Railroad worker Lee Bowers testified before the Warren Commission that something caught his eye back there. Bowers was one of the many eye witnesses to the assassination who later died in what conspiracy theorists claim were mysterious circumstances.

SAYS DAVE PERRY: Bowers had allergies and had taken antihistimines. He fell asleep while driving home one night and drove into a ditch.

SAYS GARY MACK: Bowers didn't say there was anything suspicious about the two guys behind the fence. He never hinted, even to his family, that a shot came from there. But if there were two guys there, they never came forward and no one seems to know who these guys where. It was not a good vantage point to see the motorcade.

SAYS JIM MARRS: Lee Bowers is a key witness—he saw cars with out-of-state license plates trolling the area, he saw a man in uniform by the fence. He saw somebody fire. Bowers died in a one-car crash early in the morning—it was a suspicious death, and a convenient one.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: There was a steam pipe neat the picket fence where Bowers saw the puff of smoke. No one every mentioned the smoke was from a gun; it was later assumed it was gun smoke, but smoke from a gun doesn't linger in the air the way the smoke Bowers described did.

The curb was hit by the errant second gunshot and debris hit bystander James Tague in the face. The curb section has long since been replaced, but the repaired area is still visible.

SAYS GARY MACK: The stray shot hitting the curb is one of the reasons for the single bullet theory. If there had been an organized plot to kill the president with two sharpshooters, they would have been marksmen who wouldn't miss their target. Since Oswald wasn't supposed to be a great shot, the stray bullet supports the theory that this is one of his shots that missed.

SAYS JIM MARRS: The stray bullet supports the multiple gunshot theory. It is preposterous that a third shot would hit 30 feet from its target after hitting the target twice. This is the shot that probably came from the School Depository window, but it was to throw police off.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: I view the shot that hit the curb as evidence of the first very difficult shot that misses its target. The FBI did a very bad job of investigating this evidence, and didn't discover it until later. The only cover-up here was the FBI trying to hide the evidence of their own incompetence.

Although newer buildings now flank the Emergency Room entrance and shield it from the street, the entrance itself has never been refurbished or remodeled. It looks as it did in 1963.

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