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The Zapruder Film was taken by Abraham Zapruder.

Below is a full frame copy, including the sprocket hole image, of frame 183.


WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY OF ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

"They killed him,
they killed him,
they killed him..."

Well, as the car came in line almost--I believe it was almost in line. I was standing up here and I was shooting through a telephoto lens, which is a zoom lens and as it reached about--I imagine it was around here--I heard the first shot and I saw the President lean over and grab himself like this (holding his left chest area).

In other words, he was sitting like this and waving and then after the shot he just went like that.

Leaning--leaning toward the side of Jacqueline. For a moment I thought it was, you know, like you say, "Oh, he got me," when you hear a shot--you've heard these expressions and then I saw---I don't believe the President is going to make jokes like this, but before I had a chance to organize my mind, I heard a second shot and then I saw his head opened up and the blood and everything came out and I started--I can hardly talk about it [ the witness crying].

I thought I heard two, it could be three, because to my estimation I thought he was hit on the second--I really don't know. The whole thing that has been transpiring--it was very upsetting and as you see I got a little better all the time and this came up again and it to me looked like the second shot, but I don't know. I never even heard a third shot.

I heard the second--after the first shot--I saw him leaning over and after the second shot--it's possible after what I saw, you know, then I started yelling, "They killed him, they killed him," and I just felt that somebody had ganged up on him and I was still shooting the pictures until he got under the underpass--I don't even know how I did it.

And then, I didn't even remember how I got down from that abutment there, but there I was, I guess, and I was walking toward--back toward my office and screaming, "They killed him, they killed him," and the people that I met on the way didn't even know what happened and they kept yelling, "What happened, what happened, what happened?" It seemed that they had heard a shot but they didn't know exactly what had happened as the car sped away, and I kept on just yelling, "They killed him, they killed him, they killed him," and finally got to my office and my secretary--I told her to call the police or the Secret Service--I don't know what she was doing, and that's about all. I was very much upset. Naturally, I couldn't imagine such a thing being done. I just went to my desk and stopped there until the police came and then we were required to get a place to develop the films. I knew I had something, I figured it might be of some help--I didn't know what.


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Film and audio: (Note, the Zapruder film has been donated to the Sixth Floor Museum.)

3abulbl Zapruder
Photo from interview with Mr. Zapruder pointing out the [entry] wound on the President's temple.

3abulbl 11-22-63 WFAA-TV Interview with Mr. Zapruder (©1999 by WFAA-TV Co.)

 

3abulbl The Zapruder Film (partial sequence, low quality, for research purposes only)

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Research Materials:

3abulblDonald Thomas' Acoustic Study gives us a "scientific soundtrack" to the Zapruder film. [pdf]

3abulbl A History of the Zapruder Film

3abulblWhy the Zapruder Film Is Authentic by Dr. Josiah Thompson

3abulblListening to the Zapruder Film by Martin Shackelford, What a good lip reader might be able to determine from Gov. Connally during the shooting. Hear Gov Connally (Real Audio)

3abulblThe Assassination Records Review Board public hearing at the original National Archives,Washington, D.C. on April 2, 1997.

3cbulgr Jeremy Gunn of the ARRB on the "Taking" of the Zapruder film. (pdf)

3cbulgr DISSECTING THE ZAPRUDER BELL & HOWELL 8mm MOVIE CAMERA
Outline of a Presentation to the Movie Machine Society, Toronto Conference, 10/24/98
by Roland J. Zavada

3cbulgr Galanor: The Jet Effect
The Zapruder film was not shown on television until 12 years after the ... No jet stream is seen in the Zapruder film that even remotely resembles the ...

3cbulgr The Myth of the Mystery Man in the Pyracantha Bush in Dealey Plaza ...
Years ago JFK assassination researchers viewing copies of the Zapruder film found what seemed to be an image like the back of a helmet or hat within the ...

3cbulgr Did the Limousine driver shoot JFK?
For years people have been fooled by low resolution, inferior copies of the Zapruder film -- finding reflections or shadows that are much more clear in the better copies available of this historic film.

3cbulgr First Shot/First Hit Circa Zapruder Film Frame 190 by Barb Junkkarinen (pdf)


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News Stories (all links may not be active after news event)

 

01-26-00

3abulblDallas Morning News - Zapruders donate JFK film, rights. Gift may secure future of Sixth Floor Museum

08-04-99

3abulblCBCNEWS Washington ordered to pay $16 million for JFK assassination film

08-03-99:

3abulblCNN Transcript - Burden of Proof: How Much is the Zapruder Film Worth? - August 3, 1999

3abulblMSNBC: Zapruder film value at $16 million

3abulblYahoo! Full Coverage:Zapruder Family Awarded $16M for Kennedy Assassination Film

3abulblCNN - Putting a price on 26 seconds of history - August 3, 1999

3abulblCNN - Film of JFK killing valued at $16 million - August 3, 1999

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Resources you can purchase:

3abulbl NID Conference 1998-7/8/9

The Zapruder Film Panel; Zavada Report Discussion:
Non-Alteration Position: Hal Verb, Josiah Thompson
Alteration Position: Jack White, David Lifton, David Mantik
Commentators: James Tague, Beverly Oliver, Jim Fetzer, Michael Parks
Art & Margaret Snyder, A Study of the Jet Effect

3abulblIMAGE OF AN ASSASSINATION: A New Look At The Zapruder Film

Video  Appx. 45 minutes $19.95 Order Here DVD version Includes a never-before seen version of President Kennedy's assassination.  Finally, watch the enhanced film in various sequences-including a version that's 64-percent wider than has ever been seen before and includes the sprocket areas. Zapruder captured a ghastly image that would be seen by the whole world and became one of the most important documents of the 20th Century. In 1997, the LMH company and the MPI Media Group worked together to create a state-of-the-art digital replication of the camera original--a copy that will serve researchers for years to come. Includes Zapruder's business associates, photography experts and employees of the National Archives who piece together the history of the crucial 26-second film.

 
3abulblThe Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination
by David R. Wrone

David Wrone, one of our nation's foremost authorities on the assassination, re-examines Zapruder's film with a fresh eye and a deep knowledge of the forensic evidence. He traces the film's forty-year history from its creation on the 'grassy knoll' by Dallas dressmaker Zapruder through its initial sale to Life magazine, analysis by the Warren Commission and countless assassination researchers, licensing by the Zapruder family, legal battles over bootleg copies, and sale to the federal government for sixteen million dollars.

Wrone's major contribution, however, is to demonstrate how the film itself necessarily refutes the Warren Commission's lone-gunman and single-bullet theories. The film, he notes, provides a scientifically precise timeline of events, as well as crucial clues regarding the timing, number, origins, and impact of the shots fired that day. Analyzing it frame-by-frame in relation to other evidence, including two key photos by Phil Willis and Ike Altgens, he builds a convincing case against the official findings.

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