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. 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. Editing a stop out is easy. There was a risk, however: He would need to set the telephoto lens on full zoom in order to get a clear view of them, and he worried that he would get dizzy standing up on the ledge while following them through the lens as they passed by. By 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. At first glance, the notion that the Zapruder film might have been tampered with seems far-fetched. Based on the Elsie Dorman film, heres what I think really happened in the alteration of the Z film. As television station WFAA's equipment was incompatible with the format, Eastman Kodak's Dallas film processing facility developed the film and Jamieson Film Company produced three copies. and told them that"I could see the President's car and another one and they looked like the cars were stopped. The 26-second Zapruder film of Kennedy's assassination marked the pre-dawn of the viral video . Dutton, a comedy ghostwriter, and editor of consequential legal and scientific documents. With fidelity to the true personality and essence of the man, the film also follows Abraham Zapruder, the small-business man who filmed the shooting on his Super 8 camera, and who - in a touching . She also focuses on the Warren Commission testimony of Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who jumped onto the back of the Presidents limousine. She has been a regular contributor to History.com since 2017. With fidelity to the true personality and essence of the man, the film also follows Abraham Zapruder, the businessman who filmed the shooting on his Super 8 camera, and who was devastated by what . 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. I proved that. So, that's quite a conundrum. The provenance of the Zapruder film was firmly established and the film was regarded as the single most reliable piece of assassination evidence. This is representative of the frames on Houston Street. Mark Tyler on a thread here looked into the ear witness testimony and that points to two shots around the time of the headshot. article by attorney and JFK researcher Carol Hewett that is just stunning, rich in insight and very hard-to-get information. Classical musician and author of several sets of trading cards including Iran-Contra Scandal, Bush League, and Coup D'etat JFK assassination. Up on the concrete ledge, Abe looked out for the motorcade. So here is my question. That person was a 58-year old Dallas dress manufacturer, Abraham Zapruder, who died in 1970. Nallis not the first person to use physics to model the bullets trajectorythe head wound and ballistics are covered in-depth in theWarren Report. 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. The film has been featured in films and other media, such as the Oliver Stone film JFK. But, writes Nalli, his model is unique in that it focuses on the forward motion of the presidents head after he was shot. The car dips into the lower part of the camera frame, and as the president's body sinks down in the car toward his wife, the fatal shot strikes him. That person was a 58-year old Dallas dress manufacturer, Abraham Zapruder, who died in 1970. One of the first-generation Secret Service copies was loaned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Washington, D.C., which made a second-generation copy. In chapter 8 of his outstanding book Survivors Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy (2013), Vince Palamera counted 59 witnesses who reported that the limo stopped or slowed down. Incredibly, the Zapruder film was withheld from the American public for nearly 12 years. 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. Like many other witnesses, Hill apparently did not hear the first shot, nor did he hear the one that struck JFK in the head before he reached the car. Hunt, the Dallas oil man. He tried negotiating with Life for the rights to print important individual frames in his book Six Seconds in Dallas. These witnesses directly contradict the Zapruder Film and all of the frames past Z 133. He combined that information with the shutter speed of the film that documented the shooting. I guess there was a noise, but it didnt seem like any different noise really because there is so much noise, motorcycles and things. JFK Assassination Film: Proof of Tampering? This is crudely done since I am not a film editor. Despite the film's pro-Stones bias, Selvin notes that the . "[19], In 1967, Life hired New Jersey film lab Manhattan Effects to make a 16 mm film copy of the Zapruder film's original version. 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". J.W. Senator Ralph Yarborough ( D-Texas ), who was riding two cars behind Kennedy, was interviewed by Geraldo Rivera in 1975. This missing part of the film, the frames between Z 132 and Z 133, could contain frames for 21 seconds. The courtroom showings of Garrison's copy in 1969 were the first time it had been shown in public as a film. Then there is a following frame with the same two large black lines across the image. But what they dont tell you is that, depending on the location of the witness in relation to the shooter, two shots can sound like one. The following excerpt from .css-gegin5{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#9a0500;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-gegin5:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Twenty-Six Seconds by Zapruder's granddaughter Alexandra details how he captured history, and what happened next. 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. Music. He and his team then made up two identical sets of briefing boards, one set for CIA Director John McCone and one for the Secret Service, but both were eventually delivered to the CIA Director who would in turn provide a set to the Secret Service. What happened? To a large extent, the non-technical aspects of that discussion revolve around the questions of when and where any substitution or . But it's difficult to believe that all of these witnesses could have simply been mistaken about what they observed. I put my right foot, I believe it was, on the left rear step of the automobile, and I had a hold of the handgrip with my hand, when the car lurched forward. Director Oliver Stone paid over $85,000 to the Zapruder family for use of the Zapruder film in his motion picture JFK (1991). Part of the motorcade route through Dallas. Based upon the jotted-down notations found in the 1963 Datebook of an amoral clandestine government henchman, we now know the identities of some of the . Some of the alterations in the Zapruder film, therefore, may have consisted of simply deleting certain frames, making copies of the edited version and renumbering the frames. I believe that this proves that this frame is a composite frame, the top half from one frame and the bottom half of another. 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. So anyway, he walked in, and he handed me the camera. The only two I am aware of are DellaRosa and Burnham. Or even the next one. She came upon a diagram, printed in 1963 showing a circle surrounding three snipers in a triangle. (Documented below.). The second one had almost a double 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. ", Zapruder insisted that frame 313 be excluded from publication. When we contemplate the possibility the Zapruder film was altered, we tend to think first of the type of alteration accomplished by replacing authentic frames with forged or composite frames. This film is under most peoples radar. 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. I happened to be looking right at him when that bullet hit him the second shot it looked like it hit him somewhere along about a little bit behind the ear and a little bit above the ear. And that moment does not show on the Zapruder film. Besides it shows Houston Street and everybody, I mean everybody, knows the assassination happened on Elm Street down in front of the Grassy Knoll. The President and Mrs. Kennedy shared a limousine with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie. If it is a small number of people as versus a large number, then folks are apt to go with the larger number using things like what is said above. (1 HSCA 42). This film has been edited. 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. She has also co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles for medical journals. 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). 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. 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. Excepta large percentage of those suspecting a conspiracy were swayed to do so after viewing the film, and the public viewing of the film led the public to call for a second investigation, which led to the HSCA.
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