Twenty-Six Seconds: An Evening with Alexandra Zapruder

Abraham Zapruder’s home movie capturing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza includes perhaps the most iconic 26 seconds of film in history - the first major instance of citizen journalism. The Sixth Floor Museum hosted this special evening event on the 53rd anniversary of President Kennedy’s death with Abraham Zapruder’s granddaughter, Alexandra Zapruder, discussing her new book, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, in which she delves into the fraught history of her grandfather’s famous film. 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. The conversation was led by noted Texas author Beverly Lowry, author of "Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders." To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (http://emuseum.jfk.org). Or make a research appointment to explore the books, DVDs and other materials available in the Museum's Reading Room (http://www.jfk.org/the-collections/re....