Last February historian Max Holland argued in the pages of HNN that the Zapruder film missed the first shot Lee Harvey Oswald fired at President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, meaning Oswald had more time to have gotten off his three shots than previously believed.

In November the New York Times posted an op ed by Holland, drawing attention to his bold thesis. Now a Seattle lawyer, Kenneth R. Scearce, using clips from the film in a dramatic web presentation, has augmented Holland's thesis with evidence from the film itself. Scearce's article is posted on Marquette Professor John McAdams's respected JFK assassination website.

Holland's thesis challenges one of the main arguments used by conspiracy theorists, who claim that Oswald could not have fired three shots at Kennedy in the brief timeline laid out in the report of the Warren Commission.