary appeared in Penn Jones' own newspaper, The
Midlothian Mirror.
"Lee E. Bowers Jr., 41, of Dallas, died
from injuries received in a one car accident,
Tuesday, August 9.
Bowers traveling alone in a late model
Pontiac, hit a bridge two miles southwest of
Midlothian on highway 67 about 9:30 a.m. He
was taken to W.C. Tenery Community Hospital in
Waxahachie, by a Pat Martin ambulance, and
later transferred to Methodist Hospital in
Dallas where he died at 1:30 p.m.
He was vice-president of Lockwood
Meadows, Inc. in Dallas."
I called the Pat Martin Funeral Home. The Martin Funeral Home
is now the Coward Funeral Home. Mr. Noel Coward purchased the
Martin Funeral Home in 1964 retaining the Martin name for
advertising purposes. Coward suffered a stroke recently and is
confined to a nursing home. However, because of the notoriety
surrounding Bowers' accident, he remembers the episode well. He was
the ambulance driver.
If the police requested the ambulance Coward might respond
alone as the police officers would help load the victim(s). If
Coward had an attendant with him, it would be "Skeet" Meadows.
Meadows died in 1991. Coward, through his wife, told me that
stories about the ambulance attendants talking to Bowers are
"bull." When Coward arrived "the man's head was pretty bad." Coward
thought he was dead. He loaded Bowers into the ambulance and headed
for Tenery Community Hospital. There was no doctor at th
e scene as Penn Jones implied.
It would have been better if Jones provided the name of the
alleged physician but "Forgive My Grief II" has no footnotes. I
found it bizarre a doctor would use the term "strange shock."
Wouldn't anyone that struck a concrete abutment ". . . at fifty
miles per hour" be in shock? I started my search for the doctor.
When the ambulance arrived at the hospital, Dr. R.E. Bohl met
it. Bohl still works at Tenery, now Baylor Medical of Waxahachie.
Over the phone Bohl stated, "I was never at the scene. The patient
was in shock but not a strange shock. He had severe head injuries
and was unconscious. He was unconscious all the time I was with
him. I was trying to save his life. He was transferred to Methodist
(Hospital) in Dallas where he died."
I asked Bohl why he remembered the details. Bohl remarked he
received some unusual phone calls several years after the episode.
"One was from a national magazine and another from a newspaper.
The reporters wanted to know what clothes the patient was wearing
and if he had a finger missing. I told them I was too busy trying
to save the patient and I didn't notice."
In 1991 I interviewed Charles Good. Good was not only a friend
of Bowers but a member of the Texas Highway Patrol. He claims to
have investigated the accident. Good suggested Bowers was returning
to Dallas from Mansfield, Texas where Lee had been showing some
real estate. Good arrived at the scene hours later:
"I spoke with an old boy who was repairing fences at
the time of the accident. He said he saw two cars coming
down the road one behind the other. He turned away for a
moment, heard a crash and looked back. One car had hit a
bridge abutment and the other kept going."
From his interview with the witness Good formed the opinion
that another car forced the Bowers' vehicle off the road. I
discussed the possibility that Bowers drove the car in the rear. If
the driver in front wasn't looking in the rear view mirror he would
not know the accident occurred. Good conceded the point a valid
one.
Midlothian is a small town. After some research there, I
concluded R.V. Edwards was one, if not the only witness. Roy Virgil
Edwards died on January 26, 1986. Dr. Bohl verified that Edwards
witnessed the accident. Bohl's medical office is in Midlothian.
Edwards was one of his patients. Additional corroboration came from
Mrs. Coward (both she and her husband knew him) and Barham
Alderdice, publisher of "The Midlothian Mirror." Bohl and Alderdice
acknowledge Edwards maintained he was driving a tractor in a nearby
field at the time of the accident.
Dr. Bohl claims Edwards said, "The car simply drove into the
abutment." Mrs. Coward only knew Edwards was a witness. Mr.
Alderdice related Edwards told him the car hit the abutment so hard
it was ". . . like it was pulled into it (the abutment)." Good is
the only one I can find who mentions a second car.
What about the spiked coffee story? I understand Bowers often
stopped for coffee, but not in Midlothian. He would drop by the
Lockwood Pharmacy in Dallas before his trips. He met with Doris H.
Burns, Dr. Alfred Cinnamon and Charles Good. Doris Burns moved to
Mississippi or Florida. I am unable to locate her. Dr. Cinnamon
died in 1989. Good maintains Bowers told his three friends he saw
more than he told The Warren Commission. Good cannot document his
claim.
Then, there is Robert Groden's story about the mysterious
black car. I can't find a legitimate reference to it anywhere.
Good never mentioned the color of either car to me. I discovered
Fort Worth, Texas researcher Gary Mack interviewed Good several
years ago. He indicates Good did tell him the story of a black car
forcing Bowers off the road. Mack also suggested he (Mack) related
the story to Groden. Based upon my interviews with Dr. Bohl, Mrs.
Coward and Mr. Alderdice, I question the authenticity of this
account.
The next stop for the show is Dealey Plaza. Walter Rishel
appears with a reporter (Morey Terry [phonetic]). Rishel confides
that Bowers told him all about what he saw from the railroad switch
tower. He explains that Lee saw two men fire shots from the picket
fence. The reporter asks Rishel why he thinks Bowers was afraid to
speak out.
"Lee had disappeared for about two days, one night
I know for sure. It was very uncharacteristic of him and
when he came back one of the . . . his fingers was
missing on one of his hands. So Lee gave Monty some
excuse for what had happened which Monty didn't accept.
So he called the local hospitals, the clinics and some
doctor's offices and there was no record of anyone
certainly not Lee going in and having that taken care
of."
Does this mean a sinister group hacked Lee's finger off to
shut him up? Here is what my research shows about the incident.
Rishel is a self proclaimed close friend of Monty and Lee
Bowers. Monty's widow and her brothers don't recall him. I cannot
prove Rishel's friendship with Lee through Lee's mother and father.
Both died earlier. At any rate, the family finds Rishel's story
inaccurate. They assert Lee lost only the tip of a finger, if that.
Bowers injured the finger at a swimming pool party sponsored by the
Green Clinic of Oak Cliff. He had his hand draped over the edge of
the pool. Someone jumped into the water feet first crushing the
finger against the side of the pool.
At the time of the injury Lee was the Green Clinic's
bookkeeper. Family members gather Lee had his finger treated at the
clinic by Doctor Tim Richard Green. Green graduated from the
University of Texas, Baylor College of Medicine. He practiced
general surgery and treated this type of injury previously. The
damage appears minor as no one including Rishel remembers which
finger Lee injured.
All the conflicting stories confused me. I decided to contact
Charles Good again and telephoned him on the evening of June 17,
1992. I will paraphrase our conversation.
Perry: When we spoke the last time you said you investigated
the accident, is that correct?
Good: Yes
Perry: Were you acting officially as a member of the Texas
Highway Patrol?
Good: No, in fact I don't think I went to the scene until the
next day.
Perry: Did you interview anyone?
Good: Yes, there was a man working in a field near the scene.
Perry: Do you know the man's name?
Good: No, but he was either repairing fences or working on a
fence in a field near the scene.
Perry: Was he riding a tractor?
Good: No, but this was the next day, he may have been driving
a tractor when the accident happened.
Perry: Can you tell me what the man said?
Good: He said he, "Saw two cars coming down the road. Then he
turned away, heard a crash and looked back. One car
had run into a concrete abutment and the other kept on
going."
Perry: Did the man interpret this as suspicious?
Good: No
Perry: Did the man describe the color of either car to you?
Good: No, I never asked about the color of either car.
Perry: Did you ever hear of Roy Edwards?
Good: No
Perry: I believe that was the man you spoke to.
Good: Ok, but I don't remember his name.
Perry: Did you ever hear of Walter Rishel?
Good: No
Perry: Do you remember if Lee ever lost a finger?
Good: I don't remember Lee losing a finger but I think he
cut a finger on a table saw. He came into the Lockwood
Pharmacy one time with a finger bandaged. I don't think
Dr. Cinnamon was there at the time. Doris Burns and I
asked him about it.
Perry: Just before Lee injured his finger, did he disappear
for a couple of days?
Good: Absolutely not.
Perry: Do you recall how long before Lee's death he injured
his finger?
Good: I can't remember exactly.
Back to the program.
Since the reporter had discovered in Rishel a friend of both
Lee and Monty, why not get an "expert" opinion on Lee's death?
Rishel quickly obliged. He contends that shortly after Lee died he
". . . was in Monty's office. He (Monty) was very upset because the
insurance company had refused to pay the claim. I can't recall too
vividly but I believe that Monty felt that the insurance company
did not believe that the death was accidental."
Walter Rishel is correct on this point. The insurance company
did not want to make good on the claim immediately. Monty Bower's
widow tells me Monty had to deal with the insurance adjuster's
belief that it was no accident. The company thought it was a
suicide. Lee obtained an accident/health/life policy within a year
of his death. The insurance company was investigating under the
"suicide clause" contained in the policy.
"Permissible provisions. State laws permit insurers to
include policy restrictions for suicide, aviation and
war. A suicide restriction is included in nearly every
ordinary life policy. An aviation exclusion seldom is
found and the war clause is contained in policies issued
during war or threat of war."
"Suicide. If the insured commits suicide
within two years (one year, in some policies)
from the inception of the policy, the
liability of the insurer is limited to a
return of premiums. Insurers, in the absence
of this clause, would be subject to severe
adverse selection."
At this point, Geraldo's brother Craig declares, "Bowers also
told his minister that he had seen more than he told publicly." To
learn the name of this individual, I checked the Bowers' obituary.
The item appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald," August 10, 1966 on
page 12C.
"Funeral services . . . were to be held at 3 p.m.
Wednesday at the Casa View Methodist Church. The Rev.
Willfred Bailey was to officiate at the services."
Local researcher Dr. David Murph interviewed Reverend Will
Bailey. Coincidentally, David Murph is a minister who has known
Rev. Bailey for several years. The two talked June 11, 1992.
Rev. Bailey commented, "Lee did discuss that day with me. He
said he saw movement behind the fence. He believed something was
going on, but he never got more specific than that. He did not
share with me any more than he shared with the Warren Commission."
We return to the studio where Geraldo is questioning Craig.
Geraldo asks, "If Lee Bowers' death was not accidental what was it?
Joining me now . . . Craig Rivera. What was it?"
Craig Rivera responds, "We don't really know because the death
certificate is missing!"
Craig is guilty of inaccurate reporting. The death certificate
is not missing. Anyone can obtain a copy as I did by visiting
Dallas City Hall, filling out an application and paying a fee of
nine dollars.
Geraldo continues, "What about the official autopsy?"
Craig answers, "There is no autopsy either!"
He managed to get that right but for the wrong reason. If he
read the death certificate he would discover an autopsy never took
place. "Multiple head and internal injuries" caused Lee's death.
The statue requires an autopsy for deaths by violent or unnatural
means (i.e. gunshot). The Justice of the Peace reviewed the
evidence and felt an autopsy was unnecessary.
Remember how Rishel claimed Bowers said he noticed two men
shooting at Kennedy? There is yet another version of this story! In
1967 another friend and fellow employee of Bowers, James R.
Sterling gave a statement to Gary Sanders of Jim Garrison's staff.
Sterling said Bowers ". . . observed two men running from behind
the fence. They ran up to a car parked behind the Pergola, opened
the trunk and placed something in it and then closed the trunk. The
two men then drove the car away in somewhat of a peculiar method."
In this rendition, no mention is made that Bowers witnessed the
actual shooting.
Mark Lane asserted Warren Commission counsel Joseph Ball
interrupted Bowers ". . . as he was about to give that (additional)
information" about what he saw. Many individuals forget Mark Lane
interviewed Lee Bowers on March 31, 1966. What additional
important detail did Lane get from Lee that the Commission did not?
" He was not sure as to what it was (that caught his
attention), but he believed it was a puff of smoke or
flash of light."
I find it incredible that some people profess Bowers told them
more than he told Lane. It would appear researchers and Bowers'
"friends" have developed and sought corroboration for their own
unsubstantiated stories. They lose sight of the truth as they twist
and embellish the facts.
In the end, Monty Bowers concluded Lee's allergies contributed
to his death. Both Monty and Lee had severe allergies and were
prone to fits of sneezing. They took antihistamines that provided
little relief. Monty told representatives of the insurance company
his allergies bothered him that day. He assumed Lee experienced
similar symptoms. Could it be, Lee took antihistamines, dozed off
and struck the abutment? Is it possible a sneezing fit caused him
to loose control of the vehicle? In my view the answer is YES. I
will modify my opinion when someone comes forward with verifiable
facts to the contrary.
The Testimony of Lee Bowers, Jr.
https://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/badgeman_4.htm
In The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Gary
MACK cites the testimony of Lee BOWERS, Jr., a railroad signalman
working in a railroad tower several hundred feet behind the stockade
fence, to support the idea that the Badge Man figure is a human being
and not some other anomaly.
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GARY MACK: "...And he testified to the Warren Commission and told them that - when Kennedy appeared in Dealey Plaza there were two men behind the fence that he could see. And these two men were in this one position the whole time before, during, and after the shooting." [109] | |
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The implication, of course, is that Lee
BOWERS saw the same two men (Badge Man and Hard Hat Man) MACK and WHITE
see in the MOORMAN photograph. Yet, Lee BOWERS never told the Commission
that he saw two men where MACK and WHITE place Badge Man and Hard Hat
Man. When asked, "were any people standing on the high side - high
ground between your tower and where Elm Street goes down under the
underpass toward the mouth of the underpass?" BOWERS replied:
BOWERS' seemingly places the two men in an area that was "directly in line" with his view of the "mouth of the underpass," which, of course, is the area on the west end of the stockade fence, opposite the east end where MACK and WHITE place Badge Man and Hard Hat Man. Although he doesn't expressly say so, BOWERS seems to be saying that the men are behind the stockade fence, since BOWERS is looking south from the railroad tower and cannot see the grassy incline that leads down to the mouth of the underpass. Asked, "Were they standing together or standing separately?" BOWERS answered:
A moment later BOWERS was asked, "Did you see any other people up on this high ground?"
A moment later, BOWERS was asked, "Did you see any activity in this high ground above Elm after the shot?"
The motorcycle policeman BOWERS refers to is clearly Officer Clyde HAYGOOD, who dumped his motorcycle at curbside on Elm Street near the base of the stairway (he never actually rode his motorcycle up the incline, as BOWERS and others claimed) and dashed up the grassy knoll to the point where the west end of the stockade fence joins up with the underpass and climbed over, entering the railroad yards. HAYGOOD's actions are well documented in numerous amateur films and photographs. Once again, BOWERS seems to be indicating that the two men in question were in an area near the west end of the stockade fence. Asked if the two men were in the area at the time the motorcycle officer came up the incline, BOWERS said:
Throughout his Warren Commission testimony, BOWERS seems to be talking about two men that were standing near the west end of the stockade fence, in direct line with his view of the mouth of the underpass. So where is the BOWERS' statement that MACK refers to in The Men Who Killed Kennedy? The one in which BOWERS supposedly testified to the Warren Commission that he saw "two men" at the east end of the stockade fence (the Badge Man position) "before, during, and after the shooting?" MACK's source is actually a series of unreleased transcripts of the filmed interviews conducted by Mark LANE and Emile De ANTONIO for the 1966 film Rush to Judgment. MACK learned of the existence of the transcripts during the research phase of The Men Who Killed Kennedy. [113] While the transcripts make it clear that the two men BOWERS told the Warren Commission about in 1964 were in fact standing at the east end of the stockade fence, just as MACK stated in The Men Who Killed Kennedy, they also make it clear that the two men were not suspicious individuals standing behind the stockade fence in the Badge Man position but were eyewitnesses standing in front of the fence in full view of everyone in Dealey Plaza. More importantly, BOWERS specifically says that no one was standing behind the fence. Here is what Lee BOWERS told LANE in the filmed interview:
You can see in this unpublished transcript that BOWERS began his response to LANE's question with the phrase, "directly in line" - the same phrase he used while testifying to the Warren Commission in 1964. During his 1964 testimony, BOWERS added the words, "towards the mouth of the underpass," which led many to conclude that he was referring to the west end of the stockade fence which lay directly in line with his view of the mouth of the underpass. However, BOWER's 1966 filmed interview with Mark LANE makes it clear that BOWERS was actually talking about the area of the pergola located near the east end of the fence. In fact, you’ll note that in the above portion of the transcript BOWERS describes the backside of the curved pergola structure that lies immediately behind Zapruder's pedestal. BOWERS continues:
Here again, BOWERS gives an accurate description of the area near the east end of the stockade fence. Anyone familiar with the layout of Dealey Plaza knows that just west of the north pergola, a sidewalk runs from the top of the incline, past an L-shaped concrete retaining wall, and down to the sidewalk bordering Elm Street. There are two trees at the top of the incline. One tree is just west of the sidewalk (i.e., between the sidewalk and the stockade fence), and the other is in front of the stockade fence, about ten feet from the southeast corner. From BOWERS' perch in the two-story railroad tower, he could see a narrow strip of Elm Street as he looked down the stairway that runs between the pergola to the east and the stockade fence to the west. Where then are the two men BOWERS is describing? According to BOWERS, the men are standing back from the street somewhat, at the top of the incline, very near the two trees that lie along this stairway - not behind the fence as MACK described. We know for a fact that BOWERS is not talking about two men behind the fence because of what he says next:
BOWERS' statement that one of the men disappeared behind a wooden fence is highly significant when one realizes that Lee BOWERS had a clear view of the north side of the stockade fence - both the east-west and north-south extensions. This fact has been generally known since 1967, when Josiah THOMPSON published a photograph of the stockade fence area, as seen from BOWERS' railroad tower, in his book Six Seconds in Dallas. [117] |
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How then, you might ask, could a man
disappear behind the fence if BOWERS had a clear, unobstructed view?
Answer: The man (and in this case, the men) were on the south side of the stockade fence, between the fence and Elm Street, not crouching on the north side of the fence getting ready to shoot the president. Consequently, the fence was between
BOWERS and the two men, thus blocking his view of them as they walked
back and forth. This, of course, makes sense when we consider that
BOWERS himself said that the men were standing "back from the street
somewhat, at the top of the incline." BOWERS' words place the men between the street and the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll, not behind the fence at the top of the knoll. BOWERS went on to describe the two men and their movements immediately before the motorcade arrived:
So again, BOWERS describes one of the men walking back and forth and disappearing "in and out of sight" behind the fence - indicative, as I've shown, of someone standing south of the stockade fence in plain view of everyone in Dealey Plaza. The clothing description - the same given to the Warren Commission in 1964 - assures us that BOWERS is describing the same two men he testified about to the Commission. Were there any eyewitnesses in the area described by BOWERS? As a matter of fact, films and photographs made at the time of the head shot do show three men standing in the area described by BOWERS. All three appear on a concrete landing located on the Elm Street stairway halfway between the sidewalk and the top of the incline. A color slide made a moment earlier, just as the president's limousine came under gunfire, shows only two men standing in that area (again, just as BOWERS described). A third man (referred to by conspiracy theorists as "Black Dog Man," because the shape of the man's image on film resembles a dog) can be seen in the vicinity of the L-shaped concrete wall. [119] It could be that this third man, who appears to be a black man, came down the stairway during these moments and joined the pair on the landing. Whether the men BOWERS described in his testimony are the same men seen in films and photographs of the area is a matter of conjecture. So, while the 1966 interview with Lee BOWERS clears up any confusion about the position of the two men (they were indeed standing near the east end of the stockade fence, as MACK stated), the interview transcripts also make clear that the two men BOWERS described were standing in front of the stockade fence, not behind it. More importantly, BOWERS' specifically says in the 1966 filmed interview that no one was standing anywhere behind the stockade fence. In an early exchange, BOWERS told LANE and De ANTONIO about three cars that entered the parking area below the railroad tower shortly before the shooting, circled the lot, then left. [120] These three cars were also described in detail for the Warren Commission in 1964. [121] BOWERS told LANE and De ANTONIO that the three cars that entered and the left the parking area were "the only things of significance to occur during this period prior to the time of the shooting," [122] adding:
BOWERS later reiterated that other than the two men he described "standing back from the street somewhat, at the top of the incline," which we now know to be in front of the east end of the stockade fence, there were no strangers in the area.
And there is absolutely no question that BOWERS is referring here to the area behind the stockade fence, the very location where MACK and WHITE claim two of the three figures they see in the MOORMAN photograph (i.e., Badge Man and Hard Hat Man) were standing. In a later exchange BOWERS makes this point crystal clear:
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Mark Lane interviews Lee Bowers. Bowers was in the railroad tower in the parking lot located behind the ...
This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It has been argued by Daniel Hopsicker that the men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Hopsicker suggests that the man closest to the camera on the left is Felix Rodriguez, next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal.Hopsicker adds that Frank Sturgis is attempting to hide his face with his coat. It has been claimed that in the picture are Albertao 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right).
Operation 40 was the code name for a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored counterintelligence group composed mostly by Cuban exiles. It was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution. The group was presided over by Richard Nixon and included Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant of the State Department, National Security Adviser Gordon Gray, and Allen Dulles of the CIA. CIA assembled virtually the same team that was involved in the removal of Arbenz: Tracey Barnes, Richard Bissell, David Morales, David Atlee Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, Rip Robertson and Henry Hecksher. Added to this list were several agents who had been involved in undercover operations in Germany: Ted Shackley, Tom Clines and William Harvey. Tracy Barnes functioned as head of the Cuban Task Force. He called a meeting on January 18, 1960, in his office in Quarters Eyes, near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which the navy had lent while new buildings were being constructed in Langley. Those who gathered there included Howard Hunt, future head of the Watergate team and a writer of crime novels; Frank Bender, a friend of Trujillo; Jack Esterline, who had come straight from Venezuela where he directed a CIA group; psychological warfare expert David A. Phillips, and others. Vice-President Richard Nixon was the Cuban "case officer," and had assembled an important group of businessmen headed by George Bush Sr and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen, as fundraisers. Operation 40, Mexico-City-1963. Special operation allegedly charged with assasinating Fidel Castro (killed a bunch of other people instead),
It seems that Operation 40, created to remove Fidel Castro, had been redirected to kill Kennedy, as part of a freelance operation. David Atlee Phillips in the unpublished manuscript entitled The AMLASH Legacy wrote: "I was one of those officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald... We gave him the mission of killing Fidel Castro in Cuba... I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was responsible for it. I share that guilt." And Frank Sturgis stated that "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents."
RICHARD NIXON, THE CASE MANAGER OIF OPERATION 40November 21, 1963 - Richard M. Nixon in Dallas, Texas
CIA Nazi Rats and Miami's Castro Rats are hiding the picture of Richard NixonRivhard M Nixon appointed Colonel John Alston "Jack" Crichton, U.S. Army Special Agent OSS in Europe, Second World War.in Operation , which Warren Hinckle and William Turner described in Deadly Secrets, as the “assassins-for-hire” organization. Jack Crichton was the commanding officer of the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment.\
488th Military Intelligence Detachment
In 1956 Jack Alston Crichton
started up his own spy unit, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment
in Dallas. Crichton served as the unit's commander under Lieutenant
Colonel George Whitmeyer, who was in overall command of all Army Reserve
units in East Texas. In an interview Crichton claimed that there were
"about a hundred men in that unit and about forty or fifty of them were
from the Dallas Police Department."
In November 1963 Jack Alston
Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the visit that President
John F. Kennedy made to Dallas. His close friend, Deputy Police Chief
George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the 488th Military
Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of Kennedy's motorcade.
Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, commander of
all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The pilot car stopped briefly in
front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a
policeman controlling traffic at the corner of Houston and Elm.
As
Russ Baker points out in Family of Secrets (2008) Crichton served as
the "intelligence unit's only commander... until he retired from the
488th in 1967".
The Dallas Police preparing for the visit of President Kennedy ...
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Operation 40 Members:
Alvin Ross;
Antonio Cuesta;
Antonio Veciana;
Barry Seal
Bernard Barker
Carl Elmer Jenkins;
Carlos Bringuier;
David A. Phillips
David Sanchez Morales
E. Howard Hunt,
Eladio del Valle
Eugenio Martinez (‘Musculito’);
Felipe Rivero;
Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia;
Frank Bender
Frank Sturgis;
Gaspar ‘Gasparito’ Jimenez Escobedo;
George Bush
Gerry Patrick Hemming;
Guillermo Novo;
Henry Hecksher.
Hermino Diaz Garcia;
Isidro Borjas;
Jack Crichton
Jack Esterline,
Jose Basulto;
Jose Dionisio Suarez;
Jose Sanjenis Perdomo, Chief of Police Cuban Pres Carlos Prio
Juan Manuel Salvat;
Luis Posada Carriles;
Nazario Sargent;
Orlando Bosch;
Paulino Sierra;
Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz;
Porter Goss;
Rafael ‘Chi Chi’ Quinterol
Ricardo Morales Navarrete
Richard Bissell
Rolando Masferrer;
Ted Shackley, CIA station-chief in Miami
Thomas G. Clines;
Tracy Barnes
Virgilio Paz Romero;
William C. Bishop;
William Harvey.
William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee;
William “Rip” Robertson;
Lee Bowers - SECRETS OF A HOMICIDE: BADGE MAN
The implication, of course, is that Lee BOWERS saw the same two men (Badge Man and Hard Hat Man) MACK and WHITE see in the MOORMAN photograph.
Oliver Stone's JFK emphasizes the testimony of railroad switchman Lee E. Bowers, Jr., who had an elevated view of the area behind the picket fence on Dealey ...
Nov 19, 2019 - Transcription of a statement by Lee E. Bowers in which he describes suspicious activity involving several cars and men in a railroad yard prior ...
Aug 29, 2019 - Handwritten statement by Lee E. Bowers. Bowers states that he saw a young man driving a '59 Olds station wagon driving slowly down a street ...
The more one looks over the Warren Commission testimony of assassination witness Lee E. Bowers, Jr. (plus his 11/22/63 affidavit), the less and less ..
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Sep 14, 2007 - BEFORE ME, Patsy Collins, a Notary Public in and for said County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Lee E. Bowers, Jr., w/m/38 ...
(1) Lee Bowers was interviewed by Joseph A. Ball on behalf of the Warren Commission (2nd April, 1964)
Joseph A. Ball: Close to noon, did you make any observation of the area around between your tower and Elm Street?
Lee Bowers: Yes; because of the fact that the area had been covered by police for some 2 hours. Since approximately 10 o'clock in the morning traffic had been cut off into the area so that anyone moving around could actually be observed. Since I had worked there for a number of years I was familiar with most of the people who came in and out of the area.
Joseph A. Ball: Did you notice any cars around there?
Lee Bowers: Yes; there were three cars that came in during the time from around noon until the time of the shooting.
Joseph A. Ball: Came in where?
Lee Bowers: They came into the vicinity of the tower, which was at the extension of Elm Street, which runs in front of the School Depository, 'and which there is no way out. It is not a through street to anywhere.
Joseph A. Ball: There is parking area behind the School Depository, between that building and your tower?
Lee Bowers: Two or three railroad tracks and a small amount of parking area for the employees.
Joseph A. Ball: And the first came along that you noticed about what time of day ?
Lee Bowers: I do not recall the exact time, but I believe this was approximately 12:10, wouldn't be too far off.
Joseph A. Ball: And the car you noticed, when you noticed the car, where was it?
Lee Bowers: The car proceeded in front of the School Depository down across 2 or 3 tracks and circled the area in front of the tower, and to the west of the tower, and, as if he was searching for a way out, or was checking the area, and then proceeded back through the only way he could, the same outlet he came into.
Joseph A. Ball: The place where Elm dead ends?
Lee Bowers: That's right. Back in front of the School Depository was the only way he could get out. And I lost sight of him, I couldn't watch him.
Joseph A. Ball: What was the description of that car?
Lee Bowers: The first car was a 1959 Oldsmobile, blue and white station wagon with out-of-State license.
Joseph A. Ball: Do you know what State?
Lee Bowers: No; I do not. I would know it, I could identify it, I think, if I looked at a list.
Joseph A. Ball: And, it had something else, some bumper stickers?
Lee Bowers: Had a bumper sticker, one of which was a Goldwater sticker, and the other of which was of some scenic location, I think.
Joseph A. Ball: And, did you see another car?
Mr. BOWERS. Yes, some 15 minutes or so after this, at approximately 12 o'clock, 20 to 12... I guess 12:20 would be close to it, little time differential there... but there was another car which was a 1957 black Ford, with one male in it that seemed to have a mike or telephone or something that gave the appearance of that at least.
Joseph A. Ball: How could you tell that?
Lee Bowers: He was holding something up to his mouth with one hand and he was driving with the other, and gave that appearance. He was very close to the tower. I could see him as he proceeded around the area.
Joseph A. Ball: What kind of license did that have?
Lee Bowers: Had a Texas license.
Joseph A. Ball: What did it do as it came into the area, from what street?
Lee Bowers: Came in from the extension of Elm Street in front of the School Depository.
Joseph A. Ball: Did you see it leave?
Lee Bowers: Yes; after 3 or 4 minutes cruising around the area it departed the same way. He did probe a little further into the area than the first car.
Joseph A. Ball: Did you see another car?
Lee Bowers: Third car, which entered the area, which was some seven or nine minutes before the shooting, I believe was a 1961 or 1962 Chevrolet, four-door Impala, white, showed signs of being on the road. It was muddy up to the windows, bore a similar out-of-state license to the first car I observed, occupied also by one white male.
Joseph A. Ball: What did it do?
Lee Bowers: He spent a little more time in the area. He tried - he circled the area and probed one spot right at the tower in an attempt to get and was forced to back out some considerable distance, and slowly cruised down back
towards the front of the School Depository Building.
Joseph A. Ball: Then did he leave?
Lee Bowers: The last I saw of him he was pausing just about in - just above the assassination site.
Joseph A. Ball: Did the car park, or continue on or did you notice?
Lee Bowers: Whether it continued on at that very moment or whether it pulled up only a short distance, I couldn't tell. I was busy.
Joseph A. Ball: How long was this before the President's car passed there?
Lee Bowers: This last car? About 8 minutes.
Joseph A. Ball: Were you in a position where you could see the corner of Elm and Houston from the tower?
Lee Bowers: No; I could not see the corner of Elm and Houston. I could see the corner of Main and Houston as they came down and turned on, then I couldn't see it for about half a block, and after they passed the corner of Elm and Houston the car came in sight again.
Joseph A. Ball: You saw the President's car coming out the Houston Street from Main, did you?
Lee Bowers: Yes; I saw that.
Joseph A. Ball: Then you lost sight of it?
Lee Bowers: Right. For a moment.
Joseph A. Ball: Then you saw it again where?
Lee Bowers: It came in sight after it had turned the corner of Elm and Houston.
Joseph A. Ball: Did you hear anything?
Lee Bowers: I heard three shots. One, then a slight pause, then two very close together. Also reverberation from the shots.
Joseph A. Ball: And were you able to form an opinion as to the source of the sound or what direction it came from, I mean?
Lee Bowers: The sounds came either from up against the School Depository Building or near the mouth of the triple underpass.
Joseph A. Ball: Were you able to tell which?
Lee Bowers: No; I could not.
(2) Anthony Summers, The Kennedy Conspiracy (1980)
One witness was in a better position than anyone else to observe suspicious activity by the fence at the top of the grassy knoll. This was railway worker Lee Bowers, perched in a signal box which commanded a unique view of the area behind the fence. Bowers said that, shortly before the shots were fired, he noticed two men standing near the fence.
One was "middle-aged" and "fairly heavyset," wearing a white shirt and dark trousers. The other was "mid-twenties in either a plaid shirt or plaid coat... these men were the only two strangers in the area. The others were workers that I knew." Bowers also said that when the shots were fired at the President "in the vicinity of where the two men I have described were, there was a flash of light, something I could not identify, but there was something which occurred which caught my eye in this immediate area on the embankment... a flash of light or smoke or something which caused me to feel that something out of the ordinary had occurred there." Lee Bowers was questioned by the Warren Commission but was cut off in mid-sentence when he began describing the "something out of the ordinary" he had seen. The interrogating lawyer changed the subject.
(3) Lee E. Bowers, interviewed by Mark Lane for his book Rush to Judgment (1966)
At the time of the shooting, in the vicinity of where the two men I have described were, there was a flash of light or, as far as I am concerned, something I could not identify, but there was something which occurred which caught my eye in this immediate area on the embankment. Now, what this was, I could not state at that time and at this time I could not identify it, other than there was some unusual occurrence - a flash of light or smoke or something which caused me to feel like something out of the ordinary had occurred there.
(4) Matthew Smith, JFK: The Second Plot (1992)
Chevrolet. It entered just "seven to nine minutes before the shooting" and also bore a Goldwater campaign sticker. The Chevrolet also was bespattered by red mud and spent rather longer circling the area, driving very close to the 14-foot tower in which Bowers was. It slowly cruised away, pausing at the point which became the assassination spot.
Bowers also reported that he saw two men standing near the picket fence just before the President was killed. One he described as middle-aged and heavy-set and the other in his mid-twenties, wearing a plaid shirt or a plaid coat or jacket. The descriptions came very close to those rendered by Julia Ann Mercer of the two men she had seen in the green pick-up truck. "These men were the only two strangers in the area" said Bowers. "The others were workers whom I knew." Bowers said the two men were there while the shots were fired.
(5) Robert J. Groden, High Treason (1989)
Lee Bowers was heading west here on highway sixty-seven heading from Midlothian down to Cleburne and according to an eyewitness he was driven off the road by a black car. Drove him into this bridge abutment. He didn't die immediately, he held on for four hours and during that time he was talking to the ambulance people and told them that he felt he had been drugged when he stopped for coffee back there a few miles in Midlothian.
(6) Charles Good, member of the Texas Highway Patrol, formed the opinion that another car forced the Bowers' vehicle off the road. He was interviewed about the accident in 1991.
I spoke with an old boy who was repairing fences at the time of the accident. He said he saw two cars coming down the road one behind the other. He turned away for a moment, heard a crash and looked back. One car had hit a bridge abutment and the other kept going.
(7) Gerald Posner, Case Closed (1993)
Since Bowers's car drove off the highway into a concrete abutment, there was suspicion he might have been forced off the road. Researcher David Perry, in "The Lee Bowers Story," (published in the Third Decade, an assassination newsletter), conclusively proved that Bower's death was accidental.
(8) David Perry, Lee Bowers Story (1992)
Monty Bowers (the brother of Lee Bowers) concluded Lee's allergies contributed to his death. Both Monty and Lee had severe allergies and were prone to fits of sneezing. They took antihistamines that provided little relief. Monty told representatives of the insurance company his allergies bothered him that day. He assumed Lee experienced similar symptoms. Could it be, Lee took antihistamines, dozed off and struck the abutment? Is it possible a sneezing fit caused him to loose control of the vehicle? In my view the answer is yes. I will modify my opinion when someone comes forward with verifiable facts to the contrary.
(9) David Welsh, Ramparts (November, 1966)
Lee Bowers' testimony is perhaps as explosive as any recorded by the Warren Commission. He was one of 65 known witnesses to the President's assassination who thought shots were fired from the area of the Grassy Knoll. (The Knoll is west of the Texas School Book Depository.) But more than that, he was in a unique position to observe some pretty strange behavior in the Knoll area during and immediately before the assassination.
Bowers, then a towerman with the Union Terminal Company, was stationed in his 14-foot tower directly behind the Grassy Knoll. As he faced the assassination site, he could see the railroad overpass to his right front. Directly in front of him was a parking lot, and then a wooden stockade fence and a row of trees running along the top of the Grassy Knoll. The Knoll sloped down to the spot on Elm Street where Kennedy was killed. Police had "cut off" traffic into the parking area, Bowers said, "so that anyone moving around could actually be observed."
Bowers made two significant observations which he revealed to the Commission. First, he saw three unfamiliar cars slowly cruising around the parking area in the 35 minutes before the assassination; the first two left after a few minutes. The driver of the second car appeared to be talking into "a mike or telephone" - "he was holding something up to his mouth with one hand and he was driving with the other." A third car, with out-of-state plates and mud up to the windows, probed all around the parking area. Bowers last remembered seeing it about eight minutes before the shooting, pausing "just above the assassination site." He gave detailed descriptions of the cars and their drivers.
Bowers also observed two unfamiliar men standing on top of the Knoll at the edge of the parking lot, within 10 or 15 feet of each other - "one man, middle-aged or slightly older, fairly heavy-set, in a white shirt, fairly dark trousers. Another younger man, about mid-twenties, in either a plaid shirt or a plaid coat or jacket." Both were facing toward Elm and Houston, where the motorcade would be coming from. They were the only strangers he remembered seeing. His description shows a remarkable similarity to Julia Ann Mercer's description of two unidentified men climbing the knoll.
When the shots rang out, Bowers' attention was drawn to the area where he had seen the two men; he could still make out the one in the white shirt - "the darker dressed man was too hard to distinguish from the trees." He observed "some commotion" at that spot, "...something out of the ordinary, a sort of milling around...which attracted my eye for some reason, which I could not identify." At that moment, he testified, a motorcycle policeman left the Presidential motorcade and roared up the Grassy Knoll straight to where the two mysterious gentlemen were standing behind the fence. The policeman dismounted, Bowers recalled, then after a moment climbed on his motorcycle and drove off. Later, in a film interview with attorney Mark Lane, he explained that the "commotion" that caught his eye may have been "a flash of light or smoke." His information dovetails with what other witnesses observed from different vantage points.
On the morning of August 9, 1966, Lee Bowers, now the vice-president of a construction firm, was driving south from Dallas on business. He was two miles from Midlothian when his brand new company car veered from the road and hit a bridge abutment. A farmer who saw it said the car was going 50 miles an hour, a slow speed for that road. There were no skidmarks to indicate braking.
Bowers died of his wounds at 1 p.m. in a Dallas hospital. He was 41. There was no autopsy, and he was cremated soon afterward. Doctors saw no evidence that he had suffered a heart attack. A doctor from Midlothian, who rode in the ambulance with Bowers, noticed something peculiar about the victim. "He was in a strange state of shock," the old doctor said, "a different kind of shock than an accident victim experiences. I can't explain it. I've never seen anything like it."
Bowers widow at first insisted to Penn Jones that there was nothing suspicious about her husband's death. Then she became flustered and said: "They told him not to talk."
(10) Gary Richard Schoener, Fair Play Magazine, A Legacy of Fear (May, 2000)
Lee Bowers Jr. was in a unique position during the assassination of the President, sitting in the Union Terminal Company switchtower in the parking lot next to the Book Depository Building. In front of Bowers were the picket fence and the famed "grassy knoll" from which many witnesses felt some shots were fired. Bowers testified to the movement of three strange cars in the railroad yards during the half hour preceding the shots, to the presence of two men near the fence who "were the only two strangers in the area', and to an unusual occurrence down on the grassy knoll at the time of the shots. This testimony is commonly cited in books critical of the Warren Report as supportive of the theory that some shots came from the grassy knoll area, indicating that the president was killed in a crossfire (and therefore as the result of a conspiracy). But at least one associate of Bowers and several independent investigators claim that Bowers had seen more than he indicated in his relatively brief testimony to the Warren Commission. They claim that he saw things following the shots beyond those which he testified to. At this point there is no way of asking Lee Bowers Jr. if he has more to say, because he died on August 9, 1966.
The cause of death was a multitude of injuries suffered when his car suddenly left the road and crashed. No other cars were involved and it was a clear, sunny day. There was no obvious cause for the accident. Several Warren Report critics report that interviews with some of the attending physicians indicated that he was in an unusual state of shock which was atypical of accident victims and which they could not explain. A Warren Report defender, however, claims that one of the physicians told him that it appeared that Bowers had a coronary. In any event, Bowers is no longer with us.
Lee Bowers
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Born Lee Edward Bowers Jr., January 12, 1925, Dallas, Texas
Died August 9, 1966 (aged 41), Midlothian, Texas
Alma mater Hardin-Simmons University, Southern Methodist University
Occupation Builder, business manager
Lee Edward Bowers Jr. (January 12, 1925 – August 9, 1966)[1] was a witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.[2] The timing and circumstances of Bowers' death have led to various allegations that his demise was part of a cover-up subsequent to the Kennedy murder.[2]
Early life and career
Bowers served in the U.S. Navy from ages 17 to 21. He attended Hardin-Simmons University for two years then Southern Methodist University for two years, majoring in religion. He worked for the Union Terminal Co. railyard for 15 years, also working as a self-employed builder. In 1964, he began working as business manager for a hospital and convalescent home.[3]
Assassination of Kennedy
At the moment of the assassination, Bowers was operating the Union Terminal Company's two-story interlocking tower, overlooking the parking lot just north of the grassy knoll and west of the Texas School Book Depository.[4] He had an unobstructed view of the rear of the concrete pergola and the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll.[5] He described hearing three shots that came from either the Depository on his left or near the mouth of the Triple Underpass railroad bridge on his right; he was unsure because of the reverberation from the shots.
Bowers worked in the two-story railroad tower seen at the top of this photo of Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas
Witness to JFK assassination
On April 2, 1964, Lee Bowers provided testimony to Joseph A. Ball, assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, at the US Post Office Building in Dallas.[6] When asked by Ball, "Now, were there any people standing on the high side — high ground between your tower and where Elm Street goes down under the underpass toward the mouth of the underpass?" Bowers testified that at the time the motorcade went by on Elm Street, four men were in the area: one or two uniformed parking lot attendants, one of whom Bowers knew; and two men standing 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 m) apart near the Triple Underpass, who did not appear to know each other. One was "middle-aged, or slightly older, fairly heavy-set, in a white shirt, fairly dark trousers" and the other was "younger man, about midtwenties, in either a plaid shirt or plaid coat or jacket." One or both were still there when the first police officer arrived "immediately" after the shooting.[7] Many assumed that Bowers meant that these men were standing behind the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll.[8]
Bowers further stated : "At the time of the shooting there seemed to be some commotion (...)" on the high ground above Elm Street. When asked about this commotion, he added : "I just am unable to describe rather than it was something out of the ordinary, a sort of milling around, but something occurred in this particular spot which was out of the ordinary, which attracted my eye for some reason, which I could not identify."
Bowers later purportedly said to his supervisor, Olan Degaugh, that he saw a man in the parking lot throw what appeared to be a rifle into a car.[9]
However, two years later when Bowers was interviewed by assassination researchers Mark Lane and Emile de Antonio for their documentary film Rush to Judgment, he clarified that these two men were standing in the opening between the pergola and the stockade fence, and that "no one" was behind the fence when the shots were fired.[10] Bowers said,
These two men were standing back from the street somewhat at the top of the incline and were very near two trees which were in the area. And one of them, from time to time as he walked back and forth, disappeared behind a wooden fence which is also slightly to the west of that. These two men to the best of my knowledge were standing there at the time of the shooting.
Bowers told Lane that as the motorcade passed "there was a flash of light or smoke" in the vicinity of where the two men were standing.[11]
Death
Bowers died in August 1966, when his car left an empty road and struck a concrete bridge abutment near Midlothian, Texas.[12][13]
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