Bonnie Ray Williams

 is a shipping clerk at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. He and Lee Harvey Oswald are coworkers.

Episodes

 * Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald
 * The Day in Question

Historical Figure
Bonnie Ray Williams was born on September 3, 1943, in Carthage, Texas. He started working at the Texas School Book Depository on September 8, 1963. By November 22, he had been working at the Book Depository for over two months.

Williams was. . . the co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald and, although they never spoke to each other or interacted socially, was able to recognize and identify him. According to Williams, as of November 1963, Oswald had been working at the Book Depository for six weeks. Williams also noted that Oswald never spoke to anyone, and that he regularly read about politics in the newspapers.

On November 22, 1963, Williams was able to place Oswald in the building and on the sixth floor of the Book Depository around the time of President Kennedy's assassination. He witnessed the assassination from the fifth floor - just one floor below the shooter.