This is the Gary Mack account as posted at the boycotted museum. Does any one know what:
"walked into the shelter of a nearby monument" means? Or where this monument is located? I did
not read of it in Zappy's testimony. Did I miss something?

Why would Zappy ONLY speak to FEDERAL investigators about a STATE of TEXAS crime? He
was a Texan... Texas cooperated with the Federal Government in a manner that was truly without
precedent since the time of the Civil War and Lincoln.

Also, Zappy et al, with film arrived at Love Field at "about" the time Air Force One was leaving...
Gee wiz. I wonder who could have performed surgery on both JFK's head and the Z-film on Air
Force One?

Too bad there wasn't a second aircraft -- beyond scrutiny -- available for the "surgeons" to perform
their devious duties without being scrutinized themselves. An aircraft that would never be suspected.
Never be "boarded" or forced to land.

An aircraft that would remove the new president LBJ from being too close to all the action.

Say, an aircraft like... oh, maybe AIR FORCE II --

Everyone assumes that LBJ either took Air Force One back to D.C. because he was in fact the
president, or some believe he was just in a hurry to take the "throne" and this was his way of doing
so, although possibly insensitive and tactless...

I submit: Air Force TWO -- the vice president's aircraft which was not needed by the
NON-EXISTANT V.P., was the perfect get-a-way craft for many of the player's as well as the
doctoring of both film and head wound...

Perhaps, not exactly this scenario, but a slight variation may be plausible.

XComments?

monk 

November 22, 1963 


12:25pm
While tens of thousands greet the President in downtown Dallas, Zapruder filmed his employees
waiting near a grassy knoll just a block from Jennifer Juniors, his clothing company. Receptionist
Marilyn Sitzman waved to the camera while payroll clerk
Beatrice Hester sat with husband Charles on a nearby bench. "Mr. Z" then climbed atop a concrete
abutment and waited, with Sitzman holding on in case his vertigo made him dizzy. He was 65 feet
from the center of Elm Street.
12:30pm*
Zapruder filmed the Kennedy limousine after it turned onto Elm and captured the entire
assassination, the only photographer to do so. He used a Bell & Howell Model 414PD Zoomatic
Director Series camera with a Varamat 9-27mm f1.8 zoom lens, set for full closeup. It’s 8mm
Kodachrome II color film moved through the camera at an average speed of 18.3 frames per
second, as determined by later tests.
12:30pm*
The shooting took less than ten seconds while Zapruder kept filming.
Then he and Sitzman jumped down and walked into the shelter of a nearby monument as the Hesters
crouched on the ground. Zapruder and Sitzman soon became separated.
12:40pm
Dallas Morning News reporter Harry McCormick, having raced from the Dallas Trade Mart where
Kennedy was headed, noticed Zapruder in Dealey Plaza and learned what happened. Zapruder
would only speak with federal investigators, so McCormick contacted Dallas Secret Service head
Forrest Sorrels for him.
12:45pm
Dallas Times Herald reporter Darwin Payne ran to Dealey Plaza after getting word of the shooting.
He heard about Zapruder and his film from two of his employees standing outside the Texas School
Book Depository, probably Sitzman and Hester, then went to Zapruder’s office across the street for
an interview.
12:50pm
Payne interviewed Zapruder and tried to get the publication rights for the newspaper.
1:15pm
McCormick arrived with Sorrels and headed into Zapruder’s office.
When Payne objected to the competing reporter’s exclusive presence, they ejected McCormick.
Zapruder offered to get Sorrels a copy of the film.
1:45pm
Zapruder, business partner Erwin Schwartz, McCormick and Sorrels departed for WFAA-TV,
co-owned with The Dallas Morning News, to develop the film. Payne was left behind.
2:05pm
Zapruder appeared live on ABC affiliate WFAA-TV with station program director Jay Watson,
while Schwartz stood nearby holding the camera with the film.
2:10pm
WFAA assistant news director and chief photographer Bert Shipp called Kodak, asking them to
process the 8mm film since the station had only 16mm equipment.
2:45pm
Zapruder and Sorrels, riding in a Dallas Police squad car, arrived at the Kodak lab near Love Field
about the time Air Force One took off for Washington with Kennedy’s body.
4:00pm
Zapruder, Kodak personnel and investigators viewed the film once, then Kodak declined to show it
again for fear of accidental damage.
4:30pm
Since Kodak had no facilities to make copies, Zapruder and Schwartz drove to Jamieson Films in
Dallas to have three prints made for investigators.
6:00pm
Zapruder and Schwartz returned to Kodak to have the prints prepared for projection. 
10:00pm
Schwartz took one print to the Dallas Naval Air Station where a government plane picked it up and
flew it to Washington for delivery to the FBI.
11:00pm
LIFE magazine Pacific Bureau editor Richard Stolley, who immediately flew from Los Angeles to
Dallas, reached Zapruder at his home by phone and arranged to meet in his office at 9:00 the next
morning.

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Hmmm.

--modified at Fri, Jan 22, 1999, 14:20:12