Here we can clearly see a man kneeling in the pick-up truck, which has now been shortened. Not even John Wilkes Booth could accomplish that task. And that doesnt even include the missing gap between frames 132 and 133. As I say to Tink, in my film, it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Morris says in a wry Mister Rogers imitation. The frame that gave Abraham Zapruder nightmares, the frame he insisted be withheld from the publica single frame of film that can be said to have changed American history and culture. The lampposts in Dealey Plaza are precisely 14 feet tall. Something else going against these agents is, with all due respect to old people, they were old people by the time they claimed these things, and old age can lead to misremembering things. 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. In one stunning moment, Kennedy took his exit from the world stage. The future Director of the CIA made Kennedy go away. Different perspectives can make the same thing seem different. Where there is no Minotaur at the center, theres just winding corridors, more twists and more turns.. Abraham Zapruder, an unassuming man with an ordinary camera.. That trajectory work would produce charts which do not conform to the Zapruder film. Can we even have the certainty that all is uncertainty? I ask. Question on the Z film alteration. It is the ultimate version of the Zapruder film, or at least of Frame 313, and it is agonizing. The Zapruder film disagrees with all other evidence. We are expected to believe that Zapruder shut his camera off at frame 132 and then started it up again at frame 133, some 30 seconds later, while the crowd remains standing frozen in time, completely motionless. As a writer, hes questioned the way that photographic images can document the nature of truth (in his recent book Believing Is Seeing). Ive always been skeptical of the theory Abraham Zapruders home movie of JFKs assassination has been altered. We arrive now at frame 313. . Zapruder stopped the camera at 132, and started it again at frame 133. So significant, so powerful, so disturbing that for years Zapruder himself did not want it to be shown. Certainly not too hot. But it would be a dozen years before most of the world would see Frame 313. (In analyzing these frames, we use "left" for "driver's side" and "right" for "passenger's side".) You say Clint Hill is just mounting the rear of the limo in frame 329 sprocket hole? He seemingly believes that, Morris says. The second section compares the film as screened at 24 frames per second, 18 frames, and 16 frames. 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?. So, let us begin. What is the word missing at the top of page 7? Zapruder would blur his film at frame 331, 1/6th of a second after the bullets impact. This could be due to the fact that her curbside narrative is legitimate, assuming we are not looking at the composite of multiple takes, and her position has been altered. And this threw everything up for grabs. on November 5, 2019, There are no reviews yet. 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. An analysis of the photo pins the running woman as somewhere in the range of 7 feet tall. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. is frame 208 and the bottom portion is 212. Frame 486 is the last frame of the film. Or so we're led to believe. Rebecca L. Gould: A growing family at TUC! Or does it depict something that is not on the Z-film? He would have already heard the shots to the head fractions of a second earlier. Theres another version where the Umbrella Man himself is one of the assassinswith the umbrella., A covert weapon capable of firingIm not sure where this word came from but Tink uses ita flchette. Yet another alchemical ceremony which promised to mold the collective consciousness into the image of the New World Order. Remember, the only reason you know about the existence of a possible second shooter is because of Jean Hill. We like to feel that the world is safe, Errol Morris tells me. Meanwhile conspiracy theory books continue to pour out, some even claiming the Zapruder film itself was falsified somehow. Perhaps we shall save Sasquatch and the 1967 PattersonGimlin film for another outing. ITS happening. Steve Williams, you say that you can see Zapruder point his camera down in the Nix film?, but Zapruder film doesnt stray from its line of site?, then you say none of the films have been altered? CBS News conducted an experiment to determine a person's reaction upon hearing a gunshot. This can only mean one thing. I personally interviewed crisis actors after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and I can tell you that inconsistent crises actors are a dime a dozen. 48. The official narrative claims George H.W. I like to play hard to get, and so, you will have to try your best and find me. 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. I would note that In Hornes interview Brugioni stated that he had counted the number of frames in the Zapruder film. Even President James Buchanan would have a larger turnout. In fact, his entire forehead is shown to be missing. And he made no changes to the film itself. 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. Shed take to the bottle, lose her career as a teacher to some scandal, and then jump off a bridge. Twenty-six seconds that included a historic, horrific, all-too-clear vision of a presidential assassination. Technical assistance courtesy of the Mary Ferrell Foundation | Designed by iWebResults. Or so were led to believe. Strange, since convincing America that Kennedy had been assassinated was never a problem. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Randy Robertson claims that you can see Clint Hill in frame Z-329 in the inter sprocket area just mounting the rear of the limo. This is conspicuously false. 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? 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. His film shows the President's assassination in vivid color and provides an indispensable timeclock . At one point momentarily Zapruder is seen moving his camera down from his line of vision during his filming sequence. The sun is shining. 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. Just look how much she can move her hand between two adjacent frames in Zapruder film. 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. The Earth Not a Globe Review: Volume I and The Legends of the Jews: Volumes I-IV would not have happened without her. Morningstar says he has the missing frames of Zapruder. All of the films show the limo slowingbut it didnt stop. And he notices there is a man, a bystander among the crowds waiting for the Kennedy motorcadeand hes holding an umbrella. Only the man with a construction helmet seemingly remains the same in each one, and hes been identified as an agent. *Note 2: Frame 212 is a splice also. And what better place to peer over ones shoulder, once the curb had filled with too many bystanders to number, than the grassy knoll? Agent Zapruder. 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. BOOK REVIEWS / The Great Zapruder Film Hoax . Search the history of over 797 billion A grassy knoll, from where some believe a second assassin fired, was out of view to his right. The only reason we consider it as such is because spook communities and the media tell us it is. 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. The synchronization of the film and DictaBelt are mathematically verifiable. Regarding the Military Armament Corporations chart muzzle blast spread from a suppressed weapon, I interpret that to mean that the two black shooters are only deceptively *perceived*, rather than real, shooters with the single real shooter being the one in the bottom Area of Certain Location. Am I reading this wrong? Notice how Jeans shadow is bent out of shape. 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. time in relation to the sprocket holes. Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln, and as we all hopefully know by now, Lincolns assassination was another hoax. Zen Garcia was kind enough to ask me to speak at the upcoming 2023 Sacred Word Revealed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. the partial distance that the message took up at the beginning and ending frames missing. Rivqah is nearly 4 months old now, her birthdate being on July 7, and as you can see, she loves standing with assistance. Zapruder Film Frames Addeddate 2019-11-05 01:54:09 Identifier zapruderfilmframes Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. plus-circle Add Review. Or, I should say, them. The odyssey of that small rectangle of sprocket-pocked celluloid is fascinating. None were altered. 155 and the bottom 2/3 is frame 157. There is an item to his left. comment. 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. The Zapruder film serves as a clock, Morris points out. WhoWhatWhy. But they can all be wrong.. Theres the version where the umbrella was a signal to the co-conspirators. Thx! If correct, many more than 7 frames were excised from the film. Examines frames of film exposed with different combinations of color filters (wedges) to select optimum color balance based on experience and judgment. 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. Amateur films by Abraham Zapruder and Orville Nix do not agree with each other in at least one obvious way. The top portion 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. The video of Horne and Brugioni is (IMO) compelling evidence that the Z film was compromised. 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). The Zapruder film was nothing more or less than a magical ceremony. I went through the Zapruder film this morning frame-by-frame in slow motion. On November 7, 2000, she died of complications due to a blood disease in Dallas. sold the film to Time-Life for the sum of $150,000 - about $900,000 dollars in today's money. 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. An updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil is being published by DaCapo/Perseus Books. What do you think? I mean why am I so obsessed with He pauses. Suddenly, we see JFK clutch his throat. Later tests also put the motorcycles positioning in doubt, further undermining the linchpin of the HSCAs conspiracy conclusion. Topics Zapruder, Film, Frames, JFK, Kennedy, Oswald. Spooks. 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). In any case, thanks for your superb work and please keep it up! It gives us a picture of evil that is manageable. Where are all the people? 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. Terms of Use Is it possi- Bush never could remember. * Note 1: Frame 157 is a splice. One frame is about 50 milliseconds and Jackies hand could do a significant movement in 50 milliseconds. Back to square one. Is that the mysterious Babushka lady standing stage left? The perfect crime. Readers can confirm this easily at any of the websites that feature individual frames and the sprocket holes. 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. The people within their ranks are poised in conflicting orders when compared to the Z film. 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). 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. There is a big blob where his skull once was. On this same frame you will see a flare of reflected light from the windshield due to deformation of the chrome frame from a bullets impact one frame earlier at frame 328. It changes shape as he falls into his wifes lap. This version is only in slow-motion., So we know hes been hit, Morris says. As of frame 332, he still hasnt mounted the car, but at least he is visible. Regardless, here we are. You dont simply turn a reel of film off and on again without a slight hiccup in the presentation. noticed some white letters kept flashing on the left of the film in the 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. The man was shooting from right just this side of that tree . Rivqah decided to surprise us when we least expected it, and here she is, tada! The end of a certain kind of innocence that we bought into. Bush didnt ascend through the ranks of secret societies and intelligence to the seat of vice president and then the presidency by killing presidents. each repeating message. 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. I figure its their way of reminding me that my special interests are nobodys business but their own. We could build a postwar future on that edifice. All frames of the film are accounted for at the National Archives. This is the detectives nightmare. 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. Which brings us back to the dining room of Errol Morris hotel and the six-minute film he made about the Umbrella Man in the Zapruder film. Jean was simply keeping to their plot twist. Zapruder by all accounts was haunted by Frame 313. So, take note of her sprint towards the grassy knoll. Doug Horne has chosen to ignore the detailed, technical analysis of the Z-film conducted by his former friend, Kodak 8mm film expert Rollie Zavada, in the mid-1990s. Expect plenty more of her in upcoming announcements. I believe this pattern proves the Speaking of which. Stay up to date on the latest articles and news from Noel. World War II seemed to provide a notion of good and evil that we could all embrace. sprocket hole area at regular intervals. If any frames were missing in these intervals none of this would work out with such mathematical precision. Holland and Rush suggest that the pause could have had great significance for the interpretation of the assassination. How long do you suppose the Newmans remained ducking for cover while the media stood around photographing themand just as importantly, why? Zapruder film is "authentic" in that there are only 9 As the film progresses, his wound morphs. An excellent article, Ms. Cranor! By denying that image, Frame 313, I think he was trying to protect himself, protect America., Protect a certain stable view of the world? If Frame 313 is the forensic peak of the Zapruder film, this sight is the almost-unbearable emotional heart of it. No, in reality Jean Hill would be diagnosed as bipolar, or perhaps a manic depressant. Timberwolf had a hand in the illusion. Here we also find that the parked automobiles beyond Dealey Plaza will change their appearance. Clint Hill heard the final shot fired from the TSBD. Which brings us to the double irony: Morris and Thompsons attempt to nail down this one tiny factoid ended up getting them linked to the coverup by a conspiracy theorist. As in, the Eye. One ring to rule them allthat sort of thing. And indeed he looks really out of place.. I believe so. In fact, there is a YouTube compilation that includes no fewer than five versions of the Zapruder filmslow-motion, zoomed-in, close-ups. And yet, in the Zapruder film, Jean is clearly shown some 2 feet from the curb. The more probable explanation is that Kennedy never received a head wound to begin with. That looks to be the legs of the lady in red and perhaps the Babushka lady, standing around, comparing notes, getting their stories straight. The evidence strongly supports the Zapruder Film as being accurate and there is a very good correation between it and the acoustical evidence. 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. And we know that he is hit in such a way that matter was ejected from the back of his head.. Uploaded by Misleading/Inaccurate/Missing Metadata ; image. 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. Before we move onto Kennedys head wound, via frame 313, lets address the running woman seen only one frame earlier, in 312. A man who never met John Kennedy but whose name, Zapruder, is inextricably linked to Kennedys and to Kennedys death. Even if we dont know whether its Castro, the KGB, the CIA or a host of other possibilities, we know theres some kind of deep malefaction at work., While the lone assassin suggests that almost anyone you pass by on the sidewalk could be a ticking time bomb., Finally, we watched it. In Morris film, Thompson discloses something I hadnt known: that the Umbrella Man had eventually come forward and explained himself. Youd think if the press and the police wanted to speak with anyone, it was the guy holding the movie camera. They cant all be right. "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 . Sarah and I are in our 40s, have been married for over 20 years, and never thought we could have any more children. The Church Committee then begat the only full-scale official government reinvestigation of the Kennedy assassination, the three-year effort (1976-79) by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (which also considered the Martin Luther King Jr. case). After adding in frame 341 & 350 and assuming They didnt want us to see Mrs. Kennedy in such a precarious position on the trunk. John F. Kennedy. Others, notably David Josephs think the time might be 15 seconds. Completing the Story of the Assassination. There's also a slow-motion version on this video, where each of the film's frames were expanded to four interpolated frames. Moreover, although Life had a copy of the film, it did little to maximize the return on its extraordinary investment. 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. When he continued filming, frame 133 already shows the presidential motorcade in view. This missing part of the film, the frames between Z 132 and Z 133, could contain frames for 21 seconds. 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. Upon closer examination Courtesy of photographer Frank Cancellare. Probably just got off the phone with John. When asked, George H.W. 12. Thats a deal breaker. OBTW, that's plenty of time for a limo stop. 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? Pulling back curtains. Our Slave Masters demanded a psychodrama. Its pretty dramatic slowdown of the limo when you focus on that car and the motorcycles. JFK Zapruder Film: All Frames & High Quality Kris162 504 subscribers 34K views 5 years ago The 1963 Zapruder film, taken by Abraham Zapruder, is derived from the six-foot strip of. 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.