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! Knowing that his home movie would have both historic and forensic value, Abraham Zapruder had three copies of his original film made for government investigators. An updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil is being published by DaCapo/Perseus Books. sold the film to Time-Life for the sum of $150,000 - about $900,000 dollars in today's money. Frames 341, 350 and 486 were omitted from the DVD publication. 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. In this interesting piece for WhoWhatWhy Millicent Cranor addresses the obvious issues: if the Z-film was altered, other photography at the crime scene should contain images not found on the Z-film. *Note 2: Frame 212 is a splice also. 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. 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. Doug Horne has chosen to ignore the detailed, technical analysis of the Z-film conducted by his former friend, Kodak 8mm film expert Rollie Zavada, in the mid-1990s. The film wasnt altered. Or so were led to believe. While slowly killing her off with a daily dosage of poison, the CIA would sadistically give America reason to discredit her. Regardless, here we are. There is another glaring problem here, because agent Zapruder never captured Jean Hill making any such notion towards the Lincoln. Rivqah decided to surprise us when we least expected it, and here she is, tada! We are expected to believe that Zapruder shut his camera off at frame 132 and then started it up again at frame 133, some 30 seconds later, while the crowd remains standing frozen in time, completely motionless. What is the word missing at the top of page 7? In other words, multiple takes. Jackie frantically crawls over the rear seat of the open car and climbs onto its rear deck grasping at something that has been described as a piece of her husbands shattered skull. Everything went down without a hitch. One at the age of 40, the other at the age of 43. (Morris is now 65. the whole pattern is thrown off. When he continued filming, frame 133 already shows the presidential motorcade in view. addition, frames 208, 209, 210, and 211 are missing due to mishandling by an . Oh, thats right. Privacy Statement without ever giving a photo reveal. Post-production still frame that has been composited. And he notices there is a man, a bystander among the crowds waiting for the Kennedy motorcadeand hes holding an umbrella. Contrarily, the CIA wanted America to theorize over the potential for conspiracy. It was right up there. The first thing you should notice is that Zapruder abruptly cut filming at frame 132. Grappling with the power of Abraham Zapruder's grimly immortal footage, one fraction of a second at a time. But it would be a dozen years before most of the world would see Frame 313. If Im being repetitive, its because the jump from frames 132 to 133 should immediately tell us something. . I wish I could tell you they just had to throw that in there, give us a glimpse of the evil working behind the scenes, but the far more likelier explanation is that were dealing with a ccompositing artifact, mutated with the merging together of multiple film sources. President Kennedy is kept in center frame. Your email address will not be published. We know somebody killed Kennedy and theres an answer to the question of who and why. The Zapruder film serves as a clock, Morris points out. My article of faith is that theres a real world out there in which things happen. They didnt want us to see Frame 313 either and we didnt till the 1970s. I wanted to talk to Morris about the Zapruder film because as a documentary filmmaker hes focused on mysteries (he freed an innocent man from death row with The Thin Blue Line); hes re-examined secret history (he won an Oscar for cross-examining the enigmatic Robert McNamara in The Fog of War). CBS News conducted an experiment to determine a person's reaction upon hearing a gunshot. Misleading/Inaccurate/Missing Metadata ; image. We could build a postwar future on that edifice. Were listening. There is no enthusiasm in the crowd. The significance of the tape would not become known until 1978. 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. It is the ultimate version of the Zapruder film, or at least of Frame 313, and it is agonizing. Spooks. Perhaps we shall save Sasquatch and the 1967 PattersonGimlin film for another outing. The odyssey of that small rectangle of sprocket-pocked celluloid is fascinating. Holland and Rush suggest that the pause could have had great significance for the interpretation of the assassination. In fact, his entire forehead is shown to be missing. compositing artifact, mutated with the merging together of multiple film sources. from "Image of an Assassination, A New Look at the Zapruder Safe at least in the sense that we can know about it. 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. He seemingly believes that, Morris says. 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. Apparently, he was a Dallas police motorcycle cop, assigned to the motorcade. Frame 313. I would note that In Hornes interview Brugioni stated that he had counted the number of frames in the Zapruder film. Sorry, whatever he has to show us is a no go. ), And coming up with a conspiracy theory to explain the assassination is at least a way of regaining some control over the world?, Conspiracy theories often provide solace, he says. The infamous image would remain withheld from all public releases of the film until 1975, when it was finally shown for the first time on reporter Geraldo Riveras television show, Good Night America. I had asked you to take note of the fact that Jean Hill insisted until her dying day that she stepped out into the street while the Lincoln convertible passed. Still poised in position while LIFE Magazine stands around, capturing their drama for the nation. WhoWhatWhy. This is partly due to the fact that they like to add their own little flare, a back story if you will, to the narrative, just to keep it organic, and to make their part known. They wouldnt divorce until August of the following year. Doug Hornes groundbreaking interview with CIA photo analyst Dino Brugioni convinced me it was possible the film was altered en route to Washington on the weekend of November 22-24, 1963, but I did not find proof it had been altered. President Kennedy does not enter the stage for the first third of the picture, and it is there were we encounter a serious problem. The distance between the 1st & 2nd is 50 5/8 frames; Criticizing me for dismissing the Umbrella Man as a crackpot [theory]., So Cox believes the Umbrella Man had a role in the assassination?. Notice the family ducking for cover. John F. Kennedy. ITS happening. The Lincoln was a Ford. There are a Total of 9 frames missing from " Image of an Assassination, A New Look at the Zapruder Film". The labyrinth to nowhere. There are only 6 frames missing from the " JFK Assassination, A Visual Investigation" versision of the film. They had positioned themselves there knowing it would make the perfect photograph of John and Jackie Kennedy. I figure its their way of reminding me that my special interests are nobodys business but their own. America had been a bad boy. The Zapruder shock and other doubts raised about the underside of recent American history such as Watergate helped impel the creation in 1976 of the Senates Church Committee (named after Sen. Frank Church of Idaho). The top portion I stress assassination. After adding in frame 341 & 350 and assuming If any frames were missing in these intervals none of this would work out with such mathematical precision. There are no patterns. In their haste, the purported hoaxers left behind evidence of tampering. The Texas School Book Depository, the building where investigators found empty shells and a rifle, was out of view to Zapruder's left. By denying that image, Frame 313, I think he was trying to protect himself, protect America., Protect a certain stable view of the world? 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. All the frames that were removed from Z film were at the beginning so that the head shot is in frame 313 because the numbers 3 and 13 have a huge significance in their rituals. Let's say 18 X 15 frames, or 270 frames are missing from the Zapruder Gap. time in relation to the sprocket holes. And indeed he looks really out of place.. Here we also find that the parked automobiles beyond Dealey Plaza will change their appearance. There should be hundreds filling this one print alone. Morris prefers to think of it in terms of the philosophical issues about the possibility, or impossibility, of knowledge, the issues raised by Tink Thompson in his book about Kierkegaard, The Lonely Labyrinth. This article is brought to you by my commercial sponsor, BOSCO chocolate flavored syrup. It is one of the very reasons I closed my Facebook account in April of 2020. 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. He offers no evidence that a weaponized umbrella was fired that day or that a poison flchette was found in JFKs flesh. Randy Owen is incorrect that the small possible difference in frame rates would be significant. The synchronization of the film and DictaBelt are mathematically verifiable. This had been driven backwards by a second shot to the head from the front. Back to square one. "18 FPS [illegible] than it should have 'been run.' . We can know for certain that somebody took a shnip to the film because a good deal of time is missing from the final cut, an estimated 30 seconds in total. Even President James Buchanan would have a larger turnout. As I watched my copy of the MPI version on DVD, I The Zapruder film was heavily doctored, post-production. In a recorded interview in 2011 by Peter Janney, Bruglioni agreed with the eyewitnesses (and Zapruder's partner Erwin Schwartz) that the frame 313 in the Zapruder film was not what he had seen. Source: JFK Assassination Film: Proof of Tampering? What Z-film frame does this Nix frame capture? These images are the legacy of one man, the voice-over concludes as a full-screen photo appears of a dignified balding figure in a dark suit: Abraham Zapruder. The umbrella became the symbol of appeasement in 1938 and here in 1963, this guy carries an umbrella and thinks, Whoa, people are really going to be blown away, this is really going to make a statement! And it turns out he becomes a symbol himself. Our Slave Masters demanded a psychodrama. I dont want to hear people misinterpreting the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Its DINO Brugioni, and much of the interview is Horne interjecting his false interpretations. That is all for now. Regarding the Military Armament Corporations chart muzzle blast spread from a suppressed weapon, I interpret that to mean that the two black shooters are only deceptively *perceived*, rather than real, shooters with the single real shooter being the one in the bottom Area of Certain Location. Am I reading this wrong? The lovely Rebecca. How adorable. And there they go running off for their next shot while the Newmans remain poised in position, waiting to be cleared by the director. Neither appear in Zapruders film. These missing frames are here derived from alternative sources. So here is Tink, Morris says, taking us back to Thompsons Life magazine days, hunkered down over the Zapruder film looking at it frame by frame by frame. A filmmaker, Alex Cox, the director of Sid & Nancy, among other movies, just put a reply to my Umbrella Man film on the web, Morris says. Readers can confirm this easily at any of the websites that feature individual frames and the sprocket holes. Suddenly, we see JFK clutch his throat. Information on Jeans boyfriend is terribly difficult to come by. But thats not even the abnormality I want you to focus in upon. A shot that might be the one we see hit the president in Frame 313. There are only 6 frames missing from the "JFK That and the magic bullet theory, created by 33 degree Freemason Arlen Spector, was all a part of the psyop. Sarah and I are in our 40s, have been married for over 20 years, and never thought we could have any more children. And a typical mistake in comparing the Zapruder and Nix films is, for example, that the 10th frame after the head shot in the Z-film is supposed to match the 10th frame after the head shot in the Nix film (or Muchmore film, as well). What photography does, Morris says, as the screen fades to black, is call our attention to the problem of knowledge, to the problem of epistemology, about how do we know about the world. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. As of Z-337, he hasnt even touched the limo yet, let alone mount it. Re:R. Andrew Kiel-you are " Spot On ". And now we are on the subject of the Zapruder film. And then Cox goes further: He suggests that the man who testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations was up to something, perhaps sent to deceive the committee. Thx! That gives one a lot of scenes to use elsewhere. George H.W. If you look to the far right you will see what appears to be an inhuman looking shape-shifter. You would need 10 seconds of continuous filming, almost twice the time it took for all the shots to occur, to see a 2 frame difference. Morris new film, after all, about Donald Rumsfeldfamous for his line about unknown unknownsis called The Unknown Known. As a writer, hes questioned the way that photographic images can document the nature of truth (in his recent book Believing Is Seeing). One important thing. And he reproduced a clip of his appearance before the committee in his Umbrella Man film. I hope to see my readers there! The message can be seen from frames 25 to 41, 92 to Also, it means Im doing something right. The official narrative claims George H.W. Nothing but a stump of head. But after that day in Dallas, he could no longer pick up that camera. 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). Something else going against these agents is, with all due respect to old people, they were old people by the time they claimed these things, and old age can lead to misremembering things. I decided to find out if this message was at a regular The top portion is frame 208 and the bottom portion is 212. I agree. As the motorcade approaches, we see JFKs car emerge from behind a sign that had been temporarily blocking the view. The end of a certain kind of innocence that we bought into. Frames 208 through 212 are damaged or missing in the film strip in the National Archives. Dallas saw a high of 70F that day. The lovely Rebecca. The Umbrella Man himself showed up to give testimony to the House assassinations committee, Morris says. The man was shooting from right just this side of that tree . If my work frustrates or bores you, then I highly suggest doing your own research. 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. The Zapruder film disagrees with all other evidence. As to the informative Carol Hewitt article, Silencers, Sniper Rifles & the CIA, she states, [m]anipulating the sound of a gun shot can be accomplished in varying degrees through the use of sub-sonic ammunition, suppressors, and silencers. Having considerable experience with all of the above, I believe the term silencer is but another common but misleadingly inaccurate term for a suppressor, rather than a separate category of sound reduction device. David Lifton argues in The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2004) that: "Abraham Zapruder. And that doesnt even include the missing gap between frames 132 and 133. Advertising Notice Humidity wasnt an issue. Nothing is natural about the way he lumbers across the screen like a cartoon. Her story seems less and less likely with every retelling. Now, lets turn back to the Newman family and another Frank Cancellare original. Agent Zapruder. We arrive now at frame 313. In one stunning moment, Kennedy took his exit from the world stage. Another thing we know is that we may never learn. Nevertheless, bootleg copies circulated, helping to generate the first wave of assassination conspiracy theories and Warren Commission critics. ===== Sean wrote: Let's cut to the chase and let us know which frames in Zapruder were altered, around what date, and by which means-what kind of process. In Morris film, Thompson discloses something I hadnt known: that the Umbrella Man had eventually come forward and explained himself. 109, 157 to 173, 224 to 241, 288 to 305, 354 to 370 and 418 to 435. Was Dino interviewed in more depth to describe details of what he remembered seeing on the entire original film (not just the headshot)? Its like a little metal stabbing thing that can be fired, without a gunshot sound, can lodge itself in the flesh and be fatal.. 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 Jackies lap There was an instant pause between two shots and the motorcade seemingly halted for an instant. And yet, theres no apparent fade out as is often customary when releasing or pressing the shutter button of the camera. There are also a couple of numbers and symbols between these two phrases Clearly there is a backward movement, but . We see three police motorcycles round the corner from North Houston to Elm Street and then quite suddenly the Presidents Lincoln convertible appears out of nowhere. Nobody else took any frames from the film, but Zapruder didn't film several seconds of the John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it was passing through the Dealey Plaza in Dallas. 2023 Smithsonian Magazine With all of the goblygook and technical jargon about certain frames etc., one only has to look very closely at the Nix film. Or so we're led to believe. Theyll rear you in the craft and then bus you out to the event for free. There have been arguments that this is a kind of optical illusionthe most convincing to me being that JFK had been hit from behind after the previous frame, 312, slamming his chin forward to his chest, and his head was rebounding backward in Frame 313. Pam Grier reflects on her most iconic roles, from Coffy to Jackie Brown Is it possible that Zapruder had to lower his movie camera because Elm Street slopes downward towards the overpass? Topics Zapruder, Film, Frames, JFK, Kennedy, Oswald. She has since stated when she saw a photo of Jack Ruby after his killing of Lee Harvey Oswald she now believes he was the man she saw running. Well return to Norma Jeans claim in a moment. Thompson eventually became so intrigued by unsolved mysteries that he left a comfy job in academia behind to become a private eye (his memoir is called Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye). . where this cameraman was standing. 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. IN my last newsletter I made mention of Rebecca L. Gould without ever giving a photo reveal. the partial distance that the message took up at the beginning and ending Umbrella Man consists of Morris talking with Josiah Tink Thompson, one of the first and most respected of Warren Commission critics. Pulling back curtains. Similarly, are there other accounts/interviews with anyone that watched the original film on that Saturday morning (Nov 23) that would support film alteration?? 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: Jackie only gets as far out on the trunk as seen in frame 375. Thats a deal breaker. Courtesy of photographer Frank Cancellare. I believe these Rewind to Frame 313: The visceral impression that the blast came from in front of JFK and blew his head backward is powerful. Perhaps you are beginning to see where Im going with this. Yet another alchemical ceremony which promised to mold the collective consciousness into the image of the New World Order. Someone told the other a dirty joke. Ive always been skeptical of the theory Abraham Zapruders home movie of JFKs assassination has been altered. Different perspectives can make the same thing seem different. And it would be so much easier to dismiss the impression of a frontal shot as an illusion, because otherwise youd have to doubt the conclusion of the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was positioned behind the president, was the lone gunman. The strangest part has little to do with her initial backstory and everything to do with the mere fact that she and Mary Moorman are standing in Dealey Plaza almost completely alone. The 1963 Zapruder film, taken by Abraham Zapruder, is derived from the six-foot strip of celluloid contained in the U.S. National Archives, scientifically processed. Search the history of over 797 billion We shall return to that thought in a moment. Only slightly. Rebecca L. Gould: A growing family at TUC! 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. Before we move onto Kennedys head wound, via frame 313, lets address the running woman seen only one frame earlier, in 312. How long do you suppose the Newmans remained ducking for cover while the media stood around photographing themand just as importantly, why? Required fields are marked *. I can only assume somebody wanted to record the Super Bowl, and it was either that or Wernher von Brauns wedding video. OBTW, that's plenty of time for a limo stop. Is that the mysterious Babushka lady standing stage left? The Kennedy assassination is very much an essay on the unsafety of the world. Twenty-six seconds that included a historic, horrific, all-too-clear vision of a presidential assassination. I mean why am I so obsessed with He pauses. Amateur films by Abraham Zapruder and Orville Nix do not agree with each other in at least one obvious way. Jackie leans over to attend to him. Others, notably David Josephs think the time might be 15 seconds. This is very easy to verify. His accused killer. The video of Horne and Brugioni is (IMO) compelling evidence that the Z film was compromised. Around Z376 I would suggest, or very shortly after that. 5th & 6th is 50 5/8; and the 6th & 7th is 48. Take a note of that. Zapruder film is "authentic" in that there are only 9 Bush, code named Timberwolf, was indeed in Dallas on that November day, a fully functioning member of the CIA.
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