Fifty years ago today

[Vidor]

CBS runs their tape of a guy running up and plugging Oswald in the gut. Unbelievable.

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The shooter has been ID'd as Jack Ruby, a stripclub owner who was distributing coupons for free drinks to reporters at the Dallas PD yesterday. Ugh.

[haltz]

[Vidor]

I sit back down to my computer just in time to hear Walter tell the world that Oswald is dead. Seriously, how in the world can you not control your own building? What was the point in allowing a basement full of press in to film Oswald walking across a room?

[Mary1966]

I don't know what Earl Rose would have found that the actual autopsy didn't find.

Meanwhile, CBS shows us a memorial service from Westminster Abbey, and the film has the caption "VIA RELAY SATELLITE". 1963, everybody.

Wow, I thought satellite TV was invented in 1965. I seem to remember watching some broadcast where they showed the scene in London and the scene in America (Washington, DC? New York?) side by side on the same screen and said that was the beginning of satellite TV.

[Vidor]

Jack Ruby's weeping, hysterical sister brought past the cameras. What a bummer.

[mikechamp]

This is the only thread we have on JFK's assassination, so I'm putting this here. However, it's from the National Examiner and, for all I know, it could be a crazy claim:

New Video of John F. Kennedy’s Assassination Could Prove There Was a Second Shooter Involved

A grainy 8mm film allegedly hidden away by federal authorities for decades could blow the lid off the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — and prove there was a second shooter on the infamous grassy knoll, the National Examiner can reveal.

Dallas air-conditioning repairman Orville Nix shot the remarkable footage on that fateful day, Nov. 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza. The film captures a startling image of a shadowy figure lurking behind a fence on the knoll — the very spot where many witnesses reported hearing gunfire, per New York Post. Nix was positioned across the street, aiming his camera directly toward the grassy knoll. His footage includes a clear view of First Lady Jackie Kennedy climbing onto the back of the presidential limousine — with the fence in the background.

The original, first-generation film has not been seen since 1978, when it was sent to a Los Angeles company for analysis and was allegedly seized by federal authorities, who now claim they no longer possess it.

Nix died in 1972, but his granddaughter Linda Gayle Nix Jackson has filed court papers against the U.S. government seeking to recover the missing film. She claims it could be worth as much as $900 million because it may prove once and for all that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in assassinating JFK. A judge has ruled her lawsuit may proceed. The government insists it doesn’t possess the original film.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vid ... 17886.html