again we agree . williams was up there on the 6th floor until a time closely approaching or at 12.25 . and feet form the snipers nest . logically if we assume he was the only negro gentleman on the 6th floor between midday and 12.30 well then he should have been the man rowland saw leaning out of the snipers nest window at 12.16 . but that said the description given was of an older man , as far as i am aware williams was a younger man .maybe glare of the sun on his head made him look white haired ? .i dont know . but if williams was the man in the window it means oswald was not in there with him at that time .williams was a fly in the ointment as you say but there were others in that building .
There are a couple of reasons why Rowland believes the man in the SN is elderly.
The first is that the man appears to be bald, which is something that would heavily suggest an older person:
"He was very thin, an elderly gentleman, bald or practically bald, very thin hair if he wasn't bald..."The fact of the matter is that Bonnie Ray could easily be mistaken for a bald man. He has a very high forehead and really closely cropped black hair :
Against a dark background Bonnie Ray's close cropped, black hair would've all but disappeared leaving just his high forehead visible. Viewed by someone at street level, looking up towards Bonnie Ray, he would definitely have appeared to be a bald man:
There is another reason why Rowland thought it was an older man:
Seemed like his face was either--I can't recall detail but it was either very wrinkled or marked in some way.
Bonnie Ray's face was "marked in some way" that would have given him an older appearance. Although not unheard of for a young man, it was usually older men who had a moustache. These two attributes - appearing to be bald and having a moustache - would have most definitely given Bonnie Ray an older appearance.
It must be remembered that being viewed from a distance would have made it harder to gauge his age. Rowland makes the same point about the man with the rifle:
This is again just my estimation. He was--I think I remember telling my wife that he appeared in his early thirties. This could be obscured because of the distance, I mean.And finally, Rowland didn't really pay that much attention to the man in the SN window as it was the man with the rifle he was interested in:
It seemed to me an elderly Negro, that is about all. I didn't pay very much attention to him.I don't think Rowland mistaking a younger man for a much older man is that much of an issue in this case. There are plenty of mitigating factors that influenced this observation. And that this man was Bonnie Ray Williams is supported by a key piece of evidence.
When the SN was first discovered, all the first officers on the scene reported seeing lunch remains in the south-east corner. Three officers described seeing the lunch remains
on top of the boxes that formed the back wall of the SN!At least four more officers report seeing the lunch remains in this area. Most tellingly of all are multiple descriptions of a partially eaten piece of chicken left on top of the SN. By the time the Crime Lab arrived on the scene these remains had been removed a couple of aisles along and placed by a small trolley near a window.
What were Bonnie Ray's lunch remains doing on the SN? This evidence strongly points to Bonnie Ray having had his lunch while sat in the SN.
This would also make more sense in that Rowland reports the man in the SN kind of hanging out the window. And why not, it's a beautiful day, there's the buzz of the crowds below and a great view of the approaching motorcade.
But the official narrative would have Bonnie Ray sat for almost half an hour watching events through a dirty, closed window. I don't really buy that..
Another detail of Rowland's observation of the man in the SN rings true. Rowland states that this man disappeared about five minutes before the motorcade arrived:
Mr. Specter: So that you observed this colored man on the window you have marked "A" within 5 minutes prior to the time the motorcade passed in front of you?
Mr. Rowland: Approximately 5 minutes prior to the time the motorcade came, he wasn't there. About 30 seconds or a minute prior to that time he was there.This tallies perfectly with Bonnie Ray's known movements.
It's my opinion that Rowland saw Bonnie Ray having his lunch in the SN while the assassin stood at the other end of the same floor.
