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Abraham Zapruder's camera was running at a determinable speed: 18.3 frames per second. Look at these two photos. The last shot seemed to hit his head and cause a noise at the point of impact which made him fall forward and to his left again. She has been a regular contributor to History.com since 2017. When he continued filming, frame 133 already shows the presidential motorcade in view. This is representative of the frames on Houston Street. The shocking revelation of Kennedy's head going backward and to the left resulted in a public outcry so great that Congress created the House Select Committee on Assassinations two years later. 2023, A&E Television Networks, LLC. The next part of the sequence always feels agonizingly long to me, even though it took place in seconds. (The original was never returned to the Nix family; it was lost.) But that film at least as far as Jackies escapade on the trunk is concerned seems less edited than the Zapruder film. The right rear portion of his head was missing. After "Gimme Shelter" appeared, critic Pauline Kael compared it to the Zapruder film. I think I described it in my statement as though someone was shooting a revolver into a hard object it seemed to have some type of an echo. Her book, The Heroine's Bookshelf (Harper), won the Colorado Book Award for nonfiction. READ AN EXCERPT: "Story of a Poem" by Michael Zapruder In his memoir, the celebrated writer asks questions about the writing of a poem, and the meaning of communication, after his son is diagnosed . His analogy, standing against something metal strongly suggests he was in contact with the car when JFK was shot in the head. ( Z-210 ) But a stop DURING the shooting sequence, at a time when Jackie was neither on the trunk nor Clint Hill had started toward the rear of the limo, could either be a sign that the driver realized he was driving into an ambush in front of him, or more sinisterly, making it easier for the shooters to kill JFK. Im referring to Clint Hill, the man who jumped onto the trunk of the limousine to protect Jackie Kennedy who had gone out onto the trunk of the car. Director Oliver Stone paid over $85,000 to the Zapruder family for use of the Zapruder film in his motion picture JFK (1991). Other witnesses had the same impression. What we now know but didnt know previously is that for at least half a day during the weekend following the assassination the film was at a top secret CIA photo lab at the Kodak facility in Rochester, NY, where it may have been altered in various ways. That same year, the family donated all copyrights on the film to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. However, frames 208211 were missing, a splice was visible in frames 207 and 212, frames 314 and 315 were switched around, and frame 284 was a repeat of 283. If the film was edited, the last step in the editing process, reducing it back from 16mm to 8mm, could only have been done at one of the commerical venues or, more likely, at the "Hawkeye Works" lab at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY. However, I dont believe that is the case. He filmed from the time the presidential limousine turned onto Elm Street[1] for a total of 26.6seconds, exposing 486 frames of standard 8 mm KodachromeII safety film, running at an average of 18.3 frames/second. While serving as chief analyst of military records at the Assassination Records Review Board in 1997, Douglas Horne discovered that the Zapruder Film was exa. We strive for accuracy and fairness.