JFK DEATH FILM STUNS AUDIENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300280004-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 29, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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JFK death film
stuns audience
By RICHARD RAYNES
New Staff
BEVERLY- A stunned audience
emitted audible gasps as a firm show-
ed President John F. Kennedy thrown
sharply backwards, an assasin's
bullet already passing through his
head.
At Endicott Junior College Monday I.
night, Abraham Zapruder's film,
showing the critical moments of the
1963 Kennedy assassination in Dallas,
was shown over and over again, and
each time the reaction of the more
than 500 persons crowded into the
additorium was the same. prints of the Zap ruder film. has that afternoon.
The Zapruder film, shown as part of written 3 books on the. assassination inadequa.te.`' Williams. continued
a lecture by the Assassination Infor-. and works closely with the Assassina- Testimony from Commission
mation Bureau, may be the single tion Information Bureau. . . members shows they felt it was. their
most important piece of evidence in The ? bureau contends that Lee duty to despel conspiracy rumors
re opening what a growing number of. Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin rather than investigate the possibility
people consider to be an inadequate -,)f President Kennedy. did not act of a conspiracy.'
explanation of Kennedy's death by the alone,.but was used. "as a patsy," by In the 2-hour lecture. Williams
Warren Commission.. a larger organization. including anti- presented documents and photographs
The Cambridge based Assassination Castro Cubans, organized crime. and ;athered over the years by the
Information Bureau, is an organiza- elements of the' CIA. Secret Service, bureau. Much of the evidence refuted
tion seeking to re-open the Kennedy and FBI. ~"" Warren Commission findings and the
assassination case, by bringing to the In a well planned and financed testimony of many eyewitnesses,
country's attention evidence not con- sequence. the bureau contended allegedl,y disregarded when the
sidered by the Warren Commission in Oswald was "set up.". and Kennedy Warren. Commission was made
the subsequent investigation of the was assassinated by more than. the public.
Names such as Jack Ruby,
Nov. 22, 1963 assassination. single. psychotic gunman the Warren
"A 'great deal of the growing Commission contends is responsible. Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. and
interest in reopening the case has ".It is the most massive cover-up in Clay Shaw were linked to Oswald in a I
been a result of the bureau," said American history," David Williams. a larger conspiracy than that uncovered
Robert Cutler.--a- Beverly. architect, member of the 'Assassination Infor- by.the Warren Commission.
who for years has been active in-,the mation Bureau told the crowd Jack Ruby was identified as,a CIA
Kennedy assassination questioning: - gathered in Beverly. "Efforts were gunrunner. Clay Shaw, a former CIA
"Ever ybody who sees, A_ I?or F%f"4v2b5i61Ial v;afffi P 01 a, gent The sin le bullet theory of
film has to question the arren Com- assass-na ion to make dt appear as if$94~~1OAs~town to have 1
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