ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

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Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was an American manufacturer of women's clothing. He was filming with a home-movie camera as U.S. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, and unexpectedly captured the President's assassination on what came to be known as the Zapruder Film.Zapruder was born into a Russian-Jewish family in the city of Kovel in Ukraine (at that time under the Russian Empire). He received only four years of formal education in Russia. In 1920 amid the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, his family immigrated to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, New York.[1] Studying English at night, he found work as a clothing pattern maker in Manhattan's garment district. He and his wife Lillian married in 1933 and had two children.[2]In 1941 Zapruder moved to Dallas to work for Nardis, a local sportswear company. In 1954 he co-founded Jennifer Juniors, Inc., producing the Chalet and Jennifer Juniors brands.[3] His offices were in the Dal-Tex Building, directly across the street east of the Texas School Book Depository.Zapruder died of stomach cancer in 1970 in Dallas.[4] A 2007 film, Frame 313, tells the story of his life.Zapruder considered himself a Democrat and was an admirer of President Kennedy. Not originally intending to bring his camera to the motorcade, at the insistence of his assistant he retrieved it from home before going to Dealey Plaza.The camera was an 8 mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD—top of the line when it was purchased in 1962. Zapruder waited atop a concrete pedestal along Elm Street, his receptionist Marilyn Sitzman prepared to steady him from behind,[5] and began filming as the President's limousine turned onto Elm Street in front of the Book Depository. The next 26.6 seconds were captured on 486 frames of Kodak Kodachrome II safety film.Walking back to his office amid the confusion following the shots, Zapruder encountered Dallas Morning News reporter Harry McCormack, who was acquainted with Agent Forrest Sorrels of the Secret Service's Dallas office. McCormack offered to bring Sorrels to Zapruder's office. Zapruder continued to his office where he sent his assistant Lillian Rogers to find a Secret Service agent, in case McCormack failed to find Sorrels. McCormack did find Sorrels, outside the Sheriff's office at Main and Houston, and together they went to Zapruder's office.Zapruder agreed to give the film to Sorrels on the condition it would be used only for investigation of the assassination. The group took the film to the television station WFAA to be developed.After it was realized that WFAA was unable to develop Zapruder's footage, in the late afternoon it was taken to Eastman Kodak's Dallas processing plant where it was immediately developed. Because under the Kodachrome process, different equipment is required for duplication than for simple development, around 6:30 p.m. the developed original was taken to the Jamieson Film Company, where three additional copies were exposed; these were returned to Kodak around 8 p.m. for processing. Zapruder kept the original, plus one copy, and gave the other two copies to Sorrels, who sent them to Secret Service headquarters in Washington

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