Synopses & Reviews
November 22, 1963, is a day not easilyforgotten. A sunny, picturesque Dallas day quickly turned into calamity whenseveral mysterious shots descended on the presidential motorcade at DealeyPlaza near the Texas School Book Depository.Amid the confusion were two people with unique vantage points: AbrahamZapruder and Jean Hill. Zapruder, armed with his Super Eight camera, filmedwhat would be the only movie footage of the assassination. Hill, the woman inred in the Zapruder film, stood less than ten feet away from the presidentiallimousine facing the now-famous grassy knoll. From there, she saw a gunman firethe shot that exploded the president's skull. That gunman was NOT Lee HarveyOswald.Despite the years of inner turmoil and harassment from the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, and Warren Commission, this courageous Dallas schoolteacher has heldfirm to her belief that the truth must be known about what happened the day thepresident was murdered. Working as a key consultant on the Oliver Stone filmJFK inspired Hill to finally tell of her ordeal. My friendship withOliver Stone and his belief in me gave me the confidence I needed to do thisbook, Hill says.JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness tells the rest of JeanHill's story--the part to which the film merely alludes. With the help of BillSloan, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and veteran Dallas newspaperman, Hill revealslong-kept secrets which federal authorities tried desperately to suppress.Hill, the closest, most important surviving eyewitness to the assassination, isthe last major witness to publicly dispute the findings of the WarrenCommission. Her gripping account of what happened that fateful autumn day, andthe web of intrigue and conspiracy that followed, reveals more evidence thatthe Warren Report was clumsy and reached the wrong conclusion.Oliver Stone provides the foreword to what may well be the mostthought-provoking story surrounding the Kennedy assassination.
Synopsis
Abraham Zapruder filmed the only footage of President Kennedyis assassination. In his film, a woman in a red raincoat can be seen. She is Jean Hill, the last dissenting witness.