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 ...

Abraham Zapruder recorded a tragic moment in history when he captured President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination in full color on Nov. 22, 1963. Fifty-three years later, granddaughter Alexandra ...

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 ...

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, ...

"Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film," by Alexandra Zapruder. Publisher: Twelve. 472 pages. $27. Just when you thought there wasn’t a pebble left unflipped in the ...

Abraham Zapruder is proof that any one of us can find ourselves in the middle of history. In his case, the Dallas dressmaker witnessed the horror of the death of President John F. Kennedy. On November ...

‘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 ...

Abraham Zapruder was a home-movie hobbyist and a staunch John F. Kennedy supporter. On Nov. 22, 1963, the Dallas resident nabbed a prime spot from which to view the visiting president’s motorcade. His ...

As artifacts of the 1960s go, one of them towers, tragically, above all others — above Andy Warhol’s silk-screen masterworks, above The Beatles’ first recordings, above the high and low iconography of ...

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.