10-10-2010, 05:36 PM
The importance of Mr. Zapruder’s description of when he began filming the attack on JFK that Mr. Zapruder gave to WFAA Program Director Jay Watson on live TV the afternoon of 22 Nov 1963 cannot be over emphasized because at the very least it indicates footage Mr. Zapruder recorded is missing from the film he took. This in turn means that the camera “original” stored at the National Archives cannot possibly be the Zapruder original because it also is missing this footage and no indications of film editing (splice tape, etc) has been reported by handlers and examiners of the film, the most recent being Roland Zavala. Missing film footage with no visible physical evidence of editing indicates the film at the Archives is a “print” of an edited film and not the original.
Before all of Mr. Zapruder’s 4 films (1 original & 3 copies) left Dallas the film was screened before a number of persons. These persons included Jamison employees, Mr. Zapruder’s lawyer, Zapruder’s business partner (Irwin Schwartz), Dan Rather and other journalists. The importance of what all these people witnessed when the film was screened before them cannot be over emphasized yet I know of no effort by the Justice Department over the years to contact these people and interview them, do you?
Dan Rather described what he saw on national TV, his description including the JFK parade car rounding the corner at Houston & Elm Streets (just as Mr. Zapruder described it in his WFAA interview) and Rather also described JFK being thrown ‘violently forward’ (not back and to the left) when he was wounded in his head.
The co-creator of the Zapruder film (Marilyn Sitzman) described when her boss began filming in both ‘The Men Who Killed Kennedy’ and also in ‘Image Of An Assassination’. Both times she indicated the filming began before the JFK parade car made the turn at Elm & Houston.
The public has never seen this parade car turn. It was never published by anything the media giant that purchased Mr. Zapruder’s film and all rights to it ever published over the years, it was not published in the WC exhibits, it did not appear in any Zapruder bootlegs from the Clay Shaw trial years, it’s missing from the Geraldo Rivera bootleg Zapruder film broadcast from the mid 70’s, there’s nothing from the HSCA on it and it’s not in any of the 4 digital versions of the film contained in ‘Image Of An Assassination’ that was released to the public by the Zapruder heirs.
When Mr. Zapruder skipped over the DPD who were actively investigating the assassination and publicly asking for those with photos and motion pictures of the attack to contact them and placed his film first into the hands of federal investigators and then a media giant he opened doors for the film to copied many times over by handlers within that elite triangle (SS-Hoover’s FBI-Time-Life). How many times and by whom that may have been done within this unique triangle will probably never be known but there always exists a possibility that the “real deal” is in someone’s hands and may possibly see the light of day in our lifetime. What could it hurt to show the public what really occurred to JFK on Elm Street, it’s not going to expose the shooters or their handlers any more than the film that has been seen by the public, will it?
What’s strange in this topic is the silence of all those who were involved in the creation, development, copying, initial Dallas screening, the 1st federal handlers of the film and the media giant that paid out a small fortune for the film. Surely someone within this elite group knows if what the public has seen is bogus. Is it that hard to locate these people and ask them a simple question, “Did you see the JFK parade car make the turn at Elm & Houston when you saw the film screened the assassination weekend?” plus “what else did you see in the film?”
The silence on the matter from that elite group is deafening.
The JFK parade car turn at Houston & Elm Streets is also missing from a multitude of JFK attack films and is the subject of intrigue & private research. Obviously, something occurred that was removed from public scrutiny. In the case of the Zapruder film, it appears to have been removed by someone within the unique triangle (SS-Hoover’s FBI-Time Life).
I constantly hope that either those who saw the film before it left Dallas the assassination weekend will go public with what they saw or friends and family of those now deceased will share with the public what those people described to them while they were here on Earth. I also constantly hope that whoever’s hands the “real” film may now reside will release it to the public in my lifetime.
Best wishes,
Frank Nelson
Before all of Mr. Zapruder’s 4 films (1 original & 3 copies) left Dallas the film was screened before a number of persons. These persons included Jamison employees, Mr. Zapruder’s lawyer, Zapruder’s business partner (Irwin Schwartz), Dan Rather and other journalists. The importance of what all these people witnessed when the film was screened before them cannot be over emphasized yet I know of no effort by the Justice Department over the years to contact these people and interview them, do you?
Dan Rather described what he saw on national TV, his description including the JFK parade car rounding the corner at Houston & Elm Streets (just as Mr. Zapruder described it in his WFAA interview) and Rather also described JFK being thrown ‘violently forward’ (not back and to the left) when he was wounded in his head.
The co-creator of the Zapruder film (Marilyn Sitzman) described when her boss began filming in both ‘The Men Who Killed Kennedy’ and also in ‘Image Of An Assassination’. Both times she indicated the filming began before the JFK parade car made the turn at Elm & Houston.
The public has never seen this parade car turn. It was never published by anything the media giant that purchased Mr. Zapruder’s film and all rights to it ever published over the years, it was not published in the WC exhibits, it did not appear in any Zapruder bootlegs from the Clay Shaw trial years, it’s missing from the Geraldo Rivera bootleg Zapruder film broadcast from the mid 70’s, there’s nothing from the HSCA on it and it’s not in any of the 4 digital versions of the film contained in ‘Image Of An Assassination’ that was released to the public by the Zapruder heirs.
When Mr. Zapruder skipped over the DPD who were actively investigating the assassination and publicly asking for those with photos and motion pictures of the attack to contact them and placed his film first into the hands of federal investigators and then a media giant he opened doors for the film to copied many times over by handlers within that elite triangle (SS-Hoover’s FBI-Time-Life). How many times and by whom that may have been done within this unique triangle will probably never be known but there always exists a possibility that the “real deal” is in someone’s hands and may possibly see the light of day in our lifetime. What could it hurt to show the public what really occurred to JFK on Elm Street, it’s not going to expose the shooters or their handlers any more than the film that has been seen by the public, will it?
What’s strange in this topic is the silence of all those who were involved in the creation, development, copying, initial Dallas screening, the 1st federal handlers of the film and the media giant that paid out a small fortune for the film. Surely someone within this elite group knows if what the public has seen is bogus. Is it that hard to locate these people and ask them a simple question, “Did you see the JFK parade car make the turn at Elm & Houston when you saw the film screened the assassination weekend?” plus “what else did you see in the film?”
The silence on the matter from that elite group is deafening.
The JFK parade car turn at Houston & Elm Streets is also missing from a multitude of JFK attack films and is the subject of intrigue & private research. Obviously, something occurred that was removed from public scrutiny. In the case of the Zapruder film, it appears to have been removed by someone within the unique triangle (SS-Hoover’s FBI-Time Life).
I constantly hope that either those who saw the film before it left Dallas the assassination weekend will go public with what they saw or friends and family of those now deceased will share with the public what those people described to them while they were here on Earth. I also constantly hope that whoever’s hands the “real” film may now reside will release it to the public in my lifetime.
Best wishes,
Frank Nelson