A Pekin, Illinois, native's polite Midwestern manners helped secure what has been called the most famous 26 seconds in celluloid history: the Zapruder film of President John F. Kennedy's assassination ...

It has been called the most important 26 seconds of film ever recorded, when a Dallas dressmaker captured the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in horrific detail. Now, his granddaughter ...

‘Dick, Kennedy’s been shot in Dallas!’ I was in my office as Los Angeles bureau chief for LIFE magazine. The shouter was a LIFE correspondent who had wandered over to the Associated Press Teletype to ...

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris deconstructs the most famous 26 seconds in film history Ron Rosenbaum One frame of the Zapruder film has long been considered too ...

— -- Here are the techniques and demonstrations used in the "JFK: Death in Dealey Plaza" episode of UNSOLVED HISTORY to put history to the test: Digital enhancement of Zapruder film: The Zapruder ...

When she began to research her grandfather's famous film of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Alexandra Zapruder confronted a family taboo topic. A Dallas businessman and dressmaker, ...

Abraham Zapruder’s home movie captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. (Zapruder Film Copyright 1967 (Renewed 1995) The Sixth ...

Gerald L. Posner is the author of "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK." I have probably seen Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder’s home movie that recorded President John F.

If anything of consequence occurs in this era of smartphones and multi-G wireless networks, a horde of "citizen journalists" will doubtless be on hand to capture and broadcast the sights and sounds.

November 22, 1963 - Dallas businessman Abraham Zapruder left work to get his eight millimeter movie camera. Abe, Papa Abe, Mr. Z - that's how family and friends knew him - loved making home movies.

“The Zapruder film serves as a clock,” Morris points out. One can measure the time it took for the three assassination shots (one missed) to be fired—which the Warren Commission concluded was slightly ...