The future Director of the CIA made Kennedy go away. 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. Thinking about the silly Umbrella Man theory, I exclaim, He did it! A weaponized camera. Heres the clearest view yet, a new motion-stabilized and panoramic version of the Zapruder film. Whats forgotten by many is the HSCAs conclusion: that JFK was killed by a conspiracy. [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.]. Uploaded by Were talking about the chance of a lifetime, to stand several feet away from the President. It was right up there. There is another glaring problem here, because agent Zapruder never captured Jean Hill making any such notion towards the Lincoln. What a coincidence. Zapruder Film ( Original) Topics Zapruder JFK film. Vaseline, perhaps? 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. This is also the precise moment when Jean is said to have looked into the direction of the Texas School Book Depository and saw Jack Ruby making his getaway. Zapruder's film lasts 26.6-seconds, consists of 486 frames, and runs at 18.3 frames per second. Such a leap would not go unnoticed. 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, Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island. Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln, and as we all hopefully know by now, Lincolns assassination was another hoax. Case Closed, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assasination of JFK. The sun is shining. Enjoy the performance until the lights go down and its your cue to die, that sort of thing. Profusely illustrated, Last Second in Dallas features dozens of archive photographs, including Zapruder film frames reproduced at the highest clarity ever published. The Umbrella Man himself showed up to give testimony to the House assassinations committee, Morris says. Witness Howard Brennan turns abruptly to the right. The fatal headshot. Reviews There are no reviews yet. An updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil is being published by DaCapo/Perseus Books. I dont know, you tell me. Regardless, here we are. The Case for Zapruder Film Forgery. Advertising Notice Its like a little metal stabbing thing that can be fired, without a gunshot sound, can lodge itself in the flesh and be fatal.. Two large bullet fragments were found in the car (44.6 and 21.0 grains = 65.6 grains) after they dented some chrome and damaged the windshield, and a pristine (Magic) bullet at the hospital (158.6 grains). 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). 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. There is a huge crater where his forehead used to be, through which we can again see . Zapruder Film Stabilized Filtered High Definition! Meanwhile conspiracy theory books continue to pour out, some even claiming the Zapruder film itself was falsified somehow. These missing frames are here derived from alternative sources. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a specialist in the fields of Native American history and political assassinations, writing books and articles on the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. 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. 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. Rebecca L. Gould: A growing family at TUC! Frame 313. Laughing his ass off. A man who never met John Kennedy but whose name, Zapruder, is inextricably linked to Kennedys and to Kennedys death. Agent Zapruder was a 33 degree Freemason, and Jean Hill was in on it. World War II seemed to provide a notion of good and evil that we could all embrace. Read more. Abraham Zapruder, an unassuming man with an ordinary camera.. Her story seems less and less likely with every retelling. Or so were led to believe. People will always remember where they were when President Kennedy was shot. University Press of Kansas. Zen Garcia was kind enough to ask me to speak at the upcoming 2023 Sacred Word Revealed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten frames of the Zapruder film, calculated at the assumed speed of 18.3 frames per second, equals .56 seconds (or 560 milliseconds). The real world is not indeterminate. 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. Had Walter Cronkite simply told America their president was dead, then they would have believed him. In case you were wondering, Cosmology is not a couch for me to recline on while you pull out a monocle and a notebook and attempt to assign my pedigree of insanity. Zapruder by all accounts was haunted by Frame 313. Captured on an 8mm amateur movie camera by 58-year-old Abraham Zapruder, its the definitive view of the presidents death on November 22, 1963. President Kennedy does not enter the stage for the first third of the picture, and it is there were we encounter a serious problem. But we know thats all part of the psyop. Plain and simple. . There were great suspicions about the Zapruder film from the beginning. There is an item to his left. Kennedy's limousine has just turned onto Elm Street, moments before the first shot, and the President is apparently waving. If my work frustrates or bores you, then I highly suggest doing your own research. Where is that line of demarcation between nutso thinking and good thinking?. Many people believe that this shot was a front shot from a smaller weapon than the 6.5 mm Carcano]. Something happened. As the car first appears in the Zapruder film, Connally is looking to his right. We like to feel that the world is safe, Errol Morris tells me. Oh wait, another close-up. The first thing you should notice is that Zapruder abruptly cut filming at frame 132. Bill and Gayle Newman. There should be hundreds filling this one print alone. In fact, there is a YouTube compilation that includes no fewer than five versions of the Zapruder filmslow-motion, zoomed-in, close-ups. 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. has anyone noticed the real footage contained in this movie? Entertainment for the barracoon. 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches. 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. Here we also find that the parked automobiles beyond Dealey Plaza will change their appearance. A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials. 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. that large tree, and thats where I saw the shot come from.. Not the Deep State. Kennedy becomes visible to Zapruder again, his right arm is resting on the edge of the car, having just relaxed from waving. The Lady in Red, still dressed for the part in 1992, rehearsed what she saw in the Beyond JFK documentary. Oh, thats right. When I moved myself around a chair fast Before we move onto Kennedys head wound, via frame 313, lets address the running woman seen only one frame earlier, in 312. Even President James Buchanan would have a larger turnout. 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. And we know that he is hit in such a way that matter was ejected from the back of his head.. There were several photos taken from the south side of Elm, and again, when compared with Zapruder, they all imagine various sized crowds. Reviews There are no reviews yet. [This is likely when Connally tried to take his next regular breath, the lung punctured only 2/3s of a second before collapsed, and making him feel like hed just been hit; or, he IS hit at this point and his lung collapses at this point]. Speaking of which. which exposed his right temple to the front of the car. 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. The man was shooting from right just this side of that tree . We see the black Lincoln Continental with JFK and his wife, Jackie, in a pink skirt-and-jacket suit. But since we are not watching a Hollywood production, or so we keep telling ourselves, all we are left with is that uncomfortable sinking feeling and a pill bottle of cognitive dissonance. Apparently, on the 22 of November, 1963, Jean immediately ran to the grassy knoll where she saw a puff of smoke and a shadowy figure. I have chosen the word immediate, or else why would she run? Also, it means Im doing something right. [Numerous Ear-witnesses recall the first shot being about this point, when the car has just turned the corner onto Elm Street]. In other words, multiple takes. The shock never wears off. You dont simply turn a reel of film off and on again without a slight hiccup in the presentation. The lampposts in Dealey Plaza are precisely 14 feet tall. Sorry, whatever he has to show us is a no go. 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. | READ MORE. Its those bad guys rubbing their hands together, Twirling their mustaches, calculating panic, conniving. And what better place to peer over ones shoulder, once the curb had filled with too many bystanders to number, than the grassy knoll? Frame 486 is the last frame of the film. Within that 30 seconds of missing time, the motorcades lead car. Gender:Male. He ran off the very second he finished with his movie project, right alongside the fat man leaving the Book Depository Building and the second shooter. . I dont want to hear people misinterpreting the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. This page was created by Marc CarlsonIt was last edited 15 May 2017, Groden, Robert J. More like a glob. You may notice in the Zapruder film that various photographers are poised and ready for action on the south side of Elm, just across from the motionless crowd. Nevertheless, bootleg copies circulated, helping to generate the first wave of assassination conspiracy theories and Warren Commission critics. Nothing is natural about the way he lumbers across the screen like a cartoon. 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. I figure its their way of reminding me that my special interests are nobodys business but their own. 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? Alexandra Zapruder says her family always said the movie was an "accident of fate," and that her grandfather was in . How a fat man could make it down six flights of stairs after making his kill shot within the span of a few seconds is beyond me. "In terms of public record, I think it is very fortunate I found . Frame by Frame breakdown of the Zapruder Film With some various theories that have been presented. 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. Okay, lets be clear. 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. 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. We know from frame 312 of the Zapruder film that just after President Kennedy had been hit in the throat he turned at the last second to his left almost facing Jackie. Foliage blocks a School Book Depository snipers view of Kennedy (with a small break at 186), according to reconstructions (2.3 seconds). A week after Kennedy's death, the magazine ran still images of about 30. Notice how Jeans shadow is bent out of shape. Perhaps Kennedy really was a two-term president. The next series of frames reveals a massive exit wound upon Kennedys right temple and forehead. As the motorcade approaches, we see JFKs car emerge from behind a sign that had been temporarily blocking the view. This amounts to a running time of precisely 28 seconds. Everything went down without a hitch. George H.W. The Killing of a President. 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 . If you play the footage slowly, the head wound constantly changes shape. By the way, yes, I do believe there were some real conspiracies in historyJulius Caesars assassination for instanceI just think they need to be proven, fact by fact, not by fantasy and supposition. On November 7, 2000, she died of complications due to a blood disease in Dallas. His head lurches back to the left (8.0-8.4 seconds after the first shot) as his body stiffens suddenly from the massive neurological damage, and possibly aggravated by his back brace, or, if you wish, studies have also shown that the head flying back and to the left is also possible because of the matter ejected by the right side of his head exploding in a simple Newtonian happening. President Kennedy is kept in center frame. The Zapruder film consists of 486 frames (about 6 feet) of 8mm film exposed over the course of 26.6 seconds at 18.3 frames per second. Mrs. Kennedy is looking around. Posted March 12, 2017. Either there were multiple takes and her best performance was not a part of the finished product, which would also explain the discrepancies among the motionless crowd, or were simply dealing with a one-take crisis actor. 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