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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 288« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Lee E. , Jr. Bowers)

Mr. Bowers.
Mr. BOWERS. At the moment I heard the sound, I was looking directly towards the area---at the moment of the first shot, as close as my recollection serves, the car was out of sight behind this decorative masonry wall in the area.
Mr. BALL. And when you heard the second and third shot, could you see the car?
Mr. BOWERS. No; at the moment of the shots, I could---I do not think that it was in sight. It came in sight immediately following the last shot.
Mr. Ball.
Did you see any activity in this high ground above Elm after the shot?

Mr. BOWERS. At the time of the shooting there seemed to be some commotion, and immediately following there was a motorcycle policeman who shot nearly all of the way to the top of the incline.
Mr. Ball.
On his motorcycle?
Mr. Bowers.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
Did he come by way of Elm Street?

Mr. BOWERS. He was part of the motorcade and had left it for some reason, which I did not know.
Mr. Ball.
He came up---
Mr. BOWERS. He came almost to the top and I believe abandoned his motorcycle for a moment and then got on it and proceeded, I don't know
Mr. Ball.
How did he get up?
Mr. Bowers.
He just shot up over the curb and up.
Mr. Ball.
He didn't come then by way of Ell, which dead ends there?

Mr. BOWERS. No; he left the motorcade and came up the incline on the motorcycle.
Mr. Ball.
Was his motorcycle directed toward any particular people?
Mr. BOWERS. He came up into this area where there are some trees, and where I had described the two men were in the general vicinity of this.
Mr. Ball.
Were the two men there at the time?
Mr. Bowers.
I--as far as I know, one of them was. The other I could not say.
The darker dressed man was too hard to distinguish from the trees. The white shirt, yes; I think he was.
Mr. Ball.
When you said there was a commotion, what do you mean by that? What did it look like to you when you were looking at the commotion?
Mr. Bowers.
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.
Mr. Ball.
You couldn't describe it?
Mr. Bowers.
Nothing that I could pinpoint as having happened that---
Mr. BALL. Afterwards did a good many people come up there on this high ground at the tower?
Mr. BOWERS. A large number of people came, more than one direction. One group converged from the corner of Elm and Houston, and came down the extension of Elm and came into the high ground, and another line another large group went across the triangular area between Houston and Elm and then across Elm and then up the incline. Some of them all the way up. Many of them did, as well as, of course, between 50 and a hundred policemen within a maximum of 5 minutes.
Mr. Ball.
In this area around your tower?

Mr. BOWERS. That's right. Sealed off the area, and I held off the trains until they .could be examined, and there was some transients taken on at least one train.
Mr. Ball.
I believe you have talked this over with me before your deposition was taken, haven't we?
Mr. Bowers.
Yes.
Mr. BALL. Is there anything that you told me that I haven't asked you about that you think of?
Mr. Bowers.
Nothing that I can recall.
Mr. Ball.
You have told me all that you know about this, haven't you?
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