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The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a Bell & Howell home-movie camera, as United States President John F. Kennedy 's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Unexpectedly, it captured the President's assassination .
Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Dec 8, 2016 · Abe Zapruder had no idea when he took his 8-millimeter camera down to Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 that he would record President Kennedy's assassination. The footage he captured, less...
Nov 18, 2013 · Zapruder's roughly 26-second film would be the only known recording to capture the entire assassination. Watch full televised coverage of the national tragedy from November 22, 1963.
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Apr 18, 2024 · On November 22, 1963, Zapruder, who was a supporter of the president, took his 8-mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic camera to Dealey Plaza in hopes of capturing Kennedy’s motorcade. Zapruder, age 58, climbed atop a concrete wall to get a clearer view.
Nov 22, 2013 · Zapruder, a short, bald man with a bow tie, a hint of an immigrant’s accent and a Masonic pin on his lapel, captured the world’s most powerful man in the last seconds of his life. Even amid the...
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Using an 8mm Bell & Zoomatic camera and a Kodak Kodachrome II film, Zapruder photographed the motorcade from the moment it turned onto Elm from Houston Street until it went under a railroad bridge. President Kennedy was mortally wounded by a rifle shot as his limousine was almost immediately in from of Zapruder.
