{"product_id":"the-zapruder-film-reframing-jfks-assassination","title":"The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is the most famous home movie of all time  the most closely analyzed 26 seconds of film ever shot  the most disturbing visual record of what many have called \"the crime of the century.\"  In 486 framesa mere six feet of celluloidAbraham Zapruders iconic film captures from beginning to end the murder of President John F. Kennedy in broad daylight. An essential piece of evidence  the film has become nearly synonymous with the assassination itself and has generated decades of debate among conspiracy theorists and defenders of the Warren Commissions official report. Until now  however  no scholar has produced a comprehensive book-length study of the film and its relation to the tragic events of November 22  1963.  David Wrone  one of our nations foremost authorities on the assassination  re-examines Zapruders film with a fresh eye and a deep knowledge of the forensic evidence. He traces the films history from its creation on the \"grassy knoll\" by Dallas dressmaker Zapruder through its initial sale to Life magazine and early reproductions and its analysis by the Warren Commission and countless assassination researchers  licensing by the Zapruder family  legal battles over bootleg copies  and sale to the federal government for sixteen million dollars.  Wrones major contribution  however  is to demonstrate how a close examination of the film itself necessarily refutes the Warren Commissions lone-gunman and single-bullet theories. The film  as he reminds us  provides a scientifically precise timeline of events  as well as crucial clues regarding the timing  number  origins  and impact of the shots fired that day. Analyzing the film frame-by-frame in relation to other evidenceincluding two key photos by Phil Willis and Ike Altgenshe builds a convincing case against the official findings.  Without fanfare  he concludes that more than three gunshots were fired from more than one direction and that most likely none were fired by alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. If true  then JFKs death was the result of a conspiracy  for the Commissions nonconspiracy conclusion requires a maximum of three shots and one gunman.  Wrone  however  does not speculate as to who actually shot JFK or whyor even if Oswald was a part of the conspiracy. In fact  he is no fan of conspiracy-think and is just as critical of the legion of conspiracy theorists as he is of the Warren Commission (which  he reveals  crushed dissent within its own ranks).  Doggedly pursuing the evidence wherever it leads  Wrone has produced a meticulous  clear-eyed  and provocative new reading of this remarkable cinematic Rosetta Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964376346677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700612912","price":47.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700612918.jpg?v=1770458946","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-zapruder-film-reframing-jfks-assassination","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}