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Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

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The moving, untold circle of relatives story at the back of Abraham Zapruder’s film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting have an effect on on our world.

Abraham Zapruder didn’t know when he ran home to take hold of his video camera on November 22, 1963 that this single spontaneous decision would change his circle of relatives’s life for generations to come. At the beginning intended as a home movie of President Kennedy’s motorcade, Zapruder’s film of the JFK assassination is now shown in each and every American history class, included in Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit questions, and referenced in novels and films. It’s the most famous example of citizen journalism, a precursor to the iconic images of our time, such as the Challenger explosion, the Rodney King beating, and the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. But few know the complicated legacy of the film itself.

Now Abraham’s granddaughter, Alexandra Zapruder, is able to tell the complete story for the first time. With the assistance of the Zapruder circle of relatives’s exclusive records, memories, and documents, Zapruder tracks the film’s torturous journey through history, all even as American society undergoes its own transformation, and a new media-driven consumer culture challenges traditional ideas of privacy, ownership, journalism, and knowledge.

Part biography, part circle of relatives history, and part historical narrative, Zapruder demonstrates how one man’s unwitting moment in the spotlight shifted the way politics, culture, and media intersect, bringing about the larger social questions that define our age.

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