The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination

A Step in the right direction.

The NPIC, a photogragh agency of the CIA did have possession of the Z film. The film was in the possession of the Agency days after the event in Dallas. Homer McMahon an employee former employee of the NPIC has testified to the ARRB about this fact. Mr. McMahon was ordered to make 40 enlarged prints of impacts on occupants in the limosine. During this process he had to watch the film at least 15 times that day. The prints he enlarged were very easy to identity; McMahon counted the flinches of JFK specifically and reported he must have been shot 6 to 8 times. I know that sounds ridiculous compared to the film we have seen. This is coming from an employee who saw the film 3 days after the event in Dallas. He also had no direct roll in changing or altering the film. His chief job at the NPIC consisted entirely but, not exclusively, of enlarging spy plane photos. He was ordered to enlarge the impact scenes and that was it. He was not interviewed until late 1996 by the ARRB. This proves conspiracy if the evidence is tampered with. The people have viewed a completely different film. Forget counting shooters in Dealey Plaza that's 1st grade material. Stick to what you can prove; the evidence is untrustworthy. We need to look at the real film, exhume the body, or look at the brain which vanished from the archives.

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at last, no hysteria

extremely well researched book which states facts and refuses to get caught up in unprovable theories of CIA conspiracies, etc. Well-written and a joy to read. far superior to just about anything and conclusively proves that not only was jfk not shot from the book depository but that the zapruder film hasn't been altered

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Shouldn't Have to Have Been Written

This is a book that shouldn't have to have been written. <P> But due to the nonsensical, unethical works of self-proclaimed 'researchers' such as Fetzer, Lifton, White, Mantik, Marler, Schaeffer, Twyman - and many others - this book finally places the state of JFK assassination research back on track ... back before the 'Zapruder film alterationists' began diverting the search for the truth behind the assassination from reality to their delusions. <P> Those who claim the Zapruder film was 'sinisterly altered' never completely address the chain of possession of the film and the three copies made in Dallas on November 22, 1963. No opportunity existed - the chain of custody is solidly documented - for anyone to alter the film as the alterationists describe. <P> Furthermore, there isn't one single photograph nor other film footage taken that day (and there are hundreds of exposures taken in and around Dealey Plaza that afternoon) that the 'alterationists' can point to that disagrees with what is seen in the Zapruder camera original film. <P> And contrary to the belief of the alterationists, federal officials in Dallas - as well as the FBI - initially showed little interest in the Zapruder film. Secret Service Agent Sorrels (who accompanied Zapruder to the Kodak developing plant) actualy left the Kodak plant before the processing was completed. Zapruder had to hunt Sorrels down later that evening to offer a copy of the film to him...and, after Sorrels was located at the Dallas PD station - Sorrels refused to take charge of the film, asking citizen Zapruder to deliver the film to Max Phillips at the Secret Service office on Ervay Street. <P> The FBI was even less interested in the film. They had actually dismissed the film as having no evidentiary value. It was the media's growing interest in the film that alerted the FBI - and the Dallas office of the FBI borrowed a copy from the Secret Service. <P> The CIA? There is no document, no legitimate witness, direct nor indirect credible source that can place the Zapruder film in the hands of the CIA on November 22 or the following two days. <P> 'With such uncritical support for their untenable claims,' writes Wrone, ''alterationists' like Lifton and others have made a proper study of the assassination and its investigation much more difficult to pursue than it need be. In the process, they have helped discredit other much more reliable researchers who agree that there was indeed a conspiracy, but have been much more responsible in documenting their claims. <P> 'To politicians and bureaucrats, to federal investigative officials and mainstream intellectuals, to press owners and television commentators who fiercely maintain the official findings of no conspiracy, the alterationists have been a godsend.' <P> Clint Bradford<BR> http://www.jfk-info.com

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