Weird thing about the Zapruder film...

by **Peachtree Pam** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:03 pm

I am unable to find the link. I read it many years ago. The School of the Americas has been "disbanded" (read re-named) and I don't know the current name. But it was used in an assassination class. I believe it was also used to identify people who would need to be eliminated as witnesses, people who had a camera that they did not manage to get. One bullet, for example slammed into the street sign that obsured the motocade for a moment. That sign had disappeared the next day. So it was a useful record for clean-up purposes, and to use to gloat over their success.

by **Fearless** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:20 pm

Play 'em if you got 'em. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"> I didn't post the wink picture, I posted the one above it. I still wonder why Jackie had to be present. Does anyone know?

by **Starman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:06 pm

Pam -- GREAT info on the Zapruder-links. Also -- I'm intrigued by the suggestion that the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination has been used as a crossfire lesson-tool in the School of Americas, FYI renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (acronym: WHISC -- a good way to remember it) -- I'm going to try to find what I can about that -- which BTW is also a good search parameter for more JFK assassination info via google. I found the following tidbits that way. I thought it was well-known, it sure is obvious, that the Zapruder film was at least edited, but also apparently manipulated. I remember, when seeing a replay of the Zapruder film (on one or more of several documentaries etc.) of at least one quirky scene-edit around a street sign where numerous frames were cut -- and apparently there were more anomalies I sort-of recall, like floating blobs (pianted-out details) and a focus-anomaly on the limo, as described below. Both links are VERY interesting for more info on this most appalling crime, signalling the beginning of the end of our democratic republic, leading to our present constitutional crisis of totally illegitimate government, hijacked by a feudual military-corporatocracy, aka fascism. EVERYTHING about our current 'leadership' I find abhorant and am virulently repulsed by. But I have to believe, the Truth will out. Keep oN! Starman *** <a href="http://www.jfkresearch.com/prologue.htm">www.jfkresearch.com/prologue.htm</a> Murder in Dealy Plaza: Prologue "Smoking Guns" in the Death of JFK James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. Debunking the official Warren Commission JFK assassination theory --excerpt-- Smoking Gun #10: The Zapruder film, among others, has been extensively edited using highly sophisticated techniques Since The Warren Report (1964) published many of the frames of the Zapruder film and placed heavy reliance upon its authenticity in arriving at its conclusions about how many shots were fired and the time it took to fire them, if the photographic evidence is flawed, then the Commission's conclusions are equally in doubt. And, indeed, there are many reasons to question the authenticity of the Zapruder film as well as much of the other photographic evidence. In his major study of the assassination of JFK, Bloody Treason (1997), Noel Twyman reports consulting with Roderick Ryan, a leading technical expert on motion picture film. Twyman had been puzzled by the discovery of numerous anomalies in the film, including blurred stationary background figures but sharp focus of the limousine in frame 302 versus the sharp focus of both in frame 303 When Twyman asked Ryan how this could be explained, he stated, "the limousine is moving in 302 and standing still in 303" (Twyman 1997, p. 150). And when Twyman asked him about the mysterious ~'blob" that seems to shift around from frame to frame immediately after the fatal head shot at frame 313, Ryan told him "it looked as if the blobs had been painted in" (Twyman 1997, p. 151). [Editor's note: The cover highlights "the blob" and Jackie's face, which also seems to be painted in.] Ryan's opinions are all the more important insofar as they corroborate conclusions about film alteration that had been drawn independently by Jack White and by David Mantik, initially in Part IV of Assassination Science (199<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"> and now in Part V of the current volume. Dr. Ryan received an Oscar for his technical contributions to the motion picture industry during the April 2000 Academy Awards Among the most remarkable discoveries of the ARRB, moreover, was locating two persons who worked on processing a home movie of the assassination at the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) run by the CIA the weekend of the murder. This movie, which appears to have been the "out-of-camera" original of the Zapruder film, was studied by Homer McMahon, who was in charge of the color laboratory at the time. He has reported that, after viewing it at least 10 times, he had concluded that JFK was hit 6 or 8 times from at least three directions, a conclusion subsequently dismissed by Secret Service Agent William Smith, who declared that MeMahon had to be mistaken because only three shots had been fired from above and behind, an opinion he had reached without interviews conducted for the ARRB by Douglas Home and published here. MORE: <a href="http://www.jfkresearch.com/jfk/index.html">www.jfkresearch.com/jfk/index.html</a> ** Also: VERY interesting -- alleged 'confession' of complicity in the JFK assassination conspiracy with Mafia, CIA, anti-Castro terrorist connections on March 27, 1994, by Stateville (Joliet, Illinois) Inmate James Files, aka James Sutton -- I don't recall hearing or seeing this before. What's the deal -- any comments? <a href="http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/confession2.htm">www.jfkmurdersolved.com/confession2.htm</a> Starman ***

by **Avalon** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:33 pm

That's a rather mind-blowing series of connections about Zapruder. Some good questions you raise, Dreams End. I'd say it's likely that Jackie would be on the flight because it was the only secure one going to Washington. And what else would she do, or where would she go, under the circumstances?

by **Project Willow** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:18 am

They film everything, don't ya know. Somewhere there's a vault (or many) with all kinds of disgusting footage. Training and trophies both I'd assume.

by **Sepka** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:03 am

Tim Drage said: Actually it was the older 'Standard-8' format which has a smaller image area and usually runs at only 16fps, or sometimes 18. Some information about the Zapruder movie camera, from a report prepared for Kodak, available at <a href="http://www.jfk-info.com/zavada1.htm">www.jfk-info.com/zavada1.htm</a> The camera's actual per-frame exposure was 1/40th of a second, still far too slow to record a bullet. The report notes that while Standard 8 cameras of the day were supposed to operate at 16fps, most models did in fact operate at around 18fps, the same as Super 8. The FBI found Zapruder's camera to operate at 18.3fps. Note too that the camera actually recorded a larger image than was used in projection, although with certain distortions and artifacts caused by the film advance mechanism. The report goes into this in detail.

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