Exclusive | JFK assassination film held by feds could be worth $900M and could prove 2nd shooter on grassy knoll

A 62-year-old home movie could blow the JFK assassination wide open — and prove once and for all there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll that fateful day.The grainy 8mm footage, captured by Dallas air conditioner repairman Orville Nix as bullets ripped through Dealey Plaza on Nov.22, 1963, hasn’t been seen since 1978, when it was sent away for analysis by an LA company and later fell under federal ownership – although the feds claim they don’t have it.Nix died in 1972, and his granddaughter picked up from her late dad the legal war to recover his film — which she’s convinced is worth more than $900 million as it may hold the key to exposing one of history’s biggest coverups.Now a federal judge has ruled that the battle over the film can go forward — and the footage might finally see the light of day.Unlike the famous Zapruder film showing the moment President Kennedy was shot in the head, Nix’s camera was pointed at the infamous grassy knoll — the exact spot where many witnesses thought shots originated.

Conspiracy theorists have long believed a second gunman was hiding behind a fence on the knoll.The Nix film captured first lady Jackie Kennedy climbing on the back of the presidential limo immediately after her husband was shot — and a view of the fence.The film could reveal evidence that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone — thanks to new optic technologies and AI, according to Scott Watnick, a lawyer for Nix’s granddaughter, Gail Nix Jackson.“It’s really the only one that is known to have captured the grassy knoll area of Dealey Plaza right as the assassination occurs,” Watnick told The Post, noting that the film could bolster a 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations report that found Kennedy “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” That panel obtained the Nix film and played a role in the legal saga for its return.“If we subjected the camera-original film to optics technology of 2026, we...