My opening speech (the thing you use to introduce to people but larger)

[Matt Brooks]

Good morning, afternoon or evening, lads.

You can call me Matt.

I've been interested in researching the assassination after I was slacking off from math homework one day and decided to watch the video of JFK's assassination. At first, the name 'Zapruder' wasn't familiar to me at all. I honestly assumed it was some obscure film from some weird news station. Obviously, I later learned that wasn't the case.

I wasn't really disgusted or disturbed by the film when I first saw it. What caught my attention was the footage itself. After a while, I kept going back to it, and then I started finding more films: Nix, Muchmore, Martin, Hughes. None of these names meant anything to me at first, but I kept digging.

Then I started finding all the different eyewitness claims and interpretations: people talking about smoke, flashes, wounds, the grassy knoll, and everything else surrounding the assassination. Eventually I got deep enough into it that I even built my own JFK video archive. I had to take it off Google Drive when it went past the 15 GB limit, so now it's hosted on my own machine instead.

More recently, I got my hands on the MPI DVD of the Zapruder film, and it looks fire, frankly. Best R$98,00 i've ever spent.

So what am I actually planning to do?

I'm interested in learning how to enhance and work with frames from the home movies. I think having the best possible copies and frames available is important before we start drawing conclusions from them. A lot of the material is scattered around, and sometimes researchers don't clearly credit where their individual frame images or enlargements came from. On top of that, getting high-quality archival material directly can be expensive.
*cough* Emailing the Sixth Floor Museum and NARA and getting no answer back *cough*

I'm not claiming to have everything figured out. I'm new to this.

What I'd like to do is learn, organize the material I can get access to, improve the quality of frames where possible, and hopefully contribute something useful to the research. I'm interested in the footage first, and the conclusions second.

Someone get me off the Oliver Stone coke, that stuff cannot be good for me.
I'll probably be banned for this post anyway.

[Tom Graves]

[...]

You have a typo.

[Matt Brooks]

fixed the typos, or am i missing something?

[Tom Graves]

fixed the typos, or am i missing something?

If you don't think LHO killed JFK all by him widdle self-described self, you're missing a lot.

[Benjamin Cole]

MB-

Welcome aboard.

The Warren Commission fabricated the lone-nut theory (LNT), and concluded the LHO (Oswald) acted alone.

The second official investigation, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), concluded there was a high probability of a JFK assassination (JFKA) conspiracy.

So, don't be daunted by snotty remarks. There are plenty of smart people on all sides of the JFK.

Draw your own conclusions. They are as good as anyone else's.

Warning: The JFKA can be a time sink.

[Tom Graves]

The Warren Commission fabricated the lone-nut theory (LNT) and concluded the Oswald acted alone.

You're full of you-know-what.

The Commission settled on the Lone Gunman Scenario (LGS) based on the evidence.

The second official investigation, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), concluded there was a high probability of a conspiracy.

You forgot to mention that it based its bogus conclusion on its flawed analysis of a Dictabelt recording and its misidentification of the police motorcycle whose radio's microphone was stuck therein.

That, and the fact that G. Robert Blakey was dead set (pardon the pun) on involving The Mafia in "the hit."

[Mark A. Oblazney]

You're full of you-know-what.

The Commission settled on the Lone Gunman Scenario (LGS) based on the evidence.

You forgot to mention that it based its bogus conclusion on its flawed analysis of a Dictabelt recording and its misidentification of the police motorcycle whose radio's microphone was stuck therein.

That, and the fact that G. Robert Blakey was dead set (pardon the pun) on involving The Mafia in "the hit."

dang, this was the first post I ever saw that you didn’t mention them damn russkies, I’m so darned proud of you, sir g.

welcome, Matt!  Plenty of old threads to read re: Z. might give you some ideas.  happy hunting!