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(NewsNation) — Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas businessman who filmed the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy, was backstage and reluctant to speech astir what helium had experienced.
But helium did talk to vigor writer Marvin Scott, who says it took a batch of cajoling and a charm offensive. The interrogation took spot successful 1966, 3 years aft the president’s execution and 4 years earlier Zapruder’s ain death.
Scott donated the archetypal portion of the interrogation to The Sixth Floor Museum astatine Dealey Plaza, which commemorates the lawsuit that changed the world.
On tape, Zapruder described seeing Kennedy’s unfastened car coming into view.
“Jacqueline and the president are waving,” Zapruder said, referring to Kennedy’s wife, archetypal woman Jacqueline Kennedy. “As helium came successful enactment with my camera, I heard a shot. I saw the president thin implicit to Jacqueline. Then the 2nd changeable came. And past I realized I saw his caput unfastened up, and I started yelling, ‘They killed him. They killed him.’ And I continued shooting until helium went nether the underpass.”
Zapruder said helium ne'er forgot what helium saw.
“It’s near successful my caput similar a coiled that heals up, but yet there’s a symptom left,” helium told Scott.
The lensman expressed uncertainty astir theories of a 2nd gunman hiding down a fence. Zapruder said helium would person heard shots coming from the location, which was astir 30 feet down him.
The 26 seconds of footage that comprise Zapruder’s grounds of the Kennedy assassination was tightly controlled for years. “Life” mag initially purchased the movie and published inactive images successful achromatic and white.
The shaky movie is ubiquitous today, but it didn’t look connected nationalist tv until 1975 done the efforts of investigative writer Geraldo Rivera. Rivera, a correspondent-at-large for NewsNation, astatine the clip hosted an ABC amusement called “Good Night, America.”
He said helium tracked down a transcript of the footage, which helium called “astounding,” and had to reassure his bosses that helium would instrumentality ineligible work for airing the copyrighted material.
“I yet had to motion a papers with ABC, my network, wherein I accepted idiosyncratic work for the onetime-only airing of the Zapruder film,” Rivera said. “And we enactment it on, and it launched an industry.”
