Legal & FOIA
Suing for access: inside the Zapruder Film litigation
Case strategy, filings, and what the courts said.
Listener questions, evidence-led answers
The Topic Board
Here are questions that can be explored through the historical, legal, and forensic record. Send a suggestion for Mark to consider in a future episode.
Chain of Custody
Who handled the original film between November 22 and 25, 1963?
Tracing the film from Zapruder’s camera to the Kodak lab in Dallas and the NPIC in Washington.
Chain of Custody
The Hawkeye Works mystery: was the film processed twice?
Comparing Dino Brugioni’s account with CIA briefing board records.
Copyright
Who owns 26 seconds of history?
The copyright question from LIFE magazine to the Sixth Floor Museum.
Forensic Optics
Frame 313: what optics and film grain can and cannot tell us
Bell & Howell lens characteristics, frame rate, and motion blur.
Legal & FOIA
How FOIA requests surface JFK records
What the National Archives releases, redacts, and withholds.
Archives
Reading the 140+ archive documents: where to start
A guided path through the primary-source collection.
Forensic Optics
Ghost images in the sprocket area
What the intersprocket images may reveal about camera mechanics.