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Film of Kennedy assassination donated to Texas museum
By MIKE CRISSEY, Associated Press
DALLAS (November 22, 2000 9:34 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com)
- The second most important footage of the assassination of John F.
Kennedy has been made available to the public 37 years after his
presidency abruptly ended in a hail of bullets.
About 200 people crowded into the Texas Book Depository Building on
Tuesday to watch the 24 1/2-second film recorded Nov. 22, 1963, by Orville
Nix Sr.
The footage is the only known motion picture of the assassination that also
shows part of the grassy knoll, the area where speculation about a second
gunmen persists.
Filmed from the south curb of Houston Street and the northwest corner of
Main Street, the footage contains three scenes: the motorcade entering
Dealey Plaza, the last shot of the assassination in front of the grassy knoll,
and the panic and confusion afterward.
The most well-known frames of the film show Jackie Kennedy climbing over
the trunk of the presidential limousine, scrambling to pick up pieces of the
president's shattered skull and Secret Service agent Clint Hill climbing onto
the trunk.
The Nix film is considered by historians and other experts to be the second
most important piece of footage because it was filmed from the opposite
angle of the Abraham Zapruder film and shows what was going on behind
Zapruder in the grassy knoll. In Nix's film, Zapruder can be seen in a few
frames.
Nix donated a first-generation copy and the copyright to the color home
movie to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The 8-mm camera is
also on display at the museum.
"One of the things we hope for the Nix film is that as technology advances
... hopefully we can find something," said Jeff West, executive director of
the museum.
Nix's son, Orville Nix Jr., told viewers his father's film was largely
happenstance and took so long to reach the public partly because the
family wanted to keep their privacy.
"He loved that camera, he was always taking pictures of things and this
was something that just happened," Nix said of his father, who died in
1972. "It was a sad thing to see."
"Now, I want people to see and draw their own conclusions, it is part of
history," he said.
At the time of the investigation, the FBI used the Nix film to study the
assassination and the Warren Commission reproduced six frames.
Portions of the film were used in Oliver Stone's 1991 movie "JFK."
Museum officials said the location of the original film is unknown. United
Press International purchased it in December 1963, but when UPI returned
the copyright to the Nix family - along with several duplicates of the film - the
original was missing.
The Nix images were included with footage by Tina Towner Barnes, who
also filmed the motorcade, and Malcolm Couch, who rode behind the
president as a photographer for Dallas TV station WFAA.
Some of those who attended the invitation-only screening said it gave them
a firsthand glimpse of a tragedy many people remember but didn't witness.
"Many of us only had the radio to initially tell us about the event, the films
gave me a different perspective of the assassination," said Mary Katherine
Maddox, 65.
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