Not the Deep State. The Cancellare photo is an estimated 20 seconds after Z film frame 313. That and other momentous pieces of fiction like NASA Star Wars. At Z-338, he finally seems to have grabbed the handhold. Advertising Notice And Im going. Theres an interview with him where he talks about his love of amateur photography, how he took pictures of everything. Its just an optical effect. Or so we're led to believe. Zapruder film. I agree. Can we even have the certainty that all is uncertainty? I ask. In one stunning moment, Kennedy took his exit from the world stage. He has spent the last 37 years working, often successfully, for defense lawyers in tough cases. Back in 1975, Robert Groden, a conspiracist specializing in image trickery, argued in Rolling Stone that frames were. President Kennedy does not enter the stage for the first third of the picture, and it is there were we encounter a serious problem. Theres Jean Hill in her red coat, positioned next to Mary Moorman, precisely where they were last seen in the Zapruder film. Grappling with the power of Abraham Zapruder's grimly immortal footage, one fraction of a second at a time. It was right up there. All the frames that were removed from Z film were at the beginning so that the head shot is in frame 313 because the numbers 3 and 13 have a huge significance in their rituals. Morris prefers to think of it in terms of the philosophical issues about the possibility, or impossibility, of knowledge, the issues raised by Tink Thompson in his book about Kierkegaard, The Lonely Labyrinth. Looking a bit disheveled, like an aging pedant, shuffling around a cluttered office, Cox shows that an umbrella could have been used as a weapon by using an elaborate schematic diagram of a weaponized umbrella, complete with flchettes. Where is that line of demarcation between nutso thinking and good thinking?. The answer is: they wouldnt. One frame is about 50 milliseconds and Jackies hand could do a significant movement in 50 milliseconds. So, let us begin. Jean maintained until her dying day, and she testified to this from the very get-go, that she jumped out into the street the very moment the Lincoln passed and cried: Hey, Mr. President, look over here! Randy Robertson claims that you can see Clint Hill in frame Z-329 in the inter sprocket area just mounting the rear of the limo. This is conspicuously false. Clearly there is a backward movement, but . Speaking of which. President Kennedy is kept in center frame. Umbrella Man consists of Morris talking with Josiah Tink Thompson, one of the first and most respected of Warren Commission critics. Only slightly. I dont even know what a flchette is.. This could be due to the fact that her curbside narrative is legitimate, assuming we are not looking at the composite of multiple takes, and her position has been altered. The significance of the tape would not become known until 1978. An updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil is being published by DaCapo/Perseus Books. There are no frames missing from the Zapruder film. Jean was simply keeping to their plot twist. Her story seems less and less likely with every retelling. Also, it means Im doing something right. The copy now in the Museum's collection was apparently also damaged when it was at LIFE and it, too, may be lacking one or two of the "missing" frames. Courtesy of photographer Frank Cancellare. Suddenly, we see JFK clutch his throat. The Umbrella Man himself showed up to give testimony to the House assassinations committee, Morris says. In this interesting piece for WhoWhatWhy Millicent Cranor addresses the obvious issues: if the Z-film was altered, other photography at the crime scene should contain images not found on the Z-film. Jackie leans over to attend to him. As the film progresses, his wound morphs. They have come to see the president and there is no enthusiasm whatsoever. As I watched my copy of the MPI version on DVD, I Zen Garcia was kind enough to ask me to speak at the upcoming 2023 Sacred Word Revealed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. We shall return to that thought in a moment. The above screenshot just arrived in my mailbox the other day, and its not the first. 32 year-old Jean Hill, aka Norma Jean, is dubbed the lady in red in the Zapruder film. Our Slave Masters demanded a psychodrama. You dont simply turn a reel of film off and on again without a slight hiccup in the presentation. The entire message "KODACHROME II SAFETY FILM" is between OBTW, that's plenty of time for a limo stop. That trajectory work would produce charts which do not conform to the Zapruder film. (In analyzing these frames, we use "left" for "driver's side" and "right" for "passenger's side".) But it would be a dozen years before most of the world would see Frame 313. The echo he describes is the fact that by his proximity to the impact he heard the impact before he heard the muzzle blast which arrived of about 1/10th of second later. They had positioned themselves there knowing it would make the perfect photograph of John and Jackie Kennedy. noticed some white letters kept flashing on the left of the film in the We could build a postwar future on that edifice. The most important, to the present inquiry, are the earliest of these early Zapruder film frames. Anyone who has not viewed Hornes interview with Leo Brugioni, please take the time and watch. Indeed the committee ultimately determined that both the CIA and the FBI had withheld material information about these matters from the Warren Commission. Perhaps you are beginning to see where Im going with this. Holland and Rush suggest that the pause could have had great significance for the interpretation of the assassination. Don Thomas span of shots: Z326-Z175= 151 frames (=8.25 seconds). He did so by becoming the Sorcerers apprentice, and finally the Wizard of Oz. ===== Sean wrote: Let's cut to the chase and let us know which frames in Zapruder were altered, around what date, and by which means-what kind of process. There are four films of the assassinationthey are consistent. As of frame 332, he still hasnt mounted the car, but at least he is visible. We are on frame 403, as you can tell, and dealing once again with composite images. I dont know, I say, It sure looks like a shot from the front., The voice-over continues relentlessly: This version tracks the limousine and maintains President Kennedy at center frame. I stress assassination. Shed take to the bottle, lose her career as a teacher to some scandal, and then jump off a bridge. My favorite quote in my favorite movie review, he says, appeared in a 1941 review of Citizen Kane by [the great Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis] Borges and it contained Borges quoting, as he often did, [British writer G.K.] Chesterton, who said there is nothing more frightening than a labyrinth with no center. The limousines turn onto Elmdebris from the headshotlimo slowing or stoppingwhat else is believed to be missing/altered? On November 22, Jean Hill gave a statement to the police where she stated: Mary Moorman started to take a picture. time in relation to the sprocket holes. Morris new film, after all, about Donald Rumsfeldfamous for his line about unknown unknownsis called The Unknown Known. Your email address will not be published. Autopsy photos clearly show that the Presidents face was undamaged. I can only assume somebody wanted to record the Super Bowl, and it was either that or Wernher von Brauns wedding video. A shot that might be the one we see hit the president in Frame 313. Zapruder Film Frames. 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. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Zapruder stopped the camera at 132, and started it again at frame 133. We like to feel that the world is safe, Errol Morris tells me. | READ MORE. Well, here she is. I may throw her in when you least suspect it. America had been a bad boy. Its DINO Brugioni, and much of the interview is Horne interjecting his false interpretations. Enjoy the performance until the lights go down and its your cue to die, that sort of thing. on the Internet. Otherwise, the first two or three frames after 132 should be blotchy due to a heavier exposure to light, until the film corrects its speed. All the alterations of Zapruder film were very primitive and totally unable to hide anything. There is no enthusiasm in the crowd. The Zapruder film was heavily doctored, post-production. As the motorcade approaches, we see JFKs car emerge from behind a sign that had been temporarily blocking the view. that 155, 156 & 208 to 211 were the only missing frames, I measured The problem is not about the nature of reality. I have watched his five-hour YouTube account about the autopsy and how the Zapruder film was altered, and his evidence is overwhelming. I fully agree with Randy Robertson. This is very easy to verify. Ultimately Life decided to withhold 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. Costella Combined Edit Frames (updated 2006) Click on a frame number below to view the corresponding frame of the film, or click here to download all 486 frames in a single ZIP file (119 MB). And we can never know that we can never learn it. AND no, she wasnt born standing up. The physical evidence hangs together very well in the scenario presented by Dr Donald Thomas 2014) in Hear no Evil. Information on Jeans boyfriend is terribly difficult to come by. It turned over the rock that was the CIA at the time, and discovered, among other scandals wriggling underneath, the CIA/Mafia assassination plots against Cuban President Fidel Castro, some of them fostered during the Kennedy administrationplots that would provide possible assassination motives for Castro, for anti-Castro forces, for the CIA, for the Mafia, or some unholy alliance of more than one of these. For some reason perhaps to sell his book, perhaps? I mean why am I so obsessed with He pauses. Someone told the other a dirty joke. We see them all waving to onlookers as the motorcade heads for what was known locally as the triple underpass, an aptly metaphoric name for the tangle we will soon enter. The Zapruder film, silent but in color, shows a motorcade led by two open-top limousines proceeding at a stately pace through a street lined with people. We see the black Lincoln Continental with JFK and his wife, Jackie, in a pink skirt-and-jacket suit. The significance of the tape would not become known until 1978. Regardless, here we are. 155 and the bottom 2/3 is frame 157. And it would be so much easier to dismiss the impression of a frontal shot as an illusion, because otherwise youd have to doubt the conclusion of the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was positioned behind the president, was the lone gunman. I have consulted JFKfacts for years to learn new information, but your continued equivocation disappointments me. addition, frames 208, 209, 210, and 211 are missing due to mishandling by an . Rebecca came to TUC during the summer of 2021 after following the breadcrumb trail from Rob Skiba and Nephelim research and soon thereafter began following the Torah. This version is only in slow-motion., So we know hes been hit, Morris says. The Lincoln was a Ford. This missing part of the film, the frames between Z 132 and Z 133, could contain frames for 21 seconds. FOR WHATEVER subconscious reason that I care not to evaluate here, I went with the unorthodox position of claiming Zapruders footage of the JFK assassination was a royal hoax before ever showing a shred of evidence for it. In fact, there is a YouTube compilation that includes no fewer than five versions of the Zapruder filmslow-motion, zoomed-in, close-ups. Ive always been skeptical of the theory Abraham Zapruders home movie of JFKs assassination has been altered. All frames of the film are accounted for at the National Archives. It is one of the very reasons I closed my Facebook account in April of 2020. Muchmore film shows the brake lights turn on as they approach the fence and Nix film clearly shows the car slow down so dramatically the motorcycle cops flanking the as car catch the limo and possibly move as far west as the rear bumper as they were caught off guard. As Errol Morris puts it, quoting someone he identifies with typical obscure erudition as the last living inhabitant of the utopian community of Zoar in Ohio who said on her deathbed, Think about it, All those religions. Welcome. This discussion raises the possibility that CIA had the capability to alter the Z Film. This had been driven backwards by a second shot to the head from the front. Everything went down without a hitch. All credit goes to John P. Costella. Morris recalled for me the dramatic moment in the course of the nearly seven hours he spent interviewing Thompson on camera when the former professor handed him a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle identical to the one Oswald was alleged to have used, and demonstrated the slow and complicated process of reloading and resighting that Oswald would have had to have undertaken to get off three shots in six seconds. Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris deconstructs the most famous 26 seconds in film history. The Earth Not a Globe Review: Volume I and The Legends of the Jews: Volumes I-IV would not have happened without her. Also, according to The Wikipedia, Hill stated that after the firing stopped she saw a white man wearing a brown overcoat and a hat running west away from the Depository Building in the direction of the railroad tracks. 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. Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln, and as we all hopefully know by now, Lincolns assassination was another hoax. These missing frames are here derived from alternative sources. I dont want to hear people misinterpreting the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Completing the Story of the Assassination. But theres a mystery about death., I believe massive heart attacks. She has been an enormous help to the TUC ministry ever since that time, editing books for publication as well as running the podcast and administrating the TUC community, among other tasks. It makes for natural auditorium seating. What do you think? By denying that image, Frame 313, I think he was trying to protect himself, protect America., Protect a certain stable view of the world? And that doesnt even include the missing gap between frames 132 and 133. For an even better video on this subject see : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKqWozXc4KY The newer analysis by another up loader using a better copy of . 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. each repeating message. The Zapruder film disagrees with all other evidence. It is spooks who create our perceived reality and then spooks who inform our opinions about it. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. But after that day in Dallas, he could no longer pick up that camera. One at the age of 40, the other at the age of 43. (Morris is now 65. That gives one a lot of scenes to use elsewhere. Something looks not right there. Regarding the actual editing of the Zapruder film, they also feel frames are missing from the one shown to the public. He may have been startled by the head shot and only wanted to verify what had transpired before continuing filming. What is not well known, however, is that a single frame of it was kept largely secret from public view for 12 years after the assassination. He offers no evidence that a weaponized umbrella was fired that day or that a poison flchette was found in JFKs flesh. After adding in frame 341 & 350 and assuming Some have felt frames were excised where Zapruders camera stops initially and then motorcade proceeds down Elm. Were talking about the chance of a lifetime, to stand several feet away from the President. 2023 Smithsonian Magazine We arrive now at frame 313. JFK Assassination Files Notice the family ducking for cover. Its those bad guys rubbing their hands together, Twirling their mustaches, calculating panic, conniving. on November 5, 2019, There are no reviews yet. 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. Thompson has had an extraordinary, colorful career. Its a process that is still going on, monitored by former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley on his website JFKfacts.org. Question on the Z film alteration. Not only did Hill hear this shot but Zapruder did as well. There are only 6 frames missing from the " JFK Assassination, A Visual Investigation" versision of the film. The Zapruder film consists of only 486 frames. Or, I should say, them. 109, 157 to 173, 224 to 241, 288 to 305, 354 to 370 and 418 to 435. . Clint Hill heard the final shot fired from the TSBD. On February 13, 1969 Zapruder said that he could not tell if frames Were missing from his film nor could he vouch for the film's chain of They didnt want us to see Frame 313 either and we didnt till the 1970s. Missing Frames From The Zapruder Film Advertise Here. IN my last newsletter I made mention of Rebecca L. Gould without ever giving a photo reveal. Look to the lamppost and then beyond that lamppost to the elongated truck. Look how few people witnessed the actual shooting at Dealey Plaza. where this cameraman was standing. 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? In other words, multiple takes. And now we are on the subject of the Zapruder film. Doug Horne has chosen to ignore the detailed, technical analysis of the Z-film conducted by his former friend, Kodak 8mm film expert Rollie Zavada, in the mid-1990s. Rebecca L. Gould: A growing family at TUC! According to the frame numbers, there are 42 frames missing in the film. Its a very small difference but it really adds up the further one counts from a similar starting point. He would have already heard the shots to the head fractions of a second earlier. James Norwood, a retired professor of Humanities, University of Minnesota, was perhaps the first to point out what seems to be a definitive discrepancy: In the Zapruder film of the assassination, Jackie goes only just beyond the middle of the trunk before retreating. versision of the film. The lovely Rebecca. You do not have permission to delete messages in this group, Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, A new theory that determines how many Zapruder frames were deleted from the. What is the word missing at the top of page 7? Safe at least in the sense that we can know about it. Were supposedly dealing with journalistic integrity. Such a leap would not go unnoticed. And there they go running off for their next shot while the Newmans remain poised in position, waiting to be cleared by the director. As I say to Tink, in my film, it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, Morris says in a wry Mister Rogers imitation. Kids, this is before digital technology. And yet, theres no apparent fade out as is often customary when releasing or pressing the shutter button of the camera. Once Zen and company release the official schedule I plan on scheduling a TUC meetup. We want to take your picture!. My next step was to measure the distance between Not even John Wilkes Booth could accomplish that task. 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. from "Image of an Assassination, A New Look at the Zapruder There are only 6 frames missing from the "JFK The first thing you should notice is that Zapruder abruptly cut filming at frame 132. There are no patterns. 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. And indeed he looks really out of place.. Again the renewed shock of watching it (rather than Stones far-fetched military-industrial-complex conspiracy theory) had its effect: Public reaction pushed Congress to pass the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which ordered that the declassification of literally millions of assassination documents be expedited. So stay tuned. The lampposts in Dealey Plaza are precisely 14 feet tall. Moreover, although Life had a copy of the film, it did little to maximize the return on its extraordinary investment. This fall, Tom Hanks will produce another cinematic version of the assassination, a movie called Parkland (after the Dallas hospital), with Paul Giamatti playing our man Abraham Zapruder. Theres another version where the Umbrella Man himself is one of the assassinswith the umbrella., A covert weapon capable of firingIm not sure where this word came from but Tink uses ita flchette. Were listening. Oh wait. So it seems, I start to say when the voice-over cuts in with the final version: This version zooms in on the image as much as possible without causing deterioration. For nearly 200 frames, some three dozen people on the bottom of the frame, or the north end of Elm Street, remain perfectly motionless. This was the metal on metal impact that Hill testified to hearing. And he reproduced a clip of his appearance before the committee in his Umbrella Man film. In trying to understand conspiracy theorists, I used to think that what conspiracy theorists were really doing on some level was grieving, their fantasies a form of displaced love for JFK, but Ive come to think the love involved is mostly self-love, their self-congratulatory assertion of superiority over mere facts. It makes absolutely no sense that Zapruder would show up to film the Kennedys, stop filming the very moment the lead motorcycles and cars round the corner, only to presume work again. She is seen standing nearly alone in Dealey Plaza, and had only recently separated from her husband, Bill Hill. And what better place to peer over ones shoulder, once the curb had filled with too many bystanders to number, than the grassy knoll? Despite the fact that their pictures document a single frame, they seem to capture the motionless crowd looking far more jubilantand worse. The labyrinth to nowhere. The top 1/3 is frame I dont know, you tell me. Figure 5 shows Zapruder Frames Z313-Z316, which capture the "back and to the left" motion exhibited by the President immediately after the bullet impact. 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. The strangest part has little to do with her initial backstory and everything to do with the mere fact that she and Mary Moorman are standing in Dealey Plaza almost completely alone. The distance between the 1st & 2nd is 50 5/8 frames; The loneliest of all labyrinths. Bush, the Skull and Bones alumni who would ascend from Director of the CIA to Vice-President under Reagan and finally Commander and Chief of the Corporate United States, was not yet a member of Central Intelligence when Kennedy was shot. But we know thats all part of the psyop. How a fat man could make it down six flights of stairs after making his kill shot within the span of a few seconds is beyond me. Probably just got off the phone with John. I could care less about his Zionist or Langley ties at this point. Was Dino shown the actual extant film and asked to comment or just a single photo? Bill and Gayle Newman. I personally interviewed crisis actors after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and I can tell you that inconsistent crises actors are a dime a dozen. Who, Morris says, had been ambassador to England in the 1930s and [was] known for his policies of appeasement to the Third Reich., Symbolized, I say, by the umbrella that Neville Chamberlain carried back from Munich, after Chamberlain claimed to have brought peace for our time by letting Hitler swallow up half of Czechoslovakia, giving Hitler the impetus to launch World War II. You know, Ill never really know what killed my brother and my father, who died both at a very, very early age. Upon closer examination That would be totally amazing if true. compositing artifact, mutated with the merging together of multiple film sources. Im curious, the Zapruder film indicates no slow down of the limo by the fence.