Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. REDLICH. Just as a final thing, Mr. McCloy, would you like to see
the Zapruder film?
Mr. McCLOY. I think we will take the original Zapruder again, I don't
know whether we have anything that is more significant in the black and
whites, I am talking about the particular movies of the frames, we have
not seen those.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes.
Mr. McCLOY. I think we have seen all we need to see with regard to
that. What have you got left?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The original Zapruder film.
Mr. McCLOY. We will see that.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. We have the duplication of the Zapruder film
reenactment. The first portion of the reel is the still shots and the
last portion is the run through at 11 miles an hour.
Mr. SPECTER. I think you would find that worth while to see.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Then we have Nix and Muchmore of the same run.
Mr. McCLOY. Let's do those, too.
Representative FORD. First is the original Zapruder.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Original Zapruder. This is not the original. This is
the first copy.
(Film)
Mr. SPECTER. Will you state for the record what film we just saw?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. This film we just viewed is a copy made directly from
the original Zapruder film of the actual assassination.
Mr. SPECTER. Could you now show us the film which was taken at the
reconstruction from the Zapruder position?
(Film)
Mr. SHANEYFELT. These films we made in Dallas have been developed and
left intact and have not been edited in any way so there are a lot of
blank spaces where we run the leader off and turn the film. This is
position 161. This side-to-side jiggle is a camera malfunction.
Mr. McCLOY. This is 16 mm.?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. No; 8 mm.
Representative FORD. Is this from his camera?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes; taken with his camera. Frame 222, frame 225. This
is frame 231.
Representative FORD. He has a delayed reaction compared to what the
President did.
Mr. SPECTER. What frame is this, Mr. Shaneyfelt?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. 313, the head shot.
Mr. McCLOY. The head shot.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. This is the position which is not duplicated on the
Zapruder film. This is running the film out to reload it.
During that run at 11 miles an hour we made no effort to duplicate the
body position because it would have been most difficult to know just
when to turn. The only other films we have are the ones we shot with
the Nix and Muchmore cameras of this same run from their positions.
Mr. McCLOY. Did Nix, Muchmore get a second shot of the head shot?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Mrs. Muchmore got the head shot and Mr. Nix got the
head shot.
Mr. McCLOY. They both got it.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. We have both those films.
Mr. McCLOY. We might take a look at it while we are here. I don't think
I have ever seen those. Those are 88 mm., too.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes.
(Film.)
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