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JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness

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November 22, 1963, is a day not easily

forgotten. A sunny, picturesque Dallas day quickly turned into calamity when

several mysterious shots descended on the presidential motorcade at Dealey

Plaza near the Texas School Book Depository.

Amid the confusion were two people with unique vantage points: Abraham

Zapruder and Jean Hill. Zapruder, armed with his Super Eight camera, filmed

what would be the only movie footage of the assassination. Hill, the woman in

red in the Zapruder film, stood less than ten feet away from the presidential

limousine facing the now-famous grassy knoll. From there, she saw a gunman fire

the shot that exploded the president's skull. That gunman was NOT Lee Harvey

Oswald.

Despite the years of inner turmoil and harassment from the Secret Service,

FBI, CIA, and Warren Commission, this courageous Dallas schoolteacher has held

firm to her belief that the truth must be known about what happened the day the

president was murdered. Working as a key consultant on the Oliver Stone film

JFK inspired Hill to finally tell of her ordeal. My friendship with

Oliver Stone and his belief in me gave me the confidence I needed to do this

book, Hill says.

JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness tells the rest of Jean

Hill's story — the part to which the film merely alludes. With the help of Bill

Sloan, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and veteran Dallas newspaperman, Hill reveals

long-kept secrets which federal authorities tried desperately to suppress.

Hill, the closest, most important surviving eyewitness to the assassination, is

the last major witness to publicly dispute the findings of the Warren

Commission. Her gripping account of what happened that fateful autumn day, and

the web of intrigue and conspiracy that followed, reveals more evidence that

the Warren Report was clumsy and reached the wrong conclusion.

Oliver Stone provides the foreword to what may well be the most

thought-provoking story surrounding the Kennedy assassination.