Interview With JFK Assassination Witness Mary Lea Williams In Dealey Plaza

[Duncan MacRae]

Interview With JFK Assassination Witness Mary Lea Williams In Dealey Plaza

Thanks to Steve Barber For Supplying The Woman's Name and further Information.

See Steve's Post Below

[Steve Barber]

Her name is Mary Lea Williams.

I found this video and posted this video on my Facebook on Sunday, and was shocked to see the full interview of this woman within it. She has a very brief spot in the documentary "Four Days in November, from 1964.
Although the film crew mentioned her name as "Mrs___", the microphone didnt capture her ful lastl name, and Bill Brown took the time to figure out the portion of her last name as it appears.
He then responded to my FB post , and posted her affidavit as published in the 26 volumes of the WR. She worked at the TSBD. My first thought was that she was the woman standing with Doris Mumford near the lamppost as seen in the Z film and Bronson photo.  According to her, though, she was standing with 4 other women who worked at the TSBD, and a 4 year old child of one of the women.  Warren Commission exhibit 1381 is her affidavit.

 Video:

Miss Williams appears at 1:06 into the video. 

[Duncan MacRae]

Her name is Mary Lea Williams.

Thanks, Steve. 

Mary Lea Williams (3-20-64 statement to the FBI, 22H682) “I am a female caucasian, born...on October 19, 1904...I...have been employed by Allyn and Bacon, Inc...for the last fifteen years. On November 22, 1963, I left the Depository building at approximately 12:20 PM to view the arrival of the Presidential motorcade. I was accompanied by Mrs. Sue Dickerson, Billie Clay, and Ruth Hendrix, all employees of Allyn and Bacon, Inc, and Mrs. John Hawkins and her four year-old son, John. Mrs. Hawkins is wife of John Hawkins, an agent for Allyn and Bacon, Inc...Our group took up a position along the motorcade route about halfway between the first and second light poles on the curbside slightly west of the Depository building. We were on the north side of Elm Street as it leads into the underpass. Following the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, we continued to stand in that area for another five to ten minutes and then returned to the Depository building and stood in the lobby of the building where we could hear a radio report of the condition of the President. After a few minutes in the lobby, I returned to the Allyn and bacon, Inc offices...I do not recall having ever seen Lee Harvey Oswald at any time on or prior to November 22, 1963.” 

[Bill Brown]

Her name is Mary Lea Williams.

I found this video and posted this video on my Facebook on Sunday, and was shocked to see the full interview of this woman within it. She has a very brief spot in the documentary "Four Days in November, from 1964.
Although the film crew mentioned her name as "Mrs___", the microphone didnt capture her ful lastl name, and Bill Brown took the time to figure out the portion of her last name as it appears.
He then responded to my FB post , and posted her affidavit as published in the 26 volumes of the WR. She worked at the TSBD. My first thought was that she was the woman standing with Doris Mumford near the lamppost as seen in the Z film and Bronson photo.  According to her, though, she was standing with 4 other women who worked at the TSBD, and a 4 year old child of one of the women.  Warren Commission exhibit 1381 is her affidavit.

 Video:

Miss Williams appears at 1:06 into the video.

Happy to help.

[David Von Pein]

Good find!

After seeing this woman briefly in David Wolper's "Four Days In November" film, I always wondered what her name was.

Mrs. Williams' March '64 statement can also be seen in CD706 (below):

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11104#relPageId=103

[Denis Morissette]

This is the correct sequence: Steve Barber posted the YouTube video but had no clue of the name. Bill Brown said he heard the name Williams. I searched for a female Williams who would have given an affidavit. I found one Mary Williams who did. I googled her name and found a photo of her in the link below.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114549049/mary-lea-williams?fbclid=IwZnRzaARWZX5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeJOJYTS8_-kvofjcQcUGF_LlxhdDmXlY9zpcAX5Web4eIiY27gl-pji6MuEI_aem_ZNZjCiEn3aZAwFQJMZr8Yw

[Denis Morissette]

It’s been a good week. First I found the name of the mysterious Japanese reporter who is seen everywhere on the assassination weekend. The name was discovered by Dale Myers last year. Now this previously unknown Dealey Plaza witness. This appears to be AP footage. There were several AP photographers with still-photo and moving-picture cameras, but so few images have been published. There must hundreds of unpublished AP photos and films.