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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 222« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Jean Lollis Hill)

told me in fact---I told him it was Featherstone that told me. He said, "You know you were wrong about seeing a man running." He said, "You didn't."

Mr. Specter.
Who told you you were wrong-Featherstone or Lane?
Mrs. HILL. Featherstone. And I told him that---I told Mr. Lane that Mr. Featherstone had told me that, and I said, "But I did," and he said, "No; don't say that any more on the air."
Mr. Specter.
Who said, "Don't say that any more on the air?"
Mrs. HILL. Featherstone; and I made it clear to Mark Lane, because I mentioned his name several times, and he said, "He has told me not to tell anyone"---
Mr. Specter.
You mean Featherstone?
Mrs. HILL. Yes; that the shots had come from a window up in the Depository and for me not to say that any more, that I was wrong about it, and I said "Very well," and so I just didn't say any more that I ran across the street to see the man, and that's the part, as much as I can get from when the FBI men came out and talked to me the other day, that is the part mostly that I got that was out of context, because what he gave the Commission was basically true.
Mr. Specter.
What Mark Lane gave the Commission?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes.
Mr. Specter.
Except for what
Mrs. Hill.
Except he didn't have his comments in there.
Mr. Specter.
What were his comments?

Mrs. HILL., Well, as I said, the way he would ask me things I can see why I gave the answers I did, which to me are the truth, .but I can see, taken out of context, why he or the Commission, well, not how he, because he was listening to me how the Commission could take it to mean maybe something else?
Mr. Specter.
Did he repeat then to the Commission how the Commission could take them to mean maybe something else?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes-
Mr. SPECTER. Did he repeat them to the Commission out of context---did Mark Lane repeat them out of context?
Mrs. Hill.
To me they were to me they were it was my comments and it wasn't everything I said.
Mr. SPECTER. Have you now related all of the ways that Mark Lane took your comments out of context?
Mrs. Hill.
So far as I know.
Mr. Specter.
Now, is there anything else about your conversation with Mark Lane which you think would be helpful to the Commission to know about?
Mrs. Hill.
No.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, before getting on to Mark Lane, we were talking about the times you had been interviewed by the authorities and you had told me you were interviewed a couple of times by telephone by the FBI when you called back to verify it was the FBI and about a single interview you had with the FBI a week ago today, which would have been the 17th of March?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes.
Mr. Specter.
Now, have you had any additional interviews with any Federal authorities before today, other than those which you have already told me about?
Mrs. Hill.
No; not that I remember.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, for the record, Mrs. Hill, I'm going to ask you some questions about your own background-first of all I would like you to tell me how old you are, for the record?
Mrs. Hill.
Thirty-three.
Mr. SPECTER. And where is your home area--Dallas or some other part of the country or what?
Mrs. Hill.
Where am I from?
Mr. Specter.
Where are you from?
Mrs. Hill.
Oklahoma.
Mr. Specter.
And what city in Oklahoma?
Mrs. Hill.
Originally Wewoka and later Oklahoma City.
Mr. Specter.
And are you married?
Mrs. Hill.
Yes.
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