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Nov. 22, 1963: Zapruder Films JFK Assassination

Posted November 22, 2011 8:19 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

A Dallas spectator unwittingly films the assassination of President Kennedy on an 8mm home-movie camera, contributing one of the 20th century's earliest and most significant pieces of user-generated content. The funerary weekend that follows will be telecast by satellite worldwide in the first giant example of the "global village."

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11/29/2011 12:48 PM

Maybe a tickler in the news got me curious again, I don't recall. But a couple of weeks ago I decided to look at books about the assassination. While browsing the shelves in the library in that section, one book seemed intriguing. I checked it out, but subsequently after reading the 1-star reviews on Amazon doubted that I would want to invest the time in reading it. (Interestingly, in one of these reviews several "other" films I had never heard of were mentioned. I thought the Zapruder film was all there was.) Because I had not kept up with "conspiracy" literature for decades, I was surprised to see the ongoing publication of books about the event. Anyone old enough to comprehend it will always remember where they were the day it happened.

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