Moorman family

Primary Sources

(1) Jean Hill, statement made to the Dallas Police Department (22nd November, 1963)

Mary Moorman started to take a picture. We were looking at the president and Jackie in the back seat... Just as the president looked up two shots rang out and I saw the president grab his chest and fell forward across Jackie's lap... There was an instant pause between two shots and the motorcade seemingly halted for an instant. Three or four more shots rang out and the motorcade sped away. I saw some men in plain clothes shooting back but everything was a blur and Mary was pulling on my leg saying "Get down their shooting".

(2) Federal Bureau of Investigation Report (22nd November, 1963)

Mary Ann Moorman, 2832 Ripplewood, telephone number DA 1-9390, advises that she and a friend named Jean Hill, 9402 Bluff Creek, Dallas, Texas, watched the President Kennedy parade from the grassy area in the parkway between Main and Elm Streets, and at approximately 12:25 p.m, as well as she recalls, she took a photograph of the procession as it proceeded to

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Mary Caroline Moorman

British historian and biographer

Born	Mary Caroline Trevelyan February 19, 1905
Died	January 21, 1994(1994-01-21) (aged 88)
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford
Genre	History, Biography

Mary Caroline Moorman (19 February 1905 - 21 January 1994) was a British historian and biographer.

Life

She was born Mary Caroline Trevelyan, the daughter of the renowned Cambridge historian G. M. Trevelyan. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1930, she published William III and the Defence of Holland, 1672-44. That same year, she married John Moorman, an Anglican cleric who rose to become the Bishop of Ripon.

She is best known today for her two-volume biography of the poet William Wordsworth. The first volume came out in 1957, followed by a second volume in 1966. The latter won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. She was also closely involved with the Wordsworth Trust, serving first as secretary and then as chair of the trust. She died in 1994.^[1]

Works

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  Review of Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography Vol 1.

  ["The Wordsworth Jungle." Review of Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography Vol 1. New Statesman 1356 (9 March 1957): 314.]

   

  Over a period of thirty years Professor de Silencourt and Miss Helen Darbishire have opened up the jungle of Wordsworth documents by a series of determined route-traverses.  Perceptive single studies of Wordsworth have slowly accumulated.  But until the poems had been thoroughly edited from the many surviving manuscripts, the letters collected and put in order, Dorothy’s Journals accurately transcribed and the record of her life set down, the detailed mapping of Wordsworth’s life could not profitably be attempted.  Even when the pioneer work was completed, anybody attempting a fresh critical appraisal of Wordsworth’s poetry was faced with some dispiriting machete work if he was to establish the biographical detail to which the criticism would have to be referred.  This first part of a two-volume Life is therefore welcome and t