It is very poignant to watch the testimony of Lee Bowers, especially knowing he died so soon after his testimony to Mark Lane and the late great director Emile De Antonio (who actually was in the same class as JFK at Harvard). According to an interview with the widow of Mr. Bowers by Penn Jones Jr, "they told him not to talk."
Never mind the 57 other witnesses who testified that shots came from the Grassy Knoll, Lee Bowers testimony alone about the three cars that came into view just before the assassination (especially the one who appeared to have a mic) and more importantly, the two strangers he observed near the Grassy Knoll:
"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."
Interestingly when Lee Bowers was questioned by the Warren Commission he 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.
None of these witnesses had anything to gain (and often everything to lose, including their lives) and yet the dozens of witnesses who reported shots from the Grassy Knoll in their testimonies straight after the event had no idea at the time there were dozens of other people who also reported the same phenomena...neither did they know, there would be such a controversy over the direction of the head shot (if there was a shooter at the Grassy Knoll, then of course the infamous "back and to the left" head shot would make perfect sense as i was a shot from the front of JFK and not a shot from the rear as the Warren Omission advocates would have us believe. Neither would they be aware of the fact that nearly twenty Parkland hospital doctors and staff would testify to bullet holes in the throat and through the front of the head and a large gaping hole in the back of his head (which mysteriously disappeared by the time of the autopsy photos - or composites depending on your view)...and yet, having no prior knowledge of any of these evidential strands, they all independently reported shots from the Grassy Knoll, and all from people spread throughout Dealy Plaza.
These witnesses were ordinary decent people like Lee Bowers who served in the US Navy in WWII, a university graduate majoring in religious studies, who worked in the Dallas railway yard for 15 years and after the assassination he began working as business manager for a hospital and convalescent home, they simply told what they heard and what they saw and for that, they have been vilified and called liars by people like Bugliosi and Posner, low-level attack dogs snarling at anyone who dares to believe what people see and hear..not was is fabricated and at its heart, an illusion, namely the idea of a lone gunman called Oswald.
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PrometheusTree64
12 years ago
An excellent post, kosmikino.
It is very poignant to watch the testimony of Lee Bowers, especially knowing he died so soon after his testimony to Mark Lane and the late great director Emile De Antonio (who actually was in the same class as JFK at Harvard). According to an interview with the widow of Mr. Bowers by Penn Jones Jr, "they told him not to talk."
Never mind the 57 other witnesses who testified that shots came from the Grassy Knoll, Lee Bowers testimony alone about the three cars that came into view just before the assassination (especially the one who appeared to have a mic) and more importantly, the two strangers he observed near the Grassy Knoll:
"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."
Interestingly when Lee Bowers was questioned by the Warren Commission he 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.
None of these witnesses had anything to gain (and often everything to lose, including their lives) and yet the dozens of witnesses who reported shots from the Grassy Knoll in their testimonies straight after the event had no idea at the time there were dozens of other people who also reported the same phenomena...neither did they know, there would be such a controversy over the direction of the head shot (if there was a shooter at the Grassy Knoll, then of course the infamous "back and to the left" head shot would make perfect sense as i was a shot from the front of JFK and not a shot from the rear as the Warren Omission advocates would have us believe. Neither would they be aware of the fact that nearly twenty Parkland hospital doctors and staff would testify to bullet holes in the throat and through the front of the head and a large gaping hole in the back of his head (which mysteriously disappeared by the time of the autopsy photos - or composites depending on your view)...and yet, having no prior knowledge of any of these evidential strands, they all independently reported shots from the Grassy Knoll, and all from people spread throughout Dealy Plaza.
These witnesses were ordinary decent people like Lee Bowers who served in the US Navy in WWII, a university graduate majoring in religious studies, who worked in the Dallas railway yard for 15 years and after the assassination he began working as business manager for a hospital and convalescent home, they simply told what they heard and what they saw and for that, they have been vilified and called liars by people like Bugliosi and Posner, low-level attack dogs snarling at anyone who dares to believe what people see and hear..not was is fabricated and at its heart, an illusion, namely the idea of a lone gunman called Oswald.
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quagaplomb
11 years ago
Well put. It amazes me that people will deny everything in the face of so many inconsistencies and witness testimonies. A limo with the top down, open windows along the route, slowing down the vehicle, the pace of the shots in the short span of time, the multiple witnesses to puffs of smoke by the grassy knoll, the enormous amount of coincidental deaths of witnesses following it...it goes on and on and on.
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CQTiger
9 years ago
Even 40 years later this movie is amazing to watch. I am surprised Mark Lane wasn't killed along with anyone else at the time that disputed the warren commission.
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