8. Reliability Of The Zapruder Film
Though various materials such as video and even photographs were confiscated by the police and other authorities, one account of the assassination survived - the Zapruder film. Heralded by The Assassination Records Review Board as "perhaps the single most important assassination record," the Zapruder film captured John F Kennedy's final minutes alive frame by frame. The disturbing footage shows Kennedy's body flailing around in the motorcade as he is shot, before his wife Jackie scrambles out of the moving vehicle, and is used to determine the contested total number of shots fired at the President. Though the video appears conclusive, and is used by many conspiracy theorists as irrefutable proof of a cover up, others have raised suspicions over the tape. Some claim it was doctored while Harrison Livingstone called it
"the biggest hoax of the twentieth century". Jack White, who served as a researcher and photographic consultant to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, claimed there are anomalies in the Zapruder film and that it is not a trustworthy account of the assassination. However, Roland Zavada, a former product engineer for Kodak, was requested by the Assassination Records Review Board to analyse the Zapruder tape to see if there was any evidence that it had been altered. He concluded that
there was no evidence of manipulation or image alteration.