Entertainment for the barracoon. Examines frames of film exposed with different combinations of color filters (wedges) to select optimum color balance based on experience and judgment. I cannot figure. I never trust tapestries or a conveniently hung drape. I believe 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. Agent Zapruders movie has been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history. This fall, Tom Hanks will produce another cinematic version of the assassination, a movie called Parkland (after the Dallas hospital), with Paul Giamatti playing our man Abraham Zapruder. Bush had a hand in Kennedys assassination. 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. The future Director of the CIA made Kennedy go away. 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. This is a problem because Zapruder's 8 mm Bell & Howell displayed no fade in exposure while it slowed down and then started back up again. 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? We see them all waving to onlookers as the motorcade heads for what was known locally as the triple underpass, an aptly metaphoric name for the tangle we will soon enter. Nothing is natural about the way he lumbers across the screen like a cartoon. "18 FPS [illegible] than it should have 'been run.' . * Note 1: Frame 157 is a splice. Clint Hill saw this and helped her in retrieving it. It gives us a picture of evil that is manageable. Jean was simply keeping to their plot twist. 2nd & 3rd is 48; 3rd & 4th is 50 5/8; 4th & 5th is 47 7/8; ITS happening. 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. The odyssey of that small rectangle of sprocket-pocked celluloid is fascinating. The start of the message does not begin exactly in the same place each So, take note of her sprint towards the grassy knoll. Zapruder stopped the camera at 132, and started it again at frame 133. without ever giving a photo reveal. Youd think if the press and the police wanted to speak with anyone, it was the guy holding the movie camera. Just look at Bush. Frame 313. If the shadowy Deep State wanted Jean Hill dead for outing their second shooter, then Jean Hill would be dead. He did so by becoming the Sorcerers apprentice, and finally the Wizard of Oz. 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. Pulling back curtains. The Earth Not a Globe Review: Volume I and The Legends of the Jews: Volumes I-IV would not have happened without her. 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 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. That instant is one we can all now watch on YouTube. JFK Assassination Files Or so we're led to believe. I decided to find out if this message was at a regular It seems Zapruder was saving film until JFK was clear in sight. The first thing you should notice is that Zapruder abruptly cut filming at frame 132. All credit goes to John P. Costella. A Secret Service agent told her after the attack that another agent, watching from the courthouse, saw a bullet strike at my feet. Mm-hmm, Jean. Frames 341, 350 and 486 were omitted from the DVD publication. Topics Zapruder, Film, Frames, JFK, Kennedy, Oswald. There were several photos taken from the south side of Elm, and again, when compared with Zapruder, they all imagine various sized crowds. Agent Zapruder was a 33 degree Freemason, and Jean Hill was in on it. More like a glob. We want to take your picture!. Morningstar says he has the missing frames of Zapruder. 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. If you play the footage slowly, the head wound constantly changes shape. At what point did she chase after the second shooter? There is a big blob where his skull once was. He is almost always mentioned in the press as the boyfriend. I found one source identifying him as J.B. Marshall, but that also may be a pseudonym. CBS News conducted an experiment to determine a person's reaction upon hearing a gunshot. 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. In Morris film, Thompson discloses something I hadnt known: that the Umbrella Man had eventually come forward and explained himself. That and the magic bullet theory, created by 33 degree Freemason Arlen Spector, was all a part of the psyop. Laughing his ass off. 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. The implication is that all is uncertainty, that well never know who killed Kennedy or why to any degree of certainty. How long do you suppose the Newmans remained ducking for cover while the media stood around photographing themand just as importantly, why? If Im being repetitive, its because the jump from frames 132 to 133 should immediately tell us something. 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. 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. With all of the goblygook and technical jargon about certain frames etc., one only has to look very closely at the Nix 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. The second section compares the film as screened at 24 frames per second, 18 frames, and 16 frames. AND no, she wasnt born standing up. 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. 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. Apparently, he was a Dallas police motorcycle cop, assigned to the motorcade. Back to square one. The distance between the 1st & 2nd is 50 5/8 frames; 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. Search the history of over 797 billion This is the precise moment when Kennedys head explodes like a firecracker. 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. And we know that he is hit in such a way that matter was ejected from the back of his head.. It is one of the very reasons I closed my Facebook account in April of 2020. If we were viewing a Hollywood production, wed have simple explanations for this. 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. This version is only in slow-motion., So we know hes been hit, Morris says. sold the film to Time-Life for the sum of $150,000 - about $900,000 dollars in today's money. The Zapruder camera was measured by the FBI to film at the average rate of 18.3 frames per second. You can read her birth story here. As previously noted, some crisis actors like to dabble in the art of Improv, and Jean Hill appears to be one of them. I believe these This missing part of the film, the frames between Z 132 and Z 133, could contain frames for 21 seconds. There is much else to see in this single frame. Morris new film, after all, about Donald Rumsfeldfamous for his line about unknown unknownsis called The Unknown Known. A grassy knoll, from where some believe a second assassin fired, was out of view to his right. Grappling with the power of Abraham Zapruder's grimly immortal footage, one fraction of a second at a time. That looks to be the legs of the lady in red and perhaps the Babushka lady, standing around, comparing notes, getting their stories straight. However, this finding was reached based on the last-minute introduction of acoustic evidence, a Dictabelt recording made by a motorcycle cop walkie-talkie purportedly positioned so that it seemed to have picked up a fourth shot (and thus a second assassin) fired from the direction of the grassy knoll in front of the president. Similarly, are there other accounts/interviews with anyone that watched the original film on that Saturday morning (Nov 23) that would support film alteration?? The Woman in Red furthermore stated that she received death threats and that the brake lines of her automobile were cut after the assassination. 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. A new theory that determines how many Zapruder frames were deleted from the original Zapruder film during that day November 24, 1963 per the alteration discovered by Douglas Horne. Humidity wasnt an issue. . In fact, his entire forehead is shown to be missing. And he notices there is a man, a bystander among the crowds waiting for the Kennedy motorcadeand hes holding an umbrella. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 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. 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. One important thing. As a writer, hes questioned the way that photographic images can document the nature of truth (in his recent book Believing Is Seeing). 17 and 18 frames long. All frames of the film are accounted for at the National Archives. (In analyzing these frames, we use "left" for "driver's side" and "right" for "passenger's side".) Meanwhile conspiracy theory books continue to pour out, some even claiming the Zapruder film itself was falsified somehow. 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. The significance of the tape would not become known until 1978. 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. CBS News. 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. But after that day in Dallas, he could no longer pick up that camera. where this cameraman was standing. Remember, the only reason you know about the existence of a possible second shooter is because of Jean Hill. which have no meaning to me. We shall return to that thought in a moment. Still poised in position while LIFE Magazine stands around, capturing their drama for the nation. 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. Sorry, whatever he has to show us is a no go. According to the frame numbers, there are 42 frames missing in the film. While slowly killing her off with a daily dosage of poison, the CIA would sadistically give America reason to discredit her. 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. Strange, since convincing America that Kennedy had been assassinated was never a problem. 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. Was Dino shown the actual extant film and asked to comment or just a single photo? And indeed he looks really out of place.. Certainly not too hot. An updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil is being published by DaCapo/Perseus Books. Cookie Policy I would note that In Hornes interview Brugioni stated that he had counted the number of frames in the Zapruder film. Anyone who has not viewed Hornes interview with Leo Brugioni, please take the time and watch. Is it possi- In one stunning moment, Kennedy took his exit from the world stage. Rewind to Frame 313: The visceral impression that the blast came from in front of JFK and blew his head backward is powerful. 10X18.3=183 10X18.5=185. Two of those films are stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and the third is in the Museum's Zapruder Collection. They didnt want us to see Mrs. Kennedy in such a precarious position on the trunk. The real world is not indeterminate. I watched the seven-minute Alex Cox video on YouTube. And it has produced this epi-stemic war of people battling for reality through these imagestrying to wrest control back from chaos.. In any case, thanks for your superb work and please keep it up! The lampposts in Dealey Plaza are precisely 14 feet tall. Where is that line of demarcation between nutso thinking and good thinking?. The top 1/3 is frame 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. Only the man with a construction helmet seemingly remains the same in each one, and hes been identified as an agent. It looks like they were attempting to fit a square . from "Image of an Assassination, A New Look at the Zapruder Learn how your comment data is processed. This discussion raises the possibility that CIA had the capability to alter the Z Film. Were listening. His film shows the President's assassination in vivid color and provides an indispensable timeclock . Dino saw a Secret Service copy of the film, in which the head explosion was whitish instead of reddish. (1) her hand is off the trunk, and is as high as the drivers side handhold; (2) her right hand extends all the way to the end of the trunk, as far as Clint Hills; (3) her right arm is now parallel to it the trunk. This amounts to a running time of precisely 28 seconds. In other words, multiple takes. None were altered. 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. Meanwhile, on Elm Street, we can see cowboys going on a joy ride, and if Im not mistaken, Norma Jean Hill is no longer sitting. As I say to Tink, in my film, it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Morris says in a wry Mister Rogers imitation. 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). 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). But somehow he makes Morris and Thompson accomplices, witting or not, in the coverup of the Umbrella Mans murderous duplicity in Dallas that day. So stay tuned. The Zapruder film serves as a clock, Morris points out. 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. 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.

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