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Agency: DOS
Originator: FBI
From: FBI DALLAS
Document date: 03/30/1966
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION •

AGENCY : DOS

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RECORDS SERIES

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 39-141-046

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KENNEDY, JOHN F.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

In Reply, Please Refer, to

1 tle 110.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Dallas, Texas

March

30, 1966

stair

CONFICIAL

To Sile

4C. stigguis

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING

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

9402 Bluff Creek, Dallas, Texas, telephone number EV 1-2271,

Reviswe

telephonically contacted

the Dallas Office of the Federal Bureay

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

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 contacte

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

stated that she had not consented to such an interview but

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

a yet die antonio and back epeared at her residen der thel

purpose of interviewing her.

She stated that she questioned them

release or declassification of this document is fait do

The Department of State has no objection io the

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

herself, doubted that they were endeavoring to compile data for

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.

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This document contains neither recommendations nor

mciusions of the FBI. It is

the property of the

and is

loaned to your agency. It and

it

conionis are not to be distributed outside your

a"eRCy.

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OFFICE OF SEQURITY

APR 2 2 1966

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CONFIDENTIAL

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.

She described

Black as an Italian-looking individual,

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, Jr., 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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CONFIDENTIAL

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 the.

assassination and founded on Mark Lane's book.

The film was to be

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.

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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1U G bilk

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 J. D. Tippit on

November 22, 1963, following the assassination of President John

F. Kennedy on that date.

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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