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
the full impact of all that had happened really hit me then, because
I was just wanting to get out of there and to get away and he kept
telling me--he insisted we go with him and he just practically ran us,
and he got--they were throwing up a police net around that building
at the time, and he just practically ran us up to the court house, I
guess it is, and put us in this little room and I don't know why we
were so dumb that day unless it was just the sequence of events, that
everything was just happening so fast we really didn't even think, but
we couldn't leave. He kept standing in front of the door and he would
let a cameraman in or someone to interview us and they were shooting
things in our faces, and he wouldn't let us out.
Mr. SPECTER. Who was interviewing you--newspaper reporters?
Mrs. HILL. Newspaper reporters and radio and TV people and a man
from--a man named Coker John, or John Coker.
Mr. SPECTER. From where?
Mrs. HILL. As I get it, he is a sort of freelance writer, and I think
he was on an assignment then. He came out--I'm not sure--I thought it
was for Life or Post, but he came in there and he was shooting pictures
for--I think he was shooting them for TV, but he came out to the house
about 2 weeks later with this bunch of men, about four of them, three
or four came out, and that's the second time I saw him, because he
said, "You remember me, I saw you in the pressroom that day."
Mr. SPECTER. Is that Miss Hill or Mrs. Hill?
Mrs. HILL. It is Mrs. Hill, and he said "I saw you in the pressroom
that day," and I said, "Yes." I remembered him because I saw him more
than any--now, I don't remember where I am here.
Mr. SPECTER. You were telling me about what happened to you at the
county courthouse, and then you digressed from that to tell me about
John coming to see you in your home.
Let's go back to the county courthouse and let me ask you if you gave
an affidavit to the sheriff that day?
Mrs. HILL. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, did you talk to anybody from the Federal Government
that day?
Mrs. HILL. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Whom did you talk to?
Mrs. HILL. I don't know.
Mr. SPECTER. What agency was the man from, if you know?
Mrs. HILL. Secret Service.
Mr. SPECTER. How many times have you talked to somebody from the Secret
Service in this case altogether?
Mrs. HILL. I would say the only time I talked to the Secret Service men
was when I was down at the courthouse that afternoon, just before they
let us leave, and I think--now, we officially sat down and supposedly
were giving a story to the Secret Service men.
Mr. SPECTER. And, did they write down what you were telling them?
Mrs. HILL. I don't think they did.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you sign anything?
Mrs. HILL. Oh, well, I signed my statement that I made over in the
sheriff's office.
Mr. SPECTER. Then, how about for the Secret Service men, did you sign
anything?
Mrs. HILL. No, I don't think we signed anything over there, because
they just took us in a little room----
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