20-09-2013, 09:35 AM
A.J.
You may have been thinking of Noel Twyman, Bloody Treason, 1994, Chapter 12: Forgery of the Zapruder Film page 134
Table:
November 22, 1963 (evening) H. L. Hunt purchases "first copy" of film through his security guard, Paul Rothermel, Jr.
Reference/Source: Russell, p. 581 (interview of Rothermel)
The interview may be the one cited on July 12-13, 1976, author Russell with Rothermel at Hunt offices
Twyman assuredly sources the 1992 edition while I have the 2003 which on 374 yields:
But a pristine copy of the Zapruder film may still exist. In 1992, Paul Rothermel, Jr., a former chief aide to Dallas oil billionaire H. L. Hunt, told me an incredible story. Rothermel said he was dispatched by the Hunt family, in the late afternoon following the assassination, "with a substantial amount of money, to buy the original. I got the first copy, as far as I know."
"Before Time-Life negotiated for theirs?" I asked. "Yeah," Rothermel said.
"Why?" I persisted. "Why did the Hunts so badly want this film?"
"Well," Rothermel replied, "it was pretty hard to believe that, with as little moxie as Oswald had, he did it all by himself. There was a lot of speculation about how all this happened, who was really behind it. I think certain people wanted to find out who did it."
Russell sources:
Rothermel on Hunt purchase of film: author's telephone interview (May 15, 1992)
So, Twyman in 1997 reports Russell in 1992 interviewed Rothermel who says he was there, and bought "the first copy, as far as I know."
You may have been thinking of Noel Twyman, Bloody Treason, 1994, Chapter 12: Forgery of the Zapruder Film page 134
Table:
November 22, 1963 (evening) H. L. Hunt purchases "first copy" of film through his security guard, Paul Rothermel, Jr.
Reference/Source: Russell, p. 581 (interview of Rothermel)
The interview may be the one cited on July 12-13, 1976, author Russell with Rothermel at Hunt offices
Twyman assuredly sources the 1992 edition while I have the 2003 which on 374 yields:
But a pristine copy of the Zapruder film may still exist. In 1992, Paul Rothermel, Jr., a former chief aide to Dallas oil billionaire H. L. Hunt, told me an incredible story. Rothermel said he was dispatched by the Hunt family, in the late afternoon following the assassination, "with a substantial amount of money, to buy the original. I got the first copy, as far as I know."
"Before Time-Life negotiated for theirs?" I asked. "Yeah," Rothermel said.
"Why?" I persisted. "Why did the Hunts so badly want this film?"
"Well," Rothermel replied, "it was pretty hard to believe that, with as little moxie as Oswald had, he did it all by himself. There was a lot of speculation about how all this happened, who was really behind it. I think certain people wanted to find out who did it."
Russell sources:
Rothermel on Hunt purchase of film: author's telephone interview (May 15, 1992)
So, Twyman in 1997 reports Russell in 1992 interviewed Rothermel who says he was there, and bought "the first copy, as far as I know."