Figure 5 shows Zapruder Frames Z313-Z316, which capture the "back and to the left" motion exhibited by the President immediately after the bullet impact. Advertising Notice If you were born at any time during the 20th century, then youve likely seen the Zapruder film a hundred times already. No one adding or subtracting frames to the film on the weekend of the 22nd would have known of the existence and significance of the DPD Dictabelt tape which had fortuitously recorded the sound of the gunfire in Dealey Plaza. If my work frustrates or bores you, then I highly suggest doing your own research. Remember, the only reason you know about the existence of a possible second shooter is because of Jean Hill. So, let us begin. Clearly there is a backward movement, but . With all of the goblygook and technical jargon about certain frames etc., one only has to look very closely at the Nix film. The whole purpose of all alterations was to add more symbolisms. More like a glob. Missing and Out of Sequence frames in the Zapruder Film Not so. But after the release of the Warren Commission report, Thompson turned his incisive intellect to the question of ballistics and its relation to the Zapruder film. It turned over the rock that was the CIA at the time, and discovered, among other scandals wriggling underneath, the CIA/Mafia assassination plots against Cuban President Fidel Castro, some of them fostered during the Kennedy administrationplots that would provide possible assassination motives for Castro, for anti-Castro forces, for the CIA, for the Mafia, or some unholy alliance of more than one of these. It would be nice if we could just look at the Zapruder film and say, Aha!, Frame 313, he says now, will always be at the center of the Zapruder film. Kids, this is before digital technology. It's been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history: The 486 frames of 8-millimeter Bell + Howell home movie footage shot in the midday sun of Dallas on November 22, 1963, by a. Freemasons and the Illuminated from the local Lodge often like to let me know theyre keeping an eye on me. Not even John Wilkes Booth could accomplish that task. All you little JFK researchers lack basic common sense and spread a lot of misinfo with your ignorance. The odyssey of that small rectangle of sprocket-pocked celluloid is fascinating. Costella Combined Edit Frames (updated 2006) Click on a frame number below to view the corresponding frame of the film, or click here to download all 486 frames in a single ZIP file (119 MB). Zapruder Film - Spartacus Educational Thinking about the silly Umbrella Man theory, I exclaim, He did it! A weaponized camera. I cannot figure. WhoWhatWhy. The Lady in Red, still dressed for the part in 1992, rehearsed what she saw in the Beyond JFK documentary. Zapruder made clear Frame 313 gave him nightmares and he didnt want to be the one to inflict them on the rest of America. Holland and Rush have pointed out that Zapruder temporarily stopped filming at around frame 132, when only police motorcycles were visible. Regarding the actual editing of the Zapruder film, they also feel frames are missing from the one shown to the public. The people within their ranks are poised in conflicting orders when compared to the Z film. ITS happening. Take a note of that. The video of Horne and Brugioni is (IMO) compelling evidence that the Z film was compromised. The Enduring Power of the Zapruder Film - Texas Monthly The more probable explanation is that Kennedy never received a head wound to begin with. Apparently, he was a Dallas police motorcycle cop, assigned to the motorcade. But they can all be wrong.. I dont know, I say, It sure looks like a shot from the front., The voice-over continues relentlessly: This version tracks the limousine and maintains President Kennedy at center frame. Bush, the Skull and Bones alumni who would ascend from Director of the CIA to Vice-President under Reagan and finally Commander and Chief of the Corporate United States, was not yet a member of Central Intelligence when Kennedy was shot. all smiles. Again the renewed shock of watching it (rather than Stones far-fetched military-industrial-complex conspiracy theory) had its effect: Public reaction pushed Congress to pass the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which ordered that the declassification of literally millions of assassination documents be expedited. It makes for natural auditorium seating. The Woman in Red furthermore stated that she received death threats and that the brake lines of her automobile were cut after the assassination. Shooting a revolver into a hard object- it seemed to have some type of echo. (In analyzing these frames, we use "left" for "driver's side" and "right" for "passenger's side".) My article of faith is that theres a real world out there in which things happen. Steve Williams, you say that you can see Zapruder point his camera down in the Nix film?, but Zapruder film doesnt stray from its line of site?, then you say none of the films have been altered? Its a process that is still going on, monitored by former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley on his website JFKfacts.org. Jean was simply keeping to their plot twist. Zapruder stopped the camera at 132, and started it again at frame 133. Your Privacy Rights He offers no other proof, but just by stating his deception theory Cox seems confident hes scored an impressive point. The Zapruder camera was measured by the FBI to film at the average rate of 18.3 frames per second. It truly was the end of the 50s. Its the ultimate detectives nightmare., Ron Rosenbaum Heres my problem, Morris replies. There should be hundreds filling this one print alone. Videos Zapruder Film - 1st Dan Rather CBS TV News Description 25 Nov 1963 Zapruder Film - 2nd Dan Rather CBS TV News Description 25 Nov 1963 As of frame 332, he still hasnt mounted the car, but at least he is visible. . Agent Zapruder. Rewind to Frame 313: The visceral impression that the blast came from in front of JFK and blew his head backward is powerful. It makes absolutely no sense that Zapruder would show up to film the Kennedys, stop filming the very moment the lead motorcycles and cars round the corner, only to presume work again. Misleading/Inaccurate/Missing Metadata ; image. All credit goes to John P. Costella. It is spooks who create our perceived reality and then spooks who inform our opinions about it. Perhaps we shall save Sasquatch and the 1967 PattersonGimlin film for another outing. from "Image of an Assassination, A New Look at the Zapruder For some reason perhaps to sell his book, perhaps? Frames 341, 350 and 486 were omitted from the DVD publication. Zavada strongly argues that the Z-film has not in any way been altered. Morris recalled for me the dramatic moment in the course of the nearly seven hours he spent interviewing Thompson on camera when the former professor handed him a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle identical to the one Oswald was alleged to have used, and demonstrated the slow and complicated process of reloading and resighting that Oswald would have had to have undertaken to get off three shots in six seconds. What is the word missing at the top of page 7? He may have been startled by the head shot and only wanted to verify what had transpired before continuing filming. This is the precise moment when Kennedys head explodes like a firecracker. Similarly, are there other accounts/interviews with anyone that watched the original film on that Saturday morning (Nov 23) that would support film alteration?? Since the Comments section for the original WhoWhatWhy article is long since closed, I will attempt to comment here: Like the person who posted the one-word comment at the latter, it appears to me that by the time the key frames appear in the respective videos, Zapruder was significantly farther aft of the limousine than was Nix and thus the apparent differences *could* be due to parallax. Now that we have thoroughly established that spooks had their hand in every element of the Kennedy assassination, I should pause here and remind my reader that spooks have been making themselves known to me in recent months, and in a number of ways. Before we move onto Kennedys head wound, via frame 313, lets address the running woman seen only one frame earlier, in 312. Can anyone comment or point me in the right direction to learn more. At one point momentarily Zapruder is seen moving his camera down from his line of vision during his filming sequence. We shall return to that thought in a moment. This is the detectives nightmare. Not the Deep State. This probably has something to do with the fact that he was photographed in front of the Book Depository Building within hours or minutes of Lee Harvey Oswalds arrest, and the thought of an alibi had never occurred to him. Zapruder film is "authentic" in that there are only 9 on the Internet. They provide a level of comfort that makes sense of a world that seems otherwise beyond our ken, our control., In my book about Hitler, I recall, I wrote that the inexplicability of horror is equaled by the horror of inexplicability., Conspiracies tell you that theres a kind of easy way to grasp the idea of evil. Most people vaguely know about the Zapruder film, but it will soon become omnipresent as the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy approaches. I never trust tapestries or a conveniently hung drape. Our Slave Masters demanded a psychodrama. Theres an interview with him where he talks about his love of amateur photography, how he took pictures of everything. 48. She is seen standing nearly alone in Dealey Plaza, and had only recently separated from her husband, Bill Hill. One at the age of 40, the other at the age of 43. (Morris is now 65. Zapruder FAQ | The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Here's the clearest view yet, a new motion-stabilized and panoramic version of the Zapruder film. And the Umbrella Man became an icon of conspiracy theorists? I ask. I have watched his five-hour YouTube account about the autopsy and how the Zapruder film was altered, and his evidence is overwhelming. he explains why he believes this & how frame removal would be relatively easy on an optical printer with little or no noticeable 'jump' in background & foreground scenes. After half a century, the latest Gallup poll shows that 59 percent of the American public believes there was a conspiracy in the assassination, despite the best efforts of reporters such as Gerald Posner (Case Closed) and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy), who have written long, painstaking books meant to be definitive defenses of the lone assassin case. They didnt want us to see Mrs. Kennedy in such a precarious position on the trunk. The sun is shining. What do you think? Question on the Z film alteration. The significance of the tape would not become known until 1978. On February 13, 1969 Zapruder said that he could not tell if frames Were missing from his film nor could he vouch for the film's chain of I dont even know what a flchette is.. Within that 30 seconds of missing time, the motorcades lead car. You can read her birth story here. How strange. First the original version of the Zapruder film and then, in the words of the YouTube voice-over, a replay of the standard format versionin slow-motion. Next, a version in which the images between the sprocket holes can only be seen on the original film. And then another version, a replay with the images between the sprocket holes, this time in slow-motion., Its a much, so much, more an innocent time than ours, Morris says. Its almost as if the brain exploding is like what it does metaphorically to our mind-set, our worldview., It goes to a kind of simpler version of America, Morris says. Whats forgotten by many is the HSCAs conclusion: that JFK was killed by a conspiracy. Others, notably David Josephs think the time might be 15 seconds. This is a problem because Zapruders 8 mm Bell & Howell displayed no fade in exposure while it slowed down and then started back up again. Jean maintained until her dying day, and she testified to this from the very get-go, that she jumped out into the street the very moment the Lincoln passed and cried: Hey, Mr. President, look over here! Look across the street. We see it blown up and thrown back. Were talking about the chance of a lifetime, to stand several feet away from the President. America had been a bad boy. Here we can clearly see a man kneeling in the pick-up truck, which has now been shortened. The message is flashed 7 times through the She has been an enormous help to the TUC ministry ever since that time, editing books for publication as well as running the podcast and administrating the TUC community, among other tasks. This version is only in slow-motion., So we know hes been hit, Morris says. This could be due to the fact that her curbside narrative is legitimate, assuming we are not looking at the composite of multiple takes, and her position has been altered. Thx! On Sunday, August 24, 2014 11:16:15 PM UTC-4, charles wallace wrote: Doug Horne states in the comments section of one of the recent topics at Morley's site that he believes Abe Zapruder began filming at 18 fps & then pushed the button all the way down & caught the Elm St. sequence in slow motion(48 fps). It is one of the very reasons I closed my Facebook account in April of 2020. This discussion raises the possibility that CIA had the capability to alter the Z Film. The synchronization of the film and DictaBelt are mathematically verifiable. Its incredibly sad, still, looking at it today. As the film progresses, his wound morphs. Rivqah decided to surprise us when we least expected it, and here she is, tada! on November 5, 2019, There are no reviews yet. JFK Assassination Files All frames of the film are accounted for at the National Archives. This is probably a good place to remind everyone that I love my family, am not on psychotropic drugs, and have never once thought about committing suicide. Cranor asks: Where is the Zapruder film equivalent to this Nix frame see above? Cookie Settings, Zapruder Film 1967 (Renewed 1995) The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a six-minute documentary about the Zapruder film for the, the seven-minute Alex Cox video on YouTube, The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups, How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, Kids Start Forgetting Early Childhood Around Age 7, Archaeologists Discover Wooden Spikes Described by Julius Caesar, 5,000-Year-Old Tavern With Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq, Artificial Sweetener Tied to Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke, Study Finds, The Surprisingly Scientific Roots of Monkey Bars. In addition to all this, two years ago Morris made a six-minute documentary about the Zapruder film for the New York Times, focusing on one shadowy figure in it: the so-called Umbrella Man. And then, in the recurrent irony of conspiracy theory pathology, Morris himself became the subject of JFK conspiracy coverup fantasy. There they are again. Only slightly. May 26-28. Morningstar says he has the missing frames of Zapruder. Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The film wasnt altered. If a man that powerful, that young, that rich, that successful, can just be wiped off the face of the earth in an instant, what does it say about the rest of us?. CBS News conducted an experiment to determine a person's reaction upon hearing a gunshot. Its like a little metal stabbing thing that can be fired, without a gunshot sound, can lodge itself in the flesh and be fatal.. I like to play hard to get, and so, you will have to try your best and find me. None were altered. For those citing Hornes interview with Brugioni one might do well to listen carefully when Brugioni says that he counted the number of frames. I have consulted JFKfacts for years to learn new information, but your continued equivocation disappointments me. The echo he describes is the fact that by his proximity to the impact he heard the impact before he heard the muzzle blast which arrived of about 1/10th of second later. 155 and the bottom 2/3 is frame 157. It looks like they were attempting to fit a square . WhoWhatWhy. They cant all be right. And more than anything, they want to be fooled by it. The cutting of breaks sounds like the plot line to an episode of Superman, whereas George Reeves, who ironically died of mysterious causes, needs to save Jimmy Olsen from driving off a winding mountain cliff-side. 109, 157 to 173, 224 to 241, 288 to 305, 354 to 370 and 418 to 435. As I say to Tink, in my film, it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Morris says in a wry Mister Rogers imitation. Oh, thats right. Upon closer examination I watched the seven-minute Alex Cox video on YouTube. He sold the rights to the original to Life magazine for a reported $150,000. It changes shape as he falls into his wifes lap. When asked, George H.W. Agent Zapruders movie has been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history. If Frame 313 is the forensic peak of the Zapruder film, this sight is the almost-unbearable emotional heart of it. Frame 486 is the last frame of the film. There is much else to see in this single frame. The film shows the presidential limousine as it travels west on Elm Street toward the triple underpass. Like this film much more evidence was destroyed or altered that night to include the limousine evidence. Zapruder film alteration - Google Groups That trajectory work would produce charts which do not conform to the Zapruder film. He was not, he emphasizes, trying to solve the JFK assassination or take on any of its larger questionshe just wanted to nail down one little factoid, which had metastasized into a full-blown conspiracy theory of its own, complete with secret KGB-type weaponized rain gear. Its almost like history is a kind of snake swallowing its tail., Part of the problem of rationality and irrationalityand it really is a problemis how do you separate the two? Plain and simple. Anyone who has not viewed Hornes interview with Leo Brugioni, please take the time and watch. World War II seemed to provide a notion of good and evil that we could all embrace. without ever giving a photo reveal. I can only hope that they will eventually face the evidence head on and realize that proof of conspiracy is fully present in the films of the assassination. It gives us a picture of evil that is manageable. Pam Grier reflects on her most iconic roles, from Coffy to Jackie Brown Is it something specific to the JFK case or is it true more generally about knowability? But after that day in Dallas, he could no longer pick up that camera. In their haste, the purported hoaxers left behind evidence of tampering. I personally interviewed crisis actors after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and I can tell you that inconsistent crises actors are a dime a dozen. 7 missing Zapruder frames - narkive The Overlooked Zapruder Frames . where this cameraman was standing. If any 1 or more frames are either added or subtracted then In other words, multiple takes. If I understand correctly, Doug Horne (and Peter Janney?) President Kennedy does not enter the stage for the first third of the picture, and it is there were we encounter a serious problem.