Once upon a time I found an old home movie canister labeled "JFK assasination/funeral" at a flea market and thought for a brief time that I may have unearthed a new and relevant artifact concerning this critical time in American history. I'm still not sure because I'm not an expert on the subject.

In an effort to get the footage out to the world I've finally figured out how to provide it as a download so anybody who is interested can view just over 12 minutes of the original film.

Right click on the image above and save link target to wherever you like.

It's presented in a Creative Commons fashion and all I ask is that you credit Cosmic Cookout as the original source for this video.

Once upon a time I found an old home movie canister labeled "JFK assasination/funeral" at a flea market and thought for a brief time that I may have unearthed a new and relevant artifact concerning this critical time in American history. I'm still not sure because I'm not an expert on the subject.

In an effort to get the footage out to the world I've finally figured out how to provide it as a download so anybody who is interested can view just over 12 minutes of the original film.

Right click on the image above and save link target to wherever you like.

It's presented in a Creative Commons fashion and all I ask is that you credit Cosmic Cookout as the original source for this video.

At George Washington University we have the National Security Archive, a place designed to preserve historical documents relating to past security issues for the United States.

William Burr is the archive analyst, and he's got one of the oldest pending freedom of information requests dating back to 1992. Earlier this month the Pentagon finally denied his request for three documents relating to the 1960's "Operation Poodle Blanket".

I think this case could prove important in helping to ease Pentagon restrictions on other 50 year old documents. Tom Blanton, Director of the archive points out that spending tax payer money to withhold these documents is directly damaging our national security by undermining the credibility of the system that protects real secrets.

If the Pentagon reacts to public pressure by easing restrictions on this category of history it might prove to be a tipping point for other documents from that era.

With a bit of luck Poodle Blanket could be the death blow to our government's embargo on the truth about UFOs and other related topics from the early 1960's and beyond.

I was browsing through the Albuquerque flea market one hot summer day and chanced upon a box of old 8mm films. There must have been over 20 cans, each with a neatly written label on the front. Most of the them had the usual stuff like family vacations, anniversary parties, and church picnics. You can imagine my surprise when I came across one labeled 1963-JFK assassination/funeral!

I calmly asked the guy how much he wanted for the whole box. After a bit of back and forth we settled on a fair price and I took my new found box of history directly home to set up my old projector and wait for the sun to set.

The film was in excellent shape and immediately started to show President John F. Kennedy with his wife Jackie in the presidential motorcade on that fateful day in Dallas Texas. My heart skipped several beats when I started to think this might somehow be a missing film of that event and how it could shine some light on what really happened and who was actually on the grassy knoll.

My excitement started to decrease when I noticed the image was film footage of a television broadcast of the day.

It was still an interesting glimpse into the past which is why I decided to capture the footage to share with the internet. The soundtrack I added is from Moby titled "One of these mornings" which seemed to fit the mood.

I heard a new twist on one of the JFK conspiracy wrinkles today that caused me to pause and ponder if it might be true.

The interview was between Mel Fabregas and Ralph Epperson on the Veritas radio show.

Mr Epperson briefly touches on some of the findings he presents in his video titled "The driver shot Kennedy!" The detail that caught my attention is the implication that somehow Abraham Zapruder, the man who captured the event on film, had previous knowledge of the assassination and was there that day to document it with his Bell and Howell 8 mm movie camera. Ralph goes on to point out how Mr Zapruder asked his secretary who was named Marilyn Sitzman to stand on a concrete pad with him to hold him from behind in case he got dizzy.

Ralph Epperson speculates that Mr Zapruder was attempting to compensate for the anticipated gun shot and the jerking action it might cause by having Marilyn Sitzsman steady him from behind. A clear viewing of the film points out that Abraham Zapruder held the camera steady and true at the exact moment of the first gun shot and subsequent shots.

This does strike me as unusual, although I'm not sure what a normal reaction might be for such an event. What really caught my attention is the accusation that Abraham Zapruder was known to be in the company of Jack Ruby and Officer J.D. Tippit at Jack's Carousel Club strip joint.

Is it possible Officer Tippit was sent to take out Lee Harvey Oswald and instead was killed during the altercation? It's clear the facts around J.D. Tippit's death are fuzzy and eye witness accounts of the shooting have been called into question after the fact. Take that with the fact from Tippit's Wikipedia page that he was also working 2 part time jobs in addition to being a full time police officer at the time. His salary was $5,880 which compares to over $41,000 today. Although it's not uncommon for police officers to work other part time jobs it does beg the question as to why his middle class wage wasn't enough? Keep in mind that he grew up on a farm and according to the Tippit website he was known to say "working 2 or 3 jobs was nothing compared to walking behind a plow".

Photo credit goes to erichufschmid.net for the above image which is an actual shot from Jack Ruby's bar. You can go to his site to see an incredible blow up of the right hand corner that reveals Jack Ruby with a few other noteworthy characters which was taken from Robert Groden's book about Oswald.

The other photos are thanks to wikipedia and the official J.D. Tippit website which is a beautiful tribute to a man who was a war hero from World War 2 and a family man that left behind several who cared deeply for him.

Rest in peace J.D. Tippit and everybody else known and unknown that got too close to this temporal distortion.