
Twenty-Six Seconds
A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
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Alexandra Zapruder
The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.
Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November 22, 1963 that this single spontaneous decision would change his family's life for generations to come. Originally intended as a home movie of President Kennedy's motorcade, Zapruder's film of the JFK assassination is now shown in every American history class, included in Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit questions, and referenced in novels and films. It is the most famous example of citizen journalism, a precursor to the iconic images of our time, such as the Challenger explosion, the Rodney King beating, and the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. But few know the complicated legacy of the film itself.
Now Abraham's granddaughter, Alexandra Zapruder, is ready to tell the complete story for the first time. With the help of the Zapruder family's exclusive records, memories, and documents, Zapruder tracks the film's torturous journey through history, all while American society undergoes its own transformation, and a new media-driven consumer culture challenges traditional ideas of privacy, ownership, journalism, and knowledge. Part biography, part family history, and part historical narrative, Zapruder demonstrates how one man's unwitting moment in the spotlight shifted the way politics, culture, and media intersect, bringing about the larger social questions that define our age.
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The most detail filled book ever read.
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Surprisingly unbelievably captivating
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surprisingly excellent
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Outstanding book chronicling story behind the historic Zapruder film
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The book provides insight into both history and the Zapruder family. It is very well-written and well-narrated by Alexandra Zapruder. Do yourself a favor and listen.
A must-read, compelling history of history’s most famous piece of film.
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Would you listen to Twenty-Six Seconds again? Why?
Yes I would, because there is so much information both technical about the regular 8mm filming, as her Grandfather's camera was designed to work, and then there is the family history side which involves how her father, Henry, handled requests for copies of the film while keeping up his own tax law office in Dallas. There is the story of how the government handled the two copies of the film and how LIFE magazine's editor Richard Stolley obtained rights to print frames of the film by treatment Mr. Zapruder with the greatest respect. There is the story of how the National Archives obtained the original Zapruder camera and used it for analysis for the Warren Commission. Then finally there is the story of how the film was given back to the family for $16 million in the late 1990's and how they decided to hand the copyright back into the hands of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.There is so much information, well researched and documented by Alexandra, that this book should serve researchers well into the 22nd century and beyond.
What other book might you compare Twenty-Six Seconds to and why?
I can't think of any so well researched, except for Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History" which he researched for twenty years before publishing ten years before his death in 2007.What does Alexandra Zapruder bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Her raw emotion of her voice, her engagement of relating her memories of her Grandfather and family members.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, but it ran very long. It took about three days with life's responsibilities to be carried out.Zapruder Does Her Subject Historical Justice
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An awesome book I had no plans to read.
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The Best, Most Compelling Book Imaginable
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