November 27, 2007
Rethinking Zapruder
The majority of witnesses in Dealey Plaza heard three shots fired. Lawmen found three cartridges in Lee Harvey Oswald’s nest on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Yet Zapruder’s film captured only two shots clearly. As a result, the film has been scoured for evidence of another shot, presumably the first one fired at the president. Research has yielded contradictory findings.
But what if Zapruder simply hadn’t turned on his camera in time?
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Maybe once every ten years, give or take, I’m seized by a desire to revisit the world-historical event of my Dallas youth. This last go-round I read The Great Zapruder Film Hoax, a collection edited by James Fetzer. The Open Court Publishing Company publishes and distributes this book (originally published by Catfeet Press), and the blurb featured on Open Court’s website notes contributors’ examinations of the Zapruder film from perspectives drawing on “the technical processes of video production, the laws of physics, eyewitness accounts, and medical evidence”. It’s an exhaustive book and an exhausting read. It presents a hermetic vision, claustrophobic in that sense specific to the paranoid-conspiracy world view. But it continues to nag at me, and I recommend it to anyone with more than a passing interest in The Assassination that they take a look at it.
(And Don DeLillo’s Libra.)