Like the vast majority of people who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, Jean Hill always insisted that shots were fired from an area which she dubbed the “grassy knoll.”
In March of 1964, Arlen Specter traveled to Dallas to have a little talk with Ms. Hill:
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Soon after she was ushered into an office on one of the upper floors of the medical center, it became obvious that Specter had been fully briefed by the FBI and Secret Service on Jean’s background, her personal life, and her history as a dissenting witness. Jean contends today that Specter purposely set out to humiliate and intimidate her in every way possible. Besides Jean herself, Specter and a stenographer were the only persons present, and Jean firmly maintains that none of the actual conversation that took place at the beginning of the interview was ever recorded.
She clearly recalls Specter telling her frostily, however, that he knew “all about” her. She says that he accused her of engaging in a “shabby extramarital affair,” thirsting for publicity and notoriety, refusing to cooperate with federal authorities, and proving herself “totally unreliable” as a witness. Unless the commission received her full cooperation from now on, she remembers him telling her, she would be “very, very sorry.”
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Jean says that Specter accused her of talking “insanity” and warned that if she continued with what she was saying, she would end up looking as “crazy” as marguerite Oswald, mother of the accused assassin.
None of this unseemly exchange appears, of course, among the 19 pages of testimony by Jean Hill in Volume Six (pages 205-223) of the official report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. What does appear is a heavily edited, completely distorted and shamelessly fabricated version of Jean’s testimony, which she describes today as a “total travesty.”
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Sloan, Bill w/ Hill, Jean JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness
Gretna, LA 1992: Pelican Publishing Company, pages 101, 102
This is Jean (left) and her friend Mary being
interviewed by an NBC News affiliate after the murder:
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Q. "...Where did the shots come from?"
A. "The shots came from the hill."
Q. "From the hill?"
A. "Yes…ah… It was just east of the underpass...and we were on the south side."
Q. "Did you see...could you...did you look up there where the shots came from, ma'am?"
A. "Yes Sir."
Q. "Could you see anyone?"
A. "I thought I saw this man running, but I looked at the president, you know, for a while, and I looked up there and I thought I saw a man running and so, right after that, I guess I didn't have any better sense, I started running up there too."
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http://www.jfk-info.com/whitmey3.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hill