RIP Richard Stolley, the Man Who Bought Abraham Zapruder’s Film

Sitzman and Zapruder
As seen in the movie “JFK,” secretary Marilyn Sitzman stood behind dressmaker Abraham Zapruder as he filmed the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963.

The recent passing of magazine editor Richard Stolley is occasion to remember how perhaps the single the most important piece of evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy came to be held, out of public view, by a publishing giant. Stolley, an editor at Life magazine, played a key role.

JFK Facts editor Peter Voskamp interviewed Richard Stolley for this site in 2014.

Here’s their conversation.

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