JFK Lancer: Conversations, Jim DiEugenio

[Alan Dale]

^ Hello martin,

Absolutely correct. Dr. Thompson is adamant the the in-camera original left Abraham Zapruder's office in the pocket of LIFE Magazine's LA Bureau Chief, Richard Stolley.

JOSIAH THOMPSON: So he told Stolley to come back the next morning; Stolley came back the next morning and ended up with the original in his pocket as he walked out of Zapruder's office.[/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: See, that is news to me; the idea that he had the original and not one of the copies. [/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: Absolutely. No, there is no shred of question on that; the Zapruder left Zapruder's custody that morning, 8.30 9 o'clock, was couriered to Chicago to the Donnelley printing plant, where 'Life' had flown in an editorial team to get together this very significant historical…[/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: Issue.[/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: …issue of 'Life', yeah.



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ALAN DALE: Do we know if the National Photographic Interpretation Center was working, or had, an the original Zapruder film, or did they have a copy? Do we know? [/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: No, what we do know is that the two Secret Service copies of the film were sent to Washington on Friday and Saturday nights. In other words the timeframe that has come has become available through the researches of Doug Horne and others…[/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: Right.[/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: …which sees which has two copies which has two Zapruder films viewed and worked on at NPIC on Saturday and on Sunday, that matches in fact what we know to be the case; that the two Secret Service copies made their way to Washington in that order, in that timeframe. Now the question is whether the original went there.[/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: Yeah.[/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: And of course it didn't. The original stayed in Zapruder's custody and control until 8.30 or so Saturday morning, when Dick Stolley put it in his pocket and walked out of Zapruder's office, right?[/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: Wow, that's extraordinary, yeah.[/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: It then went to Chicago and ultimately went to New York, clearly all this time in the custody of Time Inc. Now, the evidence for this being a original film comes from one of the people working at the at NPIC, a guy named McMahon. The other technician working there, whose name eludes me just now, actually worked on the film, and said he did not recall any intra-sprocket images on the film he worked on… [/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: Mmhmm.[/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: …and thought the film was really not that clear, not that high resolution. That clearly, that opinion, coming from working on the film, clearly matches a Secret Service copy… [/FONT]
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ALAN DALE: Yeah.[/FONT]
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JOSIAH THOMPSON: …that was sent to Washington, and also matches the fact that the two copies that Zapruder gave to the Secret Service were the worst copies; he kept the best.

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Thank you for listening. Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Thompson focuses on his journey from 1967 to his present understanding and opinions.

Alan
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