Joseph McBride

Zapruder was also a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club, which had many prominent members, including George H. W. Bush and George de Mohrenschildt. And Zapruder had employed de Mohrenschildt's wife, Jeanne LeGon, a fact not mentioned in Zapruder's granddaughter's book. Zapruder's son, Henry, worked for the Justice Department at the time of the assassination. Abraham Zapruder was a member of the Dallas Council on World Affairs. And so on. But I don't think Livingstone is a credible source, however, and the article leans heavily on his unsupported gossip and innuendos.

I saw a very good documentary about the Clinton episode. It ran in LA one night in the nineties and then vanished.

Numerous members of the DPD were up to their eyes in the plot.

Thanks, Steve. Somehow I couldn't post a similar frame enlargement.

I was referring to the other thread containing the link to the film itself. The film is AN ANSWER and shows JFK and LBJ inspecting the Atlantic Fleet at a naval installation in 1962. Gerald Ford and the Shah of Iran are also seen in the film. The title refers to military might as an answer to Kennedy's "Ask what you can do for your country" line in his inaugural address. I made the mistake of uploading the film twice and didn't know how to delete the second uploading, so I changed the message above. Sorry for any confusion.

I tried to upload frame enlargements, but they were too large. The footage is early in the film. I am sure our friend Vince Palamara will find this especially interesting.

This is a Navy-Marines film called AN ANSWER (1962), about the visit by JFK to inspect the Atlantic Fleet at the Oceana, Virginia, Naval Air Station. It is from April 13, 1962. Normally the president and VP are prohibited by Secret Service protocol from riding in the same car, but this was at a naval installation.

Vince, you need some perspective. This is an awful book. Yours are lasting and influential because they are based on solid, original, groundbreaking research into serious matters, not filled with lies and salacious sensationalism. This heavily promoted book is ephemeral, like all such books. Don't compare your good work with dreck.

I prefer witnesses such as Bill and Gayle Newman and Mary Ann Moorman, honest people who don't change their stories or speculate on things they don't know. I agree that earlier statements are usually more reliable than later ones, but Jean Hill was all over the map. I was going to challenge her on these inconsistencies, but she backed out of our interview after agreeing to it. There was a shot that struck the grass near the manhole cover not far from Hill, Moorman, and the Babushka Lady, as I am sure we all know.

Jean Hill is an unreliable source. She constantly changed and embellished on her statements.

Yes, Kenneth O'Donnell. I discuss his role in my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE.

Tracy just spreads disinformation. Who pays him?

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=707 The Belmont memo on the night of November 22.

There were Baker and Charlie radio transmissions. Maybe he was changing from one to the other.

Quite obviously not G. H. W. Bush.

Paul Brancato puts it well. The alleged photo of "Bush" (someone else) in DP is a red herring used to take attention away from all the other evidence about Bush and his actual activities on November 21-22 and earlier.

The Belmont memo of the night of 11-22 is the smoking gun that destroys the Warren Report. And it matches eyewitness evidence, including from Secret Service agents and other witnesses, of a bullet striking JFK in the right temple. I found the memo in the 1980s and wrote a lengthy article about it but couldn't get it published. I write about it in detail in INTO THE NIGHTMARE.

That image of Dallas was taken on JFK's 35th birthday, the day he became eligible to be president.

The wooden ramp is often discussed as a lost option and would have worked well and have been easy to construct, barely a bump as they drove over it. But of course the Secret Service, O'Donnell, Locke, et al wanted to drive JFK down Elm Street to kill him.

Bill and Gayle Newman were baffled they weren't called to testify, despite their close view of the shooting. And for a long time Gayle was overlooked because of her gender.

I once met Jack Daniel in Dealey Plaza and asked why his film shot on the other side of the plaza gets all blurry and loses most of the subject as the car passes his position. He said he was holding the camera to his chest and panning without looking through the viewfinder so he could look directly at the limousine. He was also very close to the limo, which made it out of focus. It is still a valuable film even if we can't really see into the limousine.

I meant to type "hold the camera steady," as Zapruder mostly did. I have heard people speculate before that something may have been reflected in the side of the car that they didn't want us to see. Maybe, as Tony Krome suggests, there was something else down there they didn't want us to see.

As a former cameraman, I wonder why the extant Zapruder film almost loses JFK at the bottom of the frame at the time of the final shots, which is odd, since Zapruder did a generally good job of panning and holding the camera steady under great duress. I wonder if this oddity is one of the artifacts of alteration.

Zapruder's son, Henry, was a lawyer working in the US Justice Department at the time of the asssassination. Abe Zapruder was a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club, along with George H. W. Bush, George de Mohrenschildt, D. H. Byrd, et al. Small world, eh?

Senator Ralph Yarborough told me in 1988, "The first shot I heard I thought was a rifle shot. The second shot, the motorcade almost came to a halt. They said later that the president‘s car slowed to something like five miles an hour. I wondered what the hell they were stopping for when somebody is shooting. People were jumping out of the car in front of me [the Secret Service followup car] and running to the president‘s car. I thought maybe somebody had thrown a bomb in there. The third shot I heard was a rifle shot."