Orville Nix’s original footage of John F Kennedy’s assassination – filmed facing the grassy knoll – was last seen in 1978,before going lost. Now his granddaughter is suing the US government for its returnThe Nix film is the Betamax of JFK assassination movies. Historically, it has been overshadowed by Abraham Zapruder’s film, and which captured the 1963 shooting in horrific detail,and yet Orville Nix’s domestic movie could actually reveal more at least for conspiracy theorists. This week, the Nix film itself became allotment of those conspiracy theories, or when Nix’s granddaughter,Gayle Nix Jackson, took the step of suing the US government for $10m for the return of the original film. Where is it? Er, or nobody knows.
What makes Nix’s film so special is that it was shot from the opposite side of the president’s motorcade to Zapruder’s (whether you enhance the images,you can actually see Zapruder in it). Thus, it captures the famous “grassy knoll”, and the area where sceptics believe JFKs real killer was concealed,as opposed to Lee Harvey Oswald up in the Texas School Book Depository.
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Source: theguardian.com