{"id":687,"date":"2017-07-03T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/?p=687"},"modified":"2017-07-03T23:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:57:28","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/2017\/07\/03\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 1963 turned out to be a beautiful day after some morning showers had dissipated, leaving a clear sky which allowed plenty of sunshine to greet President Kennedy&#8217;s motorcade. \u00a0 A photograph snapped by Walter Sisco is probably one of the most popular images ever seen of the motorcade as it made its way down Main Street, towards the killing zone in Dealey Plaza.\u00a0 Notice the prominence of the reflections off of the vehicles. They look like mirrors!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-690\" src=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture_20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2136\" height=\"1632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture_20.jpg 2136w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture_20-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture_20-768x587.jpg 768w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture_20-1024x782.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2136px) 100vw, 2136px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the same photograph which adorns the cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Assassination-Science-Experts-Speak-Death\/dp\/0812693663\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499105556&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=assassination+science\"><em>Assassination Science<\/em><\/a>, by Jim Fetzer, published in 1998, and is considered the first of his trilogy of ground breaking books which came out after the ARRB forced the release of numerous documents.\u00a0 The other two, of course, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Murder-Dealey-Plaza-What-Didnt\/dp\/0812694228\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499105459&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Murder+in+Dealey+Plaza\"><em>Murder in Dealey Plaza<\/em><\/a> (2000), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Zapruder-Film-Hoax-Deception\/dp\/081269547X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499105505&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+great+zapruder+film+hoax\"><em>The Great Zapruder Film Hoax<\/em><\/a>, (2003).\u00a0 In all three of these books, Dr. Fetzer allowed the very best experts in the world in their particular field, to present their research on many different aspects of the JFK assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/assassinationresearch.com\/zfilm\/\">Zapruder film<\/a>, today I would like to focus on something that has bothered me since I became aware of the great Beverly Brunson&#8217;s research of the late 1960&#8217;s. Brunson puzzled over the fact that reflections were clearly visible on the side of the limousine before the Stemmons Freeway sign blocked Zapruder&#8217;s view of the limousine, but disappeared <em>after <\/em>the limo re-emerged.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-694\" src=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brunson-letter-highlighted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"982\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brunson-letter-highlighted.jpg 982w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brunson-letter-highlighted-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brunson-letter-highlighted-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what she was referring to:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-689\" src=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Chaney-reflections.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Chaney-reflections.jpg 762w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Chaney-reflections-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As seen in the Sisco photograph, (and all other photographs for that matter), there are clearly defined reflections on all vehicles seen in the Zapruder film, including JFK&#8217;s SX-100 1961 Lincoln Continental.\u00a0 All except when the limousine comes out from behind the freeway sign. As a matter of logic, one would expect the\u00a0 reflections to become more prominent as the limousine\u00a0 approaches Zapruder&#8217;s position, when in fact, the opposite is what happens!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/z255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/z255.jpg 830w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/z255-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/z255-768x759.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, when we look at our Blender renderings of the limousine which replicate the Zapruder film, specifically frame 255, there are those darn reflections!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-695\" src=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Z255-No-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Z255-No-22.png 960w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Z255-No-22-300x195.png 300w, http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Z255-No-22-768x499.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>Brunson suspected that the Z film had been subjected to, in her own words, a &#8220;paint job&#8221;, which means that she was probably the very first investigator to\u00a0 conclude that the Zapruder film had been extensively edited and altered &#8211; and this was way back in 1967 without the benefit of any modern digital analysis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 1963 turned out to be a beautiful day after some morning showers had dissipated, leaving a clear sky[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jfk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}