(KENNEDY, PRESIDENT JOHN F.--ASSASINATION) Group of 4 sequential photographs of frames from the Abraham Zapruder film. Silver prints, 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), with multiple hand stamps and handwritten caption information, in ink and in pencil, on verso. 1963
On November 22, 1963, a local merchant named Abraham Zapruder walked over to Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, to record with his 8mm movie camera the presidential motorcade. Inadvertently he captured the assassination. His silent motion picture sequence, the original of which is in color, was used by the Warren Commission and reproduced in newspapers and magazines.
