Jean Hill, 'Lady in Red' At JFK Assassination ItEITTEKS Dealey Plaza when she saw the president assassi- Dallas — Jean Hill, nated. She maintained later she had heard several known as "The Lady more shots than the three bullets the official War- in Red" in an eyewit- ren Commission determined were fired by Lee Har- ness film of President vey Oswald. John F. Kennedy's She appeared briefly in the color film shot by Dal- 1963 assassination, las dressmaker Abraham Zapruder that caught the has died at age 69 era moment Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally blood disease, her were struck as their motorcade passed the Texas family said yesterday. School Book Depository. AS. Phuw. 1554 Hill died Tuesday Poorman said her mother thought the shots came Jean Hill in the same Dallas from the grassy knoll, not the book depository across hospital, Parkland, the street, and ran to the grassy knoll thinking she to which Kennedy would be able to spot the gunman. was rushed by frantic Secret Service agents after Instead of catching up with the gunman, Hill said being fatally shot while riding in an open convertible she was seized by two men in police uniform with Nov. 22, 1963. badges and briefly taken into custody despite telling "She loved the fact that she was a witness to histo- them she thought the assassin was running from the ry," Hill's daughter Jeanne Poorman told Reuters. grassy knoll, "With the inordinate number of people connected Hill repeated her account to the Warren Commis- with witnessing the assassination who died in suspi- sion in 1964, then stayed out of the public eye for cious circumstances, she was proud that she was a about 25 years. survivor," Poorman said of her mother. In 1991, Hill worked as a consultant for Oliver Hill died less than a week after another figure Stone's film "JFK." Over the last several years, she Icii6wn from the day of the Kennedy assassination. had been speaking to groups about her 1963 experience. Radio personality John William Allen, the first She also co-wrote "JFK: The Last Dissenting Wit- broadcaster to announce the shooting, died after a ness" with Bill Sloan. brief illness Nov. 3 at his home In Lucas, Texas, the Hill taught in the Dallas public schools for more Dallas Morning News said. than 20 years, retiring from H.S. Thompson Learn- Allen. 81, broadcast news of the Kennedy shooting ing Center. while working at Dallas-area radio station WFAA. Her whole life was spent getting school supplies Hill, a Dallas school teacher, was wearing a red for kids that didn't have school supplies," her son, raincoat and watching the Kennedy motorcade in Billy Hill. told the Morning News. .