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The area behind the picket fence (and a bit about Lee Bowers)
Sean Kneringer:
Regarding the pergola on the opposite side of the street, what's the building indicated by the red arrow? It's not the Post Office building.
Lance Payette:
--- Quote from: Sean Kneringer on August 22, 2025, 02:33:05 AM ---Regarding the pergola on the opposite side of the street, what's the building indicated by the red arrow? It's not the Post Office building.
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I believe that photo is all to the right of the Post Office Building (looking from Bowers' vantage point). I believe the edge of the pergola and stairs would be at the far left of this photo. If the PO Building is there at all, it would be behind the dense trees on the left. It is an odd perspective, which is why I was a bit equivocal in my original post. It was posted at the Ed Forum by Chris Davidson as being one of the few (or only) contemporaneous photos showing Bowers view.
Lance Payette:
--- Quote from: Royell Storing on August 21, 2025, 05:32:00 PM --- If you believe that Bowers was controlling train cars on the other side of Commerce St without binoculars because he was Not questioned about this, that's "OK". Do you also believe Bowers controlled train cars without a walkie- talkie because he was Not questioned about using a walkie-talkie? The WC Q/A was routinely confined.
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It isn't a matter of belief. He may have had a 100-power telescope for all I know. The fact is, in all his descriptions, from the WC to his Mark Lane interview, he never said anything to suggest he was using anything other than his naked eyes. He did indicate that the cars came quite close to the tower, which would explain his detailed observations of them. I have no reason to be skeptical of Bowers and scarcely regard him as a bombshell CT witness. He version of events did get somewhat better in the hands of Snake Oil Salesman No. 1 - that would be Mark Lane - and after his death he predictably became the subject of CT mythology about "what he REALLY saw but never told." I simply say he was paying remarkably close attention if he really saw all he said he did.
Royell Storing:
Below, the B/W photo of the parking lot is suspect. On the (L), where did that double sprig tree between the Pergola and the N-S Picket Fence come from?
Royell Storing:
--- Quote from: Sean Kneringer on August 22, 2025, 02:33:05 AM ---Regarding the pergola on the opposite side of the street, what's the building indicated by the red arrow? It's not the Post Office building.
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