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Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film | Alexandra Zapruder
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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 began filming President Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963 that his home movie would change not only his family's life but American culture and history, as well. Now his granddaughter tells the whole story of the Zapruder film for the first time. With the help of personal family records, previously sealed archival sources, and interviews, she traces the film's complex journey through history, considering its impact on her family and the public realms of the media, courts, Federal government, and the arts community. Part biography, part family history, and part historical narrative, Zapruder shows how 26 seconds of film changed a family and raised some of the most important social, cultural, and moral questions of our time.
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Erynecki
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What first caught my attention about this book was that it was written by a granddaughter struggling to understand her family legacy. Most readers probably pick it up to learn more about the Zapruder film (and it has a LOT of detail), but that was of less significance to me. Zapruder tackles a sprawling narrative to bring to light how 26 seconds of footage forever altered not only US politics and culture, but her own family as well.

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4⭐️. Sometimes you read a book that makes your heart pound. A book that you can‘t stop thinking about. This is one of those books. Of course it‘s encompasses an monumental event in US history. But the book is not about the assassination. It‘s about the twenty-six second film of the assassination. The book was very educational and informative. https://lharvey250.tumblr.com/post/159730069299/twenty-six-seconds-a-personal-hi...

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kristina_with_a_k
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Pausing Moonglow to start this. #JFKAssassinationgeek

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keithmalek
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Peddler410
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This book sounds fascinating!

Reviewsbylola Wow!! 8y
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Li_21
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Don't you just hate it when you have to wait for the book to come out! #lookingforwardtothisread #uggggggghhhh