November 22, 1963 - Dallas businessman Abraham Zapruder left work to get his eight millimeter movie camera. Abe, Papa Abe, Mr. Z - that's how family and friends knew him - loved making home movies.

(Time-Life, Inc.) This story originally was posted Nov. 17, 2016 with the headline, "Zapruder granddaughter reveals how 26 seconds of film changed a family's history after JFK assassination." ...

Dick Stolley still cannot understand why the Secret Service allowed him to get the photographic scoop of the 20th century: Abraham Zapruder's home movie of the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy's assassination. Abraham Zapruder, 58 years old at the time, was a dress manufacturer who owned Jennifer Juniors, Inc., which was located across the street from the Texas School Book ...

Getty Images Alexandra Zapruder was not born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years ago on Tuesday ...

The interview took place in 1966, three years after the president’s murder and four years before Zapruder’s own death. Scott donated the original tape of the interview to The Sixth Floor ...

Using his home-movie camera loaded with 8mm Kodachrome II, Zapruder caught the president's motorcade as it drove slowly down Elm Street. The film shows, in graphic and grisly detail, a gunshot ...

Kennedy’s motorcade through Dealey Plaza might be worth getting on film. Four hundred and eighty six frames later, Zapruder had not only captured history, he had made it. The 26-second Zapruder ...

Matthew Zapruder’s poems are among the friendliest in contemporary poetry. I don’t mean that they are eager to please, or accessible in the sense of being easy and unchallenging. Their ...

My other favorite book was Zapruder's partly because it was irreverent, skeptical and also generous. I loved the moment when Zapruder compares Keats' famous figure of silence and slow time to a ...

Don't come to Michael Zapruder's eve of Christmas Eve show tarted up in your latest hideous holiday hand-me-down or Christmas sweater monstrosity - it's not that kind of show. "I don't think ...