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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: SNET: What to do with Zapruder film? (fwd)
Dear Clients,
Notice here all the various euphemisms for "theft".
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com
>WASHINGTON (AP)-
> Students of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and experts in
>photography pleaded with a government board Wednesday to keep the famous
>Zapruder film of the killing from returning to private hands.
> In a testimoney before the Assassination Records Review Board, charged
>by Congress with preserving records of the assassination- they said that
>enhancement technology could someday be used on the film to shed nwe light
>on the events in Dallas on Nov. 22, l963.
> The film- 26 seconds and 486 frames- was shot on a home movie camera by
>Dallas clothes manufacturer Abraham Zapruder, standing atop a grassy knoll.
>It constitutes the most nearly complete record of the assassination.
> James Lesar, who runs an archive with the country's biggest private
>collectio of Kennedy assassination documents, said the board should
>'expropriate' the Zapruder original for the sake of history.
> Someday, he said, the government may reopen a criminal investigation
>into the assassination, in which case the film could be crucial evidence.
> What's more, he siad, new technology could yield information on the
>shooting from images between the procket holes on the film- 20 percent of
>the exposed surface.
> "It is inconceivable that Congress did not intend the JFK collection to
>include the most important single piece of evidence related to the
>assassination", Lesar said.
> Another witness, Richard Trask, author of "Pictures of the Pain" a book
>on the photgraphic history of the assassination, called the Zapruder film "
>the most important film ever made of a historical event".
> But the board members questioned how much the government should pay the
>Zapruders. Lesar testified that the family may have already earned close to
>$1 million from selling reproduction rights over the eyars, "an emormous
>windfall".
> Josiah Thompson, author of "Six Seconds in Dallas" estimated that on
>the open market the film could bring $3 to $5 million.
> "I don't think the taxpayers shoule pay a penny", he said.
> The board recieved divided advice on whether the government could use
>its power of eminent domain to seize the film.
> Dissenting from other witnesses, Art Simonm, an English professor and
>author of "Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assasination in ARt and Film", said
>the film, rather than "ultimate witness' has become a fetishized object...a
>secular relic", less reliable as evidence than enhanced copies.
> Deteriorating but still capable of being copied, the film is held for
>the Zapruder family by the National Archives. It is stored at 25 degrees
>Fahrenheit.
> An unknown number of copies exist. Weitzman said it is crucial to keep
>the original because, in private hands, the images could be manipulated to
>make it tell a different story.
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