A 60-year-old home movie could finally reveal whether multiple shooters, and not a lone gunman, assassinated President John F. Kennedy but the federal government has been hiding it for decades, according to an explosive new lawsuit.
The heirs of Orville Nix, a Dallas maintenance man who recorded the moment of Kennedys death with his home-movie camera, have tried for years to get his original film back from the governments clutches.
It would be very significant if the original Nix film surfaced today, said Jefferson Morley, author of The Ghost and other books about the CIA.
With recent advances in digital image processing, the original film would essentially be a new piece of evidence, Morley explained. Theres a significant loss in quality between the first and second generation of an analog film like Nixs.
Nixs clip, unlike the better known film shot by Abraham Zapruder, was taken from the center of Dealey Plaza as the presidential limousine drove into an ambush on Elm Street in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.