Assassination of John F. Kennedy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Films and photographs of the assassination== {{quote box |bgcolor = powderblue | width = 19.3em |align = left | quote = My god, I saw the whole thing. I saw the man's brains come out of his head. | source = β [[Abraham Zapruder]]<ref name="trask76"/> | style = padding:1.5em | fontsize=85% }} [[File:Zaprudercamera.jpg|thumb|left|alt=The Bell & Howell Zoomatic movie camera used by Abraham Zapruder|The [[Bell & Howell]] Zoomatic movie camera used by [[Abraham Zapruder]] to capture footage of the motorcade and Kennedy's killing, which later came to be known as the [[Zapruder film]]. The camera is preserved within the collection of the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]].]] Standing on the pergola wall some {{convert|65|ft|m}} from the road,<ref>[[#Trask|Trask (1994)]], pp. 59β61, 73.</ref> tailor [[Abraham Zapruder]] recorded Kennedy's killing on 26 seconds of silent [[8 mm film]] β known as the [[Zapruder film]].<ref name="lifezap"/> Frame 313 captures the exact moment at which Kennedy's head explodes.<ref name="frenchies"/> ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine published frame enlargements from the Zapruder film shortly after the assassination.<ref name="lifezap">[[#Cosgrove|Cosgrove (2011)]]</ref><ref>[[#Pasternack1|Pasternack (2011)]]</ref> The footage itself was first publicly shown at the 1969 [[trial of Clay Shaw]], and on television in 1975 by [[Geraldo Rivera]].<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 371.</ref> In 1999, an arbitration panel ordered the federal government to pay $615,384 per second of film to Zapruder's heirs, valuing the complete film at $16 million (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|16000000|1999}}}} in 2022).<ref>[[#Inverne|Inverne (2004)]]</ref><ref>[[#Pasternack2|Pasternack (2012)]]</ref> Zapruder was one of at least 32 people in Dealey Plaza known to have made film or still photographs at or around the time of the shooting.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (1998)]], p. 291.</ref> Most notably among the photographers, [[Mary Moorman]] took several photos of Kennedy with her [[Instant camera|Polaroid]], including one of Kennedy less than one-sixth of a second after the headshot.<ref name="bug885">[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 885.</ref> As well as Zapruder, [[Charles Bronson (photographer)|Charles Bronson]], [[Marie Muchmore]], and [[Orville Nix]] filmed the assassination, but at farther distances than Zapruder.<ref>[[#Friedman|Friedman (1963)]], p. 17.</ref><ref name="bug452">[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 452.</ref> Of the three, only Nix β who filmed the assassination from the opposite side of Elm Street from Zapruder, capturing the grassy knoll β actually recorded the fatal shot.<ref name="bug452"/><ref name="nix"/>{{efn|group=note|Nix himself believed that the shots had come from the grassy knoll.<ref name="nix"/>}} In 1966, Nix claimed that, after he gave the film to the FBI, the duplicate that they returned had frames "missing" or "ruined". Although lower-quality duplicates exist, the original film has been missing since 1978.<ref name="nix">[[#Rose|Rose (2015)]]</ref> Previously unknown footage filmed by George Jefferies was released in 2007.<ref>[[#Jeffries1|"George Jefferies Film". Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.]]</ref><ref>[[#Jeffries2|"Newly released film of JFK before assassination". Associated Press.]]</ref> Recorded a few blocks before the shooting, the film captures Kennedy's bunched suit jacket, explaining the [[Single-bullet theory#Location of back wound|discrepancies between the location of the bullet hole in Kennedy's back and his jacket]].<ref>[[#MacAskill|MacAskill (2007)]]</ref> Some films and photographs captured an unidentified woman apparently filming the assassination; researchers have nicknamed her the [[Babushka Lady]] due to the [[Headscarf|shawl]] around her head.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 1045.</ref> In 1978, [[Gordon Arnold]] came forward and claimed that he had filmed the assassination from the grassy knoll and that a police officer had confiscated his film.<ref>[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], pp. 886β887.</ref> Arnold is not visible in any photographs taken of the area, which [[Vincent Bugliosi]]βauthor of ''[[Reclaiming History]]''βcalled "conclusive photographic proof that Arnold's story was fabricated".<ref name="bug887">[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 887.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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