WFAA film question

[Greg Doudna]

The following document from 1967 at the link claims that 1000 feet of film from WFAA was found at the Grinburg Library (ABC) in New York. "It is not possible to tell who took all of the footage, but the likely candidates are Ron Reiland, Malcolm Couch, A.J. L'Hoste and Tom Alyea." Description given by a viewer of this film (bold added):

"Extensive footage of the rifle on the sixth floor being lifted out of its hiding place. Lt. Day dusting a live cartridge for prints near the spot where the rifle was found. A clipboard being examined by a policeman near the same spot ... Scenes outside the Texas Theatre apparently before the arrest. Several police cars can be seen arriving and police milling around outside. (It is known that WFAA cameraman Ron Reiland went into the Theatre before the arrest and took movies of the arrest from the stage.)" (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62434#relPageId=5 )

Questions:

-- Is this 1000 feet of WFAA film known and accessible today? 

-- Is it true Ron Reiland filmed the arrest of Oswald from the stage of the theater? If so, where is that film?

-- Oswald's clipboard of unfinished orders was supposedly found weeks later on the 6th floor near where the rifle was found, and turned in to the FBI. Is this a filming of that clipboard on Nov 22? What's up with that? WFAA films police finding a clipboard, not taken in as evidence because thought not important, or not realized related to the assassination? Tossed aside on Nov 22 where it was... remains there until later retrieved and turned in to the FBI?  

Edited September 12 by Greg Doudna

[Pat Speer]

13 hours ago, Greg Doudna said:

The following document from 1967 at the link claims that 1000 feet of film from WFAA was found at the Grinburg Library (ABC) in New York. "It is not possible to tell who took all of the footage, but the likely candidates are Ron Reiland, Malcolm Couch, A.J. L'Hoste and Tom Alyea." Description given by a viewer of this film (bold added):

"Extensive footage of the rifle on the sixth floor being lifted out of its hiding place. Lt. Day dusting a live cartridge for prints near the spot where the rifle was found. A clipboard being examined by a policeman near the same spot ... Scenes outside the Texas Theatre apparently before the arrest. Several police cars can be seen arriving and police milling around outside. (It is known that WFAA cameraman Ron Reiland went into the Theatre before the arrest and took movies of the arrest from the stage.)" (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62434#relPageId=5 )

Questions:

-- Is this 1000 feet of WFAA film known and accessible today? 

-- Is it true Ron Reiland filmed the arrest of Oswald from the stage of the theater? If so, where is that film?

-- Oswald's clipboard of unfinished orders was supposedly found weeks later on the 6th floor near where the rifle was found, and turned in to the FBI. Is this a filming of that clipboard on Nov 22? What's up with that? WFAA films police finding a clipboard, not taken in as evidence because thought not important, or not realized related to the assassination? Tossed aside on Nov 22 where it was... remains there until later retrieved and turned in to the FBI?  

Good find. The bits about the clipboard and the arrest are intriguing, to say the least. 

The early references to the dusting of the rifle etc seem to be references to the Alyea film, but I don't recall a segment of someone looking at a clipboard in the Alyea film. 

[Denis Morissette]

Sprague had a huge imagination.