The Zapruder Film and Harry Holmes: 
       by Vincent Palamara


Fred Newcomb and the late Perry Adams interviewed 
Harry Holmes for their unpublished manuscript entitled 
"Murder From Within"* (a 1974 production
that took five years to research/ write: the authors'
only tv appearance** was on the now-defunct "Inside
Report" on NBC back in May 1990), a great body of work
that introduced everyone to body alteration (years
before Lifton, who offers a "legalese" footnote
pertaining to another topic on page 370--and page
732---of "Best Evidence"), ZAPRUDER FILM TAMPERING (as
acknowledged by Harrison Livingstone in "Killing
Kennedy" and on several pages of "Assassination
Science"), LHO backyard photo fakery (as acknowledged
by Jack White in "The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald"
and in Jim Marrs' "Crossfire"), Dodd Committee/ Seaport
Traders/ LHO theory (see pages 300 and 528 of Henry
Hurt's "Reasonable Doubt"), and, last but not least,
Greer shooting JFK [years before Bill Cooper!] (which,
like Hickey shooting JFK in "Mortal Error", greatly
damaged the good work in the rest of the book). Newcomb
was also the first to track down the Air Force One
transcripts at the LBJ Library back in 1975 ("Best
Evidence", p. 681) and that one of the Willis photos
had been retouched by the FBI ("Who's Who in the JFK
Assassination" by Michael Benson, p. 310), but I
digress...

The authors interviewed the following members of the
DPD: Jesse Curry, B.J. Martin, Douglas Jackson, James
Chaney, Stavis Ellis, Marion Baker, Joe M. Smith, and
Earle V. Brown. Also, Jean Hill, Bill Newman, Charles
Brehm, Ralph Yarborough, Joe H. Rich, Bill Greer, Roy
Kellerman***, Henry Gonzalez, Dean Andrews...and HARRY
D. HOLMES.

PAGE 129:
"Also on Friday evening, November 22nd, [Forrest]
Sorrels did a frame-by-frame study of the Zapruder film
in his Dallas office. According to Dallas Postal
Inspector Harry D. Holmes who was present, "...we
thumbed (through) that thing for an hour or more...push (ing) 
it up one frame at a time."


PAGE 213:
"A postal inspector [Holmes] picked up a piece of skull
from the Elm St. pavement. He said it was as "...big as 
the end of my finger..." Furthermore, it was one of many:
"...there was just pieces of skull and bone and
corruption all over the place..." He later discarded
it.[!!!]"

Seymour Weitzman found a "firecracker" sized skull
fragment on Elm Street which he turned over to the
Secret Service [7 H 107];
the Harper fragment; the back-of-the -head piece Sam
Kinney found lying in the rear of the limo while on the
C-130; the three pieces found in the limo:

what is going on here???

In any event, Harry Holmes is certainly unique: he had
perhaps the best vantage point, witnessing the
assassination THROUGH BINOCULARS on the fifth floor of
the Post Office Terminal Annex Building. Holmes was
previously an FBI informant and, in his capacity as
Postal Inspector, had traced the paperwork concerning
the Oswald mail order rifle and revolver and testified
about it to the Warren Commission. Holmes was present
asking questions during the final interrogation of Lee
Harvey Oswald on 11/24/63, shortly before Ruby would
silence him forever. Holmes was a friend of John
Martin, a man who also worked in the same building who
took a film on that fateful day ("Pictures of the
Pain", p. 574). And, now, we know he found a piece of
President Kennedy's skull on Elm Street---which
he then DISCARDED---and he analyzed the Zapruder film
on NOVEMBER 22, 1963!!!

Vince Palamara

* a nice summary of their work can be found in a
lengthy letter sent to the HSCA's Patricia Orr dated
3/7/77 [RIF# 180-10090-10263].

**Newcomb and Adams' work was the basis behind the
two-part CFTR radio (Canada) 1976 program entitled
"Thou Shalt Not Kill", available from The Collector's
Archives in Quebec. Included is a short conversation
with Roy Kellerman.

***In a letter to the author dated 1/21/92, Fred
Newcomb wrote: "We did two telephonic interviews with
Kellerman and two with Greer. Those were the only S.S.
we talked to."