Just to make it clear, here is the entire WC Q & A regarding the two men Bowers' saw:
Mr. 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?
Mr. BOWERS. Directly in line, towards the mouth of the underpass, there were two men. 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 plaid coat or jacket.
Mr. BALL. Were they standing together or standing separately?
Mr. BOWERS. They were standing within 10 or 15 feet of each other, and gave no appearance of being together, as far as I knew.
Mr. BALL. In what direction were they facing?
Mr. BOWERS. They were facing and looking up towards Main and Houston, and following the caravan as it came down.
Also, from the recent book on Ed Hoffman, pg.157
"On October 1, 2001, JFK assassination researcher Debra Conway interviewed Olan Degaugh, who was the Supervisor of the Yard Department with the Union Terminal Railroad Company and was directly over Lee Bowers' boss, Sam "Skinny" Holland. Conway provided the authors with the notes from that interview,
At the time of the assassination, along with his railroad job, Degaugh owned D's Parking, which started where the Hyatt Regency Hotel is now and went around the railroad tower behind the Texas School Book Depository.
Degaugh had a conversation with Lee Bowers sometime after the assassination and learned that from his location inside the switching tower, Bowers saw a man open the trunk of this car and put something inside and then the vehicle left the area. The car, an older coupe of some kind, an older car, was parked next to the picket fence.
Although Degaugh claimed Bowers never said why he didn't tell everything he saw before he died. Degaugh felt Bowers never told the authorities about the men, the car, or what he saw these men doing immediately after the shooting because he did not want to be more involved in the assassination controversy. Degaugh said that Bowers was a good worker and a fine person. Further, Degaugh described Bowers as all business, didn't talk very much and while he was somewhat of an introvert. was very credible.
On September 8, 2003, Conway conducted a second interview of Olan Degaugh who provided this additional information,
He quoted Sam Holland telling him that the shots sounded like popcorn being popped. Standing on the railroad bridge he believed the sounds were coming from the north or east side of the fence line.
Degaugh said that Bowers told him that he saw someone running away. This person put something inside a car, get into the car and drive away. Degaugh said that Bowers told him it looked like a rifle. "
Likewise, from Dale Meyers' site:
The Reverend Wilfred Bailey, Bowers' minister, told researchers, "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."
In 1967 a 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."
Then there's Walter Rishel, a self-proclaimed friend of Lee Bowers (the Bowers family doesn't recall him), who claimed that Bowers told him he saw two men fire shots from the picket fence, but was afraid to speak out."
I am trying to get a copy of Bowers' written statement to the Sherrif's dept. Anyone have it?
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Debra
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