Mr. Specter. What are your duties, in a general way?
Mr Shaneyfelt. I am assigned to the FBI Laboratory, as a document examiner, and photographic expert.
Mr. Specter. During the course of those duties, have you had occasion to make an analysis of certain movies which purport to have been taken of the assassination?
Mr. Shaneyfelt. Yes; I have.
Mr. Specter. What movies have you examined?
Mr. Shaneyfelt. I have examined a roll of 8-mm. motion pictures made by Mr. Abraham Zapruder of Dallas, Tex., that he took on November 22, of the assassination of President Kennedy.
Mr. Specter. Can you outline in a general way how the movies taken by Mr. Zapruder came into your possession?
Mr. Shaneyfelt. Yes; Mr. Zapruder, on realizing what he had in his photographs, took them immediately to a local Dallas processing plant, had them processed, and had three copies made. He turned two copies of those movies over to representatives of the Secret Service.
The original and other copy he sold to Life magazine.
The FBI was given one of the copies by the Secret Service. The Secret Service loaned a copy to us long enough for us to make a copy for our use, which we did, and this copy is the one that I have been examining.