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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 220« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Jean Lollis Hill)

Mrs. Hill.
realized at that time we didn't have that picture, that it had been taken from us. I mean, we had let Featherstone look at it, you know, but we told no one they could reproduce it. They said, "Would you let us look at it and see if it could be reproduced?" We said, "Yes; you could look at it," we thought it was--you know, it was fuzzy and everything, but we were wanting to keep them and we suddenly realized we didn't have that picture, and that was quite a bit of money and we were getting pretty excited about it, and Mary was getting scared---
Mr. Specter.
Did she eventually sell the picture, by the way?
Mrs. HILL. She sold the rights, the publishing rights of it, not the original picture, but they had already---AP and UP had already picked it up because Featherstone stole it.
Mr. Specter.
Do you know what she sold those rights for?
Mrs. Hill.
I think it was $600.
Mr. Specter.
What did you tell Mark Lane besides about the picture?
Mrs. Hill.
This is it.
Mr. Specter.
Fine, go ahead.

Mrs. HILL..Anyway, when I realized we didn't have that picture and Mary was getting upset about that--by that time I had realized we were in a press-room and that he had no right to be holding us and he had no authority and that we could get out of there, and they kept standing in front of the door, and I told him--I said, "Get out." We kept asking him for our picture, and where it was, and he said, We'll get it back--we'll get it back. And so I jerked away and ran out of the door and as I did, there was a Secret Service man. Now, this I was told-- that he was a Secret Service man, and he said, "Do you have a red raincoat?" And, I said, "Yes; it's in yonder. Let me go." I was intent on finding someone to get that picture back and I said as I walked out, "I can get someone big enough to get it back for us." He said, "Does your friend have a blue raincoat?" And I said, "Yes; she's in there." He said, "Here they are," to somebody else and they told us that they had been looking for us.
Mr. Specter.
Who told you that?
Mrs. Hill.
This man.
Mr. Specter.
All this you told Mr. Lane?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes.
Mr. Specter.
Go ahead.

Mrs. HILL. And so, then they took us into the police station. Just about that time Sheriff Decker came out and the man was with us and we were telling him why we were in there, why we had been in the pressroom, you know, and why they hadn't been able to find us, because they had thought that Mary had been hit and they were looking for the two women that were standing right by the car with the camera. At that time they didn't know what we were doing down there and why we were right at the car. So, there followed questioning all afternoon long, and he asked me at one time---well, in fact he asked repeatedly if I was held and I told him, "Yes."
Mr. Specter.
Who asked you that?
Mrs. Hill.
Mark Lane.
Mr. Specter.
If you were held?

Mrs. HILL. Yes; you know if I were held, if I had to stay there and I told him, "Yes," but I told him when we were in the pressroom it was just our own ignorance, really, that was keeping us there and letting the man intimidate us that had no authority.
Mr. Specter.
That was a newsman as opposed to the police official?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes; and I gave Mark Lane his name several times--clearly. I remember clearly that I gave him his name.
Mr. Specter.
And what name did you give him?

Mrs. HILL. Featherstone of the Times Herald, and so after we got out of there and I talked with a man---
Mr. SPECTER. Now, you are continuing to tell me everything you told Mark Lane?
Mrs. HILL. That's right, and I talked with this man, a Secret Service man, and I said, "Am I a kook or what's wrong with me?" I said, "They keep saying
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