Twenty-six seconds : a personal history of the Zapruder film /
Zapruder, Alexandra,
Twenty-six seconds : a personal history of the Zapruder film / Personal history of the Zapruder film Alexandra Zapruder. - First edition. - viii, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-456) and index.
Prologue: Home movie -- Assassination -- Exposure -- First glimpses -- All rights to LIFE -- Images in print -- Mounting pressure -- Court cases and bootlegs -- LIFE's dilemma -- The Eternal Frame and the endless debates -- The floodgates open -- JFK: the movie and the Assassination Records Act -- To take or not to take the film -- A final firestorm -- Arbitration and resolution -- Epilogue: Public and private legacy.
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.--
9781455574810 1455574813
2016025786
Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963 --Assassination.
Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963 --In motion pictures.
Zapruder, Abraham.
Amateur films--History--Texas--Dallas--20th century.
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures and history.
Twenty-six seconds : a personal history of the Zapruder film / Personal history of the Zapruder film Alexandra Zapruder. - First edition. - viii, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-456) and index.
Prologue: Home movie -- Assassination -- Exposure -- First glimpses -- All rights to LIFE -- Images in print -- Mounting pressure -- Court cases and bootlegs -- LIFE's dilemma -- The Eternal Frame and the endless debates -- The floodgates open -- JFK: the movie and the Assassination Records Act -- To take or not to take the film -- A final firestorm -- Arbitration and resolution -- Epilogue: Public and private legacy.
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.--
9781455574810 1455574813
2016025786
Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963 --Assassination.
Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963 --In motion pictures.
Zapruder, Abraham.
Amateur films--History--Texas--Dallas--20th century.
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures and history.