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VOLUME III NOVEMBER 22, 1978 JFK film may reveal two gunmen (Cl|t Sallao iflorninc; .IVrlup November 26,1978 ByEARLGOLZ ®The Dalits Morning News, 1978 A film of the John F. Kennedy assassination site, brought to light only last week, may show two persons, not one. in the 6th-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building minutes before the fatal shots were fired. Robert J. Groden, a film technician who has worked for the House Assassinations Committee, "enhanced" a short strip of movie film taken by an amateur photographer that fatal noontime on Nov. 22,1963. "You can actually see one figure walking back and forth hurriedly," Groden said. "I think what was happening there is the sniper's nest was actually being completed just prior to the shots being fired." If his interpretation is correct, it would disprove the Warren Commission conclusion that Kennedy was shot by a single assassin — Lee Harvey Oswald — working alone. Groden, of Hope Lawn, N J., is a staff consultant on photographic evidence for the House Assassinations Committee. It was his enhancement of the Abraham Zapruder color film of the fatal shot being fired into Kennedy's bead that led to the reopening of the assassination investigation. The latest film, the third known motion picture of the scene, was taken by amateur photographer Charles L. Bronson, chief metallurgist for an Ada, Okla., oil tool company. It was shot from about a block away from the school book depository building and Includes a scene where an ambulance made a sick call at the depository building about 12:24 p.m., six minutes before Kennedy was killed. That scene, shot with a wide-angle lens, shows the school book depository and the 6th-floor window from where, the Warren Commission concluded, the fatal shots were fired. Bronson's film was viewed in 1963 by an FBI agent who reported that it "failed to show the building from which the shots were fired." Agent Milton L. Newsom reported that the film "did depict the president's car at the precise time shots were fired; hov/ever, the pictures were not sufficiently clear for identification purposes." Because of this, the film was never lused in any investigation of the assassination. Its existence was discovered when it was listed among 90,000 pages of FBI assassination documents declassified last December and Januarj'. The Dallas Morning News recently located Bronson and the original color movie film and commissioned Groden to analyze that portion of it showing the 6th-floor double window of the school book depository. Groden is continuing to analyze the film, but issued a preliminary opinion that "simultaneous movement" can be seen in the window. At the time the film was taken, there supposedly was no one on the sixth floor of the school book depository building. Not even Oswald admitted to authorities he was then on the sixth floor, and one witness said she saw him in the 2nd-floor lunchroom only minutes earlier. Before Oswald was shot to death Nov. 24, 1963, by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, he repeatedly denied he shot the president and insisted someone had made him a "patsy" in the assassination. School book depository employee Bonnie Ray Williams acknowledged he was the last person known to have been on the sixth floor before the assassination. He told the Warren Commission be could see no one when he left the sixth floor et about lZ-20 p.m. after eating his lunch there. This was about four minutes before Bronson's film was taken. Two witnesses standing along Houston Street less than one block from the school book depository building told the Warren Commission they saw two men with a gun in different but nearby windows of the building at about the time Bronson was filming. The Warren Commission, however, discounted their stories. "There is no question that there is movement (in Bronson's vnndow film)," Groden said. "And I'm sure, given time and money, a computer could probably clarify the images a bit more." One of the persons in the window is wearing a magenta, or purplish red, shirt, Groden said, and "you can actually see one figure walking back and forth hurriedly." "I think what was happening there is the sniper's nest was actually being completed just prior to the shots being fired." FBI agent Newsom viewed the movie with Bronson as soon as it was processed at the Eastman Kodak Co. in Dallas in 1963. "He told me the film was of no value because it didn't show the book depository building," Bronson said. "I didn't realize myself that the building was on there until a couple of weeks ago." Told last week that the film showed the building and two moving images framed in the alleged assassin's window, Newsom asked whether Bronson was "certain that's the film that we looked at" in 1963.
Object Description
Title | JFK Film May Reveal Two Gunmen by Earl Golz, Dallas Morning News |
Volume No. | Vol. 3 |
Issue No. | No. 4 |
Date | 1978-11-22 |
Series | V. Personal – E. Publications – 1. The Continuing Inquiry |
Uniform Title | The Continuing Inquiry |
Digital Collection | Baylor Collection of Political Materials - JFK - Penn Jones Collections - Continuing Inquiry |
Custodian | Baylor University - W.R. Poage Legislative Library |
Identifier | 15p-jfkjones-ci-v3_1978-11-22 |
Physical Description | Newsletter |
Resource Type | Text |
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Language | English |
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Title | Page 1 |
Series | V. Personal – E. Publications – 1. The Continuing Inquiry |
Uniform Title | The Continuing Inquiry |
Digital Collection | Poage Library - JFK - Penn Jones Collection |
Custodian | Poage Legislative Library |
Physical Description | Newsletter |
Resource Type | Text |
Full Text | VOLUME III NOVEMBER 22, 1978 JFK film may reveal two gunmen (Cl|t Sallao iflorninc; .IVrlup November 26,1978 ByEARLGOLZ ®The Dalits Morning News, 1978 A film of the John F. Kennedy assassination site, brought to light only last week, may show two persons, not one. in the 6th-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building minutes before the fatal shots were fired. Robert J. Groden, a film technician who has worked for the House Assassinations Committee, "enhanced" a short strip of movie film taken by an amateur photographer that fatal noontime on Nov. 22,1963. "You can actually see one figure walking back and forth hurriedly," Groden said. "I think what was happening there is the sniper's nest was actually being completed just prior to the shots being fired." If his interpretation is correct, it would disprove the Warren Commission conclusion that Kennedy was shot by a single assassin — Lee Harvey Oswald — working alone. Groden, of Hope Lawn, N J., is a staff consultant on photographic evidence for the House Assassinations Committee. It was his enhancement of the Abraham Zapruder color film of the fatal shot being fired into Kennedy's bead that led to the reopening of the assassination investigation. The latest film, the third known motion picture of the scene, was taken by amateur photographer Charles L. Bronson, chief metallurgist for an Ada, Okla., oil tool company. It was shot from about a block away from the school book depository building and Includes a scene where an ambulance made a sick call at the depository building about 12:24 p.m., six minutes before Kennedy was killed. That scene, shot with a wide-angle lens, shows the school book depository and the 6th-floor window from where, the Warren Commission concluded, the fatal shots were fired. Bronson's film was viewed in 1963 by an FBI agent who reported that it "failed to show the building from which the shots were fired." Agent Milton L. Newsom reported that the film "did depict the president's car at the precise time shots were fired; hov/ever, the pictures were not sufficiently clear for identification purposes." Because of this, the film was never lused in any investigation of the assassination. Its existence was discovered when it was listed among 90,000 pages of FBI assassination documents declassified last December and Januarj'. The Dallas Morning News recently located Bronson and the original color movie film and commissioned Groden to analyze that portion of it showing the 6th-floor double window of the school book depository. Groden is continuing to analyze the film, but issued a preliminary opinion that "simultaneous movement" can be seen in the window. At the time the film was taken, there supposedly was no one on the sixth floor of the school book depository building. Not even Oswald admitted to authorities he was then on the sixth floor, and one witness said she saw him in the 2nd-floor lunchroom only minutes earlier. Before Oswald was shot to death Nov. 24, 1963, by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, he repeatedly denied he shot the president and insisted someone had made him a "patsy" in the assassination. School book depository employee Bonnie Ray Williams acknowledged he was the last person known to have been on the sixth floor before the assassination. He told the Warren Commission be could see no one when he left the sixth floor et about lZ-20 p.m. after eating his lunch there. This was about four minutes before Bronson's film was taken. Two witnesses standing along Houston Street less than one block from the school book depository building told the Warren Commission they saw two men with a gun in different but nearby windows of the building at about the time Bronson was filming. The Warren Commission, however, discounted their stories. "There is no question that there is movement (in Bronson's vnndow film)," Groden said. "And I'm sure, given time and money, a computer could probably clarify the images a bit more." One of the persons in the window is wearing a magenta, or purplish red, shirt, Groden said, and "you can actually see one figure walking back and forth hurriedly." "I think what was happening there is the sniper's nest was actually being completed just prior to the shots being fired." FBI agent Newsom viewed the movie with Bronson as soon as it was processed at the Eastman Kodak Co. in Dallas in 1963. "He told me the film was of no value because it didn't show the book depository building," Bronson said. "I didn't realize myself that the building was on there until a couple of weeks ago." Told last week that the film showed the building and two moving images framed in the alleged assassin's window, Newsom asked whether Bronson was "certain that's the film that we looked at" in 1963. |
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