Originator: FBI
From: DALLAS, TX
Document date: 03/30/1967
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : DOJ

RECORD NUMBER : 179-20002-10196

RECORDS SERIES

: CLASSIFIED

SUBJECT FILE 129-11, OFFICIAL MAIL SECT. 18A

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR

: FBI

FROM

: DALLAS, TX

TO :

TITLE :

DATE : 03/30/19676

PAGES : 5

SUBJECTS : HILL JEAN

DE ANTONIO, EMIL

LANE, MARK

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED

WITH

DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 03/14/1997

OPENING CRITERIA

COMMENTS : ROUTING SLIP,

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CONFIDENTIAL

From'--

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

To

April 11, 1966

• The Solicitor General

Deputy Attorney General

Li Assistant Attorney General

FRED M. VINSON,

JR.

- Director, Bureau of Prisons

The Pardon Attorney

Chairman, Parole Board

Assistant Attorney General for Administration

Immigration and Naturalization Service

] Office of Alien Property

Chief - Accounts Branch

Chief - Administrative Services Office

Chief of Personnel

• General Litigation Section, Civil Division

• Reçords Administration Office

Attention:

Antitrust Division

Civil Division

Civil Rights Division

Criminal Division

Internal Security Division

ATTEN:

MP. CARL W.

BELCHER

PAM, 2113

A. No further investigation will be conducted in this case in the absence

of a specific request from you.

B. Please advise what further investigation, if any, is desired in this matter.

_C. For your information, I am enclosing herewith a communication regarding

the holder of a diplomatic or international organization visa.

AX D. For your information.

• E. Please note change in caption of this case.

John Edgar Hoover

Director

Encil 2) (Upon removal of classified enclosures, if any, this transmittal forn

becomes UNCLASSIFIED.)

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

ANT INFORMATION CONTAINED

MERGEN IS UNCCASSIFLED EXCEPT

WERE SHORN OTHERMISE.

CONFIDENTIA"

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Dallas, Texas

March 30, 1966

7/14/93

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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING

9803-Rad/EHt

On the night of March 28, 1966, Mrs. Jean Lollis Hill,

9402 Bluff Creek, Dallas,

Texas, telephone number EV 1-2271,

telephonically contacted

the Dallas Office of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation (FBI) and requested that she be contacted by a

Special Agent familiar with the assassination investigation.

On the morning of March 29, 1966, Mrs. Hill advised

that during the past week she has been telephonically contacted

on several occasions by an individual identifying himself as

De Antonio who indicated he and a Mr. Black were preparing an

educational television documentary concerning the assassination

of President Kennedy and desired to interview her in detail. She

stated that she had not consented to such an interview but on

• BANANAS

the evening of March 28, 1966, two individuals identifying them-

selves as De Antonio and Black, appeared at her residence for the

purpose of interviewing her.

as to the exact nature of their visit and being a school teacher,

herself, doubted that they were endeavoring to compile data

any edicational television documentary relating to the assassination

Mrs. Hill stated that she had previously talked to an

individual named Jones Harris, who was also desiring to interview

her for purposes of a book he was writing and that Jones Harris

had indicated to her that De Antonio was one of "Mark Lane's men."

Mrs. Hill

advised that she specifically asked De Antonio

and Black if they were connected with Mark Lane and De Antonio.

admitted that Mark Lane was "one of their backers." She stated

De Antonio mentioned that some of the backing was coming from

England for his project.

This dosument contains neither recommendations nor

indusions of the FBI. It is the property of the

acd is loaned

to your agency. It and it:

stents are not to be distributed outside your

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE R

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CONTIDENITAL

Re.:

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

Mrs. Hill described De Antonio as a white male, over six

feet tall, weighing about 250 pounds, large build, greyish brown

hair, "sloppy looking", and giving the appearance of one who drinks

excessively.

Black as an

very dark complected, well dressed, 5'11", 170 pounds, black hair.

Mrs. Hill stated that De Antonio and Black tried to con-

vince her that other witnesses to the assassination had talked to

them freely, and indicated that former Chief of Police Jesse E.

Curry, of the Dallas Police Department, would be interviewed by them.

They also indicated that they had talked to individuals who were

on the railroad overpass near the scene of the assassination on

November 22, 1963.

She stated they inferred that they had

someone who had seen everything on November 22, 1963, and specifically

mentioned that they. had someone who saw the shooting come from some

bushes near the Texas SchoolBook Depository building and that some

of the people they were interviewing had never previously been

interviewed by anyone concerning what they saw on November 22, 1963.

On March 28, 1966, Lee E. Bowers, Jr., 1923 View Crest,

Dallas, Texas, telephone DA

7-2528, telephonically advised the

Dallas

Office

of the FBI that one Robert Blake had approached him

on March 26, 1966, concerning the making of a film on the assassin-

ation of President Kennedy.

Bowers advised that he did not have

time to talk to Blake at the time of the approach and that Blake

was supposed to recontact him later.

Mrs.

Jean Lollis Hill, mentioned above, was a witness to

the assassination, and her testimony appears on pages 205 to 223

of Volume VI of the "Hearings Before the President's Commission On

The Assassination of

President Kennedy."

Lee E. Bowers, JI., mentioned above, was an employee of

the Union Terminal Company on duty at the railroad overpass on

November 22, 1963, and his testimony before the President's Commission

appears in Volume VI pages 284 to 289 of the "Hearings Before the

President's Commission On The Assassination of President Kennedy."

Previous investigation has established that one Jones

Harris resided at 242 East 49th Street, New York, New York, in

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PONGINENTAT

WAD BOTAN D 16T

Re:

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

February, 1965, telephone PL 5-8310.

On February 25, 1965, Florance Gaffney, operator of Belles

North Limited Answering Service, basement of apartment house located

at 221 East 78th Street, New York, New York, advised that Jones

Harris, at the above-mentioned New York address, was convinced that

Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate President Kennedy and that

Harris believed Oswald was one of the persons-appearing in a well

published photograph of a group of people appearing in the doorway

of the Texas School Book Depository building on the day of the

assassination.

She indicated that Harris was supported in this

theory by a New York attorney, Arnold Krakower.

Mrs. Gaffney described Harris as a free lance writer, white

male, in his early thirties, short stocky build, about 5'6" tall,

dark hair, balding, and dark eyes.

On January 12, 1966, DL T-1, a confidential source abroad,

furnished information to the effect that Mark Lane had finished

reading the proofs of his book dealing with the assassination of

President Kennedy, entitled "Rush to Judgment." According to this

source, an article appeared in the Danish newspaper "Lolland-Falsters

Folketidende", on January 4, 1966, which related that a documentary

film of full length was expected to be produced dealing with

assassination and founded on Mark Lane's book. The

made by De Antonio, not further identified, and was to be based on

pictures taken by American Broadcasting System and the Columbia

Broadcasting System.

The article indicated that in February, 1966,

Lane and his assistants

were going to Dallas to talk to witnesses

of the assassination. (c)

Warren Allen Reynolds, 8707 Mosswood, Dallas, Texas,

advised the Dallas Office of the FBI on March

30, 1966, that he had

been recently contacted by an Emile de Antonio a producer for

Judgment Films Corporation, New York City, New York, formerly

associated with BBC-TV, New

York City (not

further identified).

Antonio advised Reynolds that his film company was making an educa

tional film regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Antonio

indicated they were staying at the Arlin Motel, Arlington,

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CONFIDENIIAL

Re:

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

Texas,

telephone CIrcle 5-2626, He offered Reynolds $300,00 for a

filmed interview of his participation in the activities that

occurred that day.

Reynolds stated that Antonio and his

associates

had an appointment with him for. later on March 30, 1966.

Warren Allen Reynolds, mentioned above, was a witness

to the shooting of Dallas, Texas, Police Officer d. D. Tippit on

November 22, 1963,

following the assassination of President cohn

F. Kennedy on that date.

Reynolds®

testimony appears on pages 434

to 442 of Volume X I of the "Hearings Before the President's

Commission On The Assassination of President Kennedy."

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