Jean Hill

Who was Jean Hill?

Norma Jean Lollis Hill was an eyewitness to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. She was known as the "Lady in Red" because of the long red raincoat she wore that day, as seen in the Zapruder Film of the assassination. In the 1991 Oliver Stone film JFK, she was portrayed by Ellen McElduff.

Many of Hill's claims have been officially disputed. Among other things, she claimed to have seen Jack Ruby, the killer of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, at the scene of the assassination in Dealey Plaza when other witnesses placed him in the offices of The Dallas Morning News at the time. In 1992, she co-wrote a book titled The Last Dissenting Witness, in which she claimed that her reported testimony before the Warren Commission was fabricated by the commission.