With ALL due respect Jim... what are you doing?
JEFF dealt with the motions already, Jeff did?.... you gonna come to his aid and explain the SPRING MECHANISM and FPS bullsh!t he dumped on us.
A less than 5% variation in speed in the fps and you're ready to concede his "theory" as correct. The frames 302, 303 & 304 would have to be shot at less than 9fps for us to have missed the frames in which he turned at regualr speed. Are you ready to make that argument FOR Jeff?
"Film Alterationists" as you call them are working with the ENTIRETY of the evidence...
Hill can't make that distance unless the Limo slows to less than 3mph... or frames are removed
Greer can't do what he does with his head - unless frames are removed
Diving man as we pass Altgens moves at incredible speed - frames are gone
Mr. LIEBELER - As you stood there on this abutment with your camera, the motorcade came down Houston Street and turned left on Elm Street, did it not?
Mr. ZAPRUDER - That's right.
Mr. LIEBELER - And it proceeded then down Elm Street toward the triple underpass; is that correct?
Mr. ZAPRUDER - That's correct. I started shooting--when the motorcade started coming in, I believe I started and wanted to get it coming in from Houston Street.
BREHM expressed his opinion that between the first and third shots, the President's car only seemed to move 10 or 12 feet. It seemed to him that the automobile almost came to a halt after the first shot, but of this he is not certain. After the third shot, the car in which the President was riding increased its speed and went under the freeway overpass and out of his sight.
Mr. LIEBELER - Now, the thing that is troubling me, though, Mr. Altgens, is that you say the car was 30 feet away at the time you took Commission Exhibit No. 203 and that is the time at which the first shot was fired?
Mr. ALTGENS - Yes, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER - And that it was 15 feet away at the time the third shot was fired.
Mr. ALTGENS - Yes, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER - But during that period of time the car moved much more than 15 feet down Elm Street going down toward the triple underpass?
Mr. ALTGENS - Yes, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER - I don't know how many feet it moved, but it moved quite a ways from the time the first shot was fired until the time the third shot was fired. I'm having trouble on this Exhibit No. 203 understanding how you could have been within 30 feet of the President's car when you took Commission Exhibit No. 203 and within 15 feet of the car when he was hit with the last shot in the head without having moved yourself. Now, you have previously indicated that you were right beside the President's car when he was hit in the head.
Mr. ALTGENS - Well, I was about 15 feet from it.
NPIC has two different films creating two different reports/presentations while the CIA tells us they had nothing to do with THAT film THAT weekend.
The images in LIFE and on Homer's breifing boards are the same, they show the same BLACK PATCHES on the back of JFK's head
The film in the archive has NO UNIQUE IDENTIFYING MARKS that connect it to the film developed at KODAK
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I think you get my drift Jim. You mean only 15 people - some closest to the Limo at the time - state it stopped.... another handful from other angles and distances say it slowed considerably. Are you suggesting they were wrong and what we see in Zap is what actually happened?
Jeff has yet to DEAL with anything other than to point to Zavada and say "see, he was right... THAT'S my supporting evidence."
Quote:Uh, will someone please explain to me how Bob Groden is an infiltrator? Gary Aguilar? Lisa Pease?
In other words, if you disagree with someone about a particular issue, then this translates into being a CIA agent?
You KNOW this not to be true Jim... if Bob Groden came on the forum and said the differences in fps accounts for the anomolies seen in the film...
you telling me we wouldn't ask him to present his case with something related to the real world.
Same with Gary, or you or anyone...
MAKE YOUR CASE so those here with a little knowledge base and background can support it, defend it or expose the weaknesses.
The "research Community" owes it to itself and its members to QUESTION whatever is brought to it.
If those requested refuse to answer, refuse to explain, refuse to even address those interested in their theories but feel MORE info is needed...
Yes Jim, we ought to be a little suspicious.... in the same vein, it needn't be a witch hunt...
but KUDOS and a free-pass to Jeff for bastardizing the work done by others with no explanation
is a bit too much for those close to the subject can take.
For the record, I NEVER believed he was anything but a poster refusing to address the weaknesses in his presentation and then getting indigent when, after posting everything BUT an explanation is simply asked to do so.
An emotionally charged issue - this alteration stuff. I am attempting to explain it both in Time and technique.
TECHINICALLY what I suggest has now been supported by actual EXPERTS and offered in the real world by Chris D.
48fps was doable and very possible and makes the few select scenes easily altered with only the speed anomolies seen... there ARE clues to the process left in this altered, spliced together extant film. Jeff's inability to deal with being questioned notwithstanding.
DJ
PS... I have found Albert Rossi to be a kind soul not wanting to deal with witch hunts. If indeed the "research community" has degraded to the point were anyone with an idea is expecting to be treated to a pat on the back and "good job" regardless of the work done and support provided... we have a lot more to be worried about.
I ain't nobody Jim.... I'm not published, I'm not on radio... I'm a private person who has done their best to learn as much as I can to explain as much as I can. In the process I've developed my own ideas on some of the aspects of the case. If I post these ideas, I expect challenges and I expect to do my best to answer the concerns of members when I do.
"Because I said so" simply will not cut it. Not for me, not for you, not for anyone...
CTKA seems to have been founded on such a concept of challenging/championing those that would EXPLAIN IT FOR US - and we greatly appreciate it.
What you did to Bugs was classic - Jeff and I and everyone else deserve the same consideration if we're going to EXPLAIN IT FOR US.
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Phil, Jeff dealt with those herky jerky motions already.
And they have been dealt with elsewhere too.
Duke Lane did a very nice analysis of the 59 witnesses.
They are not 59. In reality, they are something like less than 20% of that sum: 12 or 13.
Everyone sees the jump cut in the film of course. And most people think its a start, stop. I mean, what could be hidden there? I have heard some of the things floated, but where is the witness corroboration?
And no, it was not a "courtesy visit" I paid to the Wilkinsons. You don't drive 50 miles one way with the price of gasoline being what it is out of "courtesy". They really strike me as being credible people, since they work in the industry every day. And they have done their homework. They have one significant technical problem to overcome. And I look forward to the end result of that endeavor. But during our talk, it became clear to me that they don't buy the wholesale alterationist concept. And that, in this regard, Horne misrepresented who they were and what they are about.
Too often in this so called research community, people recycle what other authors have written without doing any kind of proper check up on what is on the page. It then gets repeated and it then becomes acceptable. Even though it should not be. Remember, Garrison being in bed with the Mafia? Complete and utter balderdash. But it lasted for 25 years. That is how great our "research community" is on peer review.
I am in neither camp on this issue. I have alway said that I was agnostic on this point. And I await the end game for the Wilkinsons.
But I don't know what is achieved by the almost fascist zealotry of the radical alterationist school here. So far you have driven out Rossi, who is going to Greg Parker's site. And I consider that a big loss to DPF. Jeff Carter is not posting. And his contributions to 50 Reasons are indelible. I mean on a five dollar budget with almost no time allowed, to come up with what they did on that is really something.
And when these things happen, what is the creed the radical alterationist follower recites? Most of the time its something like, well there are infiltrators in our midst.
Uh, will someone please explain to me how Bob Groden is an infiltrator? Gary Aguilar? Lisa Pease?
In other words, if you disagree with someone about a particular issue, then this translates into being a CIA agent?
Well, I hate to tell everyone, but the highest rating the critics ever got with the public was after Oliver Stone's movie came out. Remember, "back and to the left"? Yep, he said it five times. Maybe Stone was a CIA agent? Or maybe it was Zach Sklar?
Or was it Albert Rossi?
No one has done more work on this concept of jackals in our midst than I have. I did it in the Second Edition of Destiny Betrayed at length. And I did it in my essay, "How Gary Mack became Dan Rather". But there is one big difference. I did it with strong evidence. And in some cases, this rose to the threshold of proof. Disagreements about whether or not the Z film is genuine does not constitute proof. Just like disagreements about George H. W. Bush being in on the Kennedy caper does not constitute proof of being a spook.
Unless you are John Hankey of course. Hankey actually called me a CIA agent because CTKA printed Seamus Coogan's critique of Hankey's crappy movie. Now if you are in his camp, why don't you guys go to Santa Barbara in November instead of Dallas. And you can listen to the likes of Fetzer, Cinque, and Janney. I mean Janney accused Lisa and myself of being the Real Deal, yep, Nazis, because we did not like his book on Mary Meyer.
Yep, that is what this "research community" has come to. In the immortal words of Kevin Costner in The Untouchables, "I have become what I beheld and I am convinced I have done right."
