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. 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 three shots--three shots," and I said, "I know I heard
more. I heard from four to six shots anyway."
He said, "Mrs. Hill, we were standing at the window and we heard more
shots also, but we have three wounds and we have three bullets, three
shots is all that we are willing to say right now."
Mr. SPECTER. Now, did that Secret Service man try to suggest to you
that there were only three shots in any other way than that?
Mrs. HILL. That's all he said to me. He didn't say, "You have to say
three shots"--he didn't tell me what to say.
Mr. SPECTER. He didn't try to intimidate you or coerce you in any way?
Mrs. HILL. No; that's all he said.
Mr. SPECTER. All right. Go ahead and tell me what you told Mark Lane.
Mrs. HILL. I told him--I was asked by them----
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know who that Secret Service man was, by the way?
Mrs. HILL. No; I don't. I don't know--not any name that day except
Decker and the President.
Mr. SPECTER. All right, go ahead and tell me everything else you said.
Mrs. HILL. Then, he asked me--I was asked did I know that a bullet
struck at my feet and I said, "No; I didn't." And he said, "What do
you think that dust was?" And I said, "I didn't see any dust." And I
told Mark Lane that the Times Herald did run a picture in the paper of
a concrete scar where a bullet had hit right where we were standing,
which is evident to anybody that had an issue of the Times Herald.
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