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Permalink Reply by James on March 8, 2015 at 10:54pm

You are definitely on top of this. Those are clearly forgeries as you say. Good catch. No doubt that Clint Hill has been a prolific signer. As far as that one regarding his thoughts on the assassination, from my understanding he (at least publicly) says that Oswald acted alone. Although there is simply too much evidence that clearly points to a conspiracy.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa McCubbin on March 10, 2015 at 2:01pm

You are correct that the page on the right is a forgery.  I showed your photo to Clint Hill and he said, "That is absolutely not my handwriting."  

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Permalink Reply by Joe Alesi on March 10, 2015 at 3:05pm

Hi Lisa!

What can be done about this forger who's selling Clint's autographs? It's especially reprehensible that he is not only forging Clint's signature, but answering personal questions allegedly posed to Clint! The guy sold some originals from Clint, and then started producing his own!! I tried to contact ebay but I was ignored. Maybe in your position you would have more sway.

I just finished reading Mrs. Kennedy And Me. I was at the talk by Ruth Paine in Sonoma in 2013 (I live in Santa Rosa) but I only found out later that you and Clint were there. I took three pictures, but it took me over a year to realize that I might have a photo of Clint and Ruth meeting. I sent the photo to Clint and he verified it was him and signed it for me. Last week I went to see Ruth where she lives and she also signed it. It's quite unique! I've become acquainted with both Ruth and Michael Paine who is also now living where Ruth lives and I've spent some time talking to both of them.

Over the last couple of years I've built a nice collection of autographs of people associated with the assassination. I've got many through the mail, and bought some on ebay (deceased individuals.)

I hope there is something that can be done about this seller on ebay. He's also sold a couple of bogus Marina Oswald Porter signatures and even Jim Leavelle, who also will sign freely. I contacted him about the Marina signatures and he blew it off.

Please open the attachment to see the picture of Ruth and Clint

 

Best Regards,

 

Joe Alesi

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• Ruth Paine meets Clint Hill.jpg, 1.4 MB

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Permalink Reply by Lisa McCubbin on March 10, 2015 at 3:12pm

Hi Joe

Nice photo! I don't know what can be done about the forgeries. Hopefully collectors like yourself can continue warning people that there may be fakes out there and advise folks to beware. I do know that Mr. Hill does not make any money on the signatures. He merely gets requests from people and signs what people send him. His philosophy is if he signs enough, his signature won't be worth much!

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Permalink Reply by Joe Alesi on March 31, 2015 at 12:26am

callmedoc2010 is at it again on Ebay with Clint Hill forgeries: 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLINT-HILL-SIGNED-IMAGE-PRES-KENNEDY-ASSASS...

He's recently been listing genuine Clint Hill items and even has a couple in his current offerings, but this blatant forgery is going to sell nevertheless. He sold the same picture and forged autograph on Feb 25 for $32.33. Ironically, some of his genuine Hill autographs have sold for as little as 69 cents!

Go here to see sold Clint Hill items: 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=callmedoc2010&hash=item35e7...

As stated previously all his forgeries have a loop passing through the first line of the letter H in Hill. He's sold plenty of them! He's also sold bogus James Leavelle and Marina Oswald Porter autographs. The JFK assassination is not his only specialty so God knows what other fakes he has interspersed with his genuine autographs.

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