On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder left his office hoping for a
glimpse of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it passed by
Dealey Plaza. A Russian Jewish immigrant who wholeheartedly loved
his home in America, Abe thrilled at the chance to see the young
president in person--and perhaps to bring back a home movie of this
once-in-a-lifetime moment for his family. The twenty-six seconds of
Abraham Zapruder's footage depicting the JFK assassination is now
iconic, forever embedded in American culture and identity. The
first major instance of citizen journalism, this amateur film
forced Abraham Zapruder to face unprecedented dilemmas: How to
handle his unexpected ownership of a vitally important yet
unspeakably terrible piece of American history? How to aid the U.S.
government and, at the same time, fend off the swarm of reporters
grasping to purchase the film? How to make the best decisions to
ensure the film was safeguarded--but never exploited? Now Abraham's
granddaughter, Alexandra Zapruder, uses previously sealed archival
sources, her family's personal records, and interviews to delve
into the film's fraught history--its chance beginning, the frantic
moments and crucial decisions following the assassination, its
controversial ownership by LIFE Magazine, its use in the major
assassination investigations, the persistent battles over control
of the images, and its impact on American art, film, and
literature. Zapruder traces issues of ownership, privacy, and
ethics through the decades, as the film sparked debates on the
public representation of violence, the media's role in
disseminating information, and how personal property becomes public
legacy. Throughout this complex history, Zapruder traces the
intertwined lives of the film and her family, fusing the private
and public to create a complete narrative of the Zapruder film for
the first time. She shows how twenty-six seconds of footage changed
her family and, at the same time, challenged American society,
media, and culture, raising new questions that came to define our
age.
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