Lee Bowers Transcript from Rush to Judgement
(No accomplices behind the fence, and about the "three winos")
(No accomplices behind the fence, and about the "three winos")
Lee Bowers had a good view of the back of the picket fence during the assassination. In his Rush to Judgement interview, he specifically told Mark Lane that there were "no accomplices" on his side of the fence.
I first became aware of that statement from the website https://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/badgeman_4.htm which includes a short excerpt from his interview, including the editing marks indicating it had been deleted from the film.
I first became aware of that statement from the website https://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/badgeman_4.htm which includes a short excerpt from his interview, including the editing marks indicating it had been deleted from the film.
A bit of digging into the footnote that this excerpt was from "Transcript of filmed interview of Lee Bowers, Jr., p.124, Roll GH600" led me to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research ( http://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/) and the Emil de Antonio collection (de Antonio was the producer for Rush to Judgement) for the transcript. The Bowers transcript is in .pdf form and is available for $12.50 plus tax. The transcript I got does not contain the editing mark-up, but the text is otherwise the same. If you want your own copy of the transcript to verify the veracity of what I'm about to show you, you can contact the Wisconsin Film and Theater Archives by sending an email to wcftr (at) wisc.edu” (change "(at)" to "@" and take out the spaces) to obtain one. They have some copyright restrictions, so you'll have to navigate those if you want to publish any part of the transcripts. However, they were accommodating for the 3 pages I wanted to post here.
Page 8 of the transcript contains the pertinent information about "no accomplices" behind the picket fence--no "badge man" and spotter. But of course, that didn't fit with the narrative Mark Lane wanted to tell of a shooter behind the fence, so it was edited out!! Shame on them!!
On page 8, Bowers says, "Now I could see back or the South side of the wooden fence in the area, so that obviously that there was no one there who could have--uh -- had anything to do with either -- as accomplices or anything else because there was no one there...um... at the moment that the shots were fired."
Here is that page from the transcript:
Page 8 of the transcript contains the pertinent information about "no accomplices" behind the picket fence--no "badge man" and spotter. But of course, that didn't fit with the narrative Mark Lane wanted to tell of a shooter behind the fence, so it was edited out!! Shame on them!!
On page 8, Bowers says, "Now I could see back or the South side of the wooden fence in the area, so that obviously that there was no one there who could have--uh -- had anything to do with either -- as accomplices or anything else because there was no one there...um... at the moment that the shots were fired."
Here is that page from the transcript:
Excerpt from transcript of Lee Bowers' Rush to Judgement interview, obtained from the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Emil de Antonio collection.
Bowers also talks about the "Knoll Rider" (probably Douglas Jackson) in the transcript, but many researchers are already familiar with Bowers' description of the motorcycle officer who tried to drive his bike up the knoll.
But Jackson didn't drive his bike up the knoll because he saw something; he drove his bike up the knoll because he heard something. He perceived the AR-15 shot as having come from the knoll because of an acoustic misperception involving supersonic bullets creating an acoustic shockwave. I discuss this audio misperception elsewhere in my work, like Part 9 of my documentary series.
Another area of interest in the Bowers transcript is his mention of the "three tramps," whom he refers to as "winos," who were taken into custody from a train car shortly after the assassination. From the transcript, it is clear that they had nothing to do with the shooting, and were "the most frightened winos (Bowers had) ever seen in (his) life":
Excerpt from transcript of Lee Bowers' Rush to Judgement interview, obtained from the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Emil de Antonio collection.