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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 218« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Jean Lollis Hill)

Mr. Specter.
which you have already told me, that is, tell me all the things you told Mr. Lane, in addition to that you have already testified about.
Mrs. HILL. I will, but do you realize I have had to go over this so many times that I don't know who I have told which part to? I really don't.
Mr. SPECTER. Well, I'll bear that in mind, but do the best you can in telling me all the things you told Mark Lane.
Mrs. Hill.
Can't you just read my statement?
Mr. Specter.
Feel free to smoke---just relax.
Mrs. Hill.
I would except I don't have one.
Mr. Specter.
Just relax if you can.
Mrs. Hill.
All right, if I can.
Mr. Specter.
Off the record.

Let the record show that we were taking a brief recess to get the witness a cup of coffee so that she may be more relaxed.
May the record show that we have just obtained some coffee and we are proceeding.
When we broke for the coffee, I had asked you to tell me all the things you told Mark Lane other than .those which you have already testified about.
Mrs. HILL. Before we go into that---I do want to have you---because I hope that by this time I am through with it, but I do want to tell you about a camera team that came out there to my house that this John Coker was with.
Mr. Specter.
On which occasion was that?

Mrs. HILL. That is important .to me and that is the reason why I digressed and got on that.
Mr. Specter.
This occurred, you say, about 2 weeks after the assassination?
Mrs. Hill.
Say--10 days.
Mr. Specter.
What happened on that occasion?

Mrs. HILL. They came out and brought TV cameras and were going to take, and they told me they were not going to tell me the questions that they were going to ask me, that they wanted to get my reactions to their questions, and they set up rather, I would say they set up hypothetical situations like could he have been shot from the window, if this is the kind of wound that it would have made? Or, to make this kind of a wound, he had. to have been here, now which, you know--and so I told them and from what I gathered that day, they did not think I had---I had gotten the idea from them, that there was speculation or some reasonable doubt that I---that Oswald did not do all the shooting and that all these shots did not come from the window.
Mr. Specter.
You told the newspaper and the television cameramen that?
Mrs. Hill.
That's what I got from them from the questions they asked me.
Mr. Specter.
What answers did you give them to those questions?

Mrs. HILL. Well, when they would set up a situation, I would tell them what I thought would have had to happen in that situation.
Mr. SPECTER. Well, without formulating any questions which would lead you in any way to any conclusions, let me ask you for your best recollection as to what you think occurred, as to the point where the assassin was, if you have any idea on that question?
Mrs. HILL. Well, as I said previously, to me at the time the shot came from the knoll, you know.
Mr. Specter.
And you have testified to that because of the sound of the shots?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes.
Mr. Specter.
And also because you saw this man running away.
Mrs. Hill.
That's right.
Mr. Specter.
Do you think perhaps that you had the impression that that came from the knoll exclusively cause you saw the man running away? And your reaction that that must have 'been the man who did the shooting?
Mrs. Hill.
It could have been very well--it could have been.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, are there any other factors which led you to think that the shots came from the knoll, factors other than those you have already told me about?
Mrs. Hill.
Except that I believe these men thought so that night.
Mr. SPECTER. Well, never mind the men, but focus just on what your reaction was at the time.
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