[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]

"JFK: The Case for Conspiracy Part II: 
The Kennedy Assassination Films"      (5-20-96)
(1995, Robert J. Groden, Grodenfilms/New Frontier Video)   (60 min.)
This is a compilation of JFK assassination-related films (with some
narration), as follows: 

Abraham Zapruder: A copy of the original film, with splices; the same in
slow motion; a copy from an earlier copy (perhaps the Secret Service
copy) with no splices; the same in slow motion; a Garrison/Shaw Trial
bootleg copy; the same in slow motion; a 1975 copy with pauses and
enlargements; an extremely clear copy, blown up, with detailed narration
of events; blowup copy; a discussion of the "Greer did it" thesis, with a
frame blowup; a reconstruction of the complete film [test shot;
spectators; motorcycles; assassination from near knoll]; an extreme
blowup sequence, focusing on JFK; an extreme blowup sequence focusing on
John Connally, then JFK, then Jackie; an extreme blowup sequence focusing
on John Connally (pausing to show his bloodless shirt cuff, and spreading
blood on the back right of his suit coat); a 1975 rotoscope version
focusing on a "face" image behind the picket fence. 

Orville Nix: The complete film, from a first-generation negative
[limousine on Houston, assassination from South, knoll after from South];
same in slow motion, from another negative; blowups of the Elm Street
portion (3 passes); an extreme blowup of the head shot portion; the same
in slow motion. 

Marie Muchmore: The complete film [view of the corner of Main and
Houston; pickup truck; three motorcycles turning onto Houston; limousine
turning from Main to Houston; limousine on Houston; LBJ car on Houston;
assassination from South]; blowup of Houston and Elm portions; Elm
portion in slow motion; extreme blowup in slow motion (2 passes); a black
and white copy of the Elm Street portion, made before the original was
damaged; the Elm Street portion in slow motion. 

Mark Bell: An extreme blowup of the lower portion of the film as the
limousine is on Main and Houston; the limousine passing the Texas School
Book Depository; the limousine going beneath the Triple Underpass; scenes
in the Plaza [knoll area; Jean Hill & others; motorcade cars pass as
crowd runs across Elm; Hill and others run up the knoll steps; Plaza
center; knoll area; two views of pergola; Book Depository from another
building South; Elm and Houston from the same; Plaza and Depository from
the same] ; extreme blowups of passing the Depository, going beneath the
Underpass, and scenes of the knoll). 

Robert Hughes: The complete film [Old Post Office; Main and Houston;
crowd there; lead car approaches; JFK limousine approaches; limousine is
followed turning onto Houston; limousine turns onto Elm with Book
Depository in background; camera cars on Houston; crowd in Plaza after
shots; same with motorcycle officer; pan left from Houston and Main;
parking lot behind knoll; Plaza from arcade; parking lot; upper northeast
corner of Depository; two views of Depository doorway; Dal-Tex Building];
blowup of limousine on Houston; blowup of the Book Depository 6th floor;
slow motion of Houston; extreme closeup of 6th floor corner window pairs.

Tina Towner: The complete film [taken from the curb across the the Book
Depository: limousine turning onto Elm, passing Depository, going down
Elm until just after first shot; area North of Elm just after shots];
same in slow motion.

Elsie Dorman: The complete film [taken from Depository 4th floor:
limousine turning onto Houston; limousine on Houston; corner and South
side of Elm across from Depository as limousine passes]; slow motion.

Patsy Paschall: [taken from the Old Court House] limousine on Main
Street; going beneath the Triple Underpass; views of the Plaza afterward;
Book Depository from ground level; slow motion of limousine beneath the
underpass; slow motion of knoll area. 

John Martin: [excerpt used in the DCA film] motorcycles at Main and
Houston; the lead car; limousine turning onto Houston; limousine on
Houston; limousine passing Book Depository.

Ernest Charles Mentesana: [excerpt used in the DCA film] Houston by Book
Depository after shooting, possible tramps; Depository fire escape with
two officers; officers with rifle or shotgun; Book Depository.

Jack Daniel: The complete film [looking back into the Plaza from beyond
the Underpass as the limousine approaches; limousine passing]; slow
motion; blowup slow motion. 

Charles Bronson: The complete film [ambulance, crowd and Depository at
12:23; limousine on Main; limousine on Houston; limousine on Elm at time
of head shot]; Depository; extreme blowup of 6th floor corrner;
microscopic blowup of corner window pairs; apparent movement in windows;
Elm street slow motion; Elm street blowup slow motion. 

David Wiegman (NBC): cars passing Depository; pans to left, right, left;
gets out of car; pans of North Elm crowd; street with press cars and
Underpass; knoll; pergola; people by pergola hitting the ground; closeup
of Newmans on the ground; motorcycles and cars on Elm; pan to Cheryl
McKinnon hitting the ground, others running.

Malcolm Couch (WFAA-TV): Book Depository front at Officer Marion Baker
runs toward the door; camera cars, photographers on knoll, Newmans,
umbrella man, Officer Clyde Haygood approaching the curb; Billy James
Hargis running; officer with revolver drawn near South curb; Plaza view;
photographers on the knoll, Newmans on the ground; Haygood setting his
cycle by the curb; cameramen and Lem Johns running to catch press car;
crowd from pergola.

Thomas Alyea: scenes of Book Depository search; lifting the rifle up from
between the boxes.

Dallas Cinema Associates: A master copy of "President Kennedy's Final
Hour" with some additional footage and no captions. 

Thomas Atkins (White House): Dallas sequences from "The Last Two Days,"
covering from the Love Field arrival through scenes in Dealey Plaza after
the shots.