LEE BOWERS WHOSE ACTIONS LEAD TO THE APPREHENSION OF THE TRAMPS

7/27/2019 LEE BOWERS WHOSE ACTIONS LEAD TO THE APPREHENSION OF THE TRAMPS

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j - mr chambers a re yopu th e same WE Chambers who was a Dallas pol i ce) f f i c e r back in 1963?

yeah>J did you ques t ion th ree t ramps- - you mean a l l th e s t u f f in th e news? They got t h a t wrong.a j -yopu mean your name i s not on th e a r r e s t record?c- i t s on th e document but i t s wrongaJ - yo u never quest ioned these bums?c-no .

a j did you ev e r see them?c - I might have I dont remembera-you remember who quest ioned them?c - I have no idea . (hangs-up)

ca l l i n g back Mr Chamnbers t he re s something t h a t ' s beenbothering me - d id someone forge your name?c- no I s igned it but there was some mis take . You're not going to putt h i s in your book ...a j - I 'm notc- I d o n ' t l i ke discuss ing t h i s with s t r anger s .


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SUPPLEMENTARY INVESTIGATION REPORTMUM of Complainant lhrla1 No.orr.- l s a s s 1 n a t 1 o n Ot Pres1dnnt Xennody

(Repor t o f eot1y1t1oa or Deputy 3 b o r i t r Harold E. Elk1no )DETAIU or OFJ'ENSF. PIIOCR!SS or INVESTIGAnON. r:J'C.o(.lanll.ratla.a Ollicar mu.t a tp)

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ARRZST OF BID'bB - "DET TURNER A3SI3TED IN SEARCHING BOXCAR THEN WENT TO JHE:\IFF'SOFFICE. "


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TRAMPS ARRESTCD 2:420 - Pat Whitman contact Sa,:Jyer and not i f y him they a re holding upNorth bound freight t ra:n in yard and want to shake it down beforethey go . (About 1 : 50 PM )

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SAC, DALLAS (89-43)scASSASSINATION OFPRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDYINFORMATION CONCERNING

DAn: 5/16/75

On 5/16/75, Mr. J N, retired fromFire Department, Route 1, Hidden Ha or, Trinidad, Texas,telephone number 1-778-2470, telephonically advised thatsince the Kennedy Assassination investigation was beingdiscussed so often in the news now, he wants to reportsomething he _saw on the day of the assassination, which a tthe time he fel t had no significance. He stated he s t i l ldoes not think there is any significance to i t but i t hassayed in the back of his mind a ll these years and he has oftenwondered i f he should report i t , jus t in case i t might beof significance to the FBI.

Mr. ALLVERSON stated that he was buying and sell ingcars in 1963 and on November 22, 1963, he was si t t ing in theoffice of the Manager of Downtown Lincoln-Mercury at thecorner of Industrial and Commerce discussing business when themanager received a telephone cal l advising him that PresidentKENNEDY had been shot. He stated they immediately went out tothe ear lo t so they could turn the radio on inside one of theears to hear the news bulletins. He stated that as they werel istening to the radio, he observed three young men runningdown a parapet wall made of concrete, which was located on thewest side of the railroad cars, parallel to the tr iple overpasswhere the assassination occurred. He stated the three youngmen were heading north ~ r o m Industrial

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A large number of people cnrce up to the area o.round the to;zr .Tae area was senled off and some transients were taken f r ~ onet rain . T'nere were approxir:latel.y 50 to 100 policemen in the areawithin a maximum of five minutes .

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12/23

llEPI.ODUCED -AT tu anONAL

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Death #4~ : Lee Bowers, Jr .Assassination Connection: Lee Bowers, Jr . was an eyewitness to theassassination of President John F. Kennedy. At the time of the murderhe was employed by the Union Terminal Company of Dallas as a tower manin the ra i l yards close to the route taken by the presidential motorcade.When summoned to test ify before the Warren Commission, Mr. Bowers statedthat some sort of c o m m o ~ i o n in the vicinity of the "grassy knoll", nearthe Texas School Book Depository, had attracted his eye. He further statedthat two men were standing on the knoll a t the time of the assassination.

At a la ter date, Mr. Bowers elaborated his testimony in an interviewoonciucted by Mark Lane, a chief proponent of the conspiracy theory aspart of his documentary film, Rush to Judgment. At that time he saidthat the commotion he noticed might have been a flash or puff of smoke,such as would come from ~ h a r g e of a firearm. Penn Jones, Jr .maintains that this statement was the l ikely cause of Bower's death.Date of Death: August 9, 1966Place of Death: Dallas, Texas, af ter involvement in a mo tor veh i cleaccident near Mdlothian, Texas, in Ell is County.Circumptanccs of Death : The Dallas Morning News printed a r outineaccount of Lee Bowers, Jr . ' s death on August 10, 1966. (See at t achment 9-a) He died from injuries suffered when his car went out ofcontrol and struck a bridge abutment on Highway 67, two miles west

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of Midlothian, Texas. Richard Warren Lewis, in Tbe Scavengers andCritics of the Warren Report states that the injuries sustained in-eluded "a crushed chest, two broken legs, one broken arm and multip l ehead and internal injuries."

Lewis and Penn Jones, Jr . differed in their accounts of Mr. Bowers'sdeath . Jones maintains in volume I I of Forgive My Grief that Bowers waskilled in an "unusual one car accident", characterizing Bowers as oneof the people "who paid with their l ives for their pit i ful efforts tot e l l the story" of the consiracy allegedly responsible for the death ofPresident Kennedy. Jones further states that the Midlothian physicianwho attended Bowers remarked that th e injured man was in some sort of"strange shock".

Lewis interviewed Dr. Roy Bohl, the doctor who rode in an ambulancewith Bowers as i t took the dying man to Methodist Hospital in Dallas:

Dr. Roy Bohl later told Jones that Bowers, while in shockwas sweating wlike a coronary". Says Bohl: "I made mentionto Jones that Bowers was sweating a lo t . He was wringingwet when he came in and I wondered because of this whetherhe had a coronary. The man was in a state of severe shock,the kind of shock you could expect from the type of accident he was in . He was dying."In view of th e existing available facts, in particular th e Lewis

interview of Dr. Bohl which appears to refute Penn Jones ' allegations,the case of Lee Bowers does not seem a particularly promising route forinvestigation by the committee.Jurisdiction: The subject died in Dallas, Texas, as a resu l t of in -juries sustained in an accident in Ellis County, Texas

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Records Available From: City of Dallas Health DepartmentOffice of Vital Statist ics1936 Amelia CourtDallas, Texas 75235

Attacbments: 4-a Executive Dies After Car Wreck. Dallas Morning~ , August 10, 1966, p. 6-a.

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REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

KENNEDY

INVESTIGATION INTERVIEW SCHEDULEI d e n t i f y i n g In fo rma t ion :

Paren t s ofName Lee L. Bowers, J r .Address 3323 Santa ThreasaC i t y / S t a t e Dal las , Texa sDate o f Bi r th--------------------Soc ia l Secur i ty_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Phys ica l D es c r ip t i o n :H ei g h t__________tIeigh t _____ _Ethn ic Group_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____

Persona l His to ry :

D a t e l l - l -7 8Place--------Tel e phone 279 - 0539M o r S-------------Spouse-------------------Chi ld ren-----------------Color Eyes_ _ _ ___ Hair- - - - - - - - - -S p ec i a l C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____

a . P r es en t Employment: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __Address_______________________________________________Telephone_________________________

b . Crimina l Record1 . Arres t s___________2 . Convic t ions ____________

~ d d i t o n ~ l Persona l In fo rma t ion :a . Rela t ive (s ) : Name___________________________

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- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE:,JtKENNEDY

SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

Name Lee L. Bowers Jr Date ll 1- .:7.::Bc___ Time14,15Address 3323 Sa n ta Th re a sa Pl ace

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I n t e r v i e w :I n t e r v i e w e d Mr. and Mrs . Bowers w i t h a view o f e x p a n d i n g e x i s t i n g

W.C. & F . B . I . i n f o r m a t i o n g i v e n by their son b e f o r e he s u s t a i n e d fatalinjuries i n a traffic a c c i d e n t t h r e e y e a r s a g o .

D e s c r i b e d their so n as reticent b y n a t u r e and p r o t e c t i v e i n s o f a ras h i s f a mi ly was c o n c e rn e d (he had a w i f e and d a u g h t e r ) . Co n se q u e n t lyhe t o l d them practically n o t h i n g o f h i s e x p e r i e n c e s on 1 1 - 2 2 - 6 3 o t h e rt h a n t o c o n c e d e t h a t he w ~ s on d u t y in ' 'The Tower ' ' when t h e a s s a s s i n a t i o n o c c u r r e d . He ment ioned th e l e s s o t h e r s t h o u g h t t h e y knewth e l e s s prob l em s t h e y would h a v e . A l so added t hey were aware o fth e m o u t i n g toll o f d e a t h s o f ' 'Kennedy w i t n e s s e s . "

M rs . Bowers a s k e d fo r h e r s o n ' s s t a t e m e n t s (W.C. & F . B . I . ) whichshe was g iven and p r o c e e d e d to r e a d each a l o u d - w o r d fo r w o r d - f o rth e e d i f i c a t i o n o f h e r hus ba nd and gave u s th e i m p r e s s i o n n e i t h e rhan h e a rd t h e s e d e t a i l s b e f o r e .

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