![]() ![]() Jefferson Morley’s new ebook, CIA and JFK: The Secret Assassination Files, available on Amazon, provides the fullest account of the role of CIA operations officers in the events leading to the death of JFK, with a guide to what will be declassified in October 2017. “Can’t imagine a more meticulous take down of the CIA’s decades-long subterfuge surrounding the assassination.” Robert Groden – A View From The Grassy Knoll from AARC Library on Vimeo.įrom a 5-Star Amazon review of Jefferson Morley’s CIA and JFK: The Secret Assassination Files, Now Zapruder’s film can been seen by anyone with a computer and Internet connection. That was not an opinion that the government, the Kennedy family, or Life magazine care to encourage.Īmidst public outrage about revelations that the CIA had been plotting to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the time of JFK’s death, Geraldo Rivera, an enterprising young reporter, dared to put Groden on the air.Ī taboo had been broken. That’s what CIA director John McCone privately told JFK’s brother, Robert, in December 1963. It seemed to show President Kennedy struck by gunfire from two directions. The film had an immense impact on American public opinion. They appeared on Geraldo Rivera’s ABC late-night TV program “Good Night America” and showed the Zapruder film of the assassination to a mass audience for the first time. House Select Committee on Assassinations, made history with JFK activist Dick Gregory. That’s when Robert Groden, photographic consultant for the U.S. But an early-generation version of the film–now available in many different iterations on YouTube– was not shown to the nation until March 6, 1975. Within a few years blurry copies were shown on college campuses. Selected frames of the Zapruder film–what we would call “screen grabs”–were published in Life magazine, a week after the Dallas tragedy. Life Magazine published images from Abraham Zapruder’s film of JFK’s assassination. The graphic depiction of violence was not normal in the American culture the way it is today. (which bought the film from Zapruder) cared to make it public. government, the Kennedy family, or Time-Life Inc. The film was among the most important pieces of evidence in the death of the president. ![]() In the Age of Viral Video, it is hard to believe but it is true: Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of JFK’s assassination on Novemwas not shown to the American people for twelve years after it was first taken. ![]()
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