I think I saw a Nikon F in a JFK documenatary

[ornate_wrasse]

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"

I think he meant that he was in algebra class when Kennedy was assassinated. As I recall, it happened on a Friday and most kids were in school when it happened. Oswald was killed by Ruby a couple days later, on a Sunday. Supposedly it was the very first live murder ever seen on TV. That is what he was watching on TV. I'm sure it was at his home, definitely not in algebra class.

BTW, I was a high school student in November of 1963. As it happens, I had been sick and so had not gone to school that day. My mother had gone to the library and, when she returned in the afternoon, told me that the librarians told her that the President had been shot. I immediately turned on the TV to watch Walter Cronkite's reporting.

Also, since I lived in Washington, D.C. at the time, we were given Monday off from school so we could attend the procession for the late President. I went to see the procession and crowds of people lined the streets to watch.
A sad time in our history. I cried like a baby on finding out the President was dead.

 

[x-ray]

I think he meant that he was in algebra class when Kennedy was assassinated. As I recall, it happened on a Friday and most kids were in school when it happened. Oswald was killed by Ruby a couple days later, on a Sunday. Supposedly it was the very first live murder ever seen on TV. That is what he was watching on TV. I'm sure it was at his home, definitely not in algebra class.

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. Yes I was in algebra on that Friday when Kennedy was assassinated. I was home on that Sunday morning watching live TV and saw Oswald killed, not in algebra.

 

[Michael Markey]

Some of these photos are here.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=j...J8fAhAeMjoC4DA&ved=0CKEBEIke&biw=1133&bih=648

 

[68degrees]

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. Yes I was in algebra on that Friday when Kennedy was assassinated. I was home on that Sunday morning watching live TV and saw Oswald killed, not in algebra.

Oh that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[xayraa33]

James Altgens with his Nikkorex F camera appears on a still from a film taken at the time of the JFK assassination that apparently also shows gunmen in the pergola on the grassy knoll right behind Abraham Zapruder while he was filming that legendary 8mm colour film of the killing of JFK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QsEGAyyoE

 

[Rangefinderfreak]

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

The truly amazing thing about the F is that it still works like new... today, 2013...

 

[enasniearth]

Kennedy Nikon

Kennedy Nikon

The camera for the Oswald shooting was a Nikon s2 not a s3

When Kennedy was shot .
I was in grade school , they stopped class -
Wheeled in a tv so we saw the news reports .
Not for Oswald's shooting - for the day of Kennedy's passing .
It seems hope died a little that day .

Yeah you can make fun of Oswald as a band .
With his death a lot of questions were left to speculation .

My memory's of grade school are the day of Kennedy's death
And the drills for an attack .

The worlds in the toilet and someone is jiggling the handle .

 

[Rangefinderfreak]

The Kennedy episode, both JFK and Bobby are just some of the ugliest in US history, there are others, Watergate, 9/11 and so on... Too bad we didn`t have Assaigne then.

 

[furcafe]

Really? Not really arguing, but all the articles I've read say Bob used an S3. I've never been to the 6th Floor Museum where the camera is actually on display.

The camera for the Oswald shooting was a Nikon s2 not a s3

 

[KoNickon]

My opinion is that JFK was killed because of a plot having gathered many famous mafia people whose names aren't difficult to find and ex-CIA extremist people having been concerned by the Bay of Pigs disaster. There was more then probably a crossfire on Dealey Plaza - shooters from the book depository but probably located on floors lower than the 6th one, shooters on the Grassy Knoll and probably several other shooters on the railroad bridge, just in case. Plus some other people like that "umbrella man" nobody could identify onwards from the assassination. The death bullet cannot have been shot from somewhere else than the Grassy Knoll. The plot had been organized and financed for long, involving several people from Washington, Los Angeles, New-Orleans and Dallas. For some reason, Oswald was probably involved in the plot as an obscure member but he probably didn't shoot the death bullet, if any. Who's the fool who could still really think that what we see on Abraham Zapruder's movie (especially now that the movie has been restored and all its images being there), i.e., the President's forehead litteraly exploding when a bullet coming from the front, and from not far away, hit him, could have been caused by an old Mannlicher Carcano rifle shooting from the book depository 6th floor ? His own assassination was probably within the lines from the beginning, because he knew too much about everything, and, once dead, he would make the perfect culprit, so that nobody would dare to look for the truth too seriously - including people having been very close to the late President.

I am absolutely not going to get into the conspiracy theories. But certainly a Mannlicher Carcano could do that damage -- it was and is a military rifle shooting a high-powered round. And the "forehead literally exploding" would easily be as a result of a bullet exiting the skull. It's the exit wounds that are big, not the entry wounds, generally.

Back to things photographic.

 

[furcafe]

Also, re: umbrella man, not exactly unidentified:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-umbrella-man.html

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001183275/the-umbrella-man.html

I am absolutely not going to get into the conspiracy theories. But certainly a Mannlicher Carcano could do that damage -- it was and is a military rifle shooting a high-powered round. And the "forehead literally exploding" would easily be as a result of a bullet exiting the skull. It's the exit wounds that are big, not the entry wounds, generally.

Back to things photographic.

 

[Richard G]

See 'JFK: the smoking gun' recently aired on TV in many countries. An American ballistics expert already solved the source of the fatal shot years ago, and an Australian homicide detective gives further support to his evidence, benefitting from many documents released in the 1990s.

 

[cosmonaut]

I was at Dealey Plaza last week. The grassy knoll isn't far from where the fatal shot hit. If anyone had been on the knoll I think they would have been spotted. The whole area is smaller than watching on TV would lead you to believe.
The first shot was at a lot steeper angle than I believed. The X here was the last fired.


Untitled by Cosmonaut's, on Flickr


Untitled by Cosmonaut's, on Flickr


Untitled by Cosmonaut's, on Flickr

 

[ELS]

Thanks for the "live" photos of the area Greg...

Ed

 

[ABrosig]

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.

I've actually seen Jackson's Nikon S, it was (probably still is) on display in the 6th Floor Museum in what was the Texas School Book Depository on that day in 1963, along side a print of the photo. Heady stuff.

 

[cosmonaut]

Thanks for the "live" photos of the area Greg...

Ed

Thanks Ed.

 

[Highway 61]

I was at Dealey Plaza last week. The grassy knoll isn't far from where the fatal shot hit. If anyone had been on the knoll I think they would have been spotted.

In 1963 there was a palisade ontop the Grassy Knoll. Still there ?

Also - the color photos of JFK's head shown by the man on your pics clearly tell a fatal hit coming from the front, from a shooter located at 2 o'clock of the President, as per KoNickon's explanations (very large exit wound, narrower entry wound).

 

[cosmonaut]

In 1963 there was a palisade ontop the Grassy Knoll. Still there ?

Also - the color photos of JFK's head shown by the man on your pics clearly tell a fatal hit coming from the front, from a shooter located at 2 o'clock of the President, as per KoNickon's explanations (very large exit wound, narrower entry wound).

Yes there is a fence. I can't say it's the same one. There are gaps in the boards and you can see through it.
I think if someone were shooting from the knoll Mrs. Kennedy would have been wounded. I watched a documentary and a through and though shot would have hit her as well.

 

[cosmonaut]

In 1963 there was a palisade ontop the Grassy Knoll. Still there ?

Also - the color photos of JFK's head shown by the man on your pics clearly tell a fatal hit coming from the front, from a shooter located at 2 o'clock of the President, as per KoNickon's explanations (very large exit wound, narrower entry wound).

You would think that for sure. The wound was cone shaped.

 

[3rdtrick]

Actually the real question is:
Could a photographer actually take three shots with a Nikon F in the time that JFK was in the frame??? I am thinking it was a single frame printed three different ways.
Pete