A Dealey Plaza query from a reader
Jefferson Morley
September 28, 2021
Eric writes to ask a question about the Zapruder film that I cannot answer. Maybe someone else knows. Who is the man with the camera?
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Geraldo Rivera on the historic first broadcast of the Zapruder film
Jefferson Morley
August 19, 2021
This excellent video comes from the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas.
Rivera, a veteran TV correspondent, made history when he broadcast Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of JFK’s assassination on national television for the first time in March 1975.
Rivera reveals he took a big risk personally.
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Zapruder’s grandaughter on the damage of conspiracy theories
Jefferson Morley
December 11, 2016
Earlier this week an utterly false and unfounded conspiracy theory, spread by right-wing fake news artists, about a Washington pizza parlor caused a deluded man to investigate with a gun and fire a couple of shots before he was subdued. Fortunately no one was hurt.
The incident prompted Alexandra Zapruder, granddaughter of the man who filmed the JFK assassination, to proclaim There Are No Child Sex Slaves at My Local Pizza Parlor.
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JFK: the truth about the first shot
Pat Speer
November 26, 2016
While single-assassin theorists Max Holland and Luke Haag have an ongoing feud over whether the first shot fired at President Kennedy hit a street light mast, or simply hit the street, the strong probability is that both are wrong.
The vast majority of witnesses who saw President Kennedy’s reaction to this shot described a reaction consistent with his being hit by this shot.
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In ‘Twenty-Six Seconds,’ Alexandra Zapruder talks about her grandfather’s film
Jefferson Morley
November 12, 2016
The film that would come to bear his name “represented a trauma for our grandfather,” Alexandra Zapruder writes. “It was a source of pain for the Kennedys. It was a reminder of crushing disappointment and abandoned plans for my parents’ generation. It was a burden. It was an intrusion. It was a serious and complicated responsibility.”
Source: ‘Twenty-Six Seconds,’ by Alexandra Zapruder – San Francisco Chronicle
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JFK: The Parallax View
Jefferson Morley
September 6, 2016
On November 22, 1963, two bystanders, Orville Nix and Abraham Zapruder, filmed the presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. They both captured the same moment after Kennedy was shot: Nix from afar (top) and Zapruder from close-up (bottom).
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