# has the Zapruder film done more harm than good **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 3, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236 "2011-06-03T19:34:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236/21 "2011-06-13T22:08:46Z")
Well, I hope his [Normandy pictures](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html)were authentic. They must have been. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236/22 "2011-06-14T14:01:13Z")
> [@Damfino](#): > > Well, I hope his [Normandy pictures](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html)were authentic. They must have been. > [@](#): > > With his cameras held high to keep them from getting waterlogged, Capa was pulled aboard the LCI and was soon out of harm’s way. He had used three rolls of film and exposed 106 frames. After reaching England, he sped by train to London and delivered his precious film for developing. > > A darkroom technician was almost as anxious to see the invasion images as Capa himself. In his haste, the technician dried the film too quickly. The excess heat melted the emulsion on all but 10 of the frames. Oops. If Capa strangled that fellow with his bare hands - would a jury have convicted him? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236/23 "2011-06-14T14:31:30Z")
Of course it has! Conspiracy theorists will always wonder how it was possible for the “magic bullet” to pass through Kennedy, perform several changes in direction, hit Connally and then 38 years later bring down the Twin towers. Explain that one. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236/24 "2011-06-15T05:11:44Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Oops. > > If Capa strangled that fellow with his bare hands - would a jury have convicted him? 😉 I’ve seen this reported in several sources, but they all just say “a darkroom technician”. So that fellow hasn’t even suffered the ignominy of being named – he has managed to retain his anonymity. We should at least know his name, so we can properly curse his incompetence! ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236/25 "2011-06-15T13:07:06Z")
All these leaders and stars, done in by individual crazy people with guns…and the NRA uses things like the Gabby attempted assassination, various school and university mass killings, as reasons why more people should be carrying weapons…why it should be easy to get guns…and why anyone who even wants restrictions on the size of the clips is just a bleeding-heart liberal pinko. Even Reagan didn’t put them off message…we want our guns, we feel naked and defenseless without them, we are so scared, you can have my gun if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers… I wish Canada wasn’t so cold. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236/26 "2011-06-15T13:16:11Z")
**crucible** , please open another thread if you want to have a debate about gun control. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-zapruder-film-done-more-harm-than-good/584236.md?page=1)