Twenty-six seconds : a personal history of the Zapruder film /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zapruder, Alexandra (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Twelve, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Assassination. Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > In motion pictures. Zapruder, Abraham. Amateur films > Texas > Dallas > History > 20th century. Memory > Political aspects > United States. Motion pictures and history. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.

Table of Contents:

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.