[38] Kodak engineer Ronald Zavada ran experiments with the film Abraham Zapruder used and concluded that the film is authentic. [21] Zapruder's film was aired as part of a Los Angeles area television newscast on February 14, 1969. Changing the direction of the head was not. There are many strange content images in the Zapruder Film. In the following excerpts from Hills testimony before the Warren Commission, you will find specific reference points that seem to nail down the exact moment he heard the headshot. James Norwood, a retired professor of Humanities, University of Minnesota, was perhaps the first to point out what seems to be a definitive discrepancy: In the Zapruder film of the assassination, Jackie goes only just beyond the middle of the trunk before retreating. The camera had a governor control, so its speed was constant. ( 7 H 572 ) That is about 20% of the witnesses in Dealey Plaza. It seems that several witnesses did not hear the actual first shot. From his perch, what . NARA may make a single fair-use copy of the film and sell it to any researcher. Life refused to approve the use of any of the frames, even after Thompson offered to give all profits from the book sales to Life. [His secretary] Lillian remembered that "Everybody was going nuts, turning on the television. Witnesses can make errors, earnest errors. ( pronounced Itek ) He believed that this was a copy from an original film owned by H.L. or as Doug Horne thinks, 'the blob on the side of JFK's head was painted in to fit actions at Bethesda. Before looking at stills from these rather fuzzy films, you may want to see a good clear picture of the trunk, and the reference points that help nail down Jackies location on the trunk at various times: the seatback, the handholds, and the word on the side of the limousine (Continental). Heres what I cant sort out: His stories do not agree with the films, and the films do not seem to agree with each other. If Clint Hill told the truth when he testified before the Warren Commission, then without knowing it he witnessed a second head shot. Only one person filmed from start to finish the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred in a matter of seconds at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, 1963 on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, TX. I just laid down over on the ground [urged by another witness to get down] and when that third shot rung out and when I was close to the ground you could tell the shot was coming from above and kind of behind. But then suddenly Governor Connally was yelling . I believe the top half is the limo stopped and the bottom half when they get going. Even today, the Zapruder film is seen as evidence in countless conspiracy theories about who shot the president. What he said seems to suggest he saw Kennedy being shot in the head for a second time immediately after the first time. The Truth Behind JFK's Assassination. Because the film is unique, its value was difficult to ascertain; eventually, following arbitration with the Zapruder heirs, the government purchased the film in 1999 for $16 million; however, at that time, the family retained copyright to the film. After it was shown on National TV in 1975 Life magazine sold it back to the Zapruder family for $1.00. Holland and Rush argue that the break in the Zapruder film might conceal a first shot earlier than analysts have hitherto assumed, and point out that in this case a horizontal traffic mast would temporarily have obstructed Oswald's view of his target. Louis. Consider the distance between Jackies right hand and the left handhold grasped by Clint Hill. Zapruder wasn't only a 33 Degree and a Jew. [note 2] As required by the US federal law for such a seizure under eminent domain, payment to Zapruder's heirs was attempted. He was by himself on the plaza, distraught and in a daze, with the camera still in his hand and the case slung over his shoulder, when he encountered Harry McCormick, a reporter from the Dallas Morning News. Something happened. By the way, h ere's something that The Wikipedia thought important to leave out from the Zapruder film narrative. When theWarren Commission issued its report on the assassination in 1964, it concluded that Oswald had shot the president from behind. . A U.S. District Court ruled in 1968 that the Time Inc. copyright of the Zapruder film was not violated by invoking the doctrine of fair use. And that clear frame could not have been created by the camera being still and the limo moving at the same time. Orville Nix said that frames from the copy of his film are missing. Dutton, a comedy ghostwriter, and editor of consequential legal and scientific documents. In addition, the motion picture film experts who have had access to the Zapruder film in the past and pronounced it to be unaltered have all had connections to the suspected forger, the CIA. The original film was retained by Zapruder, in addition to one of the copies. I proved that. So if the blurred frames were caused by Zapruder moving the camera in order to keep up with the movement of the limo,by his own admission the "clear" frame ( 312 ) must have been caused by the camera taking a "still". Other witnesses had the same impression. Time Inc. filed a lawsuit against Thompson and his publishing company for copyright infringement. Asked about the origin of the second shot he heard: It was right, but I cannot say for sure that it was rear, because when I mounted the car it was it had a different sound than the first sound that I heard. But, there are other things to consider. all 10 of the witnesses listed above were wrong. And, gives rise to the question "How could I have missed that?". The first researcher to call attention to the possibility of a limousine stop was Mark Lane, who in his book A Citizens Dissent (1968) wrote:A considerable body of testimony before the [Warren] Commission indicated that the limousine slowed abruptly and then accelerated rapidly when the shots were fired. Either: a.) Your explanation is logical. For some reason, though, they never discussed their mutual involvement in the events of November 22, 1963. Others, notably David Josephs think the time might be 15 seconds. ( Decker Exhibit 5323, 19 H 467 ) Gil Jesus has created a simple simulation to show the effect of frame removal. Statements by Zapruder and Marilyn Sitzman, the woman who assisted him while he operated his camera, suggested that he DID film the turn onto Elm Street. Besides it shows Houston Street and everybody, I mean everybody, knows the assassination happened on Elm Street down in front of the Grassy Knoll. I couldnt reconcile those differences. [33] Horne discovered the NPIC worked on two different versions of the Zapruder film on Saturday and Sunday nights immediately following the assassination, which had occurred on Friday. Mary Moorman and James Altgens, their cameras loaded with black-and-white film, were positioned near the curb across the street from where Abe was standing. Chaney was never called to testify before the Warren Commission. She has also co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles for medical journals. What exactly did McMahon and Hunter say about the version they received, in contrast to what Brugioni describes receiving in the Horne film? It seemed everyone had the same idea. Her book, The Heroine's Bookshelf (Harper), won the Colorado Book Award for nonfiction. The Zapruder film gives a much closer view of the action, and of whatever may have landed on the trunk as a result of JFK's devastating wound which might suggest a shot from the front a possibility that would raise serious questions about the official narrative of the assassination, that JFK was shot from behind. This is from Wikipedia, ", Dino Brugioni says that he and his team examined the 8mmZapruder filmof the John F. Kennedy assassination the evening of Saturday 23 November 1963 and into the morning of Sunday 24 November 1963, when he was the weekend duty officer at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center. Brugioni was considered the world's foremost imagery intelligence analyst until his death in 2015. An example of this type of forgery would be to remove any frames depicting the limousine making the sharp turn from Houston Street to Elm Street. Until a few years ago, the authenticity and reliability of the extant Zapruder film was accepted by almost all JFK assassination researchers, even the severest critics of the Warren Report, myself included. All Rights Reserved. You may be wondering at this point: How could anyone with normal hearing not have heard that first loud bang? The film's physical location remained the same, only its record classification changed. JFK is hit in the head before he reaches the car, or so it appears on that badly damaged film. (Documented below.). The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a Bell & Howell home-movie camera, as United States President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.It captured the assassination of the President.. Before: Z-368, Z-369, Z-370, Z-371, Z-372, Z-373, Z-374. Look at these two photos. Twyman continues: "I called Mr. Coburn and he told me that his optical printers in those days could certainly capture all of the information on 8mm film, between the sprocket holes and even beyond the edges of the film if one wanted. But we know from all the films that JFK was shot in the head almost immediately after Hill got off the running board of the follow-up car. Mo Weitzman made several internegatives in 1968, giving the best to Life and retaining the test copies. Camera in hand, my grandfather Abe Zapruder went down to Dealey Plaza to scout out a location. By The Russian-born Zapruder was a clothing manufacturer whose office sat across the street from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. In his testimony before the Warren Commission, Zapruder said that the cause of the blurred frames was because he was moving the camera. In this context I would like to suggest it was the Elsie Dorman film that did just that. The Nix film shows far less detail because it was taken at a distance. Many witness stories suggest JFK was hit more than once in the head in a flurry of shots fired close together. She turned toward me and I grabbed her and put her back in the back seat. In Harry's account, it was he who told Abe that the Secret Service would want to see the film, and he offered to get Dallas Secret Service chief Forrest Sorrels and bring him to Jennifer Juniors [the business which Abe owned]. It would have been impossible to alter the film in such a way as to depict the movement of the head as being anything other than what it was. There has been much recent discussion and debate about the authenticity of the Zapruder film of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. "And then I realized," Abe said. But the first thing I remember is after that bottle hit and I looked down . However, numerous Dealey Plaza witnesses reported that during the time the limousine was under fire it came to a complete but brief stop. Dellarosa was emphatic in his observation that the limo came to a complete stop.The Turn Onto Elm St. The Model 414 PD held a reel of 16mm film which was first run in one direction, with half of the width of the film being exposed. The testimonies of Brugioni, McMahon & Hunter along with the chain of custody of the camera original & its Dallas copies are to me the 'rosetta stone' of JFKA conspiracy. JFK - The Zapruder Film - What REALLY HappenedAccording to the late Richard Della Rosa who saw the other Zapruder film twice this is what really happen. His analogy, standing against something metal strongly suggests he was in contact with the car when JFK was shot in the head. "The Zapruder film shows President Kennedy being shot from behind and not from the infamous grassy knoll, in corroboration of the official autopsy findings," says Nalli in a release. To see a slow motion of the sequence showing Jackie on the trunk, please go here. To a large extent, the non-technical aspects of that discussion revolve around the questions of when and where any substitution or . "I saw the president lean over to Jacqueline. According to an undated, unpublished transcript of an interview he had with the Dallas Times-Herald, Hargis told repeated:I felt blood hit me in the face, and the presidential car stopped immediately after that and stayed stopped about half a second, then took off at a high rate of speed. (To see some astounding examples concerning the medical evidence, please go here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.). It shows one that had already started. The problem is not . They moved toward the pergola where the Hesters had been standing during the motorcade, but in the panic and chaos, Abe soon got separated from the rest of them. The President and Mrs. Kennedy shared a limousine with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie. Part way, I stopped it for about two seconds, then resumed the movement. Lots of evidence attractively meets this theory (Gil Jesus has summarised a lot of it). The Zapruder film is easily the most analyzed film, ever. [8] Copies of the complete film are available on the Internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGdM7ut-Kk4, http://assassinationofjfk.net/the-two-npic-zapruder-film-events-signposts-pointing-to-the-films-alteration/, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sitzman.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rich-Dellarosa-The-Turn-onto-Elm.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Z-film-no-turn.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cronkite.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/William-Reymond-The-Limo-Stop.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rich-Dellarosa-The-Limo-Stop.mp4, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40392#relPageId=82, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/yarborough-car-stopped.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rich-Dellarosa-blurred-vs-sharp.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/motion-edit.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nix-altered.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Muchmore-Film.mp4, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/muchmore1.png, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/muchmore2.png, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/muchmore3.png, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/muchmore.png, https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/muchmore4.png, https://jfkfacts.org/rewinding-the-zapruder-film/. That same year, the family donated all copyrights on the film to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. But we do know that a tremendous amount of chicanery has been performed in the presentation of evidence in this entire case. [32], The authenticity of the image in frame 313 was challenged by Douglas Horne, Senior Analyst for the Assassination Records Review Board and Dino Brugioni of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). " Jackie recoils, her mouth open in horror, and suddenly she is climbing out of the open- top car, scrambling on the back hood of the limousine, met by Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who pushes her back down into the seat. That person was a 58-year old Dallas dress manufacturer, Abraham Zapruder, who died in 1970. In early 1967, Life released a statement saying that four frames of the original (frames 208211) were accidentally destroyed, and the adjacent frames damaged, by a Life photo lab technician on November 23, 1963. [21], On October 26, 1992, then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush signed into law the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (the "JFK Act"), which sought to preserve for historical and governmental purposes all records related to President Kennedy's assassination. And he mixed in the claims of the official story, as if they were his own observations. She also focuses on the Warren Commission testimony of Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who jumped onto the back of the Presidents limousine. From those slides, the FBI made a series of black-and-white prints, which were given to the commission for its use. John Costella said the film was technically perfect except for small, technical changes in the film. The film is simply a badly distorted film which does not show the assassination. [16] In response to an inquiry, then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wrote in 1965 that frames 314 and 315 had been swapped due to a printing error, and that that error did not exist in the original Warren Commission exhibits. Her right elbow is above the word Continental on the side of the car. especially clear copy of Zapruder frame #375, frames from the copy of his film are missing, shooting a revolver into a hard object it seemed to have some type of an echo, Between the time I originally grabbed the handhold and until I was up on the car the second noise that I heard had removed a portion of the Presidents head, reaching for something coming off the right rear bumper of the car, the right rear tail, when I mounted the car it was it had a different sound, as though you were standing against something metal and firing into it, and you hear both the sound of a gun going off and the sound of the cartridge hitting the metal place, The right rear portion of his head was missing, Emmett Hudson, Dealey Plaza groundskeeper, Associated Press photographer James W. Altgens. Nallis not the first person to use physics to model the bullets trajectorythe head wound and ballistics are covered in-depth in theWarren Report. Below is an especially clear copy of Zapruder frame #375. Can you visually identify anyone in the p. limo? Furthermore, it is indisputable that various official documents as well as other key assassination-related materials have been falsified, replaced or destroyed. Title 8, Chapter 21, Demonstrative Evidence; Section 214: The principle upon which photographs are most commonly admitted into evidence is the same as that underlying the admission of illustrative drawings, maps, and diagrams. I thank Pamela Brown, a flautist and JFK assassination researcher, for her help in understanding certain aspects of Kennedys limousine. The stories I find the most convincing are those involving a reference point associated with the sound of the shot, as shown in the case of Clint Hill. After having a nightmare in which he saw a sign in Times Square, New York City, with the phrase "See the President's head explode! (Unless Mr. Palamara knows different.). I sometimes wonder if the original film had images of JFK being hit from the front PRIOR to disappearing behind the Stemmons sign, and 'jumping up' as some witnesses described.
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