Lee Bowers

Lee Edward Bowers Jr. (January 12, 1925 – August 9, 1966)[1] was a witness to the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

[2] The timing and circumstances of Bowers's death have led to various allegations that his demise was part of a cover-up subsequent to the Kennedy murder.

[3] At the moment of the assassination, Bowers was operating the Union Terminal Company's two-story interlocking tower, overlooking the parking lot around 120 yards north of the grassy knoll and west of the Texas School Book Depository.

[8] Many simply assumed that Bowers meant that these men were standing behind the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll.

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 – though the researchers chose to withhold it from their finished product – 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; Bower's words to Lane and de Antonio, published in 2004 by Dale K. Myers from their source material, were:[10] 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.

[13] Bowers died in August 1966, when his car left an empty road and struck a concrete bridge abutment near Midlothian, Texas.