Did Austin Miller just See Steam?

[Fred Litwin]

Did Austin Miller just see Steam?



Austin Miller was another one of Mark Lane's witnesses who claimed to have seen smoke on the grassy knoll: (page 40 in Rush to Judgment)

Austin L. Miller stated in an affidavit on November 22, 'I saw something which I thought was smoke or steam coming from a group of trees north of Elm off the railroad tracks.' He was questioned for the first time by counsel for the Commission four and a half months after the assassination. The interview was a brief one; it lasted but a few minutes. Counsel did not ask about the smoke, and Miller was dismissed before he could mention the crucial observation contained in his affidavit.

Here is Austin Miller's statement to the Sheriff's department:



The smoke that Austin Miller saw came from the westernmost part of the grassy knoll which is not where conspiracy theorists claim the shots came from. And there was a steam pipe right in that vicinity -- notice that Miller said it could have been steam.


Gary Mack told Vincent Bugliosi that the steam pipe "started at the north end of the Triple Underpass and extended about thirty feet parallel to the railroad tracks”


And Dallas police officer Seymour Weitzman testified about the steam pipe:


Austin Miller also talked to the FBI:





No mention of smoke or steam, but Miller does mention "powder dust spray" which might either have been brain/blood/scalp/skull matter from the head shot, or dust from a missed shot on the pavement.


Update

Robert Wagner, in his excellent book, JFK Assassinated, references this piece of testimony from Austin Miller:

[Michael Capasse]

why would there be steam?

[Fred Litwin]

Did you read my post.

Because there was a steampipe.

[Michael Capasse]

Did you read my post.

Because there was a steampipe.

where is a steam pipe?
 ...that could blow hot air over the grassy knoll?



Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, USA, circa 1963.

[Duncan MacRae]

where is a steam pipe?

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