He said he could not remember exactly where he was in downtown Dallas when the President was shot but thought he probably would have been on his lunch hour." (Handwritten notes by HSCA investigator Jack Moriarty on an 8-12-78 interview with Witt, found on the Baylor University website, in the John Armstrong collection) "I had just about decided to leave and go back to work. ( 8-12-78 Dallas Morning News article by Earl Golz in which Witt's identity was revealed) "Witt, interviewed by The News at his job in the warehouse of a filing equipment company near the Stemmons Freeway, neither would confirm nor deny he was the Umbrella Man. He opened up an umbrella in silent protest as Kennedy passed, and thereby created the legend of “The Umbrella Man.” While some still doubt Witt was the "Umbrella Man," and suspect his admitting as much was part of a government plot, many of those doubting his identity fail to understand that his identity was only discovered when, some months after the HSCA had called for the person holding the umbrella to come forward, a co-worker to whom Witt had confided revealed his identity to members of the assassination research community. Louie Steven Witt stood just east of the Stemmons Freeway sign. Kennedy was, of course, near these witnesses when he was first hit, and just passed these witnesses when he received his fatal blow. Along the north side of Elm Street are (from L to R): Louie Witt (the "Umbrella Man") a never-identified man sometimes called Dark-Complected Man, or DCM two young men who could very well be Alan Smith and Daniel Kendrick little Ricky Chism and his parents, John and Faye Chism a group of women who worked in the school book depository identified as Sharon Simmons, Gloria Holt, and Stella Jacob a woman believed to be June Dishong her companion, presumed to be Peggy Burney a woman presumed to be Jean Newman, Ernest Brandt, and John Templin.
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