Conner was an artist and film -- or film collages -- were one of his media. He basically took existing newsreel footage and edited together with sounds to create film shorts. REPORT chronicles the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in October 1963 when Conner and his family were living in Massachusetts.
It's a quick-paced, tightly-edited 10-minutes short with camera footage of everything from Kennedy's arrival at Love Field to the limousine caravan through downtown to Lee Harvey Oswald's perp walk and his own demise due to the bullet from Jack Ruby's gun.
It was interesting to hear the news media orate the happenings, before they even knew what would happen, making odd references to guns or even to Jackie Kennedy's pink outfit. Other times, Conner takes a 10-second strip of footage, of the limousine carrying the president, and edits it to play over and over. You sit and just wait for the rifle bullets to blast through his skull. It's particularly tense.
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