JFK Page #53

TIME CUT TO two men interrogating Hill.

JEAN HILL (V.O.)

These new people never identified

themselves. They musta been watching

the whole thing 'cause they knew

everything Mary and me had been doing

that day. I guess I wasn't too hard

to find - wearing that red raincoat.

MAN:

How many shots you say you heard?

JEAN HILL:

Four to six.

MAN:

That's impossible. You heard echoes

...echoes. We have three bullets

and three shots which came from the

Book Depository and that's all we're

willing to say.

JEAN HILL (V.O.)

...which is strange 'cause this is

less than 20 minutes after the

assassination.

JEAN HILL:

No, I saw a guy shooting from over

there. He was behind that fence.

What are you going to do about it?

MAN:

We have that taken care of. You

only heard three shots and you are

not to talk to anyone about this.

No one, you hear?

JEAN HILL (V.O.)

I was scared. It was all kinda queer,

but it sure felt like two and two

was coming up three... and then they

took Mary's five snapshots from me,

sent them to Washington, and when

they returned them weeks later, two

of them had the backgrounds

mutilated... The only one we saved

was in Mary's camera. I didn't want

to go to Washington when the Warren

Commission subpoenaed me... so the

lawyer come down here and interviewed

me at Parkland Hospital.

In a Parkland Hospital office in 1964, a lawyer interviews

Jean Hill. A female stenographer takes notes.

JEAN HILL:

He asked me why I thought I was in

danger and I said:

JEAN HILL:

Well if they can kill the President,

they can certainly get me.

LAWYER:

That doesn't make sense, Mrs. Hill.

We have the man that killed the

President.

JEAN HILL:

No, you don't!

JEAN HILL:

He kept trying to get me to change

my story about the shots. He was

getting hot under the collar, and

telling the woman not to write when

he wanted.

JEAN HILL:

Look, do you want the truth, or just

what you want me to say?

LAWYER:

I want the truth.

JEAN HILL:

The truth is that I heard between

four and six shots. I'm not going

to lie for you.

LAWYER:

...you heard echoes.

JEAN HILL:

No. I had guns all my life. I used

to go turtle shooting.

LAWYER:

I realize you're under a great deal

of stress .. it's clouded your

judgement.

JEAN HILL (V.O.)

So off the record, he starts talking

about my family, and even mentioned

my marriage was in trouble like I

didn't know it or something. He got

angrier and angrier and then:

LAWYER:

Look, we can put you in a mental

institution. We can make you look

crazier'n Marguerite Oswald, and

everybody knows how crazy she is.

JEAN HILL (V.O.)

I knew something was crooked as a

dog's hind leg, 'cause no one who is

just taking a deposition gets that

involved and angry... sure enough,

when I finally read my testimony as

published by the Warren Commission,

it was a fabrication from start to

finish.

JIM:

Are you willing to testify, Mrs.

Hill?

Back at the Knoll.

JEAN HILL:

(without hesitation)

Damned right I would. Somebody's

got to tell the truth around here

'cause the Government sure ain't

doing it.

DISSOLVE TO a scene inside the Texas School Book Depository

in 1967. Jim and Lou walk the floor and look out the windows.

Lou has a Mannlicher-Carcano in his hand with a sight and

clip. We see Oswald's supposed view of the limousine as he

pulls the trigger. Now, innocuous traffic goes by, but the

iris of the camera tightens into a sniper's scope.

LOU:

The Zapruder film establishes 3 shots

in 5.6 seconds. Here. I'm Oswald.

Time me.

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