A 62-year-old video held by federal government could prove a long-running theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy to be correct.
US history changed forever on 22 November 1963, when President Kennedy was fatally shot by an assassin while riding on a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
An investigation into JFK's killing concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer and acted alone, with the 24-year-old later shot and killed by a vigilante while being moved by the police. However, numerous doubts and speculation have hung over the case in the 62 years since, with one leading conspiracy theory claiming that Oswald had not acted alone.
And it's now claimed that a second film, captured another angle on the day of Kennedy's killing, may be the key to proving this.
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The most famous footage of the Kennedy assassination was filmed by Abraham Zapruder, who'd captured the fateful events in grim detail from an elevated spot near Dealey Plaza.
But Zapruder wasn't the only spectator with his camera rolling on the fateful day; Orville Nix also captured grainy footage of the infamous grassy knoll opposite Dealey Plaza, which is where conspiracy theorists believe a second shooter was stationed.
The grainy 8mm footage, which was captured by the air conditioner repairman, was sent away for analysis in the wake of Kennedy's killing and hasn't been seen publicly since 1978. Nix himself passed away in 1972, with his granddaughter, Linda Gayle Nix Jackson, now taking charge in a legal battle to recover the film, which she claims could be worth as much as $900 million (£656 million).
Jackson believes the film could prove that Oswald didn't act alone in shooting JFK, therefore proving long-running theories of a second shooter.
Questions over the footage have resurfaced in the wake of the declassification of numerous files relating to the former Democrat leader's assassination under the current Donald Trump administration.
"It’s really the only one that is known to have captured the grassy knoll area of Dealey Plaza right as the assassination occurs," Jackson's lawyer Scott Watnik of Wilk Auslander LLP said in an interview with The New York Post.
Watnik also noted how the footage could prove Kennedy was likely 'as a result of a conspiracy'.
He added. "If we subjected the camera-original film to optics technology of 2026, we can certainly capture details in the film that we never could have captured when... the committee had the film in 1978."
The Nix film has been held by numerous organisations over the years, including the the FBI, news outlet United Press International, Congress, The Aerospace Corporation, and the US National Archives.
A federal judge has now ruled that a battle over the film can go forward, marking a change from a 2017 dismissal of Jackson's case, meaning the footage could finally see the light of day.
Topics: Conspiracy Theory, History, John F. Kennedy, Donald Trump, US News
Brenna Cooper