 Zapruder Film Remastered
The most important film in history, and despite the "look but don't see what you see" claims of debunkers, the authentic recording of the murder of the president, live as it happened, with bullets coming from all directions. The remastering was done by making large film slides of each 8mm frame, then digitizing those slides. The film still shows plenty of dirt and scratches which distract from the evidentiary value, and perhaps someday we will get a copy with much of that crud removed, as has been done with some classic Hollywood films.
The presentations include actual speed and slow motion, centered view and normal view, and magnified and unmagnified views. Be sure to watch Geraldo's 1975 talk show where the Warren Commission is discussed. The guests compare the Final Conclusions of the Warren Report to the 26 volume version with evidence and testimony. And guess what - they don't agree. That is to say, the final report was a whitewash of the actual evidence and testimony.
Fast forward to 2010 and you note that the 911 Commission did not make the Warren mistake - today we don't publish the evidence and testimony, just the whitewash.
EDIT: One small note about the Zapruder film and the "discredited" driver-shot-JFK theory: If this were true (and I allow the possibility), then the original developers of the film may have cloned reflections onto the arm and handgun that the driver ostensibly used in order to create an optical illusion, but were unable to effectively remove the event itself.
Excellent DVD about the history of the Zapruder film.
This is an excellent DVD about the restoration of the Zapruder film. The film itself runs almost 45 minutes and there are four different versions of the 26 second Zapruder film (close-up frame in slow motion/full frame/medium frame in slow motion/wide frame with sprocket holes). The bonus material itself is just as good and includes the WFAA TV interview of Abraham Zapruder by Jay Watson that runs almost 7 minutes. The "Good Night America" segment from 1975 with Geraldo Rivera and Robert Groden that runs 20 minutes. The rights negotiations with LIFE magazine with Richard Stolley that runs 14 minutes. And finally a short video of Kennedy's arrival in Dallas that runs almost 2 minutes. Be sure to buy this DVD along with Richard Trask's excellent book on the Zapruder film "National Nightmare on Six Feet of Film."
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A confession: I'm a former conspiracy buff. I gave speeches years ago on how the Warren Commission covered up, on Lee Oswald's being a patsy, you name it. Then I saw Stone's "JFK." Then I got to know a REAL conspiracy buff--did you know that the CIA killed Bob Marley??
In short, I'm not much of a buff any more.
But this film interested me. Yes, there ARE questions about the JFK assasination. Who did it? Why? The Zapruder film, the subject of this DVD, offers pretty solid evidence that Kennedy was hit from the front, not from the Texas Schoolbook Depository (the back).
But I guess what turned me off the the conspiracy theories is that the theorists made Kennedy into a saint. "The world would be a much better place if Saint John FK has not been murdered." And that's a pretty dubious proposition.
In short, the film documents how at Archives II, spittin' distance from my house, they put together the Zapruder film frame by frame--inch by inch, row by row. So now you can see more cleary, and in slow motion from a variety of angles, that Kennedy got his head blown off.
Frankly, I knew that before they made the film clearer. (I hope my tax dollars didn't cover that project!)
And, yes, there are still questions, no more or fewer than there were before the film was rebuilt. I learned more about HOW the film was redone, the technical means, than I did learn anything new from the film. But, again, I've come to no new conclusions, and I'm not again an assasination buff.
If you're really interested in--or obsessed--with JFK's murder, this film may interest you. If you're interested in the history of the film, it may interest you. But if you have anything better to do than watch the film, you might seriously consider that alternate activity.
 Zapruder Film
It was 90 minutes of looking at the same thing regular speed, slow motion, edited regular speed, edited slow motion, good quality regular speed, good quality slow motion, etc.......
just a minor correction
Mrs. Kennedy was not trying to help the Secret Service Agent when she crawled out onto the trunk. She was trying to recover part of her husband's skull that had blown back onto the trunk. Which by the way indicates that he was shot not from the school book depository behind him but from the front right.
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