New files reveal the suppressed account of a Dealey Plaza bystander who described two gunmen-and was never called to testify.
👤 A Ghost in the Footnotes
In previously redacted FBI documents, “Witness 529” is mentioned five times.
Until now, their identity and statement were unknown.
But the 2025 release uncovers the original interview transcript-along with the reason it was buried.
📄 The Statement: Two Men, One Shooter
On November 22, 1963, Dorothy Marcelle Ray (now confirmed as Witness 529) was standing on the northwest side of Dealey Plaza, near the triple underpass.
In her interview with FBI Special Agent Paul Connors at 6:40 p.m. that night, she described:
- “Two men on the grassy area-one ducked as the shots rang out.”
- A second man, standing, “with what looked like a long briefcase or instrument case.”
- A metallic flicker from that direction when the third shot was fired.
Ray stated clearly:
“The sounds weren’t from the same direction. The echoes weren’t the same.”
📁 Why Her Statement Vanished
A memo from FBI Dallas Field Office, now unredacted, includes a chilling note:
“Statement deviates from evolving narrative. Advise non-inclusion in central file. No call for Commission.”
And a handwritten annotation:
“Do not recontact subject. Stability questionable.”
No follow-up was ever conducted.
Dorothy Ray was never interviewed again.
🧠 ARRB 2025 Summary: A Pattern of Omission
The ARRB’s summary of suppressed witness accounts, now public, lists Ray among:
- 8 eyewitnesses who heard multiple shooter directions
- 3 who gave initial statements but were never deposed
- 2 whose interviews were logged, then “lost”
The report concludes:
“Ray’s account was neither inconsistent nor irrational. It was simply inconvenient.”
📸 No Photo, But She’s In the Frame
One of the 2025 files includes an annotated still from a Secret Service review of amateur footage, with a figure matching Ray’s position circled.
It’s labeled “Possible alt-witness – unconfirmed.”
This frame had been cropped out in official reproductions for decades.
🔚 The People Who Saw Too Much Were Left Out
Dorothy Marcelle Ray didn’t change the story.
She just saw something that didn’t fit the story already written.
And so her name was hidden.
Her words were buried.
Her role became a ghost-until now.