11-11-2013, 08:01 PM
I have watched about half of the program JFK: The Final Hours. It features Gary Mack and some other usual suspects (Clint Hill, who has evidently overcome his supposed guilt, and now can't stop providing one inaccuracy after another about the subject), and is narrated by the despicable Bill Paxton.
What I've noticed about the show is the incredible footage of JFK's trip, especially all the events in Fort Worth, some of which I'd never seen. Which brings to mind a question I've had since I first started researching this case; was the assassination itself the only part of the trip to Texas that wasn't professionally filmed? There were cameras there to chronicle every moment of seemingly irrelevant aspects of the trip (an impromptu speech before an early Latin American group, a tour inside the space center, among others). Isn't it a fortuitous irony, then, that they just happened to stop filming right before the shots were fired?
They had footage of the hotel room where JFK and Jackie stayed. It looked like the press was covering every step of this trip in great detail. They had cameras at the ready in the Trade Mart. Yet the motorcade through Dallas seems to have been covered primarily by the home movie cameras of private citizens. We know the press bus was curiously left far back in the motorcade.
I believe that JFK's other motorcades were filmed in their entirety by the press corps accompanying him. How much of the Dallas motorcade was professionally filmed?
What I've noticed about the show is the incredible footage of JFK's trip, especially all the events in Fort Worth, some of which I'd never seen. Which brings to mind a question I've had since I first started researching this case; was the assassination itself the only part of the trip to Texas that wasn't professionally filmed? There were cameras there to chronicle every moment of seemingly irrelevant aspects of the trip (an impromptu speech before an early Latin American group, a tour inside the space center, among others). Isn't it a fortuitous irony, then, that they just happened to stop filming right before the shots were fired?
They had footage of the hotel room where JFK and Jackie stayed. It looked like the press was covering every step of this trip in great detail. They had cameras at the ready in the Trade Mart. Yet the motorcade through Dallas seems to have been covered primarily by the home movie cameras of private citizens. We know the press bus was curiously left far back in the motorcade.
I believe that JFK's other motorcades were filmed in their entirety by the press corps accompanying him. How much of the Dallas motorcade was professionally filmed?