Hypothetical question

[John Corbett]

What if Zapruder hadn't filmed the assassination?

How would it have affected our knowledge of the assassination? Would the Single Bullet Theory have ever been developed? I have my doubts although there would be a dilemma for the finding that there were 3 shot and 3 hits, 2 on  JFK and 1 on JBC. Why were there only 2 bullets recovered if three had struck the victims. Maybe somebody would have developed the theory but it would be much more difficult to support.

Of course other people were filming but none showed the shooting from start to finish and none had the vantage point Zapruder did.

What other mysteries would we now be facing if not for Zapruder?

[Sean Kneringer]

Rosemary Willis would be a lot less famous.

[Tom Graves]

Other people were filming but none showed the shooting from start to finish and none had the vantage point Zapruder did.

Zapruder didn't film the shooting "from start to finish," because Oswald's first, missing-everything, shot was at "Z-124," half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133.

[John Corbett]

Zapruder didn't film the shooting "from start to finish," because Oswald's first, missing-everything, shot was at "Z-124," half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133.

You're entitled to that opinion but it doesn't make it a fact.

[Tom Graves]

You're entitled to that opinion but it doesn't make it a fact.

Your saying Zapruder filmed the shooting from start to finish doesn't make it a fact -- even if Zapruder (mistakenly) said that he had.

[Charles Collins]

What if Zapruder hadn't filmed the assassination?

How would it have affected our knowledge of the assassination? Would the Single Bullet Theory have ever been developed? I have my doubts although there would be a dilemma for the finding that there were 3 shot and 3 hits, 2 on  JFK and 1 on JBC. Why were there only 2 bullets recovered if three had struck the victims. Maybe somebody would have developed the theory but it would be much more difficult to support.

Of course other people were filming but none showed the shooting from start to finish and none had the vantage point Zapruder did.

What other mysteries would we now be facing if not for Zapruder?

I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is any other photographic evidence that seems to clearly show a “back and to the left” JFK head movement. So, perhaps we might have avoided that controversy.

[John Corbett]

I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is any other photographic evidence that seems to clearly show a “back and to the left” JFK head movement. So, perhaps we might have avoided that controversy.

It is a myth that JFK went back and to the left. He was already leaning to his left, toward Jackie, when the headshot struck. From that left leaning position, he went straight back. When he hit the seatback, he was still on the far right side of the seat. His left lean gave the illusion he went back and to the left.