Mr. SPECTER. Do you know who that Secret Service man was, by the way?
Mrs. HILL. No; I don't. I don't know--not any name that day except
Decker and the President.
Mr. SPECTER. All right, go ahead and tell me everything else you said.
Mrs. HILL. Then, he asked me--I was asked did I know that a bullet
struck at my feet and I said, "No; I didn't." And he said, "What do
you think that dust was?" And I said, "I didn't see any dust." And I
told Mark Lane that the Times Herald did run a picture in the paper of
a concrete scar where a bullet had hit right where we were standing,
which is evident to anybody that had an issue of the Times Herald.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see that concrete?
Mrs. HILL. I didn't go back down there.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know whether or not a bullet did hit that concrete?
Mrs. HILL. As I say, I saw the picture in the newspaper.
Mr. SPECTER. Aside from seeing it in the newspaper, do you know
anything about that?
Mrs. HILL. No; other than what the man said he saw out of the window of
the courthouse, the Secret Service man said and it struck at my feet,
other than that--I don't know.
Mr. SPECTER. What else did you tell Mark Lane?
Mrs. HILL. So, he asked me, "Did you have to stay down there or did you
stay of your own accord?" And I said, "No; we had stay there." He said
something--he said, "Were you threatened or something?" And I told him
I wasn't threatened, but--he said, "How do you know you were held?"
Or something like that, and I said, "Because I tried to leave twice.
At one time I saw people I knew on the street and I was going to go
down and talk to them and I went down and they came down and got me,
and another time I went down when the evening edition of the paper hit
the street and two men," and I told him, I did not tell him they were
Secret Service men, but they were men from the sheriff's office. There
were some kind of deputy or something that came down and took me back
and they were not playing. They meant to take me back. They did take my
arms and I knew I was going, because I just kept standing on the corner
saying, "No; I don't want to go back yet. Please let me stay down here
just a little while." They did make us go back in there.
Mr. SPECTER. Where were they from?
Mrs. HILL. They were from the sheriff's office, they were just
deputies--they weren't FBI or Secret Service.
Mr. SPECTER. Was it after that that you gave the affidavit to the
sheriff?
Mrs. HILL. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. What else did you tell Mark Lane?
Mrs. HILL. Well, I told him that my story had already been given, that
they had an affidavit down there, and he said, "Were you ever at any
time--" I think he said, "Were you ever at any time told not to say
something or this, that, and the other," and I said, "The only thing
that I was told not to say was to not mention the man running," and he
said, "And why?" And I said, "Well, it was an FBI or Secret Service
that told me not to, but they came in to me just right after I was
taken--I was in there in the pressroom, and told me in fact--I told
him it was Featherstone that told me. He said, "You know you were wrong
about seeing a man running." He said, "You didn't."
Mr. SPECTER. Who told you you were wrong--Featherstone or Lane?
Mrs. HILL. Featherstone. And I told him that--I told Mr. Lane that Mr.
Featherstone had told me that, and I said, "But I did," and he said,
"No; don't say that any more on the air."