The Zapruder film: The story behind 26 seconds

is a moment frozen in time. If ever there were a freeze frame of history forever imprinted on the consciousness of a nation and a world, regardless of whether one was alive at the time, this was it. The moment will forever be remembered. We all know the setting: A sun-sparkled day in Dallas, 54 years ago next week; a smiling, youthful president and his beautiful wife, side-by-side in a black limousine. Then suddenly the moment of horror, still traumatic more than half a century later. The moment when an assassin’s bullets struck down President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 remains a dark icon in America’s history, its literal and figurative impact utterly clear and indelible, largely thanks to 26 seconds of film […]