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Journalist Merriman Smith, riding in the motorcade five cars behind President Kennedy, reported seeing Dallas police run up this hill, which he called a grassy knoll. Some witnesses believed shots came from the knoll area, but police found no evidence of a gunman. The wooden stockade fence at the top, rebuilt several times since 1963, is a reproduction of the original fence.
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Dallas, Texas · United States
