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This testimony by Roy Schaeffer was given to the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) on November 18, 1994, in Dallas, Texas. He describes what he did at the El Toro base while he was in the United States Marine Corps (USMC).
MR. SCHAEFFER: My name is Roy Schaeffer and I am a private citizen, and I never met Hal Verb, but I am…I am the person Hal Verb mentioned, I am the person who replaced Oswald after he left El Toro in 1960. He left in 1959, and I joined his unit. So I did have a crypt clearance. I don't want to get into that.
Schaeffer says that he had a “crypt clearance” while in the USMC and this is the highest clearance one can receive. He said the he replaced Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) so this means that LHO had a crypto clearance as well! This is very important as it shows us that LHO would have had access to very sensitive information, and yet, after he returned to the United States the intelligence agencies and the military were ho-hum about it. We are supposed to believe that they didn't even bother to debrief him.
Schaeffer continued his testimony.
MR. SCHAEFFER: Basically, what I would like to mention is, I am a private probably an assassination buff more or less. In 1986, I contacted Jim Garrison, and before he died he had sent -- well, when he got the Zapruder film down at the trial on '66, he ran off 100 copies. Sometime in 1989, you know, I received a copy from him, and then I have been researching using a copy of the 100 that was made. Now…I am interested in this flawed editing of the Zapruder film, …Zapruder said that he had set his camera on a film speed of 24, and so over the years it got me thinking.
In 1963, I worked for the Dayton Daily News, and Hess & Eisenhart was the company that rebuilt the Presidential Limousine, so I had gone down there with a fellow reporter because I had like a scientific background. Okay, so anyway what was unique about that time was the emergency lights on the Presidential car. Now the lights were interesting in one aspect, they blinked, they would blink on one side and then on the other. …I know there was a constant blink rate. Now, …if something has a constant blink rate and you are photographing it through, like Zapruder, that Bell & Howell camera, then it would show a constant rate. In other words, if it found that the blink rate was .41 seconds, so it would show a rate of nine blinks in the film. Now what I had submitted, I believe you have that record I gave to Mr. Gunn, I plotted from 133 to 238, and the pattern does not show up that way. So I am suggesting, you know, to yourselves that that proves that alterations was done to the Zapruder film.
Also on the night of the assassination…Zapruder took the film to the Kodak lab in Dallas. Now I have some film expertise. I served a six-year government sponsored apprenticeship in film, and that had what they call a 14K process. This 14K process is how they developed Kodachrome. It is quite complicated. At that time, the only place that had that process was here in Dallas next to Love Field, and that was at the Dallas Eastman-Kodak lab. …So any way, I interjected on that, but anyway I lost my place when I said that. Could you help me? I lost my place.
DR. HALL: You were saying only the Dallas Eastman-Kodak lab.
MR. SCHAEFFER: Okay. So anyway, it is a very complicated process, and it takes about 45 seconds…It is a reversal film that like comes into a color transparency after it is developed. So, in other words, I believe that they took the original film to the National Interpretation Lab and at that point they altered it down to approximately 18 frames per second.
This is huge. Dallas was the home of the ONLY laboratory in the country that handled the complicated 14K Kodachrome processing that was used on a Zapruder film. Wasn't this convenient for the authorities? And it was right next to Love Field too!
Schaeffer then lays out two pieces of evidence showing that the Zapruder film has been altered as many researchers have said over the years. Firstly, he studied the blinking emergency lights on the presidential limousine and determined how many times they should blink in the Zapruder film sequence, but what appears dosen't match up with that number.
Secondly, the extant Zapruder film runs at 18.3 frames per second. The WC based their whole conclusion on this speed, but the problem with this is that Zapruder said that he had set his camera to record at 24 frames per second! This is a clear sign of alteration as the film has been slowed down to cover for the removal of frames. What did these frames show?
Schaeffer continues his testimony.
MR. SCHAEFFER: …so what I am saying is that I believe Frame Z-133 to 238 is where they altered that. Now the way I found that out was, I personally had the film and I went through and I plotted each blinking light per frame, and that is how I derived that the film was altered. Unless you have the actual film, you can't -- there is no way you can determine that. So that is pretty much what I had to say. I thank you for your time.
CHAIRMAN TUNHEIM: Any questions for Mr. Schaeffer?
DR. NELSON: I have one. You say you replaced Oswald, that is to say you took over all of his functions, his job?
MR. SCHAEFFER: That's correct.
DR. NELSON: Which were? What was the job assignment?
MR. SCHAEFFER: We worked at TACC, Tactical Air Control Center, basically, and it was basically tracking IFF boxes. In other words Strategic Air Command, and then they had like IFF boxes. And then they would set those in the morning, and then your crypt orders would come down from Washington, and they were like Zulu Time Rated, 24-hour time, and then there was what you call authentications. So that is what a person that has crypt does. So our job was, when the planes left the United States through the EDACs area was to clear them and plot them, and so that was basically what our job function was there at El Toro, and I am sure Oswald did the same thing.
Roy Schaeffer has shown that LHO had a crypto clearance (higher than Top Secret), and that the Zapruder film was edited as has been claimed for many years by researchers. There can't be a non-conspiratorial reason for why one of the most important pieces of evidence was altered. Furthermore, why was no one charged with tampering with evidence for doing this?
chorus.stimg.co/23760368/merlin_44772047.jpg
This testimony by Roy Schaeffer was given to the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) on November 18, 1994, in Dallas, Texas. He describes what he did at the El Toro base while he was in the United States Marine Corps (USMC).
MR. SCHAEFFER: My name is Roy Schaeffer and I am a private citizen, and I never met Hal Verb, but I am…I am the person Hal Verb mentioned, I am the person who replaced Oswald after he left El Toro in 1960. He left in 1959, and I joined his unit. So I did have a crypt clearance. I don't want to get into that.
Schaeffer says that he had a “crypt clearance” while in the USMC and this is the highest clearance one can receive. He said the he replaced Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) so this means that LHO had a crypto clearance as well! This is very important as it shows us that LHO would have had access to very sensitive information, and yet, after he returned to the United States the intelligence agencies and the military were ho-hum about it. We are supposed to believe that they didn't even bother to debrief him.
Schaeffer continued his testimony.
MR. SCHAEFFER: Basically, what I would like to mention is, I am a private probably an assassination buff more or less. In 1986, I contacted Jim Garrison, and before he died he had sent -- well, when he got the Zapruder film down at the trial on '66, he ran off 100 copies. Sometime in 1989, you know, I received a copy from him, and then I have been researching using a copy of the 100 that was made. Now…I am interested in this flawed editing of the Zapruder film, …Zapruder said that he had set his camera on a film speed of 24, and so over the years it got me thinking.
In 1963, I worked for the Dayton Daily News, and Hess & Eisenhart was the company that rebuilt the Presidential Limousine, so I had gone down there with a fellow reporter because I had like a scientific background. Okay, so anyway what was unique about that time was the emergency lights on the Presidential car. Now the lights were interesting in one aspect, they blinked, they would blink on one side and then on the other. …I know there was a constant blink rate. Now, …if something has a constant blink rate and you are photographing it through, like Zapruder, that Bell & Howell camera, then it would show a constant rate. In other words, if it found that the blink rate was .41 seconds, so it would show a rate of nine blinks in the film. Now what I had submitted, I believe you have that record I gave to Mr. Gunn, I plotted from 133 to 238, and the pattern does not show up that way. So I am suggesting, you know, to yourselves that that proves that alterations was done to the Zapruder film.
Also on the night of the assassination…Zapruder took the film to the Kodak lab in Dallas. Now I have some film expertise. I served a six-year government sponsored apprenticeship in film, and that had what they call a 14K process. This 14K process is how they developed Kodachrome. It is quite complicated. At that time, the only place that had that process was here in Dallas next to Love Field, and that was at the Dallas Eastman-Kodak lab. …So any way, I interjected on that, but anyway I lost my place when I said that. Could you help me? I lost my place.
DR. HALL: You were saying only the Dallas Eastman-Kodak lab.
MR. SCHAEFFER: Okay. So anyway, it is a very complicated process, and it takes about 45 seconds…It is a reversal film that like comes into a color transparency after it is developed. So, in other words, I believe that they took the original film to the National Interpretation Lab and at that point they altered it down to approximately 18 frames per second.
This is huge. Dallas was the home of the ONLY laboratory in the country that handled the complicated 14K Kodachrome processing that was used on a Zapruder film. Wasn't this convenient for the authorities? And it was right next to Love Field too!
Schaeffer then lays out two pieces of evidence showing that the Zapruder film has been altered as many researchers have said over the years. Firstly, he studied the blinking emergency lights on the presidential limousine and determined how many times they should blink in the Zapruder film sequence, but what appears dosen't match up with that number.
Secondly, the extant Zapruder film runs at 18.3 frames per second. The WC based their whole conclusion on this speed, but the problem with this is that Zapruder said that he had set his camera to record at 24 frames per second! This is a clear sign of alteration as the film has been slowed down to cover for the removal of frames. What did these frames show?
Schaeffer continues his testimony.
MR. SCHAEFFER: …so what I am saying is that I believe Frame Z-133 to 238 is where they altered that. Now the way I found that out was, I personally had the film and I went through and I plotted each blinking light per frame, and that is how I derived that the film was altered. Unless you have the actual film, you can't -- there is no way you can determine that. So that is pretty much what I had to say. I thank you for your time.
CHAIRMAN TUNHEIM: Any questions for Mr. Schaeffer?
DR. NELSON: I have one. You say you replaced Oswald, that is to say you took over all of his functions, his job?
MR. SCHAEFFER: That's correct.
DR. NELSON: Which were? What was the job assignment?
MR. SCHAEFFER: We worked at TACC, Tactical Air Control Center, basically, and it was basically tracking IFF boxes. In other words Strategic Air Command, and then they had like IFF boxes. And then they would set those in the morning, and then your crypt orders would come down from Washington, and they were like Zulu Time Rated, 24-hour time, and then there was what you call authentications. So that is what a person that has crypt does. So our job was, when the planes left the United States through the EDACs area was to clear them and plot them, and so that was basically what our job function was there at El Toro, and I am sure Oswald did the same thing.
Roy Schaeffer has shown that LHO had a crypto clearance (higher than Top Secret), and that the Zapruder film was edited as has been claimed for many years by researchers. There can't be a non-conspiratorial reason for why one of the most important pieces of evidence was altered. Furthermore, why was no one charged with tampering with evidence for doing this?