Expert analyzes JFK Zapruder film photos in Life Magazine

[JGeropoulas]

Here's a link to an article I read many years ago which analyzes the still photographs supposedly taken from the Zapruder film. These are the first images shown to the public via Life Magazine. This film analyst shows how these photographs indict themselves as forgeries in ways that are easily understood by anyone who's used a camera to film moving objects. It's very interesting and compelling. https://assassinationscience.com/john.../jfk/intro/blur.html

 

[nicklebleu]

Here's a link to an article I read many years ago which analyzes the still photographs supposedly taken from the Zapruder film. These are the first images shown to the public via Life Magazine. This film analyst shows how these photographs indict themselves as forgeries in ways that are easily understood by anyone who's used a camera to film moving objects. It's very interesting and compelling. https://assassinationscience.com/john.../jfk/intro/blur.html

Your link doesn’t seem to word - I get the dreaded 404?

 

[Arwenn]

Getting the 404 as well. The article sounds interesting, would love to read it if you can re-post the link.

 

[Joe]

Here's the proper link

https://assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/blur.html

Btw, that site is run by Jim Fetzer, and he's pretty dubious these days. The link above is to a serious of short articles on "mistakes" in the Zapruder film, written by John Costella. I'm not sure he really knows what he's talking about. Fetzer and his ilk are, IMO, in the category of those who have fallen foul of "pattern recognition run amok".

 

[JGeropoulas]

I'm no photographic expert, but my experience with 8mm home movies certainly confirms one of their points: something’s amiss when a moving object (Kennedy’s car) is being photographed by a movie camera, and both the car and the background are in focus (i.e. not blurred). If the camera was held still, the car would’ve been blurred. If the camera followed the car, then the background would’ve been blurred. Seems simple to me and like good observation on their part.

Here is a working link to the Start page which has an index of photographic irregularities discussed:
https://assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/index.html discussed, which are:

Those irregularities are:
The fast-forward mistakes
The blur mistake
The sign mistake
The lamppost mistake
The wound mistake
The blood mistake

Apparently, these irregularities are not just Costella’s opinions, but the consensus of a group scientists and researchers who presented their findings at a conference in May 2003 held the University of Minnesota in Duluth.

This research group included:

John Costella, Ph. D. – An Australia physicist who, after graduating with honors degrees in both electrical engineering and the sciences from the University of Melbourne, completed a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He then completed three years of postdoctoral research, frequently lecturing at the University of Melbourne

David Lifton – Author of the 1981 bestseller Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lifton graduated from Cornell University's School of Engineering Physics in 1962 and thereupon enrolled in the University of California, Los Angeles to work on an advance degree in engineering. While there Lifton worked nights as a computer engineer for North American Aviation, a contractor for the Apollo program. In autumn 1964, around the time the Warren Report was published, Lifton became interested in the JFK case after attending a lecture on the topic of the conspiracy to cover up the Kennedy assassination by Mark Lane. Lifton purchased a set of the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission's investigation and started his own research on the Kennedy case. In 1966, Lifton was dismissed from UCLA for neglecting his studies. He quit his aerospace job, devoting all his time to the Kennedy assassination.

Jack White – After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, White returned to Fort Worth to pursue his interest in journalism, art, and history. He graduated from Texas Christian University in 1949, with a B.A. in Journalism 1954, he joined the largest advertising agency in Fort Worth where he began as the firm’s first art director. During his twenty-seven years with the agency, he specialized in design, type management, and photography, and rose to become vice-president and co-owner.

David Healy – A police officer and vice president of the police-detectives union for nearly four decades, Healy also had an extensive background in video and film, with more than 30 years in video and film production and post-production.

Jim Fetzer – A McKnight University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Fetzer has published over 20 books and more than 100 articles and reviews in the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. His video, JFK: The Assassination, the Cover Up, and Beyond, and his books, Assassination Science and Murder in Dealey Plaza, have received international acclaim.

Dave Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. – A Board Certified Radiation Oncologist, Mantik has done ground-breaking work studying the JFK autopsy x-rays with a new technique called “optical densitometry”.

These conclusions were published in September 2003 in the book, The Great Zapruder Film Hoax.

Links to YouTube videos of the entire conference can be found at the bottom of this page: http://johncostella.com/jfk/#duluth

 

[Laura]

This is a longish article but it is well worth reading slowly and carefully. I did it yesterday and was impressed with the level of evidence provided.

https://www.sott.net/article/366234-Zapruder-film-likely-altered-to-hide-true-nature-of-Kennedys-wounds-indications-of-multiple-shooters

 

[Palinurus]

There is also a video presentation available (6:24:10 hrs.) made by Douglas P. Horne, the writer of the SOTT piece:

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Douglas P. Horne worked on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) in Washington, DC for the final 3 years of the Review Board’s 4-year lifespan, from August 1995 through September 1998. He was hired as a Senior Analyst on the Military Records Team, and was later promoted to the position of Chief Analyst for Military Records (i.e., the Head of the Military Records Team).

Douglas P. Horne graduated from the Ohio State University in 1974 with a B.A. in History, and served as a junior officer in the U.S. Navy for 10 years, followed by 10 more years with the Navy as a Civil Servant in an anti-sub marine warfare program.

Horne was not only involved in the location and release of US military records on Cuba and Vietnam policy from 1961 through 1964, but he played an integral role in conducting both unsworn interviews and formal depositions of witnesses to, and participants in, JFK’s autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and was also involved in joint efforts between the ARRB and Kodak to both digitally preserve the photographic images of the autopsy, and to conduct an authenticity study of the Zapruder Film in the National Archives.

After leaving the Assassination Records Review Board Horne worked for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum before joining the State Department.

A couple of articles by Douglas Horne, Evidence of a Government Cover-Up and Interviews with Former NPIC Employees , appeared in Murder in Dealey Plaza (edited by James H. Fetzer). An interesting interview with Horne by Dick Russell was included in On the Trail of the JFK Assassins (2008).

Douglas Horne’s book, Inside the Assassination Records Review Board was published in December, 2009.