'Alteration' Doc Excerpts from Dr. Mantik's Zapruder Film Presentation | 11/2024

Timestamped Summary; Sydney Wilkinson/Thom Whitehead Segment from Dr. Mantik's Zapruder Film Presentation:

This summary outlines the key points from the segment featuring Sydney Wilkinson and Thom Whitehead regarding the technical analysis and alleged alteration of the Zapruder Film.

•[00:00-00:37] High-Resolution Acquisition: In November 2008, Sydney Wilkinson acquired a third-generation "Forensic Version" of the Zapruder film from the National Archives, creating high-resolution 6K digital files with nearly 12 times more information than HD TV scans.

•[03:20-04:03] Expert Collaboration: Wilkinson and her team worked with film restoration experts Paul Rutan and Garrett Smith to analyze the Zapruder film, focusing on anomalies in the frames depicting what should be JFK's head wound.

•[07:34-09:29] Black Patch Anomaly: The experts identified a suspicious black patch on the back of JFK's head in frames 317, 321, and 323, which they believe is an optical overlay added to the film to obscure details of the wound.

•[08:12-09:29] Technical Analysis: Using advanced imaging software and line profile analysis, they discovered that the black patch appears unnaturally dense and moves differently from JFK's head in the film.

•[06:05-06:54] Expert Credentials: Both Rutan and Smith, with decades of film restoration experience, believe the film was deliberately altered, likely using an aerial optical printer to create the patch.

•[17:41-19:47] Head Explosion Discrepancy: The experts noted that frame 313, showing the head explosion, contains only a small red mist, which differs from witnesses' memories of a more extensive blood spray.

•[15:17-16:04] Technological Perspective: They argue that with modern technology and increased visual literacy, the film's alterations are now more apparent and less believable than they might have been in 1963.

•[05:03-06:05] Professional Hesitation: Only two out of 72 Hollywood experts who reviewed the film were willing to go on record about the potential alterations, citing fears of professional repercussions or government backlash.
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Original Source Attribution:

'A Closer Look at the Zapruder Film: The Case for Alteration' | Dr. David Mantik/The Future of Freedom Foundation | Dec 6, 2024 | https://youtu.be/Ns4nil-UP1w?si=U4wILGEZcAQ8w6n7

This presentation was delivered in November 2024 at the Cyril Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law’s 22nd annual symposium, The JFK Assassination at 60: New Frontiers in Scientific, Medical, Legal and Historical Research, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

You can download David Mantik's PowerPoint presentation via the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/00l21q6494axtf5q9gnvi/A-Closer-Look-at-the-Zapruder-Film.pptx

David Mantik is a board-certified radiation oncologist, who (while still young) served on the tenure-track physics faculty at the University of Michigan. He also directed the residency training program at Loma Linda University, where he used protons, electrons, and X-rays to treat cancer. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin, his MD from the University of Michigan, completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University and held a Junior Faculty Clinical Fellowship at the University of Southern California. He has visited the JFK artifacts at the National Archives on nine separate days. While there he made hundreds of measurements on the extant JFK autopsy X-rays. His e-book is JFK’s Head Wounds.
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