First television airing of the Zapruder film

[Robin Unger]

Credit: one of our forum members for UPLOADING this Video to Youtube.

Trygve V. Jensen

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http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=10Garmonbozia01

Mary Ferrell Video Links

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Edited April 18, 2007 by Robin Unger

[Myra Bronstein]

Credit: one of our forum members for UPLOADING this Video to Youtube.

Trygve V. Jensen

This is the link to his Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=10Garmonbozia01

Mary Ferrell Video Links

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/...Motorcade_Films

Good links. Thanks Robin.

First airing 1975. Robert Groden and Dick Gregory as commentators.

According to IMDB Groden showed a bootleg copy, so presumably Time did not give permission to show it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267183/trivia

Different accounts of the airing:

"Zapruder Film Broadcast on Two Occasions

The American Broadcasting Corporation was the first of the television networks to seemingly break away from CIA-White House control. In the spring of 1975, after Robert Groden, Dick Gregory, Ralph Schoenman and Jerry Policoff decided to release and publicize a clear, enlarged, stop-action color copy of the Zapruder film, the ABC show hosted by Geraldo Rivera, Good Night, America, showed the film on two occasions. Rivera might have made this move against the wishes of top ABC management. Rumor had it during the summer months that he was in hot water with high level people. All doubts about ABC's position disappeared when they broadcast an assassination special during the week of November 17, 1975 that supported the lone assassin theory."

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ToA/ToAchp9.html

"In 1968, Life magazine hired a New Jersey film lab, Technical Animations, to make a 35mm film copy of the original Zapruder film. The lab made several copies, giving the best to Life and retaining the rejects. Technical Animations employee Robert Groden made a copy of one which he would use with an optical printer over the next six years to make versions of the Zapruder film using close-ups and minimizing the camera's shakiness.

Prior to the 1969 trial of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy in connection with the assassination, a copy of the film was subpoenaed from Time Inc. by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison for use during the trial. The courtroom showings were the first time it had been shown in public as a film. Unauthorized copies of the film were made from the copy lent for the trial, and were soon being further copied and shown throughout the United States and the rest of the world.

In March 1975, on the ABC late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera), assassination researchers Robert Groden and Dick Gregory presented the first-ever network television showing of the Zapruder home movie. The public's response and outrage to that first television showing quickly led to the forming of the Hart-Schweiker investigation, contributed to the Church Committee Investigation on Intelligence Activities by the United States, and resulted in the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film

Edited April 19, 2007 by Myra Bronstein