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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.
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. [16]
Clint Hill jumping on the presidential limousine, as captured in the Zapruder film. Hill was riding on the left front running board of the Secret Service car immediately behind the presidential limousine. He heard what seemed to him to be a firecracker coming from his right, and as he was turning his head he noticed President Kennedy had been ...
“This is remarkable, in color, and you can feel the 80 mph,” said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auction in Boston, where the film will go on sale during a live auction on ...
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 ...
Groden achieved his first national exposure on March 6, 1975, when he and Dick Gregory were on Good Night America, a late-night TV program hosted by Geraldo Rivera, and they showed Groden's copy of the Zapruder film. It was the first time ever it was shown in motion to a national TV audience.
In December 1999, the Zapruder family donated the copyright to the Zapruder film to the Sixth Floor Museum, along with one of the first-generation copies made on November 22, 1963, and other copies of the film. The Zapruder family no longer retains any copyrights to the film, which are now controlled entirely by the museum.
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 was 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]