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Frame 150 from the Zapruder film. Kennedy's limousine has just turned onto Elm Street, moments before the first shot. 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.
A multimedia e-book version was also published that same year and includes visual images of the diaries and their writers, interviews, glossary terms, maps, and other valuable information for educators, students, and the general public. [5] Zapruder is the author of the 2016 book Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film. [6] [7]
Sitzman was never called by the Warren Commission.In the years following the assassination, she was interviewed by various researchers and writers. While Sitzman continued to maintain (in a 1993 interview) that the first shot she heard came from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository, [6] she stated in a book published in 2013 that she believed there was a possibility that there was ...
Still image of Hugh Jamieson, during interview at KERA, circa 1970s. The Jamieson Film Company, a Texas film production company, was one of the crucial players in the emergence of Dallas as a center for commercial film production in the U.S. Founded by Hugh Jamieson in 1916, the Jamieson Film Company is perhaps most widely remembered for producing the first copies of the Abraham Zapruder film ...
In 1969 the company did a large job processing film for the documentary Woodstock; and because of that work, it was awarded a contract from Life to work on the Zapruder film, the 27-second home movie captured by Abraham Zapruder of the Kennedy assassination. Groden worked on that project and made an additional unauthorized copy of the film ...
Zapruder's movie camera was an 8 mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD—top-of-the-line when it was purchased in 1962. [citation needed] Zapruder had planned to film the motorcade from his office window but opted for a better spot in Dealey Plaza where the motorcade would be passing. [19]
The version of the Zapruder film available to the public depicts the fatal head shot on only one frame of the film, frame 313. Additionally, Brugioni is adamant that the set of briefing boards available to the public in the National Archives is not the set that he and his team produced on November 23–24, 1963. [11] [14]
A color 8 mm film that Muchmore made is one of the primary documents of the assassination. The Muchmore film, with other 8 mm films taken by Abraham Zapruder and Orville Nix, was used by the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination and to position the presidential limousine in a forensic recreation of the event in May 1964. [2]