I want to discuss Zapruder film alterations. This was spurred by my having watched Doug Horne's lengthy discussion of it. He began with the alteration that many have cited: the removal of the stopping of the limo. Many witnesses said that the limo came to a complete stop during the shooting. But, in the Z-film, not only does the limo not stop; it doesn't even slow down. It was accomplished by removing frames and was easy to do, even in 1963.
Another thing that was easy to do was to add the phony freeway sign. And they did that within days. The November 29, 1963 LIFE magazine included the phony freeway sign.
Doug Horne didn't mention the phony freeway sign. That went over his head. Another big mistake he made was to trust Dino Brugioni, and it baffles me. The CIA killed Kennedy. It was THEIR operation. And Dino Brugioni worked for the CIA. He was the operational head of their "National Photographic Interpretation Center." So, whose side do you think he was on? I assure you he was on the CIA's side. And if Dino Brugioni really was a truther, why did he wait until 2010 to say so? Why didn't he write about it in his book PHOTO FAKERY, which came out in 1999? In it, he defended the Zapruder film, the Backyard photos, the Altgens photo, etc. Everything from the JFK assassination he defended. The only photographic larceny he presented in the book were things by the Nazis and Soviets.
What Brugioni offered Horne was that frame 313 in the Z-film, which is the fatal head shot, was, originally, a bigger deal. He said that in the original film, the mist cloud rose 3 or 4 feet above JFK's head. Horne pointed out that since the Parkland doctors all described a big blow-out wound in the right bottom of JFK's head frame 313 should have shown that. However, Brugioni didn't confirm that. He just talked about the 3 or 4 foot cloud. However, a great many people have been shot in the head. Has it ever caused a 3 or 4 foot cloud? And if it did cause a 3 or 4 foot cloud, don't you think spectators would have seen it and described it? A lot of people said that part of JFK's head went flying off, but they didn't describe a 3 or 4 foot cloud rising above his head.
So, I think Brugioni was blowing smoke at Horne and Janey, and they fell for it. I think Brugioni led the team that made the alterations- to the Altgens photo, the Jackson photo, the Zapruder film, etc. However, the alterations to the Zapruder film weren't made in a week or even a year. The elementary stuff, like adding the phony sign, was done within days. But, the more difficult, complicated, and cutting-edge stuff had to wait for technology to advance. I sincerely believe it took years to get the Zapruder film in the shape we see it today. And the need to alter the Zapruder film may have spurred technological advancements in film.
And what about Zapruder himself? He definitely saw his original film and more than once. At first, he accepted $50,000 for it, where he got to keep a copy. But then, LIFE came back to him and offered $150,000 if they could own the film outright and he NOT keep a copy. And he accepted that.
Why didn't they want him to have a copy? Because they were going to alter it. Well, not them. The CIA was going to alter it.
$150,000 in 1963 is worth over $1.5 million today. But, let's remember that the government has always lied about inflation. $150,000 is probably worth over $3 million today. So, Zapruder got a heap of money for his film.
So, when he saw the November 29 LIFE magazine, which included the phony freeway sign, what did he think? Of course, I don't know, but I know he was paid a lot of money, and I know he was very patriotic, and that does things to people's minds.
And the whole history of paying the Zapruder family is sordid. After paying him all that money, LIFE magazine sold the film back to the Zapruders in 1976 for one dollar, which is to say that they just gave it to them. But, that proved to be a ruse because the film went to the National Archives which controlled it with an iron hand. For years, they managed a cottage industry for the Zapruders, in which they rented the film out for steep fees, which went to the Zapruders. All the Zapruders had to do was deposit the checks. But, when they eventually asked for the film back, they were denied, and eventually, a settlement was reached with the government in the 1990s giving another $16 million to the Zapruders.
So, why such an immense bounty to the Zapruders? Because they supported the authenticity of the Zapruder film. That's what they were paid for. Not explicitly of course, but that's what it amounted to.
But, Doug Horne missed a lot more than the phony freeway sign. The most difficult and intricate alteration to the Zapruder film was hiding the fact that JFK was shot in the back high on the hill, that he rode down the steepest part of the hill reacting to having been shot in the back BEFORE he was shot in the throat. And that's why they needed the phony freeway sign. The phony freeway sign served as a curtain. It covered the road much more than the real sign did. The real sign was at 90 degrees to the road, so it was like a blade. But, the phony sign is larger than the real one, and it's facing the road. So, it provides a lot of curtain and a lot more cover.
The story of the Zapruder film is that JFK rode down the hill and nothing happened to him until he was behind the sign. Then, everything happened behind the sign- except for the fatal head shot. And to tell that story, they had to move the sign up, so that the limo got to it sooner. They wanted the story to be that he reached the sign smiling and waving- where all was well- but then he was shot behind the sign, and when he emerged from it, he was a bizarrely stricken man.
But, if you look at the film CLOSELY, you'll see that he was stricken BEFORE he disappears behind the sign. And he stopped waving before he reached the sign. And Jackie was turned, looking at him before they reached the sign. So, even though they used the phony sign to create a BEFORE and AFTER, the fact is that he exhibited distress before reaching the sign, which we can still see.
This is frame 200. In it, Jackie is turned and looking at her husband. Her focus is on him because she knows that something is wrong. JFK is not waving, and he has his hand over his face, which he didn't do. Dino's guys did it, and it was to cover up the distressed look on his face from having been shot in the back.

And the testimony supports this because Jackie said that she first realized that something was wrong with her husband when she saw that he had a "quizzical" look on his face. It was followed by other things, but that was the first element, and it was a separate element, him sitting there in the car not knowing what had happened to him and what was going on inside of him. If he had just been struck in the back with a metal bullet that went from 2000 feet per second flight speed to stillness in 1 1/2 inches (which is impossible, so it could not have been a metal bullet) he wouldn't have just sat there looking quizzical and doing nothing. He would have acted. But, rapid changes were going on his body, and he was powerless.
So, what they did was remove a lot of frames to exclude most of his reaction to the back shot. But, they couldn't remove all of them without creating jump cuts. So, they had to keep some in, and they doctored them, as they did in frame 200, putting his hand over his face. They also separated the film into three tracks and slid the track of him in the limo forward to compress what happened to him, to bring the back shot and the throat shot closer together.
In frame 225, notice that the two spectators are not focused on JFK and Jackie. They are looking and pointing higher on Elm Street, as if the limo hadn't reached them yet. I am not the first to point this out, and far from it.
I will have more to say about this, but I'll end by asking you a favor: If you are a friend and supporter of mine, please do watch my film DOVEY'S PROMISE because it is a truther film. Twice in the film, it lays out that the CIA killed Mary Pinchot Meyer. And realize that the damage control after Raymond Crump was acquitted was that he was guilty and the jury got it wrong. But, as I explained in a recent post, there is no way that Crump, or any other derelict, could have done it. Mary Pinchot Meyer was executed. She was assassinated in a professional hit that surely had nothing to do with rape or robbery. Then James Angleton broke into her house the very night of her murder to retrieve her diary? That makes denying CIA involvement in her murder absolutely futile.
So please watch DOVEY'S PROMISE because it is a very incendiary film in support of JFK truth. Plus, I think you'll enjoy it as a courtroom drama. I dare say it is the best courtroom drama since A FEW GOOD MEN. So, here's the link, and thank you.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dovey