Abraham Zapruder’s camera.
It is detailed to a much greater extent in Douglas Horne’s watershed five-volume book on the Kennedy assassination Inside the Assassination Records Review Board.
Posted on 08/13/2023 8:58:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Longtime readers of my work on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy know that I point to the evidence establishing the fraudulent autopsy that was conducted on JFK’s body to convict the U.S. military establishment of criminal complicity in the assassination itself. That’s because there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy. Once one concludes that the autopsy that the military conducted on JFK’s body was fraudulent, one has automatically concluded that the military establishment was criminally complicit in the assassination itself. There is no way around that.
The evidence of autopsy fraud is set forth in my books The Kennedy Autopsy, The Kennedy Autopsy 2, and An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story.
Abraham Zapruder’s camera.
It is detailed to a much greater extent in Douglas Horne’s watershed five-volume book on the Kennedy assassination Inside the Assassination Records Review Board.
But what about the CIA? Is there evidence that convicts the CIA beyond a reasonable doubt of criminal complicity in the JFK assassination? Yes, there is. That evidence consists of the altered, fraudulent copy of the famous Zapruder film that the CIA secretly produced at its top-secret Hawkeyeworks photographic operation in Rochester, New York, on the weekend of the assassination.
Just as there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy, there is also no innocent explanation for an altered, fraudulent copy of the film of the assassination. Once one concludes that the famous Zapruder film is an altered, fraudulent copy of the original Zapruder film, one has automatically concluded that the CIA was criminally complicit in the assassination of President Kennedy. There is no way around that.
Yes, I am thoroughly familiar with the CIA’s standard response: “Conspiracy theory, Jacob! Conspiracy theory!”
Some readers may not know that I began my professional career as a civil and criminal trial attorney in Texas. I was trained to think like a lawyer. During the twelve years of my law career, I tried both jury and non-jury cases, in both state and federal courts. Given such, I naturally think in terms of evidence, not theories. No prosecutor or criminal-defense trial lawyer goes into court and tells a jury that he has a theory of the case. He tells the jury how the evidence will establish or fail to establish the defendant’s guilt.
I detail the evidence of what the CIA did to produce a fraudulent, altered copy of the original Zapruder film in my book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story.
Essentially, what the CIA did was secretly transport the original Zapruder film on November 23, 1963 (the day after the assassination) to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) in Washington, D.C.
The next day, November 24, it then transported the original film to its top-secret photographic operation called Hawkeyeworks, which was secretly located within Kodak’s research and development section of its corporate headquarters in Rochester, where it was copied and altered.
The altered, fraudulent copy of the Zapruder film was then shipped back to NPIC in Washington, where it was presented as the original film. (Note: While Kodak had secretly partnered with the CIA to establish Hawkeyeworks within its Rochester facility, there is no evidence that Kodak was part of the CIA’s criminal activity with respect to the Zapruder film.)
Among the things that the CIA did with its altered copy was to delete frames that tended to establish the criminal culpability of the national-security establishment, including elements of the Secret Service, in the assassination.
For example, consider the route of the presidential limousine as it approached Dealey Plaza. The presidential motorcade comes down Main Street in downtown Dallas, proceeding in a westerly direction. It then turns right onto Houston Street. It then makes an extremely wide turn onto Elm Street — so wide, in fact, that it violated Secret Service protocols on making turns. Some witnesses said that the limousine had so much difficulty making the turn that it actually went onto the sidewalk or almost onto the sidewalk to navigate the turn.
Obviously, such a turn would slow JFK’s limousine to a crawl, which would make it easier for an assassin to shoot the president. Thus, that wide turn onto Elm Street is naturally something that the CIA would want to eliminate in its altered, fraudulent copy of the Zapruder film.
The extant film (that is, the film that purports to be an original) shows something highly unusual. It show motorcycle cops making the turn onto Elm Street but then suddenly jumps to show JFK’s limousine already coming down Elm Street. In other words, it doesn’t show the presidential limousine making that extremely wide turn onto Elm Street.
In her book Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, Abraham Zapruder’s granddaughter Alexandria Zapruder wrote that Zapruder didn’t film the president’s turn onto Elm Street because, she said, Zapruder wanted to be sure that he didn’t run out of film before the president was approaching where Zapruder was standing.
But how logical is that? Zapruder was about as professional a home movie-maker as an amateur could be. He had been taking home movies for many years. He knew exactly what he was doing.
If he had decided to wait until the presidential limousine was near him on Elm Street, then why would he have filmed the motorcycle cops making the turn onto Elm Street? If he was concerned about running out of film, why waste film on the motorcycle cops?
Moreover, Dealey Plaza was the end of the motorcade. Zapruder’s partner Irwin Schwartz had told him that the motorcade would likely be exiting Dealey Plaza at a high rate of speed. Given such, how likely is it that Zapruder would have waited until the president was already on Elm Street to begin filming, rather than begin filming the motorcade as it made the turn onto Elm Street and then continue filming as the limousine approached him until he ran out of film? After all, Zapruder would have had little interest in filming the back of the president after he had already passed him by.
But that’s all logic and common sense. I can already hear the “Conspiracy theory, Jacob!” crowd crying, “Where is the evidence, Jacob, to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the CIA produced an altered, fraudulent copy of the original Zapruder film?”
Fair enough. I detail that evidence in my book An Encounter with Evil. But let’s examine just a small part of that evidence in this article.
1. Consider, first, this short film of television news reporter Dan Rather. Rather saw Zapruder’s copy of the original Zapruder film on Monday morning, November 25, in Zapruder’s office. He immediately left Zapruder’s office and rushed out to make this filmed report about what he had just seen a few minutes before. In this film, Rather states: “The film shows President Kennedy’s open black limousine making a left turn off Houston Street onto Elm Street on the fringe of downtown Dallas.”
2. Consider, second, this film of LIFE magazine reporter Richard Stolley, who viewed the original film multiple times on the weekend of the assassination. In fact, it was Stolley who negotiated the sale of the Zapruder film to LIFE magazine. Go to 6:40 of the film, where Stolley describes what the original Zapruder film showed: “And you see the motorcade snaking around Dealey Plaza….”
The extant Zapruder film shows the presidential limousine coming down Elm Street in a straight line — that is, there is no “snaking around.” Stolley’s statement establishes that the original film included the wide turn onto Elm Street because that is the only way that the presidential limousine could be described as “snaking around.”
3. Consider, third, this filmed interview of Marilyn Sitzman, Zapruder’s trusted assistant, who was with him when he filmed the assassination.
Go to 3:40.
The interviewer states: “When … there is part of something that’s been uncovered that he tried out a little bit of the film ahead of time to be sure the camera was working all right and caught some of the motorcycle policemen. Do you remember — do you recall that — kind of testing the first few feet of film?”
Sitzman responds: “No. I know he took a picture of me as I walked up. Then we stood up there. He may have taken the shots to see what his view was. I only remember that when they started to make their first turn, turning into the street, and he says ‘Okay, here we go’ or something to that effect. That’s when I remember we started actually doing the filming.”
4. Consider, fourth, this other filmed interview with Sitzman. Go to 27:25. Sitzman states: “And he started filming about, oh, just before they came around the corner….”
5. Consider, fifth, another interview that Sitzman gave to an interviewer named Wes Wise, where she stated, “I only remember when they started to make their first turn … turning into the street, he said, ‘OK, here we go.…’ or something to that effect. That’s when I remember he started actually doing the filming.”
6. Consider, sixth, this filmed interview of Abraham Zapruder himself shortly after the assassination. Go to 00:30, where Zapruder states, “As I was shooting, as the President was coming down from Houston Street making his turn, it was about a half-way down there, I heard a shot….”
7. Consider, seventh, an interview that Zapruder gave to an interviewer named Marvin Scott, where Zapruder stated, “And then I watched for the arrival of the, uh, cars, I saw the motorcycles, and then the car approached. As they turned I started shooting the pictures, that turned from Houston Street to Elm Street, and I was shooting as they were coming along….”
8. Consider, eighth, the sworn testimony that Zapruder gave at the Clay Shaw trial in 1969, where he stated under oath, “I started shooting — when the motorcade started coming in, I believe I started and wanted to get it coming in from Houston Street.”
What does the CIA say about all this evidence that unquestionably proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the CIA secretly produced an altered, fraudulent copy of the Zapruder film on the weekend of the assassination at its top-secret Hawkeye facility at Kodak’s headquarters in Rochester, New York?
We all know what the CIA’s response is. It’s their standard response. “Conspiracy theory, Jacob! Conspiracy theory!”
I rest my case. The CIA’s production of an altered, fraudulent copy of the famous Zapruder film establishes beyond a reasonable doubt the CIA’s criminal culpability in the assassination of President Kennedy.
No one keeps records implicating themselves in a crime. It’s absurd to think so. Furthermore, no one can keep a secret.
Also, wouldn’t it be far easier to just lose, or destroy the Zapruder film?
I am now an old man, but after reading this longwinded column I still think there is only one man responsible for the assination of John Kennedy. The same man I thought was responsible for the last near sixty years.
Lynden Baines Johnson
“...That evidence consists of the altered, fraudulent copy of the famous Zapruder film that the CIA secretly produced at its top-secret Hawkeyeworks photographic operation in Rochester, New York, on the weekend of the assassination.”
“on the weekend of the assassination”??????
They already had the Zapruder film????? IN HAND and made the decision what to do and where to take it, then “produce” “fraudulent copy” and get it to “Hawkeyeworks photographic operation in Rochester, New York, on the weekend of the assassination.”
If you believe THAT, you must believe in the “magic bullet” and Santa Claus.
It’s funny to read the things people, who weren’t alive at that time, have been taught to believe.
All this so people forget that the Commie did it.
As long as it’s not required by the government, more outlets should do the same with guests who spin a yarn.
Interesting summation of supporting evidence, but nothing new in conclusion.
We all knew the autopsy was a fraud and that the film had been manipulated.
Great book the TEXAS CONNECTION worth the read.. LBJ did it
“We all knew the autopsy was a fraud...”
Other than the brain went missing, this is the first I heard of this fraud thing. Looking for info on it now...
Its amazing FReepers deny that fact.
If you watch the live coverage, Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a right-winger that did it.
What a crock of horse puckey.
Evidence my arse. He cites no evidence whatsoever, it’s all conjecture based on circumstance and the frailty/fallibility of human memory, cherry-picked for details that tangentially could be twisted to support his foregone conclusion.
Not that CIA wasn’t somehow culpable but fantasy arguments like this only muddy the waters (and tarnish the public perception of the cause) for serious investigators.
Oliver Stone did a great job showing this as well.
No doubt it was the CIA.
Only over time, witnessing the extent of the corrupt leadership at both the FBI and CIA, could such a theory even be believable, if not probable as far as some extent of involvement.
Have you seen Oliver Stone’s movie?
yes
Lee Harvey Oswald could not have done the deed.
Among the many documents released in recent years was the testimony of several of his co-workers (received by the Warren Commission but then intentionally ignored) as to exactly where he was and what he was doing when the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza.
He went down to the second floor of the Texas Book Depository Building (where he worked) to take a soda break.
He realized he did not have the correct change for the soda machine in the break room.
He walked across the hall to the offices there and asked a lady employee he knew for change for a dollar.
He handed her a dollar bill and she reached in her purse for the change.
She got the change and as she was handing him the change they were interrupted by loud noises “bang bang bang” from outside the window.
The employees rushed to the window to find out what the noise was—and had no clue so they went back to work.
Lee Harvey Oswald took the change and walked across the hall to buy his soda.
He was drinking it in the break room when a policeman entered the break room and asked him what he was doing there.
Oswald said “I worked here” and the officer thanked him for the information and continued his search of the building.
This kind of thing would be less possible to pull off today, when dozens of bystanders would be videoing with their phones, too many for the FIB to rapidly confiscate. That's why the evildoers are now working directly on how to trick the human brain and perception.
Victor Ostrovsky Wrote several good books.
I recommend this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Deception
There is an entire world we know nothing about.
JFK said he would destroy the CIA and had just signed orders to bring home half of our troops in Vietnam. The other half were to come home in six months.
RFKjr has done intense investigation into the murder of his father and is highly credible about it being done by a govt agency.
Hillary Clinton has ordered the murders of an entire slew of people.
We think we are better than South American countries where clandestine ops are happening so often.
I have had a long wonderful life in this country...and yet
I came to realize, esp when we bombed Serbia, that it very much a potemkin village for myself and more.
We are fed everything to believe.
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