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. Once Zen and company release the official schedule I plan on scheduling a TUC meetup. But they can all be wrong.. The official narrative claims George H.W. Different perspectives can make the same thing seem different. Its the ultimate detectives nightmare., Ron Rosenbaum The real world is not indeterminate. By denying that image, Frame 313, I think he was trying to protect himself, protect America., Protect a certain stable view of the world? Oh wait. The second section compares the film as screened at 24 frames per second, 18 frames, and 16 frames. This is the precise moment when Kennedys head explodes like a firecracker. 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. 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. Zavada strongly argues that the Z-film has not in any way been altered. At Z-338, he finally seems to have grabbed the handhold. Moreover, although Life had a copy of the film, it did little to maximize the return on its extraordinary investment. Oh, thats right. Regardless, I highly suggest you give it another review while reading this paper. All credit goes to John P. Costella. 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. Well, here she is. But somehow he makes Morris and Thompson accomplices, witting or not, in the coverup of the Umbrella Mans murderous duplicity in Dallas that day. There are no frames missing from the Zapruder film. The top portion Muchmore film shows the brake lights turn on as they approach the fence and Nix film clearly shows the car slow down so dramatically the motorcycle cops flanking the as car catch the limo and possibly move as far west as the rear bumper as they were caught off guard. The synchronization of the film and DictaBelt are mathematically verifiable. Zapruder film is "authentic" in that there are only 9 As a writer, hes questioned the way that photographic images can document the nature of truth (in his recent book Believing Is Seeing). The next series of frames reveals a massive exit wound upon Kennedys right temple and forehead. ===== 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. An instant later, in Frame 313, it looks like a lightning bolt strikes JFKs head. 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. Back in 1975, Robert Groden, a conspiracist specializing in image trickery, argued in Rolling Stone that frames were. What do you think? 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. Some have felt frames were excised where Zapruders camera stops initially and then motorcade proceeds down Elm. We could build a postwar future on that edifice. Jean was simply keeping to their plot twist. I met him when he was my freshman philosophy professor at Yale and he was working on The Lonely Labyrinth, his landmark analysis of the gloomy Danish anti-rationalist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. There should be hundreds filling this one print alone. Zapruder film: Jackie only gets as far out on the trunk as seen in frame 375. The curb looks to be a good 12 inches higher than the street. The Earth Not a Globe Review: Volume I and The Legends of the Jews: Volumes I-IV would not have happened without her. 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). Its incredibly sad, still, looking at it today. Perhaps you are beginning to see where Im going with this. And the Umbrella Man became an icon of conspiracy theorists? I ask. 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. Within that 30 seconds of missing time, the motorcades lead car. He seemingly believes that, Morris says. Advertising Notice 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. Also, as a matter of public policy, I do not respond to shrink questions. For nearly 200 frames, some three dozen people on the bottom of the frame, or the north end of Elm Street, remain perfectly motionless. For an even better video on this subject see : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKqWozXc4KY The newer analysis by another up loader using a better copy of . That and the magic bullet theory, created by 33 degree Freemason Arlen Spector, was all a part of the psyop. 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. 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. Frames 208 through 212 are damaged or missing in the film strip in the National Archives. 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. The first thing you should notice is that Zapruder abruptly cut filming at frame 132. We like to feel that the world is safe, Errol Morris tells me. There are four films of the assassinationthey are consistent. Within that 30 seconds of missing time, the motorcades lead car, an unmarked white 4-door Ford Mercury sedan, which included Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry, Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker, and Agent Forrest Sorrels, has completely rounded the corner and passed Zapruder by. Agent Zapruder. For some reason perhaps to sell his book, perhaps? . There were several photos taken from the south side of Elm, and again, when compared with Zapruder, they all imagine various sized crowds. And it has produced this epi-stemic war of people battling for reality through these imagestrying to wrest control back from chaos.. Also, according to The Wikipedia, Hill stated that after the firing stopped she saw a white man wearing a brown overcoat and a hat running west away from the Depository Building in the direction of the railroad tracks. I dont think we can discount the idea that the CIA had these capabilities. 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. Three or four more shots rang out and the motorcade sped away. Jean repeated her account to the Warren Commission in 1964, and adamantly rejected their single gunman findings. addition, frames 208, 209, 210, and 211 are missing due to mishandling by an . Kids, this is before digital technology. America had been a bad boy. We shall return to that thought in a moment. Morris new film, after all, about Donald Rumsfeldfamous for his line about unknown unknownsis called The Unknown Known. 48. No, in reality Jean Hill would be diagnosed as bipolar, or perhaps a manic depressant. The implication is that all is uncertainty, that well never know who killed Kennedy or why to any degree of certainty. President Kennedy is kept in center frame. Heres my problem, Morris replies. He offers no evidence that a weaponized umbrella was fired that day or that a poison flchette was found in JFKs flesh. Looking a bit disheveled, like an aging pedant, shuffling around a cluttered office, Cox shows that an umbrella could have been used as a weapon by using an elaborate schematic diagram of a weaponized umbrella, complete with flchettes. Privacy Statement The people within their ranks are poised in conflicting orders when compared to the Z film. Bill and Gayle Newman. 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. The lampposts in Dealey Plaza are precisely 14 feet tall. 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. The film has two breaks in it, and, some have argued, perhaps. Remember, the only reason you know about the existence of a possible second shooter is because of Jean Hill. . Frame by Frame. Before you conclude that weve spotted yet another giant on the loose, I assure you the woman was interviewed in person and her interviewers concluded she was in reality only five feet tall. You say Clint Hill is just mounting the rear of the limo in frame 329 sprocket hole? Who do you think runs the Gallup polls? There is a big blob where his skull once was. It changes shape as he falls into his wifes lap. Holland and Rush have pointed out that Zapruder temporarily stopped filming at around frame 132, when only police motorcycles were visible. 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. Thx! There are a Total of 9 frames missing from " Image of an Assassination, A New Look at the Zapruder Film". Zapruder's film lasts 26.6-seconds, consists of 486 frames, and runs at 18.3 frames per second. showed Dino Brugioni Z313 and Dino said the headshot was different on the original film. On November 7, 2000, she died of complications due to a blood disease in Dallas. Both cameras were running continuously and both recorded the same sequence of events. JFK Assassination Files Perhaps we shall save Sasquatch and the 1967 PattersonGimlin film for another outing. In fact, his entire forehead is shown to be missing. There is no enthusiasm in the crowd. The time span covered and timing of the shots and their impacts are the same down to the hundredths of a second. And that doesnt even include the missing gap between frames 132 and 133. According to the frame numbers, there are 42 frames missing in the film. Anthony M is correct in that the DictaBelt covers the same time frame from the first shot to the last as covered by the Zapruder film. As the film progresses, his wound morphs. IN my last newsletter I made mention of Rebecca L. Gould without ever giving a photo reveal. The original Zapruder film, locked away since 1978 in the National Archives in a storage vault kept at 25 degrees, is not intact. Something happened. There is an item to his left. His accused killer. As a crisis actor, Jean Hill is filled with colorful war stories. The next seismic event in the Zapruder films odyssey came in the slam-bang conclusion of Oliver Stones conspiracy-theory film JFK, a reverential account of New Orleans DA Jim Garrisons real-world fiasco of an investigation, which climaxed with Garrison, played by Kevin Costner, dramatically showing the jury the Zapruder film, complete with Frame 313. The Cancellare photo is an estimated 20 seconds after Z film frame 313. Were listening. Nevertheless, bootleg copies circulated, helping to generate the first wave of assassination conspiracy theories and Warren Commission critics. We know somebody killed Kennedy and theres an answer to the question of who and why. is frame 208 and the bottom portion is 212. There is another glaring problem here, because agent Zapruder never captured Jean Hill making any such notion towards the Lincoln. 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. Now, lets turn back to the Newman family and another Frank Cancellare original. Bruglioni thought there was more frames showing the awful blood spatter after Frame 313. Cookie Policy 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). The sun is shining. 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). Not only did Hill hear this shot but Zapruder did as well. As of Z-337, he hasnt even touched the limo yet, let alone mount it. It makes for natural auditorium seating. Had he stuck around to film another moment, as any curious person with an 8mm logically would, everything he and others had planned so long for might have been compromised. The simple answer is that there is no discrepancy. World War II seemed to provide a notion of good and evil that we could all embrace. The man was shooting from right just this side of that tree . This version takes the original 18 frame-per-second film and interpolates it to 30 frames per second. Or so were led to believe. So one recent morning over breakfast in the dining room of the hotel in New Yorks SoHo where Morris was staying, I sat down in front of his computer to watch the Zapruder film with him. The Justice Department subsequently asked the National Academy of Sciences to re-examine the Dictabelt evidence and it concluded it was not dispositive, which naturally led to years of debate among forensic acoustic experts. Kids, this is before digital technology. 10X18.3=183 10X18.5=185. They cant all be right. Rewind to Frame 313: The visceral impression that the blast came from in front of JFK and blew his head backward is powerful. If Im being repetitive, its because the jump from frames 132 to 133 should immediately tell us something. Just look how much she can move her hand between two adjacent frames in Zapruder film. There is of course a third option. And yet, in the Zapruder film, Jean is clearly shown some 2 feet from the curb. interval such that I could determine if any additional frames were missing. If the Warren Commission, which was made up of top ranking Freemasons, the CIA Director, and a future president, wanted to steer America away from pondering the possibility of a cover up, why would they even ask the lady in red to testify? I watched the seven-minute Alex Cox video on YouTube. Safe at least in the sense that we can know about it. That looks to be the legs of the lady in red and perhaps the Babushka lady, standing around, comparing notes, getting their stories straight. Entertainment for the barracoon. 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. 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. There's also a slow-motion version on this video, where each of the film's frames were expanded to four interpolated frames. The physical evidence hangs together very well in the scenario presented by Dr Donald Thomas 2014) in Hear no Evil. A shot that might be the one we see hit the president in Frame 313. In fact, there is a YouTube compilation that includes no fewer than five versions of the Zapruder filmslow-motion, zoomed-in, close-ups. If any frames were missing in these intervals none of this would work out with such mathematical precision. the whole pattern is thrown off. It truly was the end of the 50s. the partial distance that the message took up at the beginning and ending 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. Agent Zapruder was a 33 degree Freemason, and Jean Hill was in on it. The message is flashed 7 times through the It looks like they were attempting to fit a square . Everything went down without a hitch. I hope to see my readers there! This discussion raises the possibility that CIA had the capability to alter the Z Film. She is seen standing nearly alone in Dealey Plaza, and had only recently separated from her husband, Bill Hill. When asked, George H.W. 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. Timberwolf had a hand in the illusion. Is that the mysterious Babushka lady standing stage left? It seems Zapruder was saving film until JFK was clear in sight. This is only in slow-motion.. 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. None were altered. 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. This may be a good time to look into another anomaly. In one stunning moment, Kennedy took his exit from the world stage. 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? 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. While slowly killing her off with a daily dosage of poison, the CIA would sadistically give America reason to discredit her. So significant, so powerful, so disturbing that for years Zapruder himself did not want it to be shown. On Monday, August 25, 2014 at 8:52:53 PM UTC-5, Herbert Blenner wrote: https://www.facebook.com/pages/JFKs-murder/681606495193460, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtEdEaXBtQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCigDMyHisE, http://www.the-puzzle-palace.com/zapruder.htm. sold the film to Time-Life for the sum of $150,000 - about $900,000 dollars in today's money. What is the word missing at the top of page 7? The whole purpose of all alterations was to add more symbolisms. As I say to Tink, in my film, it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Morris says in a wry Mister Rogers imitation. 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. Let's say 18 X 15 frames, or 270 frames are missing from the Zapruder Gap. FOR WHATEVER subconscious reason that I care not to evaluate here, I went with the unorthodox position of claiming Zapruders footage of the JFK assassination was a royal hoax before ever showing a shred of evidence for it. You dont simply turn a reel of film off and on again without a slight hiccup in the presentation. The odyssey of that small rectangle of sprocket-pocked celluloid is fascinating. 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. If this confuses you, then just rest assured this is yet another problem to official narrative which insists that Zapruders film was in no way altered. He may have been startled by the head shot and only wanted to verify what had transpired before continuing filming. measurements are close enough to show a pattern: 51; 48; 51; 48; 51; 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. Hill apparently always thought of herself as a survivor after many of the other witnesses to the assassination died shortly after President Kennedys death under what some considered to be mysterious circumstances.. The Umbrella Man himself showed up to give testimony to the House assassinations committee, Morris says. If you play the footage slowly, the head wound constantly changes shape. Zapruder Film Frames Addeddate 2019-11-05 01:54:09 Identifier zapruderfilmframes Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. plus-circle Add Review. Twenty-six seconds that included a historic, horrific, all-too-clear vision of a presidential assassination. each repeating message. There are only 6 frames missing from the " JFK Assassination, A Visual Investigation" versision of the film. Shed take to the bottle, lose her career as a teacher to some scandal, and then jump off a bridge. 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. 5th & 6th is 50 5/8; and the 6th & 7th is 48. John F. Kennedy. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Agent Zapruders movie has been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history, We can know for certain that somebody took a. All the alterations of Zapruder film were very primitive and totally unable to hide anything. The lovely Rebecca. I ask Morris about my theory of grief underlying the obsession with the assassinationthat we underestimate the shock of it. Perhaps Kennedy really was a two-term president. I have watched his five-hour YouTube account about the autopsy and how the Zapruder film was altered, and his evidence is overwhelming. All you little JFK researchers lack basic common sense and spread a lot of misinfo with your ignorance. Was Dino shown the actual extant film and asked to comment or just a single photo? Had Walter Cronkite simply told America their president was dead, then they would have believed him. Is it something specific to the JFK case or is it true more generally about knowability? And now we are on the subject of the Zapruder film. The Lady in Red, still dressed for the part in 1992, rehearsed what she saw in the Beyond JFK documentary. Topics Zapruder, Film, Frames, JFK, Kennedy, Oswald. One can measure the time it took for the three assassination shots (one missed) to be firedwhich the Warren Commission concluded was slightly under six secondsand then calculate how long a single shooter would take to shoot, reload, resight, shoot again, reload, resight and shoot again. If I understand correctly, Doug Horne (and Peter Janney?) Ron Rosenbaum is the author of seven books of nonfiction, including The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups, and How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. We want to take your picture!. The Texas School Book Depository, the building where investigators found empty shells and a rifle, was out of view to Zapruder's left. This was the metal on metal impact that Hill testified to hearing. Indeed the committee ultimately determined that both the CIA and the FBI had withheld material information about these matters from the Warren Commission. This is the detectives nightmare. Post-production editors simply gave Kennedy an impossible head wound. And there they go running off for their next shot while the Newmans remain poised in position, waiting to be cleared by the director. It is spooks who create our perceived reality and then spooks who inform our opinions about it. That is all for now. He sold the rights to the original to Life magazine for a reported $150,000. That would be totally amazing if true. Or so we're led to believe. Thompson concluded that Oswald wouldnt have had the time to get off all three shots himself andafter working with Lifes copy of the Zapruder filmhe published his findings in Six Seconds in Dallas, one of the first strictly forensic books critical of the Warren Commission, a book even Bugliosi speaks respectfully of, though he disagrees with it.
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