I think I saw a Nikon F in a JFK documenatary

[68degrees]

Lately Ive been learning about Nikon F and thinking about them all the time. Its amazing how when you are thinking about a certain thing you suddenly start seeing it everywhere.

I was watching this JFK documentary and there was a part where there was a meeting of law enforcement after the crime, and according to the narrator, the only guy in the meeting that wasnt a law enforcement person was ..... wait for it ........ da da da da da.... Jack Ruby. He was in the back and in front of him was a guy with what looked like a Nikon F. If true, thats amazing at just how old that design is.

Im noticing them everywhere now, where before I never did.

 

[furcafe]

Not surprising, the F had already been around for 4 years. Of course, Bob Jackson used an S3 to get his famous photo of Ruby murdering Oswald.

 

[Highway 61]

Of course, Bob Jackson used an S3 to get his famous photo of Ruby murdering Oswald.

Rumors, rumors...

😀

 

[Mackinaw]

I've watched several documentaries about the JFK assignation over the past few days and think I've spotted about every type of camera ever made. 4X5s', TLRs', 35mm, etc. Pick your favorite brand and it's probably there.

Jim B.

 

[jsrockit]

I would expect a Nikon F to be there... it must have been widely used at that point.

 

[Vics]

The truly amazing thing about the F is how long it was in production before the F2 came out.

 

[L Collins]

Rumors, rumors...

😀

Is that Dylan in the back right?

And BTW, Highway 61 Revisited is the greatest R&Ralbum of all time. The fact that he couldn't find room on it for Positively Fourth Street blows my mind.

 

[xayraa33]

There was a guy on Dealey Plaza who shot the... assassination scene using a chrome Nikon F (Photomic model). His photos were used by the Warren Commission IIRC (to prove that President Kennedy had been... shot).

Wasn't that James Altgens who used a Mamiya made Nikkorex F camera with a Nikkor 105 mm lens ?

 

[Highway 61]

Wasn't that James Altgens who used a Mamiya made Nikkorex F camera with a Nikkor 105 mm lens ?

Yes. He's said to have taken seven photographs on Dealey Plaza, while the Warren Commission examinated three of them only.

 

[kbg32]

I would expect a Nikon F to be there... it must have been widely used at that point.

There were Fs a plenty in the police garage when they first introduced Oswald to the media after he was charged with Officer Tibbits murder, then the president's. Less then 18 hrs. later, he was shot by Ruby.

 

[xayraa33]

Yes. He's said to have taken seven photographs on Dealey Plaza, while the Warren Commission examinated three of them only.

Even the background of his famous JFK limo shot (no pun intended) is said to be slightly altered to hide the identity of certain people that should not have been there.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11/21/jfk-49-years-in-the-offing-the-altgens-reenactment/

 

[nobbylon]

The truly amazing thing about the F is how long it was in production before the F2 came out.

And that it remained in production when the F2 was released. Saying that though, the F3 was in production when both F2 and F4 were produced.

 

[68degrees]

why was jack ruby in that meeting? That is a stone in my shoe.

 

[Highway 61]

why was jack ruby in that meeting? That is a stone in my shoe.

Jack Ruby owned a night club. Many policemen were regular customers of the place ; as a reward Jack Ruby could attend police meetings quite easily it seems... Also, you might - or might not - know that during the months preceeding the assassination, the club hosted some other "meetings", with men like... Lee Harvey Oswald.

Ruby told he killed Oswald to avoid a trial which would have upset Jackie Kennedy a lot. Of course... 😀

 

[68degrees]

Jack ... during the months preceeding the assassination, the club hosted some other meetings, with men like ...... Lee Harvey Oswald. 😀

whats your conclusion or proposal about this?

 

[johannielscom]

Jack ... during the months preceeding the assassination, the club hosted some other meetings, with men like ..... Lee Harvey Oswald.

whats your conclusion or proposal about this?

Probably some open bar tab that festered on...


😀

 

[x-ray]

How many of you were alive when Kennedy was assassinated? I was in high school in algebra class. I was watching live TV and saw Ruby kill Oswald that Sunday morning. Hard to believe I saw what I did. Freaks a person out just a bit.

The F, Leica M, 4x5 Crown and Speed Graphic and TLR Rollei were the main cameras of the day.

 

[68degrees]

How many of you were alive when Kennedy was assassinated? I was in high school in algebra class. I was watching live TV and saw Ruby kill Oswald that Sunday morning. Hard to believe I saw what I did. Freaks a person out just a bit.

The F, Leica M, 4x5 Crown and Speed Graphic and TLR Rollei were the main cameras of the day.

why were you guys watching live tv in algebra class? I wasnt born yet but I remember when regan was shot. We watched a replay but that was in social studies. Teacher wheeled in a big tv on a cart and ancient video tape player. He said "watch this what happened today"

 

[Richard G]

why were you guys watching live tv in algebra class?

Your best post yet. Why do American schools have whole classes just on Algebra, I always wondered, watching American TV as a kid. We had Maths (not Math.)

 

[KoNickon]

I was watching film this week (not video) of Oswald being led out, seconds before he was shot, and an unmistakeable Leica M is being held up right in front of the cameraman.

Why wouldn't we have an entire class on algebra? Sometimes it's rolled together with trigonometry, but for a semester course, I think algebra is a sufficiently meaty topic, particularly "advanced" algebra, as they called it (you know, quadratic equations -- makes me break out in a sweat decades later).