Learn how your comment data is processed. showed Dino Brugioni Z313 and Dino said the headshot was different on the original film. Vaseline, perhaps? Nothing but a stump of head. As the motorcade approaches, we see JFKs car emerge from behind a sign that had been temporarily blocking the view. I went through the Zapruder film this morning frame-by-frame in slow motion. Sarah and I are in our 40s, have been married for over 20 years, and never thought we could have any more children. BOOK REVIEWS / The Great Zapruder Film Hoax . There are no frames missing from the Zapruder film. Thompson has had an extraordinary, colorful career. Whats forgotten by many is the HSCAs conclusion: that JFK was killed by a conspiracy. You can read her birth story here. Frame 486 is the last frame of the film. He seemingly believes that, Morris says. Videos Zapruder Film - 1st Dan Rather CBS TV News Description 25 Nov 1963 Zapruder Film - 2nd Dan Rather CBS TV News Description 25 Nov 1963 The problem is not about the nature of reality. They wouldnt divorce until August of the following year. Apparently, he was a Dallas police motorcycle cop, assigned to the motorcade. The curb looks to be a good 12 inches higher than the street. 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. Whats so funny, Mr. President? The Lady in Red, still dressed for the part in 1992, rehearsed what she saw in the Beyond JFK documentary. His film shows the President's assassination in vivid color and provides an indispensable timeclock . But after that day in Dallas, he could no longer pick up that camera. 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. You would think the other most important film footage of the 20th-century, perhaps all of human history, would be slightly more worth preserving that Archie Bunkers chair, but no. If a man that powerful, that young, that rich, that successful, can just be wiped off the face of the earth in an instant, what does it say about the rest of us?. Anthony Marsh span of. I fully agree with Randy Robertson. They didnt want us to see Mrs. Kennedy in such a precarious position on the trunk. Its DINO Brugioni, and much of the interview is Horne interjecting his false interpretations. Not so. Well, here she is. Where did agent Zapruder go? Shooting a revolver into a hard object- it seemed to have some type of echo. An entire week has gone by and still I make no apologies. Certainly not too hot. JFK Assassination Files This missing part of the film, the frames between Z 132 and Z 133, could contain frames for 21 seconds. I have consulted JFKfacts for years to learn new information, but your continued equivocation disappointments me. That trajectory work would produce charts which do not conform to the Zapruder film. According to this frame, we can see right through his skull. The lovely Rebecca. Ive always been skeptical of the theory Abraham Zapruders home movie of JFKs assassination has been altered. sprocket hole area at regular intervals. The only thing more obvious in the Kennedy hoax would be a nod to Fords Theater. We want to take your picture!. He may have been startled by the head shot and only wanted to verify what had transpired before continuing filming. That is, unless you want to take scissors to the reel and make an edit. 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. Later tests also put the motorcycles positioning in doubt, further undermining the linchpin of the HSCAs conspiracy conclusion. Perhaps Kennedy really was a two-term president. Back in 1975, Robert Groden, a conspiracist specializing in image trickery, argued in Rolling Stone that frames were. Can anyone comment or point me in the right direction to learn more. The limos turn onto Elm isnt in the film because Zapruder stopped filming until the limo came into his view. Perhaps you are beginning to see where Im going with this. Nothing is natural about the way he lumbers across the screen like a cartoon. . Nix film: She is further out on the trunk. The president in an open motorcade., Each time we get to Frame 313, I groan. which have no meaning to me. Expect plenty more of her in upcoming announcements. In trying to understand conspiracy theorists, I used to think that what conspiracy theorists were really doing on some level was grieving, their fantasies a form of displaced love for JFK, but Ive come to think the love involved is mostly self-love, their self-congratulatory assertion of superiority over mere facts. The labyrinth to nowhere. Rebecca came to TUC during the summer of 2021 after following the breadcrumb trail from Rob Skiba and Nephelim research and soon thereafter began following the Torah. He has spent the last 37 years working, often successfully, for defense lawyers in tough cases. 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. There should be hundreds filling this one print alone. 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. CBS News. President Kennedy does not enter the stage for the first third of the picture, and it is there were we encounter a serious problem. Theres Jean Hill in her red coat, positioned next to Mary Moorman, precisely where they were last seen in the Zapruder film. Clearly there is a backward movement, but . Its like everyone is waiting their turn, having already rehearsed their part, and only little America is not in on it. And the Umbrella Man became an icon of conspiracy theorists? I ask. The Zapruder film, silent but in color, shows a motorcade led by two open-top limousines proceeding at a stately pace through a street lined with people. They had positioned themselves there knowing it would make the perfect photograph of John and Jackie Kennedy. Only the man with a construction helmet seemingly remains the same in each one, and hes been identified as an agent. On February 13, 1969 Zapruder said that he could not tell if frames Were missing from his film nor could he vouch for the film's chain of interval such that I could determine if any additional frames were missing. Here we also find that the parked automobiles beyond Dealey Plaza will change their appearance. Its incredibly sad, still, looking at it today. 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). Moreover, although Life had a copy of the film, it did little to maximize the return on its extraordinary investment. 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. And this threw everything up for grabs. The film shows the presidential limousine as it travels west on Elm Street toward the triple underpass. There are only 6 frames missing from the "JFK It is one of the very reasons I closed my Facebook account in April of 2020. Nevertheless, bootleg copies circulated, helping to generate the first wave of assassination conspiracy theories and Warren Commission critics. 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. So stay tuned. Theres the version where the umbrella was a signal to the co-conspirators. In fact, his entire forehead is shown to be missing. 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. Not even John Wilkes Booth could accomplish that task. 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. Rivqah is nearly 4 months old now, her birthdate being on July 7, and as you can see, she loves standing with assistance. If you were born at any time during the 20th century, then youve likely seen the Zapruder film a hundred times already. With age he still possesses clear articulate memories. Like this film much more evidence was destroyed or altered that night to include the limousine evidence. David Lifton argues in The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2004) that: "Abraham Zapruder. There is an item to his left. The whole JFK assassination was a ritual, the alterations were also a ritual. And now we are on the subject of the Zapruder film. For nearly 200 frames, some three dozen people on the bottom of the frame, or the north end of Elm Street, remain perfectly motionless. Freemasons and the Illuminated from the local Lodge often like to let me know theyre keeping an eye on me. 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). 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. 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. As of Z-337, he hasnt even touched the limo yet, let alone mount it. As I watched my copy of the MPI version on DVD, I the whole pattern is thrown off. The Zapruder camera was measured by the FBI to film at the average rate of 18.3 frames per second. This is what he is describing and it fits his testimony exquisitely. Were talking about the chance of a lifetime, to stand several feet away from the President. Before we move onto Kennedys head wound, via frame 313, lets address the running woman seen only one frame earlier, in 312. For some reason perhaps to sell his book, perhaps? Just look at Bush. . "18 FPS [illegible] than it should have 'been run.' . Zapruder stopped the camera at 132, and started it again at frame 133. This may be a good time to look into another anomaly. The more probable explanation is that Kennedy never received a head wound to begin with. This is very easy to verify. 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. versision of the film. America had been a bad boy. 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. We see it blown up and thrown back. Something happened. I would note that In Hornes interview Brugioni stated that he had counted the number of frames in the Zapruder film. The significance of the tape would not become known until 1978. Nowadays crisis actors are a dime a dozen. Spooks. This amounts to a running time of precisely 28 seconds. 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). I mean why am I so obsessed with He pauses. 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. . Regardless, I highly suggest you give it another review while reading this paper. Zen Garcia was kind enough to ask me to speak at the upcoming 2023 Sacred Word Revealed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I believe this pattern proves the We can never know that we cant know something. It seems Zapruder was saving film until JFK was clear in sight. 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. Also, it means Im doing something right. 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. In fact, there is a YouTube compilation that includes no fewer than five versions of the Zapruder filmslow-motion, zoomed-in, close-ups. Jackie leans over to attend to him. Twenty-six seconds that included a historic, horrific, all-too-clear vision of a presidential assassination. "The Great Zapruder Film Hoax" is the third in a series of books edited by Jim Fetzer comprised of various essays and white papers dealing with . 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. compositing artifact, mutated with the merging together of multiple film sources. 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. each repeating message. But somehow he makes Morris and Thompson accomplices, witting or not, in the coverup of the Umbrella Mans murderous duplicity in Dallas that day. I can only assume somebody wanted to record the Super Bowl, and it was either that or Wernher von Brauns wedding video. Take a note of that. Your email address will not be published. We see the black Lincoln Continental with JFK and his wife, Jackie, in a pink skirt-and-jacket suit. 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. One important thing. Something looks not right there. 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. Well, here she is. Theyll rear you in the craft and then bus you out to the event for free. 2023 Smithsonian Magazine Here's the clearest view yet, a new motion-stabilized and panoramic version of the Zapruder film. While slowly killing her off with a daily dosage of poison, the CIA would sadistically give America reason to discredit her. Meanwhile conspiracy theory books continue to pour out, some even claiming the Zapruder film itself was falsified somehow. comment. There is a big blob where his skull once was. There are no patterns. This is probably a good place to remind everyone that I love my family, am not on psychotropic drugs, and have never once thought about committing suicide. This discussion raises the possibility that CIA had the capability to alter the Z Film. These missing frames are here derived from alternative sources. We like to feel that the world is safe, Errol Morris tells me. Search the history of over 797 billion Below is a Zapruder film sequence running from Z133-Z206. Within that 30 seconds of missing time, the motorcades lead car. You dont simply turn a reel of film off and on again without a slight hiccup in the presentation. World War II seemed to provide a notion of good and evil that we could all embrace. If you look to the far right you will see what appears to be an inhuman looking shape-shifter. Around Z376 I would suggest, or very shortly after that. 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. 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. I like to play hard to get, and so, you will have to try your best and find me. Safe at least in the sense that we can know about it. Technical assistance courtesy of the Mary Ferrell Foundation | Designed by iWebResults. 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. My favorite quote in my favorite movie review, he says, appeared in a 1941 review of Citizen Kane by [the great Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis] Borges and it contained Borges quoting, as he often did, [British writer G.K.] Chesterton, who said there is nothing more frightening than a labyrinth with no center. Post-production still frame that has been composited. After adding in frame 341 & 350 and assuming Abraham Zapruder, an unassuming man with an ordinary camera.. 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.