The reason they call The New York Times “The Gray Lady” is not a mad romance of assonance or even Puritan rectitude of content.
It’s because until recently (October 16, 1997- Tony Fernandez HR sends Cleveland Indians to World Series) the NYT refused to print color photographs.
A Glossary of Key Figures and Conspiracy Theories in the J.F.K. Assassination
By DANIEL VICTOR, The New York Times
OCT. 26, 2017
As the longtime government explanation goes: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Oswald fired three bullets from a nearby building, striking Mr. Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally.
But much of the public has never fully bought that explanation. A trove of files expected to be released on Thursday, which the federal government had long fought to keep from public view, were likely to address some of the conspiracy theories that have lingered for decades.
As you dive into the documents or read news coverage, refresh your memory here on some of the people, theories and other aspects of the assassination.
The Zapruder film
A 26-second home video by Abraham Zapruder is the clearest recording available of the moment Mr. Kennedy was shot. It has been pored over every which way, in hopes of finding the slightest of clues.
The fact that the Zapruder film is 26.6 seconds, 486 frames, of standard 8 mm Kodachrome II safety film running at 18.3 frames/second shot through a Bell & Howell Model 414 PD Zoomatic Director Series Camera and not video anything shows you just how low the “paper of record” is willing to go to appeal to those who were actually born yesterday or have the attention span of Fruit Flies.
Welcome to the long plastic hallway guys.
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