Zapruder Film Quotes

I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and bought the existing Kennedy theory books, most of which are outlandish. But what DeLillo posits - some rogue CIA guys - is the most dramatically sound, plausible explanation for it.

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.

We took care of Kennedy

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.

John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.