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should have said was "there were TV "film" cameras in the plaza". in those days they would shoot a roll and have a"runner" take it back to the station for processing.You need to pay closer attention. What I said was: There were no TV cameras in Dealey Plaza, only amateur photographers.
hence the term "film at eleven"
video tape or rotoscope as it was called then was for the most part too cumbersome to use outdoors.
odd that oswald's assassination was caught on tape.
There were no TV "film" cameras in the plaza. It was the end of the motorcade. The crowds were thin. They were seconds from jumping on the Stemmons Freeway to head the the Trade Mart.
The assassination was caught on a 8 mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD home movie camera by amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder.
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The Zapruder film was never seen by the public until March 6, 1975 on the ABC late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera), assassination researchers Robert Groden and Dick Gregory presented the first-ever network television showing of the Zapruder home movie. The public's response and outrage to that first television showing quickly led to the forming of the Hart-Schweiker investigation, contributed to the Church Committee Investigation on Intelligence Activities by the United States, and resulted in the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation.
The only professional photos in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination were taken by James Altgens, an American photographer and field reporter for the Associated Press.
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Kid troll Daws only sees what he wants to see.you might as well be talking to a brick wall.


