Lee Bowers was working in an elevated switching tower for the railroad that ran through the area behind the school book depository. From this position he had clear view of the parking lot behind the picket fence and grassy knoll.

He saw the regular parking lot attendant doing his job, but he also saw two men by the fence. As the cars passed by he witnessed a flash and puff of smoke from where the two men were standing. He also saw two cars enter the parking lot before the motorcade passed when it should have been closed.

He also pointed out the three tramps that observed in the area of the triple underpass. They were subsequently taken into custody. When they appears before the judge, they were no longer tramps but well dressed man from Memphis. The police officers named in the report deny having been there at the time. It is not clear what, if anything, these three men were doing there, but their presence and change in appearance are interesting.

Bowers told his story to the deaf ears of the Warren Commission, but it appears that someone took him seriously as in August of 1966 he died when his car ran into a concrete bridge. Witnesses say a black car forced him off the road into the bridge. Before he died he told the ambulance driver that he thought the coffee from a coffee shop several miles back had been drugged and slowed his responses.

Played by Pruitt Taylor Vince in the JFK movie.

JFK Assassination Eyewitness: Rush to Conspiracy: The Real Facts of Lee Bowers' Death
by Anita Dickason

On November 22, 1963, Lee Bowers Jr. became a key witness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Less than three years later, he was killed in a car accident twenty-seven miles south of Dallas near Midlothian, Texas, under mysterious circumstances. Was it just a simple car accident, or was Bowers killed because of what he saw on the day President Kennedy was shot and killed? In JFK Assassination Eyewitness: Rush to Conspiracy, author Anita Dickason, a retired accident investigator, provides a step-by-step look into the progression of the research and analysis of the accident details, treating the matter as a cold case investigation. She shares how questions regarding Bowers' death have added fuel to the JFK conspiracy theories in this decades-old Texas mystery. JFK Assassination Eyewitness: Rush to Conspiracy examines the details of Bowers' mysterious accident while providing a look into Texas history. Dickason's findings offer an unexpected twist in the aftermath of the events of Lee Bowers' deat