Officer Bobby Hargis was the inside rider at the left rear of the limousine. Greenpeace activist since 1985. I have watched that documentary, and I firmly believe that Dino Brugioni is a competent, credible, honest and forth-right expert who clearly and cogently presented evidence that proves the Zapruder film was altered; frames missing, showing more visuals of the brain matter shooting higher up in the air, the motorcade stopping, etc. Soon after, Hill was asked, Was there anything back there that you observed, that she might have been reaching for? His response: I thought I saw something come off the back, too, but I cannot say that there was. This anomaly begins with a frame with two large black lines across the entire image. After: Jackie begins to retreat. There have been many people who have claimed to have seen an unaltered complete filming of the assassination. or as Doug Horne thinks, 'the blob on the side of JFK's head was painted in to fit actions at Bethesda. We KNOW the Muchmore film has an anomaly at Z312-313. 20 frames from the time Webb hit the dirt, until AC made contact. Abe Zapruder had no idea when he took his 8-millimeter camera down to Dealey Plaza that he would record President Kennedy's assassination. These witnesses included Dallas police officers, news media personnel and civilian spectators. For some reason, though, they never discussed their mutual involvement in the events of November 22, 1963. I combined the two versions: This editing out of the stop resulted in my finger looking like it just slowed down. Part of the motorcade route through Dallas. On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson directed the Warren Commission to . It shows the farthest Jackie gets onto the trunk, in this film. What we now know but didnt know previously is that for at least half a day during the weekend following the assassination the film was at a top secret CIA photo lab at the Kodak facility in Rochester, NY, where it may have been altered in various ways. There were several other reports made by witneses in or near Dealey Plaza during the assassination. There is no question that the Zapruder film. It's funny how the Warren Commission apologists have no problem believing ONE witness who says it was Oswald, but can't bring themselves to believe 10 or 20 witnesses who claimed to have seen the same thing. [27], Every frame of the Zapruder film has been put together into a panoramic movie. After "Gimme Shelter" appeared, critic Pauline Kael compared it to the Zapruder film. Pleased with the results, they asked for a 35 mm internegative to be made. I asked Mr. Coburn if his company enlarged the Zapruder film for Life magazine in the days following the assassination. How many people were photographing the motorcade? Again, why Elsie Dorman? But the first thing I remember is after that bottle hit and I looked down . Zapruder was an active member of two CIA proprietary organizations, The Dallas Council On World Affairs, and The Crusade For A Free Europe. For instance, On November 24, 1963, while Lee Harvey Oswald was being moved from a detention cell to an interrogation room . But the Z-film record still stands. 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. I suspect a more complex film simulation could be created to simulate the sequence I describe. John P. Costella, "The New Zapruder Film", "Abraham Zapruder Film | The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza", "JFK Files: Max Holland's 11 Seconds in Dallas", "NOVA | Spies That Fly | Master of the Surveillance Image | PBS", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QIuu6hsAc, "La mort de JFK dans le viseur de Zapruder", "Murder Most Foul | The Official Bob Dylan Site", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zapruder_film&oldid=1149221010, Works about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, United States National Film Registry films, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Articles lacking reliable references from May 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 10 April 2023, at 21:53. It would seem that the composite film was made from a copy that had been reviewed in Washington while Dino Brugioni was printing stills and preparing briefing boards from the original. Orville Nix said that frames from the copy of his film are missing. When did Hill actually grab onto the limousine the first time, before he fell off and got back on again? I have postulated on another thread that what we now see is the remainder of a rear headshot (Rydberg drawing) causing the side blowout and a subsequent frontal headshot causing the rear blowout (excised). Plagued by nightmares of the films gruesome content, Zapruder only allowed the magazine to publish photos of the assassination footage on the condition that it remove frame 313the moment in which Kennedy is shot in the head. Films and photographs are hardly an inviolable form of evidence, as is acknowledged in what many consider the bible on evidence, McCormick on Evidence, 3rd Ed., Edited by Edward W. Cleary, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, 1984. Now everywhere you read about it, you never read about the car stopping. Additionally, Brugioni was certain that the set of briefing boards available to the public in the National Archives is not the set that he and his team produced on November 2324, 1963. There would be a difference between the viewers desired and the viewers who could conceivably see the composite. Dellarosa claimed to have seen the same version and described what he saw in detail, that the limo had a difficult time navigating the turn from Houston onto Elm and that the limo completely stopped. [1] In his 2001 book Tell Me A Story, CBS producer Don Hewitt said that he told Rather to go to Zapruder's home to "sock him in the jaw", take the film, copy it, then return it and let the network's lawyers deal with the consequences. Once in the hands of the Gov't/Media it was Secreted away for over a dozen years and it's contents Lied about by Gov't/Media. The Zapruder film was automatically designated an "assassination record" and therefore became the official property of the United States government. It seems that several witnesses did not hear the actual first shot. One of the sources of controversy with the Warren Report is its difficulty in satisfactorily accounting for the sequencing of the assassination. Ergo, a lone gunman with a single-shot bolt action rifle could not have accomplished both shots. Simply the scene content of the inside of the p. limo. Time Inc. filed a lawsuit against Thompson and his publishing company for copyright infringement. This movement of the limousine is verified by witness Roy Truly, who testified that,"I saw the President's car swerve to the left and stop." As Abe continued to look for a place to stand, Marilyn suggested a four foot-high concrete abutment. [34] The work was done by separate teams that had been compartmentalized and ordered not to speak of their work, causing the teams not to know about each other, even though the personnel from the two teams normally worked together on a daily basis. The footage he captured, less than half a minute long, continues to be studied (and to fuel conspiracy theories) to this very day. Sitzman said that,"He ( Zapruder ) started filming.just before they came around the corner.". HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. [4][5] In a 2015 interview on Opie with Jim Norton, Rather stated that the story was a myth.[6]. Pat, I'm sure the public viewing 313 with the backward head snap were seeing horrific images that didn't add up with the Warren conclusion. Then I saw a flash of pink like someone standing up and sitting down in the car." Mrs. Kennedy had jumped up from the seat and was, it appeared to me, reaching for something coming off the right rear bumper of the car, the right rear tail, when she noticed that I was trying to climb on the car. Editing a stop out is easy. Twenty-two minutes after the assassination, CBS correspondent Walter Cronkite broke into normal broadcasting with a news bulletin and said that "the car stopped momentarily.". Editing a stop out is easy. Zapruder recovered eventually, and the two talked periodically. Zapruder stated that his film was processed at Kodak in Dallas (and there seems to be no reason, other than the above mentioned correspondence, to doubt this). I doubt Hollywood could devise such a cynical, dastardly and devious plot line, yet these actions were completed within hours of the Dallas killing. 1960's. Something happened. 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. 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]. The Truth Behind JFK's Assassination. He was interviewed after the assassination in the Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. Frame 313 of the film captures the fatal shot to the President's head. From those slides, the FBI made a series of black-and-white prints, which were given to the commission for its use. Just about as I reached it, there was another sound, which was different than the first sound. [22], The first broadcast of the Zapruder film was on the late-night television show Underground News with Chuck Collins, originating on WSNS-TV, Ch 44, Chicago in 1970. [24], In April 1975, in settlement of a royalties suit between Time Inc. and Zapruder's heirs that arose from the ABC showing, Time Inc. sold the film's initial rendition and its copyright back to the Zapruder family for the token sum of $1. I decided to do an experiment using my home computer and editing software. Gil - Very concise work and convincing enough to a Z film alteration skeptic like myself. Up on the concrete ledge, Abe looked out for the motorcade. Thats the only smoking gun in the film.. Where are the Zapruder film equivalents to these frames? And that clear frame could not have been created by the camera being still and the limo moving at the same time. That gives one a lot of scenes to use elsewhere. I believe that this proves that this frame is a composite frame, the top half from one frame and the bottom half of another. Louis. https://jfkfacts.org/rewinding-the-zapruder-film/-this is Doug Horne speaking on the Zapruder film. She came upon a diagram, printed in 1963 showing a circle surrounding three snipers in a triangle. Another spot was blocked by a tree. Life brought the original to Washington in February for the Commission's viewing, and also made color 35mm slide enlargements from the relevant frames of the original film for the FBI. . Chaney was the inside rider at the right rear of the limousine. "I saw his head open up and I started yelling, 'They killed him! [8] Copies of the complete film are available on the Internet. The film's physical location remained the same, only its record classification changed. Two days after the assassination he was quoted in the Houston Chronicle as repeating what he had told Baker; thatthe limousine stopped immediately after the first shot. There are serious doubts about whether the film is original and an accurate depiction of the assassination. I heard a loud report which sounded like a firecracker A disturbance in 679X caused me to look forward toward the Presidents car At the moment he was almost sitting erect I heard two [more] reports which I thought were shots and that appeared to me completely different in sound than the first report and were in such rapid succession that there seemed to be practically no time element between them. He combined that information with the shutter speed of the film that documented the shooting. "I mean, it was utter chaos by that time. He tried negotiating with Life for the rights to print important individual frames in his book Six Seconds in Dallas. [10][13]", Source: ( Noel Twyman, Bloody Treason, ( 1995 ) pg. As you will see, he associates that shot with the first time he grabbed the handgrip. The Nix film shows far less detail because it was taken at a distance. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. I. Whether it was filmed by Zapruder or is a completely different film I'll still refer to it in this thread as an unaltered Zapruder film or UZ for short. Dino indicated in the interview that he was positive that they had the original film, and that when they projected it for the two members of the Secret Service, it was the first time they had viewed the film. 7 ) It went in my back and came out my chest about 2 inches below and the left of my right nipple. He told Lane that his film "got lost in the processing plant" and that when he got it back, it was missing frames. He also met with a representative from Life Magazine and agreed to sell all rights to the footage for the sum of $150,000. [39], In 1994, the Zapruder film footage was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for permanent preservation in the National Film Registry. While it wasn't the only recording of the episode, the Zapruder film was used as a centerpiece of the Warren Commission, an investigation mounted by President Lyndon B. Johnson to determine the details of his predecessor's killing.Using the film and a trove of other evidence and testimony . Over on Main, Orville Nix was waiting with a movie camera and color film, as well. Classical musician and author of several sets of trading cards including Iran-Contra Scandal, Bush League, and Coup D'etat JFK assassination. Nov. 18, 2013 -- The 26-second film often regarded as the most famous home movie in history was shot by a Texas dressmaker who initially didn . Those first few seconds of the film are perfect: The sun is shining and you can clearly see the unmistakable, handsome face of the president as he brushes his hair from his face, lowering his arm as he turns toward the crowds on his right, smiling, and raising his hand again to wave briefly. The film was used as evidence in the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot Kennedy from a sixth-floor window at the Texas School Book Depository. Abraham Zapruder is sometimes presented as a forefather of all citizen journalists. But you can tell a lot about where he stood from his film itself. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window), https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-zapruder-film. Like Zapruder, her video has an interesting anomaly just before the head shot. A small number of witnesses said shooting happened there. I heard a noise from my right rear, which to me seemed to be a firecracker. Reymond's depiction of what he saw in the "other" Zapruder film is verified by Dellarosa, who described it in more detail: But the reports of these two witnesses are not the only reports that the limousine stopped. It is a difficult film to look at and doesnt really show that much. The other day I was trying to make sense of some strange discrepancies in what a Secret Service agent said about what he saw when President John F. Kennedy was shot. Director Oliver Stone paid over $85,000 to the Zapruder family for use of the Zapruder film in his motion picture JFK (1991). (This has implications for jiggle analysis the correlation of a shot with film blur caused by a photographers startle reflex. 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. On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder shot what has become the most famous home movie of all time: a chilling 26-second snippet of film depicting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The model then calculated how the bullet would have acted when it entered President Kennedys skull if it came from behind. Brugioni prepared identical one sheet of notes that accompanied each set the briefing boards, which included the name of each person who had seen the film and worked on the production of the prints and briefing boards. But, there are other things to consider. This is why the images don't line up in the frame and why the edges of the frame don't line up when the images do. " 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. Have you ever wondered why no one on Houston Street or on Elm Street, except Abe Zapruder, filmed the p. limo from the passenger side? So here is my question. Marie Muchmore filmed the motorcade from the same side as Nix, on the south side of Elm. This film is under most peoples radar. Zapruder died in 1970, but Life Magazine later sold the film back to his family in 1975 for the token sum of $1.00. The public's response and outrage to that television showing quickly led to the forming of the Hart-Schweiker investigation, which contributed to the Church Committee Investigation on Intelligence Activities by the United States, and resulted in the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation. 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. One of those officers who spoke to Baker was motorcycle officer James Chaney who told him thatfrom the time the first shot rang out, the car stopped completely, pulled to the left, and stopped. ( ibid. ) and told them that"I could see the President's car and another one and they looked like the cars were stopped. Milicent Cranor is a senior editor at WhoWhatWhy. Then someone behind them dropped a soda bottle, which made a loud crack and shattered on the concrete. all three of these films were altered, or. I thank Pamela Brown, a flautist and JFK assassination researcher, for her help in understanding certain aspects of Kennedys limousine. Each frame of the film was 1/18th of a second apart. Another reference point is the moment a photographer takes a picture. The film has been featured in films and other media, such as the Oliver Stone film JFK. Part way, I stopped it for about two seconds, then resumed the movement. There are 108+ witnesses who say something different happened than the favored conspiracy theories based on the Zapruder Film, or the Official Story about what happened during the assassination. The Zapruder film gives a much closer view of the action, and of whatever may have landed on the trunk as a result of JFKs 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. I'm thinking an independent team of nominal Secret Service agents (actually CIA?) I believe this is so you would not recognize anything in another film that would match the Zapruder Film or come even close to matching the Zapruder Film. The reel would then be removed from the camera (a process which could take place in subdued light), the feed and take-up reels swapped and reloaded so that the other half of the film could be exposed in a process analogous to half-track audio tape.
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