Or so were led to believe. 32 year-old Jean Hill, aka Norma Jean, is dubbed the lady in red in the Zapruder film. A shot that might be the one we see hit the president in Frame 313. Which brings us to the double irony: Morris and Thompsons attempt to nail down this one tiny factoid ended up getting them linked to the coverup by a conspiracy theorist. Another thing we know is that we may never learn. Jean was simply keeping to their plot twist. Where there is no Minotaur at the center, theres just winding corridors, more twists and more turns.. Zapruder made clear Frame 313 gave him nightmares and he didnt want to be the one to inflict them on the rest of America. In each instance, frames are missing or the quality of the film gets worse for a split second. the props tell me it is a fakery. We need only to concern ourselves with motion blur when examining these frames. Theres an interview with him where he talks about his love of amateur photography, how he took pictures of everything. Oh, thats right. Where are all the people? But we know thats all part of the psyop. Apparently, he was a Dallas police motorcycle cop, assigned to the motorcade. Post-production editors simply gave Kennedy an impossible head wound. Publication date. We know somebody killed Kennedy and theres an answer to the question of who and why. Un-enhanced high-resolution digital copies of Zapruder Film Frames 312 and 313 (Z312 and Z313) showing the high-powered rifle gunshot that fatally wounded President Kennedy. In addition to all this, two years ago Morris made a six-minute documentary about the Zapruder film for the New York Times, focusing on one shadowy figure in it: the so-called Umbrella Man. And then, in the recurrent irony of conspiracy theory pathology, Morris himself became the subject of JFK conspiracy coverup fantasy. Kennedy is sliding into Mrs. Kennedys lap, much of the flesh and bone of his skull hanging hinged by the skin. As I say to Tink, in my film, it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Morris says in a wry Mister Rogers imitation. And now we are on the subject of the Zapruder film. Zapruder was an active member of two CIA proprietary organizations, The Dallas Council On World Affairs, and The Crusade For A Free Europe. This image made available by the National Archives shows a 1963 . In the 50 years since President John F. Kennedys assassination, the world is still trying to understand what happened on that tragic day in Dallas. It would be nice if we could just look at the Zapruder film and say, Aha!, Frame 313, he says now, will always be at the center of the Zapruder film. The frame that gave Abraham Zapruder nightmares, the frame he insisted be withheld from the publica single frame of film that can be said to have changed American history and culture. After that he put a condition that the Frame 313 will not be made public. Its almost as if the brain exploding is like what it does metaphorically to our mind-set, our worldview., It goes to a kind of simpler version of America, Morris says. The Zapruder film consists of only 486 frames. First the original version of the Zapruder film and then, in the words of the YouTube voice-over, a replay of the standard format versionin slow-motion. Next, a version in which the images between the sprocket holes can only be seen on the original film. And then another version, a replay with the images between the sprocket holes, this time in slow-motion., Its a much, so much, more an innocent time than ours, Morris says. . This is the detectives nightmare. There were great suspicions about the Zapruder film from the beginning. Shed take to the bottle, lose her career as a teacher to some scandal, and then jump off a bridge. The two officers riding (to the left?) The odyssey of that small rectangle of sprocket-pocked celluloid is fascinating. Suddenly, we see JFK clutch his throat. Kennedy is waving to the crowd with his right hand. But . I can only assume somebody wanted to record the Super Bowl, and it was either that or Wernher von Brauns wedding video. And he reproduced a clip of his appearance before the committee in his Umbrella Man film. ITS happening. IMHO something happened at that turn. This can only mean one thing. There have been arguments that this is a kind of optical illusionthe most convincing to me being that JFK had been hit from behind after the previous frame, 312, slamming his chin forward to his chest, and his head was rebounding backward in Frame 313. Location:Australia. Captured on an 8mm amateur movie camera by 58-year-old Abraham Zapruder, its the definitive view of the presidents death on November 22, 1963. Bush didnt ascend through the ranks of secret societies and intelligence to the seat of vice president and then the presidency by killing presidents. Before you conclude that weve spotted yet another giant on the loose, I assure you the woman was interviewed in person and her interviewers concluded she was in reality only five feet tall. This may be a good time to look into another anomaly. The end of a certain kind of innocence that we bought into. The more probable explanation is that Kennedy never received a head wound to begin with. The Zapruder shock and other doubts raised about the underside of recent American history such as Watergate helped impel the creation in 1976 of the Senates Church Committee (named after Sen. Frank Church of Idaho). If you look to the far right you will see what appears to be an inhuman looking shape-shifter. You can read her birth story here. Zapruder was a top-ranked 33rd-degree Freemason and inspector general of the Scottish Rite. Only slightly. And Im going. Foliage blocks a School Book Depository snipers view of Kennedy (with a small break at 186), according to reconstructions (2.3 seconds). Frame 150 from the Zapruder film. Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln, and as we all hopefully know by now, Lincolns assassination was another hoax. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Agent Zapruders movie has been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history, We can know for certain that somebody took a. News. Our Slave Masters demanded a psychodrama. 19:39. So significant, so powerful, so disturbing that for years Zapruder himself did not want it to be shown. Youd think if the press and the police wanted to speak with anyone, it was the guy holding the movie camera. This version is only in slow-motion., So we know hes been hit, Morris says. Even during this time, Kennedys hand can still be seen over the sign. Not the Deep State. After half a century, the latest Gallup poll shows that 59 percent of the American public believes there was a conspiracy in the assassination, despite the best efforts of reporters such as Gerald Posner (Case Closed) and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy), who have written long, painstaking books meant to be definitive defenses of the lone assassin case. I mean why am I so obsessed with He pauses. When I moved myself around a chair fast And then Cox goes further: He suggests that the man who testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations was up to something, perhaps sent to deceive the committee. They wouldnt divorce until August of the following year. That and the magic bullet theory, created by 33 degree Freemason Arlen Spector, was all a part of the psyop. As the motorcade approaches, we see JFKs car emerge from behind a sign that had been temporarily blocking the view. Print length. [along a straight line, through the oak tree and the School Book Depository window. 1:55. Kennedy turns his head very rapidly from left to right. As the car first appears in the Zapruder film, Connally is looking to his right. Dallas saw a high of 70F that day. Case Closed, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assasination of JFK. Enjoy the performance until the lights go down and its your cue to die, that sort of thing. On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder shot what has become the most famous home movie of all time: a chilling 26-second snippet of film depicting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy . In other words, multiple takes. It gives us a picture of evil that is manageable. Nevertheless, bootleg copies circulated, helping to generate the first wave of assassination conspiracy theories and Warren Commission critics. Since were on the subject of important 20th century film documentation, Im reminded of the original Apollo 11 moon landing hoax footage, which NASA admittedly recorded over. New! Okay, lets be clear. Sorry, whatever he has to show us is a no go. He was also a member of several influential Dallas County political bodies. While slowly killing her off with a daily dosage of poison, the CIA would sadistically give America reason to discredit her. That instant is one we can all now watch on YouTube. And this threw everything up for grabs. Zapruder film 18.3 frames per second. Cookie Policy Posted March 12, 2017. I may throw her in when you least suspect it. Of all the Zapruder film analyses I have read, Wrone's is the most lucid for a nonexpert, and the calmest in tone."Cleveland Plain Dealer "Future assassination researchers will consult this fascinating history of the indelible Zapruder film. 544 pages. President Kennedy does not enter the stage for the first third of the picture, and it is there were we encounter a serious problem. The next seismic event in the Zapruder films odyssey came in the slam-bang conclusion of Oliver Stones conspiracy-theory film JFK, a reverential account of New Orleans DA Jim Garrisons real-world fiasco of an investigation, which climaxed with Garrison, played by Kevin Costner, dramatically showing the jury the Zapruder film, complete with Frame 313. (1.5 seconds after frame 160) The little girl has stopped and is staring at the SBD. Historical proof of my methodology can be found here. The Zapruder film disagrees with all other evidence. Jackie leans over to attend to him. How adorable. Perhaps we shall save Sasquatch and the 1967 PattersonGimlin film for another outing. Gender:Male. We have already heard Jean explain that she jumped into the street as the Lincoln passed and there is no recorded documentation of any such action. This photo has been calculated to have been captured between Zapruder film frames 315 and 316, less than one-sixth of a second after President Kennedy was shot in the head at frame 313. University Press of Kansas. compositing artifact, mutated with the merging together of multiple film sources. The most important, to the present inquiry, are the earliest of these early Zapruder film frames. He did so by becoming the Sorcerers apprentice, and finally the Wizard of Oz. Zapruder Film Frames Addeddate 2019-11-05 01:54:09 Identifier zapruderfilmframes Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. plus-circle Add Review. Who do you think runs the Gallup polls? There they are again. On November 7, 2000, she died of complications due to a blood disease in Dallas. We are on frame 403, as you can tell, and dealing once again with composite images. The bullet entered the back of his head (there are photos and x-rays of the entry hole, and it is absolutely characteristic: a . Something happened. The Overlooked Zapruder Frames . Zapruder wasn't only a 33 Degree and a Jew. They cant all be right. Apparently, on the 22 of November, 1963, Jean immediately ran to the grassy knoll where she saw a puff of smoke and a shadowy figure. I have chosen the word immediate, or else why would she run? That would be totally amazing if true. If you play the footage slowly, the head wound constantly changes shape. Advertising Notice Director Abraham Zapruder (uncredited) Stars Charles Brehm (uncredited) But theres a mystery about death., I believe massive heart attacks. Courtesy of photographer Frank Cancellare. I found this segment in the Nova "Cold Case JFK" Documentary (18 - frames) And it has produced this epi-stemic war of people battling for reality through these imagestrying to wrest control back from chaos.. She has since stated when she saw a photo of Jack Ruby after his killing of Lee Harvey Oswald she now believes he was the man she saw running. Well return to Norma Jeans claim in a moment. I figure its their way of reminding me that my special interests are nobodys business but their own. One at the age of 40, the other at the age of 43. (Morris is now 65. We see it blown up and thrown back. He seemingly believes that, Morris says. They determined that a person will have a startle reaction to a gunshot . The Zapruder camera was measured by the FBI to film at the average rate of 18.3 frames per second. The Warren Commission was nothing more than a script, written and fleshed our by Freemasons. Certainly not too hot. It truly was the end of the 50s. But thats not even the abnormality I want you to focus in upon. . Vaseline, perhaps? Thompson eventually became so intrigued by unsolved mysteries that he left a comfy job in academia behind to become a private eye (his memoir is called Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye). Had he stuck around to film another moment, as any curious person with an 8mm logically would, everything he and others had planned so long for might have been compromised. They provide a level of comfort that makes sense of a world that seems otherwise beyond our ken, our control., In my book about Hitler, I recall, I wrote that the inexplicability of horror is equaled by the horror of inexplicability., Conspiracies tell you that theres a kind of easy way to grasp the idea of evil. Connally later determines it was at this point. You may notice in the Zapruder film that various photographers are poised and ready for action on the south side of Elm, just across from the motionless crowd. Take a note of that. Thompson has had an extraordinary, colorful career. I wanted to talk to Morris about the Zapruder film because as a documentary filmmaker hes focused on mysteries (he freed an innocent man from death row with The Thin Blue Line); hes re-examined secret history (he won an Oscar for cross-examining the enigmatic Robert McNamara in The Fog of War). He offers no evidence that a weaponized umbrella was fired that day or that a poison flchette was found in JFKs flesh. Knowing that his home movie would have both historic and forensic value, Abraham Zapruder had three copies of his original film made for government investigators. The infamous image would remain withheld from all public releases of the film until 1975, when it was finally shown for the first time on reporter Geraldo Riveras television show, Good Night America. I had asked you to take note of the fact that Jean Hill insisted until her dying day that she stepped out into the street while the Lincoln convertible passed. ), And coming up with a conspiracy theory to explain the assassination is at least a way of regaining some control over the world?, Conspiracy theories often provide solace, he says. ], Kennedys arm jerks off the car, clearly reacting to the throat shot [This is a clear case of Thorburns Position, as his body reacts to the spinal damage caused by the hydrostatic shock of the bullet passing so close to the spine in 223-4. I met him when he was my freshman philosophy professor at Yale and he was working on The Lonely Labyrinth, his landmark analysis of the gloomy Danish anti-rationalist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Don Thomas span of shots: Z326-Z175= 151 frames (=8.25 seconds). Its the ultimate detectives nightmare., Ron Rosenbaum What photography does, Morris says, as the screen fades to black, is call our attention to the problem of knowledge, to the problem of epistemology, about how do we know about the world. Contrarily, the CIA wanted America to theorize over the potential for conspiracy. It makes for natural auditorium seating. Kennedy is slumped to his left, the right parietal area of his skull completely exposed. The next series of frames reveals a massive exit wound upon Kennedys right temple and forehead. Zapruder Film Frames. But since we are not watching a Hollywood production, or so we keep telling ourselves, all we are left with is that uncomfortable sinking feeling and a pill bottle of cognitive dissonance. Frame by Frame breakdown of the Zapruder Film With some various theories that have been presented. This is only in slow-motion.. 1:32. So one recent morning over breakfast in the dining room of the hotel in New Yorks SoHo where Morris was staying, I sat down in front of his computer to watch the Zapruder film with him. Cropped high-resolution digital Zapruder Film Frames 313-316 showing initial "backward lurch" of President Kennedy along with the distribution of ejected material in the wake of the projectile. So here is Tink, Morris says, taking us back to Thompsons Life magazine days, hunkered down over the Zapruder film looking at it frame by frame by frame. John F. Kennedy. Theres Jean Hill in her red coat, positioned next to Mary Moorman, precisely where they were last seen in the Zapruder film. And we can never know that we can never learn it. Zapruder film: Pre-smartphone, movie of JFK shooting became unique record, crucial evidence. Zapruder by all accounts was haunted by Frame 313. The Zapruder film consists of only 486 frames. I remember that dark day as if it were yesterday. Connally told the Warren Commission that this was when he remembered being hit. An analysis of the photo pins the running woman as somewhere in the range of 7 feet tall. I have isolated frames 312 and 313 of the Zapruder film which are the frames that capture the instant that the bullet strikes President Kennedy's head. She is seen standing nearly alone in Dealey Plaza, and had only recently separated from her husband, Bill Hill. His head lurches back to the left (8.0-8.4 seconds after the first shot) as his body stiffens suddenly from the massive neurological damage, and possibly aggravated by his back brace, or, if you wish, studies have also shown that the head flying back and to the left is also possible because of the matter ejected by the right side of his head exploding in a simple Newtonian happening. World War II seemed to provide a notion of good and evil that we could all embrace. Your Privacy Rights The Lady in Red, still dressed for the part in 1992, rehearsed what she saw in the Beyond JFK documentary. The perfect crime. We are told that Jean and her friend, 31 year-old Mary Moorman, who is seen holding the camera to her eye, traveled to Dealey Plaza to nab a picture of Jeans latest boyfriend. A much more plausible scenario, one that fits the constraints both of the Zapruder film and tapes, as well as the medical and ballistics evidence, follows. Zapruder Film Stabilized Filtered High Definition! These missing frames are here derived from alternative sources. That looks to be the legs of the lady in red and perhaps the Babushka lady, standing around, comparing notes, getting their stories straight. It is one of the very reasons I closed my Facebook account in April of 2020. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. America had been a bad boy. Safe at least in the sense that we can know about it. We shall return to that thought in a moment. Freemasons and the Illuminated from the local Lodge often like to let me know theyre keeping an eye on me. The 1963 Zapruder film, taken by Abraham Zapruder, is derived from the six-foot strip of celluloid contained in the U.S. National Archives, scientifically processed. Its a process that is still going on, monitored by former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley on his website JFKfacts.org. If you were born at any time during the 20th century, then youve likely seen the Zapruder film a hundred times already. Connallys mouth opens wide and his body begins to react to the collapsed lung, drawing him down and to the right. Notice how Jeans shadow is bent out of shape. The Zapruder film was heavily doctored, post-production. [At this point, the positions of the two men, Kennedys leaning slightly forward, and the much taller Connally twisted to the right, with his hand in front of him, holding his hat at lower chest level, make it possible for a single bullet to enter Kennedys back, pass through his lower throat, into Connallys right back, glance downward off a rib, exit under his right nipple, and enter his left thigh coming to rest, drained of energy, just below the skin.]. Its those bad guys rubbing their hands together, Twirling their mustaches, calculating panic, conniving. Zapruder panorama only, with gridlines, compass bearings, and angles of depression Frames of the Zapruder film (2003, 2006) In 2003 I put together a reference set of all 486 frames of the extant Zapruder film. ( to the present inquiry, are the earliest of these early Zapruder film Pre-smartphone. Woman as somewhere in the range of 7 feet tall the Wizard of Oz a... 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