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Frame 150 from the Zapruder film. Kennedy's limousine has just turned onto Elm Street, moments before the first shot. The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a Bell & Howell home-movie camera, as United States President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Carpenter’s footage from I-35, which only lasts about 10 seconds, begins with video of accessory vehicles in the president’s motorcade traveling down Lemmon Avenue toward downtown Dallas.
Moorman can be seen in the Zapruder film taking pictures, which Hill stated were later taken and bleached out by unknown parties. [ citation needed ] At Zapruder frame 313, when Kennedy was shot in the head, Hill was only 21 feet (6.4 m) away, leftward, and slightly behind him.
Frame 313 captures the exact moment at which Kennedy's head explodes. [173] Life magazine published frame enlargements from the Zapruder film shortly after the assassination. [ 172 ] [ 174 ] The footage itself was first publicly shown at the 1969 trial of Clay Shaw , and on television in 1975 by Geraldo Rivera . [ 175 ]
Zapruder's movie camera was an 8 mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD—top-of-the-line when it was purchased in 1962. [citation needed] Zapruder had planned to film the motorcade from his office window but opted for a better spot in Dealey Plaza where the motorcade would be passing. [19]
The song is 3:13 long, which is a deliberate numerological reference to frame 313 of the Zapruder film—the frame displaying the moment of impact of the fatal head shot which killed Kennedy. [59] "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" is an introspective song with Adam at his most emotionally vulnerable. [59] The song is divided into two parts.
The Badge Man is reputedly visible in Moorman's fifth and most famous photo of the area, taken almost exactly at the moment of the fatal shot. This photo has been calculated to have been captured between Zapruder film frames 315 and 316, less than one-sixth of a second after President Kennedy was shot in the head at frame 313. [3]
Both Moorman and her friend, Jean Hill, can be clearly seen in the Zapruder film. [3] Between Zapruder frames 315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background. Moorman's photograph captured the fatal headshot that killed President Kennedy.