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Sorry we are a day late with this post but if you read any earlier ones, you know I was without internet access for two days and in the space/time compendium of Inception,  it seemed like a week!!!!

THE ZAPRUDER FILM

One of the Warren Commission’s “proofs” of a rearward attack was a film of the assassination taken by amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder and immediately bought by Life magazine publisher C. D. Jackson.  the film was suppressed, but selected frames were given to the Warren Commission and printed in Life in 1964.  In March 1975, when the Zapruder film was first shown on national television, it became clear that the previously printed frames had been flip-flopped, and in actuality  Kennedy was thrown violently backward, his head exploding in a frontal attack undid  the work of the Warren Commission.

In 1975-1976 several witnesses testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee about the Kennedy murder died, prompting the 1976 creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).  An accoustical study of a police radio recording of the president’s assassination led the HSCA to conclude in 1979 that there had been a least four shots, and that a second gunman had fired from the grassy knoll.

HSCA Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey postulatied the Mafia was behind the conspiracy and developed circumstantial evidence that elements of organized crime played a role, concentrating on Jack Ruby’s ties to gangsters.  He underplayed Oswald’s voluminous CIA 201 file., demanded that all HSCA staff members and their private researchers sign secrecy oaths, allowed the CIA and FBI to conduct security checks on them, and defended his actions by asking, “I’ve worked with the CIA for twenty years., Would they lie to me?”

President John F. Kennedy is shot in the head

The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia regarding The Zapruder Film.

The Zapruder film is a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera as U.S. President John F. Kennedy‘s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, thereby unexpectedly capturing the President’s assassination.

Though not the only film of the shooting, it has been called the most complete, giving a relatively clear view from a somewhat elevated position, and on the side from which the president’s head wound is visible. It was an important part of the Warren Commission hearings and all subsequent investigations of the assassination, and is one of the most studied pieces of film in history. Of greatest notoriety is the film’s depiction of a fatal shot to President Kennedy’s head when his limousine was almost exactly in front of and slightly below Zapruder’s position.

Holding a Model 414 PD Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Camera powered by a spring-wound mechanism, Zapruder stood atop of the most western of the two concrete pedestals that extend from the John Neely Bryanpergola^{[clarification needed]} overlooking Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. He filmed from the time the presidential limousine turned onto Elm Street about 12:30 pm Central Time, until it passed out of view under a railway overpass, though with one apparent brief interruption (see below). The sequence contains 486 frames, or 26.6 seconds of Kodachrome II 8 mm safety film,^[1] north of which 343 of the frames (18.7 seconds) show the president’s limousine.

By evening the film had been developed and three copies made. Zapruder immediately gave two of the copies to the Secret Service. On the morning of November 23, Zapruder sold the print rights to Life magazine, after which the original and the remaining copy were dispatched to Life’s production facilities in Chicago.

In March 1975, on the ABC late-night television show Good Night AmericaGeraldo 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 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.

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Things have been hectic around my house and my life and evidenced by the fact that Conspiracy Theory Wednesday is a day late!!!

AMBUSHED – THE SECRET SERVICE

Dallas Police and Secret Service agents Winston Lawson and Forrest Sorrells, who planned and were in charge of the motorcade, let Kennedy ride through Dallas in an open limousine, making no attempt to secure buildings or rooftops along the route.  Although Secret Service rules prohibit turns of more than 90 degrees, the motorcade made a planned but unnecessary 120 degree turn in front of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, causing the cars to slow down.  Seconds later, shots rang out, hitting the President and Governor Connally.  Films taken at the time (12:30pm) show that after the shooting began, the brake lights on the president’s car, driven by Secret Service agent William Greer, came on, again slowing the car before the fatal shot was fired, 6 to 8 seconds later.

The mortally wounded president was rushed to Parkland Hospital, where, after a tracheotomy and other life saving measure were performed, he was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm.  In contravention to Texas law and over the objections of the Dallas County Medical Examiner, Kennedy’s body was removed at gunpoint by Secret Service agents, taken to Air Force One, and flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

Several people observed the bullet hole in the windshield of the president’s limousine while it was outside Parkland Hospital.  The Secret Service immediately flew the vehicle to Washington DC, allowed the FBI to inspect it, and scrubbed it clean.  The windshield turned in as evidence several months later was slightly damaged on the inside as if from a bullet fragment, but had no hole through it.  Thus evidence of a possible additional shot or a frontal attack was suppressed.

ambush:

1. The act of lying in wait to attack by surprise.
2. A sudden attack made from a concealed position.
3. 1. Those hiding in order to attack by surprise.
   2. The hiding place used for this.
4. A hidden peril or trap.

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