THERE IS ALSO EVIDENCE THE Z FILM IS A COMPOSITE IF SEVERAL FILMS. IF THAT'S TRUE EACH LOCATION HAD TO BE FILMED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER:
Abraham Zapruder was a dressmaker who owned Jennifer Juniors, a shop on the edge of Dealey Plaza. He was 58 on the day the president came to Dallas. As filmmakers go, he was, in every sense of the word, an amateur. So, what allowed him to keep filming after shots rang out? How could he hold the camera so still, even with abject horror exploding in front of him?
Though Zapruder need only walk outside the door of his Elm St. business to see the motorcade, his trip to Texas took a more circuitous route.
Zapruder was born in Russia in 1905, immigrating to the U.S. at age 15 and settling in a Brooklyn tenement. He initially worked as a pattern-marker in the city's bustling garment industry.
He married wife Lillian in 1933, and the middle-class parents of two followed a business opportunity to Texas during World War II.
Their son Henry attended Harvard Law, graduating the year before the assassination. Daughter Myrna worked as a Kennedy campaign volunteer in 1960.
Zapruder eventually opened his own business, and launched a dress line named Jennifer Juniors, Inc. His offices were in the Dal-Tex building in Dealey Plaza where no doubt is one of the buildings the shots came from..
The businessman planned to shoot some film of the presidential visit, but instead left his camera at home because of overcast morning skies.
His prior cinematic stabs included shooting family holidays and beach getaways in the Rockaways.
As the clouds over Dallas cleared, Zapruder's secretary Marilyn Sitzman urged him to go home and grab the camera. "You're the one that makes the beautiful movies," she said. Sitzman passed away in 1993. You can see both Zapruder and Sitzman on the "Zapruder pedestal.
Marilyn Sitzman
Zapruder, after initially blanching, finally agreed — a choice that came to define his life.
Accompanied by three co-workers, the camera-toting Zapruder left the office to await the presidential motorcade. He found a good sightline atop a 4-foot tall concrete pedestal, and began to film.
Here is her story which has changed over the years with some glaring inconsistencies:
INCONSISTENCIES WITH SITZMAN'S STORY OVER THE YEARS
HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING STILLS OF ZAPRUDER WHERE HIS IMAGE WAS CAUGHT IN OTHER FILMS:
(BELOW) YOU CAN SEE OTHER INCONSISTENCIES AND FRAMES THAT DON'T ADD UP IN THE Z FILM:
THE LIMO JUST "SUDDENLY" APPEARS IN THE FILM
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A police motorcycle swung into his lens, followed by the limousine ferrying the president and his wife in its back seat.
Zapruder heard an initial bang but never lost his focus. There was a second shot, followed instantly by the image that stayed with Zapruder until his own death: JFK's head exploding at the moment of the bullet's impact.
"They killed him!" he screamed in disbelief. "They killed him!"
Abraham Zapruder died of cancer in 1970 at 65.
(BELOW) OTHER PICTURES OF JEAN HILL AND MARY MOORMAN TAKEN EARLIER ON THE MORNING OF THE ASSASSINATION.
HERE IS THE ENTIRE SEQUENCE FROM THE ZAPRUDER FILM YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWED: ALL THESE FRAMES HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO HIDE THE COMPLETE LIMO STOP AND MULTIPLE GUNSHOTS
THE "OTHER" FILM SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SHOT FROM THE RIGHT OF ZAPRUDER BUT IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY ACCORDING TO THOSE THAT HAVE SEEN IT.
THE BELOW FIGURE HAS NEVER BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR. OR COULD HE BE THE FAKE SS MAN WHO FLASED CREDENTIALS TO INITIAL POLICE WHO RAN UP THE KNOLL?
“He was about 5’10, to 6 ft.... well dressed, had a tie on, and a coat over his arm. He also had a [Stetson style] hat on. Also, he had a gun under his coat. It wasn’t uncovered. I was running straight at him, so I could see the barrel under the coat. And he said, “Better not come up here, you could get shot.” I didn’t argue with him, because he looked like a man of authority. I thought maybe a Detective, or an FBI man.” — Andrew Summers.
Picture: Bernard Barker carrying coat, wearing stetson-style hat, born Havana, Cuba, aged 46 at the time of assassination walks out from picket fence area stopping people proceeding to that area.
Dealey Plaza witness Malcolm Summers had no idea where the shots came from but ran towards the grassy knoll area as others were doing to get to the railway tracks and said he was stopped by a well dressed man with long coat or trench coat hanging over his arm with a handgun in his hand who shouted to him to stop and turn around as he might get shot if he goes behind the picket fence area near the rear of the TSBD. No badge or I.D. was shown but his dress made him appear to be a detective or secret serviceman. (a still photo image of a well dressed man standing near the picket fence can be clearly seen holding a coat over his arm with his forearm extended horizontally, with a police officer standing a few feet away talking to a teenaged girl.
“The shots I heard definately came from behind and above me" – Emmet Hudson, Dealey Plaza groundskeeper standing on the steps that led up the grassy slope to Pergolas or Arbors.
“I thought the shot came from back of me.” – Abraham Zapruder, standing on concrete slab.
“The shots came from the grassy area down this way...in the direction... the parade was going, in the bottom of that direction.” – O.V. Campbell, vice president of the Book Depository. — referred in some comments as the pear-shaped man.
S.A. Kenneth O’Donnell begins to bless himself, David Powers murmurs “Mary, Jesus and Joseph.” Powers later said that he and O’Donnell clearly saw the shots come from the grassy knoll. Powers says he felt sure they were “riding into an ambush,” explaining why Greer begins to slow the limo.
Andrew Summers described after the shots and the motorcade procession cleared out....I immediately ran across the street (Elm) toward the grassy knoll (about 40 feet to the right of where Abraham Zapruder was filming). I was stopped by a guy....
I described [the gun] to the Sheriff’s Department over there...They asked me what did the muzzle look like. When I described the barrel, they said it sounded like an automatic...the Secret Service came out to my shop to interview me on two different occasions.
The first time, it was about three of them that came... I told them about the guy who stopped me and all that. I told them he looked like an FBI guy, or Secret Service, or a local city detective. They said, “Okay, we’ll take a report and get back to you.”
I was wondering why they didn’t come back sooner, but about two months later, they told me that they did not have FBI men, or Secret Service, or a city detective that was in that vicintity where this guy stopped me... They basically told me I didn’t see anything, because they didn’t have anybody there... I was disappointed... because I knew I saw somebody there... It just didn’t make sense.”
NOTE: Bernard L Barker was born March 17, 1917 in Havana, Cuba, sent ny his father and Cuban mother to the States for education and became an,American citizen and was in the United States Air Force. Barker would have been 46 in November, 1963. His role appears to be that of a ‘distractor' to divert attention away from the fleeing gunmen. He was the man seen in a suit, cowboy hat carrying a coat over his arm near the picket fence.
SEYMOUR WEITZMAN, constable saw a woman who was screaming they were shooting from the bushes and ran up the grassy knoll to search the bushes and checking the parking lot, when asked about the parking lot he said, “Yes sir, I checked all the cars. I looked into all the cars and checked around the bushes. Of course, I wasn’t alone.”
PICTURE: Members of one of the ‘press cars' who alighted from cars with cameras to film the events showing a good view of the opposite grassy knoll where CIA operative, Tosh Plumlee and “Sergio" said they were standing watching the motorcade.
“There was some deputy sheriff with me, and I believe one Secret Service man WHEN I GOT THERE ... I pulled my pistol from my holster, and I thought, this is silly, I don’t know who I am looking for, and I put it back [holstered his gun], just as I did, he showed me that he was a Secret Service agent.” — officer Smith.
Leibeler: Did you accost this man?
Smith: Well, he saw me coming with my pistol and right away he showed me who he was.
Leibeler: Do you remember who it was?
Smith: No, sir; I don’t—because then we started checking the cars. In fact, I was checking the bushes, and I went through the cars, and I started over here in this particular direction.
Picture: Bernard Barker, the fake Secret Service agent seen coming from the picket fence.