Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film

Author Gayle Nix Jackson explores the mystery of the lesser known home movie of the assassination made by her grandfather, Orville Nix in her debut book, Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film. The Nix camera original film is missing and all that exists today are copies. This isn?t your dry, encyclopedic JFK book. This book is very different. It begins with the story of the assassination then takes the reader into the lives of Orville Nix, his family, his workplace and then examines with an empathetic pen how the government, the media and others exploited, took for granted and ignored Orville Nix?s testimony as to what he saw on November 22, 1963.Based on her research, her adoration of her Dallas roots and love of her grandfather, the book flows with a style that could best be described as the prosaic love child of Tom Clancy and Fannie Flagg with a bit of philosophy thrown in for good measure. Nix Jackson accurately describes the times, the political temperature and the places of Oak Cliff and Dallas, Texas in a way only a native could. She also questions the motivations of the city leaders at the time as well as the alphabet agencies of the government, the Texas Oil movers and shakers and the media manipulation of this horrid event in our history.Does she answer the unanswerable question as to who killed JFK? No. But she does offer an insightful and persuasive argument as to why it is necessary to find the missing Nix film.