Norma Jean "Jean" Lollis Hill is also known as "The Lady in Red" from the Zapruder film (the most well known film made of the Kennedy Assassination). On November 22, 1963, she and her friend , Mary Moorman, has traveled to Dealey Plaza to get a picture of Jean and her boyfriend (a patrolman for the Dallas Police Department) and Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. Both women took up a position in the grassy triangle across the street from the Texas School Book Depository. Jean was wearing a bright red raincoat that day to ensure that her boyfriend would know where she was. The fatal head shot to President Kennedy was fired directly in front of Jean. She was one of the first people to run to the "grassy knoll" (which she named) where she believed she had seen a "puff of smoke" a glint of metal and a "shadowy figure". One of Mary Moorman's surviving photos shows such a figure. He has never been identified except as the "Badge Man." She was immediately apprehended by law enforcement and a statement was given. She always stated that she heard four to six shots and that she saw a shooter on the knoll. She testified to the same effect before the Warren Commission. For this reason, she has been known as "The Last Dissenting Witness." She refused to change her story.
In 1963 and up until her retirement, she taught under privledged children in a poor Dallas elementray school. She continued to educate a new generation until her death in 2000.She truly believed that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of any wrongdoing.
∼Jean Lollis Hill known as "the lady in red", as a result of her role as an eyewitness to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jean Hill was the woman standing nearest to the car of President Kennedyat the moment of his assassination. In the famous Zapruder film and inOliver Stone's motion picture "JFK", she appears in a bright red raincoat, stepping out to get the President's attention so her friend could snap his picture. The picture taken became one of the most well known photographsof the assassination.Mrs. Hill testified at length before the Warren Commission and was interviewed in that proceeding by a young prosecutor named Arlen Spector, now a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. She was the last living witness to the assassination whose testimony conflicted with the conclusions drawn by the Warren Commission. Her conflict with the findings of the Warren Commission led her to co-authoran autobiography, which she titled "The Last Dissenting Witness". She was featured prominently in the movie "JFK" and served as technical advisor to the director. Oliver Stone. Mr. Stone wrote the Forward to her book, and his film featured a character that portrayed Mrs. Hill. Her brave and interesting account of running up the "grassy knoll" (a term she coined in her testimony) to chase the man she believed was shooting at the President was riveting and controversial, and she was often in demand as a speaker. She appeared on numerous national television programs, including "The Today Show", "Oprah", "Geraldo". "Montel Williams", and "Maury Povich".
In 1963 and up until her retirement, she taught under privledged children in a poor Dallas elementray school. She continued to educate a new generation until her death in 2000.She truly believed that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of any wrongdoing.
∼Jean Lollis Hill known as "the lady in red", as a result of her role as an eyewitness to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jean Hill was the woman standing nearest to the car of President Kennedyat the moment of his assassination. In the famous Zapruder film and inOliver Stone's motion picture "JFK", she appears in a bright red raincoat, stepping out to get the President's attention so her friend could snap his picture. The picture taken became one of the most well known photographsof the assassination.Mrs. Hill testified at length before the Warren Commission and was interviewed in that proceeding by a young prosecutor named Arlen Spector, now a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. She was the last living witness to the assassination whose testimony conflicted with the conclusions drawn by the Warren Commission. Her conflict with the findings of the Warren Commission led her to co-authoran autobiography, which she titled "The Last Dissenting Witness". She was featured prominently in the movie "JFK" and served as technical advisor to the director. Oliver Stone. Mr. Stone wrote the Forward to her book, and his film featured a character that portrayed Mrs. Hill. Her brave and interesting account of running up the "grassy knoll" (a term she coined in her testimony) to chase the man she believed was shooting at the President was riveting and controversial, and she was often in demand as a speaker. She appeared on numerous national television programs, including "The Today Show", "Oprah", "Geraldo". "Montel Williams", and "Maury Povich".
Norma Jean "Jean" Lollis Hill is also known as "The Lady in Red" from the Zapruder film (the most well known film made of the Kennedy Assassination). On November 22, 1963, she and her friend , Mary Moorman, has traveled to Dealey Plaza to get a picture of Jean and her boyfriend (a patrolman for the Dallas Police Department) and Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. Both women took up a position in the grassy triangle across the street from the Texas School Book Depository. Jean was wearing a bright red raincoat that day to ensure that her boyfriend would know where she was. The fatal head shot to President Kennedy was fired directly in front of Jean. She was one of the first people to run to the "grassy knoll" (which she named) where she believed she had seen a "puff of smoke" a glint of metal and a "shadowy figure". One of Mary Moorman's surviving photos shows such a figure. He has never been identified except as the "Badge Man." She was immediately apprehended by law enforcement and a statement was given. She always stated that she heard four to six shots and that she saw a shooter on the knoll. She testified to the same effect before the Warren Commission. For this reason, she has been known as "The Last Dissenting Witness." She refused to change her story.
In 1963 and up until her retirement, she taught under privledged children in a poor Dallas elementray school. She continued to educate a new generation until her death in 2000.She truly believed that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of any wrongdoing.
∼Jean Lollis Hill known as "the lady in red", as a result of her role as an eyewitness to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jean Hill was the woman standing nearest to the car of President Kennedyat the moment of his assassination. In the famous Zapruder film and inOliver Stone's motion picture "JFK", she appears in a bright red raincoat, stepping out to get the President's attention so her friend could snap his picture. The picture taken became one of the most well known photographsof the assassination.Mrs. Hill testified at length before the Warren Commission and was interviewed in that proceeding by a young prosecutor named Arlen Spector, now a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. She was the last living witness to the assassination whose testimony conflicted with the conclusions drawn by the Warren Commission. Her conflict with the findings of the Warren Commission led her to co-authoran autobiography, which she titled "The Last Dissenting Witness". She was featured prominently in the movie "JFK" and served as technical advisor to the director. Oliver Stone. Mr. Stone wrote the Forward to her book, and his film featured a character that portrayed Mrs. Hill. Her brave and interesting account of running up the "grassy knoll" (a term she coined in her testimony) to chase the man she believed was shooting at the President was riveting and controversial, and she was often in demand as a speaker. She appeared on numerous national television programs, including "The Today Show", "Oprah", "Geraldo". "Montel Williams", and "Maury Povich".
In 1963 and up until her retirement, she taught under privledged children in a poor Dallas elementray school. She continued to educate a new generation until her death in 2000.She truly believed that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of any wrongdoing.
∼Jean Lollis Hill known as "the lady in red", as a result of her role as an eyewitness to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jean Hill was the woman standing nearest to the car of President Kennedyat the moment of his assassination. In the famous Zapruder film and inOliver Stone's motion picture "JFK", she appears in a bright red raincoat, stepping out to get the President's attention so her friend could snap his picture. The picture taken became one of the most well known photographsof the assassination.Mrs. Hill testified at length before the Warren Commission and was interviewed in that proceeding by a young prosecutor named Arlen Spector, now a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. She was the last living witness to the assassination whose testimony conflicted with the conclusions drawn by the Warren Commission. Her conflict with the findings of the Warren Commission led her to co-authoran autobiography, which she titled "The Last Dissenting Witness". She was featured prominently in the movie "JFK" and served as technical advisor to the director. Oliver Stone. Mr. Stone wrote the Forward to her book, and his film featured a character that portrayed Mrs. Hill. Her brave and interesting account of running up the "grassy knoll" (a term she coined in her testimony) to chase the man she believed was shooting at the President was riveting and controversial, and she was often in demand as a speaker. She appeared on numerous national television programs, including "The Today Show", "Oprah", "Geraldo". "Montel Williams", and "Maury Povich".
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