Zapruder Film Timeline

 22 Nov 63

12:30P CST
 JFK shot; Zapruder films it
   

 o Zapruder returns to his office in Dal-Tex Bldg

o Zapruder calls Dallas FBI office

   

 o Zapruder took his camera to WFAA-TV in the hope that they could process the film (they couldn't)

o Zapruder was interviewed on air by Jay Watson

     o Forrest V. Sorrels, head of Secret Service in Dallas accompanied Zapruder from the interview
   

 o Zapruder 's film was taken to Eastman Kodak lab across from Love Field for processing

o film was developed using K-14 process

o processing took 1.75 hours

   

 o Zapruder and Sorrells went to Jamieson Film Co. on Bryant St. in Dallas who made 3 copies (contact prints) of the original film

(Shaeffer's opinion that a Bell & Howell model J made the contact prints rather than optical prints. An optical printer omits any photographic scenery in the sprocket hole area; a contact printer does not. However, Bruce Jamieson told author Noel Twyman the copies were made with an optical printer).

 

  4:00P CST
 o Copies completed.
 

  6:00P CST

 o Richard Stolley of Life Magazine learned of the Z film from part time Life reporter Patsy Swank who called him from DPD headquarters.

o Stolley began calling Zapruder 's residence in 15 minute intervals finally reaching him at 11:00P CST

 

  9:30P EST
 o The original film and at least 1 copy are flown from Love Field in Dallas to Andrews AFB in Camp Springs Md, 1,307 miles away.
 

10:00P EST

 o The films are taken to the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) in Suitland Md, 8 miles from Andrews AFB.

o CIA then had the film and re-processed it -- the original was reviewed and at least partially edited

o A modified camera having similar characteristics to Zapruder's Bell & Howell camera made a duplicate copy to replace the original.

o 3 copies were made using a standard optical printer

 23 Nov 63

  3:00A EST
 o Editing and copying completed at NPIC
 

  3:20A EST
 o Films depart Andrews AFB
 

  6:40A CST
 o Films arrive @ Love Field in Dallas
 

  7:00A CST
 o Films arrive at Zapruder's office
 

  8:00A CST
 o Stolley arrived at Zapruder 's office an hour early; buys certain rights to the Z film for Life Magazine
 

  9:00A CST
 o Zapruder Film was shown at Zapruder 's office by the Secret Service to a small press corps including Dan Rather of CBS and reps from the Saturday Evening Post and the Associated Press.
 

10:00A CST
 o Stolley left Zapruder 's office with the duplicate original and 1 copy and sent them to the R R Donnelly Graphics Co Life lab in Chicago

 The above is based on introductory material in a paper presented in Assassination Science pp. 221-238 written by Mike Pincher© and Roy Schaeffer© I developed a chronology of the Zapruder film for 22-23 Nov 63.

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