JFK Assassination Forum

   In 1963, people in large population areas received maybe 7 total TV channels. And 3 of those were the Network channels. If a reporter was on a Network National News Broadcast, it was a very Big Deal. Rather knew this. He described what he saw on the Zapruder Film to a nation that at that time, had no idea what the Zapruder Film was. Rather also described seeing an agent in the front seat of the JFK Limo holding a telephone. If Rather was making stuff up, why would he mess around with including inconsequential information such as this? He wouldn't.

The amount of incorrect information being pumped out on TV and in the newspapers in the hours and days after the assassination was amazing.
The emphasis was on getting the story out quickly, before anyone else. So many mistakes were made.
Reports were coming in that a Secret Service agent was killed during the assassination. Someone like you would jump all over this insisting that no responsible reporter/journalist would say such a thing therefore it must have happened and was covered up. But it was just a mistake.
Rather made a mistake. That's all.
The Zavada Report proves the authenticity of the film but you know better. The points John makes about the impossibility of faking the Z-film in the time given are just ignored. As is the point that all other films and photographs would have to be accordingly faked, making the whole thing just a wild fantasy. Mistake after mistake was made by the media in their rush to get the stories out but you just ignore all of this.

The following week the most important key frames(besides the headshot) were published in LIFE magazine and allowing for production and distribution, the amount of time to alter these frames all of which can be perfectly slotted back into the original, was only a few days, and is simply was not enough time but don't believe me go and ask any older SFX specialist and ask them exactly what could be done with 8mm film or any film for that matter and then ask if your ideas are actually plausible.
Another problem for you is that all the individual elements that you think were edited all have their own specific properties as in lighting, motion blur, directional shadows and angles and etc, and if you cut something out and stick it somewhere else then it's a guarantee that the moved object will be out of place with the surroundings.







The following year The Warren Commission published every single frame from Z171 though to Z334 and they are all the Full Frames that included the ghost images between the sprockets, they also included the graphic head shot.
And every frame is exactly what we saw published in Life Magazine a week later and up until what we see today.





JohnM

On top of that, all other films and photos relating to the assassination would have to have been similarly altered within the same time-frame, so as to perfectly match any alterations made to the Z-film.
Let's just assume this is impossible.
On top of which Zavada, the "worlds leading expert" on Kodachrome II authenticated the original.
Josiah Thompson wrote a good essay highlighting the abject failure of those arguing for alterations to the Z-film - https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_Bedrock_Evidence_in_the_Kennedy_Assassination.html

"One way of looking at this continuing argument is to see it as a gigantic waste of time, as a prime example of junk science from educated people who ought to know better. It may have amusement value in some chronicle of "silly science," but, in terms of knowledge about the Kennedy assassination, it has produced literally nothing."

   In 1963, people in large population areas received maybe 7 total TV channels. And 3 of those were the Network channels. If a reporter was on a Network National News Broadcast, it was a very Big Deal. Rather knew this. He described what he saw on the Zapruder Film to a nation that at that time, had no idea what the Zapruder Film was. Rather also described seeing an agent in the front seat of the JFK Limo holding a telephone. If Rather was making stuff up, why would he mess around with including inconsequential information such as this? He wouldn't. 

We are discussing what DAN RATHER reported to the World several times LIVE! This has nothing to do with me. Nice try.

Get over it, Storing.

Realizing that "nothing was happening" except for some boring motorcycles and a boring lead car, Zapruder paused filming at Z-132 for seventeen seconds in order to conserve precious film.

Not being anxious like you about catching JFK and Jackie on film for every possible nanosecond, he didn't resume filming until the limo was heading towards him on Elm Street.

Dan Rather, not realizing that it would be so important to a fringe minority of JFKA conspiracy theorists like you some sixty years later, used a little "poetic license" and fibbed a little when he said the film showed the limo's actually turning onto Elm.

The first shot was described as "ear-splitting" and an "explosion."

By everyone who heard it?

The three agents would have spun around within a second of hearing it.

Even if they thought it was just another motorcycle backfire?
 

One must reasonably conclude from [the] evidence that the first shot did not occur as early z160, let alone earlier.

From “Estimating Occult Timing of Surprise Gunshot Sounds in Silent Film via Observed Start of Human Voluntary Reactions of Concern” by Brian Roselle and Kenneth Scearce in “Journal of the Association of Crime Scene Reconstruction”; 2020

First number = Author A’s observation; Second number = Author B’s observation; Third number = average of the two. Numbers represent Zapruder frames.


Roy Kellerman -- Begins leaning over and looking behind/down to the right at 148, 148, 148

George Hickey -- Begins leaning over to the left looking down in the direction of the rear tire or tire at 144, 143, 143.5

John Connally -- Begins a quick head turn left (followed by quickly looking back right) at 151, 149, 150

Jackie Kennedy -- Starts accelerated head turning left, before looking back right. (Similar to John Connally’s L-R head motion but starts slightly earlier & ends slightly later than his) at 145, 142, 143.5

President Kennedy -- Starts a quick look to the left at 144, 142, 143.5

Nellie Connally -- Begins a quick sweeping head turn to the right at 146, 144, 145

Rosemary Willis -- Begins a quick look away from the Presidential limo back towards the Texas School Book Depository at 141, 139, 140


Rhetorical question: What are the chances that all five passengers (i.e., non-drivers) in an automobile would randomly move their heads within one-third of a second of each other?