The Death Of John F. Kennedy

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1964 and 1978, The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee did the best they could with photographic and computer technology. With the scientific advances we had since then give us such better enhancements of the film taken. There is one film that is far the most crucial. All or part of the assassination was taken on film by many witnesses who had eight-mm movie cameras or still cameras. The one shot by Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder was a color film in an eight-mm movie camera. It followed the President’s car from the time it turned from Houston Street onto Elm Street. It stayed on the car through the entire assassination. Zapruder was sitting on a concrete divider on top of the grassy knoll. There was nothing blocking his view of the motorcade from his angle. (President Commission 97-98).
Significant enhancements of the Zapruder film have been made in the beginning of the 1990’s, as well as sale re-creations using computer animation. These were available to the ...

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of that shot. When the President’s car turned in front of the Depository, the shooter had to make a fast decision. That was because soon after the turn the car would disappear under the leaves very large oak tree. A reconstruction of the film showed that President was blocked from the sniper’s view for only a short while. There is also a road sign in the film when the president emerges from the blocked view of the road sign he is reacting to a bullet which means he was wounded somewhere behind the sign. The commission concluded that was the earliest he could have been shot. (La Fontaine 29-31).
Most critics of the shingle shooter theory say the commission gave Oswald as little time as ...

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