Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film

Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film


Starring:Peter Dean, Phil Chamberlain, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gloria Holt (II), Jacqueline Kennedy, Irwin Schwarz, Karan Hicks, Charles Brehm, Georgia Hendrix, Jack Franzen (II), James Tague, Mary Dickerson, Adam King (II), Hale Boggs, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, Tina Towner, Geraldo Rivera, Larry O'Brien, Clint Hill, John Connally
Director: Abraham Zapruder
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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This first commercially available video version of the legendary 26-second "Zapruder Film"--the 8mm record of John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, which was filmed by Abraham Zapruder--provoked a storm of controversy when it first appeared on video shelves. Added to the National Film Registry in 1994, this historical document remains a significant record of one of the nation's most devastating events and is still cited as a key piece of evidence in the debate over the truth of Kennedy's murder. This unprecedented release has been digitally mastered with the approval of the Zapruder family. An accompanying documentary, which explores the mastering process in detail, features a short portrait of Zapruder and a fascinating history of the film's official and unofficial showings up to the present. The tape also includes a frame-by-frame analysis of the film, a chronology of events, and additional historical video. This short film is still too gruesome and upsetting for many to watch, but Abraham Zapruder's famous home movie remains to this day one of the most controversial pieces of filmed history. --Sean Axmaker
Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • just a minor correction
  • History as you may never see again
  • Zapruder was unexpectedtly caught up in history
  • image of an assination-A new look at rhe Zapruder film
  • Great version of the Z film; excellent bonus stuff:)
 Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film
Starring: Peter Dean , Jack Franzen (II) , Julie Franzen , Irwin Schwarz , and Roy Kellerman
Director: Abraham Zapruder
Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 630507190X
Release Date: 1998-07-28

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This first commercially available video version of the legendary 26-second "Zapruder Film"--the 8mm record of John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, which was filmed by Abraham Zapruder--provoked a storm of controversy when it first appeared on video shelves. Added to the National Film Registry in 1994, this historical document remains a significant record of one of the nation's most devastating events and is still cited as a key piece of evidence in the debate over the truth of Kennedy's murder. This unprecedented release has been digitally mastered with the approval of the Zapruder family. An accompanying documentary, which explores the mastering process in detail, features a short portrait of Zapruder and a fascinating history of the film's official and unofficial showings up to the present. The tape also includes a frame-by-frame analysis of the film, a chronology of events, and additional historical video. This short film is still too gruesome and upsetting for many to watch, but Abraham Zapruder's famous home movie remains to this day one of the most controversial pieces of filmed history. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars just a minor correction.......2007-01-09

Mrs. Kennedy was not trying to help the Secret Service Agent when she crawled out onto the trunk. She was trying to recover part of her husband's skull that had blown back onto the trunk. Which by the way indicates that he was shot not from the school book depository behind him but from the front right.

5 out of 5 stars History as you may never see again .......2006-07-06

Eyewitnesses are given too much credibility and are notoriously inaccurate. Conspiracy buffs have fashioned an industry out of events told and retold but this footage is the best witness. It is also horrific to watch. I had heard the Parkland surgeons all talk about a head wound behind the President's right ear. They should know, they were there right? The film shows otherwise. If there is a conspiracy it is a well kept secret, show me someone who can keep a secret. If the US government is hiding evidence why is this footage available? No one can tell where a shot came from by the target's movement. The answer to where JFK's missing brain is here, the third shot pulverized it, turning it into a red mist. Had this film never existed the conspiracy people would have made millions more but the answers to their questions are in this footage. This is history which cannot be retold by bad historians or knuckleheads. See for yourself.

5 out of 5 stars Zapruder was unexpectedtly caught up in history.......2006-04-27

Abraham Zapruder was a Dallas dress manufacturer who enjoyed making home movies with his Bell and Howell camera. He almost lost his opportunity to film the presidential motorcade on that fateful November day in 1963 until urged by his secretary to rush home and get his camera before it was too late. He chose a spot in Dealy Plaza which was in between The Texas School Book Depository and the infamous Grassy Knoll. Steadied by his secretary as he stood on a concrete pedestal (he was afraid of falling), Zapruder filmed the entire assassination of JFK. The 26 second film has been digitally enhanced for this DVD and offers a vivid account of the event in all of it's horrific best. It is up to the viewer to decide where the bullets came from during the shooting.

IMO, all of the shots came from the rear in the direction of the TSBD. The head shot proves this because in the very first frame (313), Kennedy's head is push forward then in the next frame the explosion of his head creates a "jet effect" which propels JFK rapidly back in his seat. No Grassy Knoll shooter IMO. It is truly amazing that Zapruder could keep his camera running and focused during the ordeal because he was screaming "They killed him!!, they killed him!!,...Being a private, quiet kind of person put him in the spotlight and haunted him for the rest of his life.

5 out of 5 stars image of an assination-A new look at rhe Zapruder film.......2006-03-14

Get the edition put out by the Discovery Channel which is no longer published It contained the most important DVD disc part 7-8-9 that the goverment does not want you to see. You will probably need to settle for a copy of that disc It is quite expensive. I got a copy wich I was very happy with. It is most important and is case closed as far as I am concerned on the goverments involement in our presidents death. What else does our Goverment hide and cover-up? Most important to see. Our countrys survival depends on many more citizen becoming aware of this kind of Goverment behavior and coveup.

5 out of 5 stars Great version of the Z film; excellent bonus stuff:).......2005-12-18

I highly recommend this flawed by very well done (like that oxymoron? grin) dvd about the Zapruder film. Of particular note is the sprocket hole information depicting JFK's Secret Service agents. Get this!
Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.)
Pittsburgh, PA

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