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    "ocrText": "Page 7 of 2\nthis incident both to the F.B. I. and the Dallas Sheriff's Office. *\nLee Bowers, the switchman for the railroad yard had a\nbox seat view of this sector up ahead of the motorcade. From his\nglassed in tower, fourteen feet above the yard, he had a clear\nview in all directions. A few minutes before the shooting began\nhe observed two men, strangers to the area, standing behind the\npicket fence on the knoll watching the approaching parade.\nEarlier he had watched a man driving a car around in the railroad\nyard, behind the knoll shortly before the shooting, The man\nappeared to be speaking into a hand held microphone, With regard\nto what he saw after the shooting, Mr. Bowers' impressions are\ndescribed below,\nJ. C. Price, in an affidavit given to the Sheriff's\nOffice, said that following the volley of shots he \"saw one man\nrun towards the passenger cars on the railroad siding\nHe had\nsomething in his hand, I couldn't be sure but it may have been a\nhead piece.'\nSome of the witnesses not only heard shots coming from\nthe picket fence, they saw smoke from the rifle fire drifting up\nthrough the cluster of trees. Like J. C. Price, an even larger\nnumber had the impression that men had run from the knoll after\n*Later I would have the opportunity of talking at length with\nMiss Mercer, She corroborated fully the event of the young man\nwith the rifle headed up the grassy knoll but, further, told me\nabout the major alteration made in her statements by law\nenforcement authorities in an effort to change the facts. I will\ndiscuss this later in the book."
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