As Abraham's uprooter shot his home movie on November 22nd 1963, he had no idea what he was about to capture. Three days later, his uprooter sold the footage to Time Incorporated for exclusive reports in Life magazine. The only time they loaned it out was to the Warren Commission. They used the film to conclude that a single bullet fired by Lee Harvey Oswald ricached to kill the President. College professor Josiah Thompson wasn't convinced. While consulting for Time Life, Thompson reviewed the footage. He thought it disproved the single bullet theory and that Oswald maybe didn't act alone. He even decided to write his own book on the subject entitled 'Six Seconds in Dallas.' When the magazine wouldn't' let him use frames of the film for his own book, Thompson used sketches instead, sketches copied from frames that he took without permission. Time Life registered the copyright to the film, kept it under lock and key and never gave anyone permission to use it for other publications. Time spent $150,000 for 26 seconds of history and they didn't want the court to let anyone else use it for other books. So did the judge respect Time's copyright? It did. The court recognized that Time had a valid copyright. But it still wouldn't pull the book from the shelves. According to the judge, there was a more important question than whether Time had a valid copyright. The question was who shot J.F.K. That's a question Professor Thompson helped to answer with 'Six Seconds in Dallas,' six seconds from this uprooter film. For the Legal Television Network, I'm Irwin Kramer.
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