Lee Bowers

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Lee E. Bowers, Jr. (1925 - August 9, 1966) was a witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. At the moment of the assassination he was operating the Union Terminal Company's interlocking tower, overlooking the parking lot just north of the grassy knoll and west of the Texas School Book Depository. Bowers testified that at the time the motorcade went by on Elm Street, two men were behind the picket fence, standing 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 m) apart near the triple underpass, and did not appear to know each other. One or both were still there when the first police officer arrived "immediately" after the shooting. Two years later he also claimed to have seen "a flash of light or there was something which occurred which caught my eye" in the vicinity of the two men at the time of the shooting.

He was killed in 1966 when his car left the empty road and struck a concrete abutment. It has often been claimed that his death was a murder, but investigator David Perry concludes that there is no basis for this belief.

Bowers was played by Pruitt Taylor Vince in the 1991 film JFK.