Subject: Re: Shame on you, Mark Lane Date: 7 Feb 1999 16:49:06 -0600 From: jerrymac Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk Russ and Carrie Burr wrote in message <36BDC917.6CB2@foxvalley.net>... >> > >> >Lane pointed over the crowd, to the grassy islands in the middle of the >> >plaza. "Right over there was Jean Hill!" he cried. "One of the first to >> >tell the truth that shots came from behind that wooden fence, and they >> >attacked her and ridiculed her. There should be a plaque over there," he >> >went on, as applause and whistles swelled, "commemorating Jean Hill, right >> >on that spot where she was standing!" >> > >> >______________________________________________________________________ >> > >> >What? Why is Lane, an accomplished lawyer, using Hill's much later >> >fabrication that she saw shooters behind the picket fence? She never said >> >anything about this following the assassination. Why does he perpetuate >> >this myth? >> > >> >> Actually, he never said she "saw" the shooter. And indeed her first >> impression was that the shots came from the GK. > >Well, perhaps in her WC testimony..I don't remember but her original >affadavit on 11/22 she makes no mention whatsoever of any location of >where the shots came from. > While Hill's 11/22/63 affidavit doesn't specifically mention where the shots came from, she clearly states that she ran up the hill after seeing a man running towards the monument. "I looked across the street and up the hill and saw a man running towards the monument and I started running over there." She was turned back when she reached the parking lot behind the fence. But even before she gave her affidavit, she was interviewed on NBC-TV. Here's the transcript: WBAP-TV (Fort Worth/Dallas NBC affiliate) Interviews FIRST JEAN HILL INTERVIEW - WBAP-TV (FT. WORTH) Broadcast over NBC at 1:11 p.m. C.S.T. Q. "What is your name ma'am?'' A. "Jean Hill.'' Q. "From Dallas?" A. "That's right." Q. "Did you hear the shooting, Miss?" A. "Yes sir." Q. "Could you describe what happened?" A. "Yes Sir.'' Q. "Will you do that now?" "Ah...They were driving along...ah...and we were the only people in this area, on our side and the shots came from directly across the street from us, and just as the president's car became directly even with us, we...we took one look at him and he was sitting there - he and Jackie were looking at a dog that was in the middle of the...seat, and about that time two shots rang out just as he looked up - just as the president looked up - and these two shots rang out, as he grabbed his chest, and... looked like he was in pain, and he fell over the seat, and Jackie fell over on him and said, 'My God he's been, shot!" Q. "Ah..have.." A. "...And after that more shots rang out and the car sped away." Q. "What kind of car was that?" A. "What kind of car was it? The president's car.' Q. "Well, no...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." Q. "Ah, huh. And what is your name?" A. "Jean Hill." So 41 minutes after the assassination, Jean Hill is on record stating that the shots came from the hill. That would make her one of (if not) the first to pinpoint the Knoll as the source of the shots, would it not??? And her WC testimony supports her 11/22/63 statements: Mr. SPECTER. Now, did you have a conscious impression of the source of the first shot that you heard, that is, where it came from? Mrs. HILL. Well, evidently I didn't because the only conscious recollection I have of that---I mean---until all this other came out---I had always thought that they came from the knoll. Mr. SPECTER. Did you have any conscious impression of where the second shot came from? Mrs. HILL. No. Mr. SPECTER. Any conscious impression of where this third shot came from? Mrs. HILL. Not any different from any of them. I thought it was just people shooting from the knoll---I did think there was more than one person shooting. jerrymac