Wayne and Edna Hartman

[Dealey Joe]

Wayne and Edna Hartman were near Dealey Plaza when the shots rang out. They ran through the Plaza and encountered a policeman on the grassy knoll. Edna Hartman later recalled to Jim Marrs, "He pointed to some bushes near the railroad tracks on the north side of the street and said that's where the shots came from. . . . Then I noticed these two parallel marks on the ground that looked like mounds made by a mole. I asked, 'What are these, mole hills?' and the policeman said, 'Oh no, ma'am, that's where the bullets struck the ground'" (Marrs, Crossfire, 315-16). Photographer Hugh Betzner noticed "police officers and some men in plain clothes . . . digging around in the dirt as if they were looking for a bullet"