--Michael J. Briggs , former editor-in-chief University Press of Kansas, publisher of The Zapruder Film and Breach of Trust "An impressive and staggering piece of investigative journalism. "I mean, it was utter chaos by that time. Another thing you should know: Promoters of the lone assassin theory often stress the fact that one shot can sound like two. The Zapruder film, the only continuous chronological visual record of the assassination, is the best available photographic evidence of the number and timing of the shots that struck the occupants of the Presidential limousine. That same year, the family donated all copyrights on the film to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This is crudely done since I am not a film editor. He told Lane that his film "got lost in the processing plant" and that when he got it back, it was missing frames. Dellarosa was emphatic in his observation that the limo came to a complete stop.The Turn Onto Elm St. I couldn't understand how a thing like this could happen. Following its publishing in 1967, Thompson's book featured some very detailed charcoal drawings of important individual frames, plus photo reproductions of the four missing ones. But Jackson, Nix's granddaughter and author of 2014's Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film, wants the long-lost original last believed to be in the possession of the House . Were they all suffering from the same mass hallucination ? [10][12], Brugioni thought the Zapruder Film in the National Archives today, and available to the public, has been altered from the version of the film he saw and worked with on November 2324. The first researcher to call attention to the possibility of a limousine stop was Mark Lane, who in his book A Citizens Dissent (1968) wrote:A considerable body of testimony before the [Warren] Commission indicated that the limousine slowed abruptly and then accelerated rapidly when the shots were fired. Keep in mind that this film was never intended to be released to the public. It looked to me as if the President was struck in the right upper rear of his head. (Go here for individual still frames from the entire extant film. In the Nix film, Jackie goes noticeably further out on the trunk. The last view of the passenger side of the p. limo was Jay Skaggs at the intersection of Houston and Main. After "Gimme Shelter" appeared, critic Pauline Kael compared it to the Zapruder film. It would have been impossible to alter the film in such a way as to depict the movement of the head as being anything other than what it was. [1] In his 2001 book Tell Me A Story, CBS producer Don Hewitt said that he told Rather to go to Zapruder's home to "sock him in the jaw", take the film, copy it, then return it and let the network's lawyers deal with the consequences. In the authors' words, "The film, we realize, does not depict an assassination about to commence. I believe the top half is the limo stopped and the bottom half when they get going. Abe never remembered getting down from the ledge or anything that happened in the immediate aftermath of the shooting except for his own anguished screams. "And then I realized," Abe said. The provenance of the Zapruder film was firmly established and the film was regarded as the single most reliable piece of assassination evidence. The clip above would come to shape the ensuing evaluation and controversy over Kennedy's untimely death.
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