Any readers in Dallas, Texas? I need some help in settling a debate about the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.
What is needed: someone to go to Dealey Plaza (click map to enlarge), and stand on the first step below the middle landing on the stairway going up the grassy knoll from Elm Street. Picture of the stairway. The man sitting on the stairs in the first photo is resting his feet on that particular step.
Now, standing on that step, look back at the railyard north of Dealey Plaza. There is a two-storey interlocking tower in the railyard, about 100 yards north of the stockade fence atop the grassy knoll. From where you are standing, can you see the windows on the second storey of that tower? Stand on the west edge and the east edge of the step, and see if you can see the windows from each position. Now, move west off the step (toward the Triple Underpass). How far off the step are you before the fence blocks your view of the tower?
Background: On Nov. 22, 1963, railroad employee Lee Bowers was working in that tower. When asked by the Warren Commission who he saw between his tower and Elm Street, he talked about two men he saw there by the fence. Many took that to mean that the two men were standing behind the fence (i.e., on Bowers’ side), where many conspiracy theorists believe a second gunmen fired at the motorcade. But in a later filmed interview, Bowers clarified that the men were standing in the area between the concrete pergola (see first and third photos) and the fence, and that no one at all was behind the fence at the time the shots were fired. Most likely the men he saw were Dealey Plaza grounds keeper Emmett Hudson and an unidentified younger man standing by him, as seen in the famous Moorman photo of the assassination. However, others claim that a person standing on that step would not be visible from the second storey of the interlocking tower.
Thank you, dear readers, for any help.
P.S. Bonus points for a photo taken of the tower from that step.