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Twenty-six Seconds

a Personal History of the Zapruder Film
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Sep 20, 2016
[I did glean once interesting factoid from this book, when Ms. Z. mentions receiving a clip from James Moore, director of the audio-visual division at the National Archives - - circa late 1970s - - which would be when J. Walton Moore, who would later call himself James Moore, who was the CIA/Dallas agent in 1963 and knew both William Harvey, CIA/Italy chief of station, and J. Gordon Shanklin, Dallas FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge, from their days together at the FBI - - was retired from the CIA? Could J. Walton Moore and James Moore be one and the same? And shortly thereafter a series of explosions and fire would destroy millions of feet of archived film at the National Archives?] Horrible book! Not worth the paper it was printed on, a complete waste of time, nothing learned, except the simpleton author robotically accepts everything from the Warren Report as gospel truth?!?! Says Oswald shot Office Tippit three times - - if that was the case, where's the ballistic testing to prove it? [Never performed, and that is job one in any investigation by the police and/or FBI?!?!?!] Says Itek Corporation tested the film - - but fails to mention that Itek was a Rockefeller company and that their major revenue streams came from government contracts [specifically, from the CIA]. One could go on for many pages, definitely cannot rate this sorry pile of wasted paper! [Interesting to note that Zapruder belong to the Dallas Council on World Affairs, as did George De Mohrenschildt {Oswald's handler}, and J. Walton Moore, CIA's man in Dallas, head of their Domestic Contacts Division - - plenty of declassified files on Moore over at the Mary Ferrell Foundation, maryferrell.org, et cetera. Further interesting to note that J. Walton Moore was previously in the FBI {1940 -- 1945} as was Italy CIA station chief, William Harvey {1940 -- 1947}, they both worked out of the same office, and it was the CIA station in Italy, whose cables to the fascist French organization, OAS, were intercepted by Pfc. Dinkin, detailing the approximate dates for the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Next interesting item is that Moore and Harvey were with the FBI at the same time the Dallas FBI SAC, J. Gordon Shanklin, began with them -- they all knew each other!]