Lee Bowers

[Dealey Joe]

Lee Edward Bowers, Jr. (January 12, 1925, Dallas, Texas – August 9, 1966, Dallas, Texas)[1][2] was a key witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963.[3] At the moment of the assassination he 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. He had an unobstructed view of the rear of the concrete pergola and the stockade fence atop the knoll.[4] 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.When asked by the Warren Commission, "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.[5] Many assumed that Bowers meant that these men were standing behind the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll.[6][edit]Rush to JudgmentHowever, 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.[7] 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.Photographs of the grassy knoll during the assassination show Dealey Plaza groundskeeper Emmett Hudson and a younger man, whom Hudson estimated was in his late twenties,[8] standing on the stairway leading from Elm Street up to the stockade fence.[9][10] Bowers was not sure if he could see the older man after the shootings, and a photograph shows Hudson sitting down on the steps at that time.[11]EmploymentBowers 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.[1]DeathBowers died in August , 1966, when his car left an empty road and struck a concrete bridge abutment near Midlothian, Texas.[12][13] It has often been claimed that his death was a murder, but investigator David Perry concludes that there is no basis for this belief.[14]Bowers was played by Pruitt Taylor Vince in the 1991 film JFK.

[kenmurray]

Was Lee Bowers Murdered?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXJJsZs7LE

[JDB4JFK]

So if we beleive this report on Lee Bowers, AND I DO, than Jimmy Files is lying about what went on on the Knoll? Two men, not just Jimmy, and both firing! Makes his confession worthless? Probably why he's still alive today, more misleading evidence!I think Jimmy knows what went on and maybe was involved, but not telling the whole story, which makes him a liar, as well as a potential murderer.We will never know the truth unless we re-open the case and putt people like Jimmy and George Bush in the line of fire. Sorta like they did in Mississippi Burning when they took the mayor to the cabin in the woods, and had a man make him confess by sharpening a razor why talking about cutting off his balls!MY TWO CENTS!

[Slav]

Well I believe James Files and also think there were 2 shooters at the knoll and maybe jimmy didnt know that the other shooter was there. I think everyone was kept in the dark about each other to protect the people at the top.Its a little hard to believe though in just a small area that people didnt see more.

[Dealey Joe]

Strange thing to me is that no one reports seeing the tramps? but they were not known as tramps before the asssassination.Another thing is that there had to be a lot of people coming and going around the parking lots and the train yard, lots of cars parked there.I also think James Files's description of "no one but me" meant he was alone, not that there was no one else in the parking lot.Ed hoffman may have seen the tramps. Holt and Roselli walked around in the parking lot sone If I remember correctly.

[Slav]

Well here you have someone else who seen another gunman at the grassy knoll. He handed his gun to another person.I think James file carried his gun away himself.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------But the Warren Commission's report has since been directly refuted by numerous eyewitness accounts, one of whom McClelland met a few years ago in Dallas.Ed Hoffman, who is deaf, had his daughter tell McClelland what he saw near the grassy knoll, behind the picket fence, when Kennedy went down.Hoffman, 27 at the time, had left work around the time of the president's arrival in Dallas to get a toothache inspected at the dentist. The presidential motorcade forced Hoffman to pull off on the edge of Stemmons Freeway, about 700 feet away from the knoll, Hoffman told McClelland.He said he saw one suited man pull out a rifle, place it on top of the fence and fire at Kennedy, then toss the gun to another man dressed in work clothes. That man dissembled the gun, put it in his tool bag and disappeared into the crowd, Hoffman said.Moments later, Hoffman saw a policeman question the suited man, then walk into the crowd with him following a short glimpse of the man's identification.Two high school history teachers came to Dallas several years ago to study Hoffman's story, and wrote, "From Behind the Picket Fence," a book that McClelland said is "very well-detailed in establishing what Mr. Hoffman saw."Just as in Perry's case, though, Hoffman was quickly shut out, McClelland said. Hoffman told his father and his uncle -- a Dallas police officer at the time -- days after the shooting, and both told him he better keep his mouth shut.

[Dealey Joe]

Where would the second shooter have been located?

[Slav]

I believe Hunts death bed confession that LUCIEN SARTI was a shooter and that he was very close to Files. I also believe that Harrelson was also a shooter.