The Second Black Splice at Frame 157

Zapruder Frame 157

Frame 157 appears just after a sudden and unexplained jump in the Zapruder film—following a cut that has silently erased frames 155 and 156 from the historical record. It is the other end of what appears to be a splice, the first being Frame 154, which is marred by a thick black stripe covering the bottom third of the image. That stripe abruptly vanishes in Frame 157, leaving a visible discontinuity that suggests frames have been physically removed.