The Case for Zapruder Film Forgery. The bullet entered the back of his head (there are photos and x-rays of the entry hole, and it is absolutely characteristic: a . Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris deconstructs the most famous 26 seconds in film history. Zapruder by all accounts was haunted by Frame 313. And he notices there is a man, a bystander among the crowds waiting for the Kennedy motorcadeand hes holding an umbrella. We shall return to that thought in a moment. behind the car are splattered with blood and brains, after driving up to and passing through the cloud blown out of the President. 544 pages. This is only in slow-motion.. As in, the Eye. One ring to rule them allthat sort of thing. He offers no other proof, but just by stating his deception theory Cox seems confident hes scored an impressive point. Everything went down without a hitch. [At this point, the positions of the two men, Kennedys leaning slightly forward, and the much taller Connally twisted to the right, with his hand in front of him, holding his hat at lower chest level, make it possible for a single bullet to enter Kennedys back, pass through his lower throat, into Connallys right back, glance downward off a rib, exit under his right nipple, and enter his left thigh coming to rest, drained of energy, just below the skin.]. If Frame 313 is the forensic peak of the Zapruder film, this sight is the almost-unbearable emotional heart of it. Entertainment for the barracoon. Even if we dont know whether its Castro, the KGB, the CIA or a host of other possibilities, we know theres some kind of deep malefaction at work., While the lone assassin suggests that almost anyone you pass by on the sidewalk could be a ticking time bomb., Finally, we watched it. I found this segment in the Nova "Cold Case JFK" Documentary (18 - frames) Tests showed that the camera loaded with Double 8-millimeter Kodachrome II color film recorded at an average speed of 18.3 frames per second. 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. So it seems, I start to say when the voice-over cuts in with the final version: This version zooms in on the image as much as possible without causing deterioration. Kennedy is waving to the crowd with his right hand. I may throw her in when you least suspect it. Can we even have the certainty that all is uncertainty? I ask. The official narrative claims George H.W. 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! My arrival is predicated upon me speaking exclusively on the Millennial Kingdom + Mud Flood subject, which has been plastered all over TUC over the last few years. The man was shooting from right just this side of that tree . 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. . all smiles. His film shows the President's assassination in vivid color and provides an indispensable. Of course. I hope to see my readers there! Case Closed, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assasination of JFK. How adorable. 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. Perhaps we shall save Sasquatch and the 1967 PattersonGimlin film for another outing. People are standing like dummies frozen in time on the sidew. Reviews There are no reviews yet. 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. He did so by becoming the Sorcerers apprentice, and finally the Wizard of Oz. An analysis of the photo pins the running woman as somewhere in the range of 7 feet tall. This photo has been calculated to have been captured between Zapruder film frames 315 and 316, less than one-sixth of a second after President Kennedy was shot in the head at frame 313. Nix was an air conditioning engineer who apparently left school after the fourth grade. Zapruder's film lasts 26.6-seconds, consists of 486 frames, and runs at 18.3 frames per second. One at the age of 40, the other at the age of 43. (Morris is now 65. Location:Australia. The end of a certain kind of innocence that we bought into. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. It is noticeable that his head moves. Thompson has had an extraordinary, colorful career. JFK Assassination. As previously noted, some crisis actors like to dabble in the art of Improv, and Jean Hill appears to be one of them. But it would be a dozen years before most of the world would see Frame 313. Information on Jeans boyfriend is terribly difficult to come by. This version takes the original 18 frame-per-second film and interpolates it to 30 frames per second. compositing artifact, mutated with the merging together of multiple film sources. ], Kennedys arm jerks off the car, clearly reacting to the throat shot [This is a clear case of Thorburns Position, as his body reacts to the spinal damage caused by the hydrostatic shock of the bullet passing so close to the spine in 223-4. I can clearly remember my disbelief that one person with a gun could completely change the course of history. Were talking about the chance of a lifetime, to stand several feet away from the President. Take a note of that. I dont know, you tell me. 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. On November 7, 2000, she died of complications due to a blood disease in Dallas. Image and video: YouTube/AntdavisonNZ, via Boing Boing. In fact, there is a YouTube compilation that includes no fewer than five versions of the Zapruder filmslow-motion, zoomed-in, close-ups. Heres my problem, Morris replies. "In terms of public record, I think it is very fortunate I found . Safe at least in the sense that we can know about it. Zapruder said that he had a nightmare about President's head exploding. We have already established the fact, and this is a matter of public record, that agent Abraham Zapruder, the man who gave us one of the most important film documentations of the 20th-century, was indeed a 33-degree Freemason. Kennedy is clearly raising his right arm. But they can all be wrong.. Lilburn Beckett. We see it blown up and thrown back. Only slightly. Therefore we know that this copy of the film is in focus. Theres an interview with him where he talks about his love of amateur photography, how he took pictures of everything. Frame 486 is the last frame of the film. Who, Morris says, had been ambassador to England in the 1930s and [was] known for his policies of appeasement to the Third Reich., Symbolized, I say, by the umbrella that Neville Chamberlain carried back from Munich, after Chamberlain claimed to have brought peace for our time by letting Hitler swallow up half of Czechoslovakia, giving Hitler the impetus to launch World War II. 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. Sorry, whatever he has to show us is a no go. 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. no one has said a dam thing since you posted this, they see fakery and dont even call it . My article of faith is that theres a real world out there in which things happen. Allen g. Breed, AP National Writer. Witness Howard Brennan turns abruptly to the right. The answer is: they wouldnt. A much more plausible scenario, one that fits the constraints both of the Zapruder film and tapes, as well as the medical and ballistics evidence, follows. 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. Bush had a hand in Kennedys assassination. In 2006 I improved the processing steps and reissued the full set of frames. 1:55. The people within their ranks are poised in conflicting orders when compared to the Z film. They wouldnt divorce until August of the following year. If we were viewing a Hollywood production, wed have simple explanations for this. Mantik established through photographic evidence several images where a bullet appears to hit the limousine's front window at Z-255 [Zapruder Film, Frame 255, coincident with Altgen's Photo #6], well ahead of the headshots that occurred after Z-300. AND no, she wasnt born standing up. Which brings us up to today. It is the ultimate version of the Zapruder film, or at least of Frame 313, and it is agonizing. Notice the family ducking for cover. In other words, multiple takes. According to this frame, we can see right through his skull. 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. Its those bad guys rubbing their hands together, Twirling their mustaches, calculating panic, conniving. No, this is not proof that George H.W. It was a day that changed the United States forever, and at the same time, was a demonstration of the power of television to unite an entire nation of shocked mourners. Much of the evidence and argument in the book is laughably weak, incongruously so given that Fetzer is a former professor of philosophy. It came at Z208. comment. A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials. Yet another alchemical ceremony which promised to mold the collective consciousness into the image of the New World Order. Probable time that Kennedy was first hit. Theyll rear you in the craft and then bus you out to the event for free. Read more. So significant, so powerful, so disturbing that for years Zapruder himself did not want it to be shown. 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. 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. I could care less about his Zionist or Langley ties at this point. And it has produced this epi-stemic war of people battling for reality through these imagestrying to wrest control back from chaos.. The Zapruder film frames prior to frame 225 looked to the Secret Service investigators to be mostly uninteresting because, to their eyes, nothing of significance could be seen in the earliest frames of the Zapruder film. The Church Committee then begat the only full-scale official government reinvestigation of the Kennedy assassination, the three-year effort (1976-79) by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (which also considered the Martin Luther King Jr. case). 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). If you look at the limo in frames Z304, Z312, and Z323, where Zapruder is very accurately following the limousine, you will see that there is very little blur. I ask Morris about my theory of grief underlying the obsession with the assassinationthat we underestimate the shock of it. Mrs. Kennedy is looking around. Even President James Buchanan would have a larger turnout. I remember experiencing the aftermath of the assassination as a seven-year-old boy, spending that weekend watching the tragedy unfold on live television. Once Zen and company release the official schedule I plan on scheduling a TUC meetup. The real world is not indeterminate. Alexandra Zapruder says her family always said the movie was an "accident of fate," and that her grandfather was in . It is the most famous home movie of all time, the most closely analyzed 26 seconds of film ever shot, the most disturbing visual record of what many have called "the crime of the century." In 486 framesa mere six feet of celluloidAbraham Zapruder's iconic film captures from beginning to end the murder of President John F. Kennedy in broad daylight. It truly was the end of the 50s. Its incredibly sad, still, looking at it today. 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. The Zapruder film was altered by the U.S. government, using clandestine, state-of-the-art Kodak resources in Rochester, to remove the most egregious evidence within the film of shots that came from in front of JFK's limousine. CBS News conducted an experiment to determine a person's reaction upon hearing a gunshot. Nowadays crisis actors are a dime a dozen. 32 year-old Jean Hill, aka Norma Jean, is dubbed the lady in red in the Zapruder film. As image enhancement technology becomes more sophisticated, well probably see even more detailed views of this macabre film in the years to come but for now, this stabilized and enhanced panoramic view is horrific enough. And now we are on the subject of the Zapruder film. Once youve seen the unspeakable act it captures, Morris says, your sense of stability and safety, your sense of the rationality of the world, has been forever lost. Zapruder Film 1967 (Renewed 1995) The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza It's been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history: The 486 frames of 8-millimeter Bell + Howell. Ten frames of the Zapruder film, calculated at the assumed speed of 18.3 frames per second, equals .56 seconds (or 560 milliseconds). It was right up there. This amounts to a running time of precisely 28 seconds. Zapruder had captured 486 frames over 26.6 seconds and after they struck the deal, the pictures were run frame by frame in Life. Within hours of the assassination Zapruder had sold the 26-second film for $150,000 to Time-Life magazine, which published individual frames but did not allow the film to be screened in its entirety. 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. This version takes the original 18 frame-per-second film and interpolates it to 30 frames per second. That person was a 58-year old Dallas dress manufacturer, Abraham Zapruder, who died in 1970. The Zapruder Film 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. Its not like Zapruder was facing in the direction of the Book Depository Building or the grassy knoll, suspected location of the first and second shooters. Many people believe that this shot was a front shot from a smaller weapon than the 6.5 mm Carcano]. They determined that a person will have a startle reaction to a gunshot . Kennedy's limousine has just turned onto Elm Street, moments before the first shot, and the President is apparently waving. Theres also a slow-motion version on this video, where each of the films frames were expanded to four interpolated frames. His name was Louie Steven Witt and he testified that he brought the umbrella on that sunny day becausewait for ithe wanted to express his displeasure with JFKs father, Joseph Kennedy. The following frames are from John Costella's Zapruder film compilation, which corrects aspect ratio issues, pin cushion distortion, and other anomalies found in the extant Zapruder film. Indeed the committee ultimately determined that both the CIA and the FBI had withheld material information about these matters from the Warren Commission. There were several photos taken from the south side of Elm, and again, when compared with Zapruder, they all imagine various sized crowds. Back to square one. Connally later determines it was at this point. has anyone noticed the real footage contained in this movie? 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. Since were on the subject of important 20th century film documentation, Im reminded of the original Apollo 11 moon landing hoax footage, which NASA admittedly recorded over. IMHO something happened at that turn. 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