Assassination of John F. Kennedy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Aftermath in Dealey Plaza=== [[File:Newman Family.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Witness hunker down on the grassy incline before the grassy knoll after the shooting|Bill and Gayle Newman shielding their children after hearing shots and dropping to the grass. The grassy knoll and its picket fence are visible in the background.{{efn|group=note|The journalists pictured with them arrived as the end of the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza.<ref>[[#Trask|Trask (1994)]], pp. 38–40.</ref>}}]] As the motorcade left Dealey Plaza, some witnesses sought cover,<ref name="trask76">[[#Trask|Trask (1994)]], p. 76.</ref> and others joined police officers to run up the grassy knoll in search of a shooter.<ref name="haygood"/><ref>[[#Summers|Summers (2013)]], pp. 56–57.</ref> No shooter was found behind the knoll's picket fence.<ref name="bug852"/> Among the 178 witnesses who testified to the Warren Commission, 78 were unsure of the shots' origin, 49 believed they came from the Depository, and 21 thought they came from the grassy knoll.<ref>[[#Summers|Summers (2013)]], p. 35.</ref> No witness ever reported seeing anyone — with or without a gun (except policemen) — immediately behind the knoll's picket fence at the time of the shooting.<ref name="bug852"/> [[Lee Bowers]] was in a two-story [[switch tower|railroad switch tower]] {{convert|120|yd|m}} behind the grassy knoll's picket fence; he was watching the motorcade and had an unobstructed view of the only route by which any shooter could flee the grassy knoll; he saw no one leaving the scene.<ref name="bug852">[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 852.</ref> Bowers testified to the Warren Commission that "one or two" men were between him and the fence during the assassination: one was a familiar parking lot attendant and the other wore a uniform like a county courthouse custodian. He testified seeing "some commotion" on the grassy knoll at the time of the assassination: "something out of the ordinary, a sort of milling around, but something occurred in this particular spot which was out of the ordinary, which attracted my eye for some reason which I could not identify".<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 898.</ref>{{efn|group=note|Bugliosi notes that Lee Bowers Jr. did not mention the "commotion" in an earlier affidavit, in which Bowers did take time to list all other suspicious happenings like circling vehicles with "[[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater for '64]]" stickers. Moreover, conspiracy theorist Jim Moore questions whether Bowers could even have seen the area. Bowers testified that he "threw [the] red-on-red [signal]" just after the fatal shot, but the grassy knoll was partially obstructed from Bowers' position at the work panel.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], pp. 898–899.</ref>}} At 12:36 p.m., teenager Amos Euins approached Dallas police Sergeant D.V. Harkness to report having seen a "[[Colored|colored man]] ... leaning out of the window [with] a rifle" on the sixth floor of the Depository during the assassination; in response, Harkness radioed that he was sealing off the Depository.<ref name="bug80">[[#Bugliosi2008|Bugliosi (2008)]], p. 80.</ref> Witness [[Howard Brennan]] then approached a police inspector to report seeing a shooter—a white man in khaki clothing—in the same window.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2008|Bugliosi (2008)]], p. 81.</ref><ref>[[#Brennan|Testimony of Howard Brennan]], Warren Commission Hearings.</ref> Police broadcast Brennan's description of the man at 12:45 p.m.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2008|Bugliosi (2008)]], p. 64.</ref> Brennan testified that, after the second shot, "This man{{nbsp}}... was aiming for his last shot ... and maybe paused for another second as though to assure himself that he had hit his mark."<ref>[[#Summers|Summers (2013)]], p. 62.</ref> Witness James R. Worrell Jr. also reported seeing a gun barrel emerge from a sixth floor Depository window.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2008|Bugliosi (2008)]], p. 60.</ref> Bonnie Ray Williams, who was on the fifth floor of the Depository, stated that the rifle's report was so loud and near that ceiling plaster fell onto his head.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 40.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page