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Gail (Gayle) Nix Jackson v. United States: JFK Assassination “Nix Film” Case Dismissed

For nearly a year and a half, the government and the grand daughter of a witness to the Kennedy Assassination have fought a legal battle over who has a bit of film of the shooting called the Nix Film.  The original appears lost and this case, which just concluded, yielded …

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53rd Anniversary of Kennedy Assassination: Lawsuit Over Kennedy Assassination “Nix Film” Languishes While All Eyes Are on October 26, 2017

Mark your calendars, Kennedy assassination research fans. October 26, 2017 is the date when the government is scheduled to declassify and release all of the remaining 3,600 JFK Assassination records (see here). There are two ardently divided groups on the topic of the Kennedy assassination — the amorphous conspiracy theorists, …

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Government Files Motion to Dismiss in Suit Over “Nix Film” of the JFK Assassination

The grand-daughter of a man who filmed the November 22, 1963 Kennedy assassination from the reverse perspective of the infamous Zapruder film is facing a motion to dismiss filed by the U.S. government in response to her lawsuit for replevin and “taking” of the so-called Nix film. We covered the …

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New JFK Assassination / FOIA Opinion (Morley v. CIA)

A January 2016 opinion from the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sheds more light on the “public-benefit factor” regarding entitlement to attorney fees under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) than it does provide information about the subject of the case: the Kennedy Assassination. For more than …

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Grand-Daughter of Orville Nix Sues Government for Return of JFK Assassination Film

While the Zapruder film has become a widely-recognized piece of history, the Nix film has been its silent step-sister.  Abraham Zapruder, of course, shot the sixteen second film from atop the Grassy Knoll which captured the initial and fatal shot of President Kennedy.  Mr. Nix was standing on the opposite …

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National Archives: October 2017 Release of Last of JFK Assassination Records

In April 2015, the US National Archives explained at their NDCPrioritization: What Secrets Do People Want to See? conference how the release of the remaining JFK records will be accomplished. By way of background — that “background” being a cry primarily from FOIA fans and conspiracy types to free the …