Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mrs. HILL. Well, as I said, when I looked down at this red stuff on
the ground, I said, "Oh," you know, to myself, "they hit him." You
know, I was going to follow that, and when I looked up again, I looked
all around and I couldn't see him anywhere and I kept running toward
the train tracks and I looked all around out there and I couldn't
see him--I looked everywhere and I heard someone yelling something
about--it was just this voice that was yelling, "It looks like he got
away," or something--I thought I had been right, you know, that he had
really gone up there and he had gotten away some way in the tracks or
had gone around behind the Depository, and so, I didn't know where he
had gone. By that time I saw policemen--where he had gone. By that time
I saw policemen--some were coming off of their motorcycles just around
the curb here--just at the underpass here, and of course, the motorcade
sped away and the policemen were coming from all sorts of different
directions, people were closing in, and all I could think of was, "I
want to get out of here fast. I don't want to be caught by anybody.
I don't want to be in on anything," and everytime anybody would come
toward me I would go another way until I got off of that hill back up
there where the tracks were.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you run up toward the hill?
Mrs. HILL. Yes; I ran up toward the railroad tracks.
Mr. SPECTER. Let me draw the triple underpass there, and you ran up to
what point--where? About the point of "D" here?
Mrs. HILL. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Why did you run up there--after the man?
Mrs. HILL. I was still looking for him. I didn't know where he had
gone. I heard lots of people yelling, "Did he get away, did he get
away, and which way did he go."
Mr. SPECTER. You were trying to catch him?
Mrs. HILL. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. But you couldn't find him any more?
Mrs. HILL. No; I just couldn't find him again. When I stopped to look
down at the grass, at this red stuff and when I looked back up, by that
time everyone was screaming and moving around.
Mr. SPECTER. And where were you when you looked down at the ground?
Point it out to me on the diagram.
Mrs. HILL. The steps that go up to this colonnade thing right there and
I saw it right about here.
Mr. SPECTER. Well, mark it with the letter "E" there.
Mrs. HILL. All right.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, a moment ago you said you didn't want to say anything
more about the identity of the man. Why did you tell me that, Mrs. Hill?
Mrs. HILL. Well, because I have had an awful lot of fun made of me over
being a witness in this and I'm real tired of it.
Mr. SPECTER. Who made fun of you?
Mrs. HILL. Well, quite a lot of people.
Mr. SPECTER. Anybody connected with the official investigation in the
case?
Mrs. HILL. No, oh, no; it was just people, but people that I know.
Mr. SPECTER. All right, and why have they made fun of you, because of
your identification of who that man was?
Mrs. HILL. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Any other reason?
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