Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was a Russian Empire-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. He unexpectedly captured the shooting in a home movie while filming the presidential limousine and motorcade as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. The Zapruder film is regarded as the most complete footage of the assassination.
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He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
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I couldn’t tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn’t tell.
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I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
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I was on the abutment.
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Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
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Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn’t got the facilities to develop colored film.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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