Zapruder Film Revealed: JFK's Death Exposed
Robert Groden, a photographic consultant who had obtained a bootleg copy of the Zapruder film, showed the footage in motion on national television for the first time on Geraldo Rivera's Goodnight America program on March 6, 1975. Abraham Zapruder had filmed President Kennedy's motorcade through Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, capturing the assassination in 26.6 seconds of 8mm color footage. Life magazine had purchased the film for ,000 and published individual frames but never showed it in motion. Time-Life locked it in a vault for twelve years. When Americans finally saw the film in sequence, the backward motion of Kennedy's head after the fatal shot reignited conspiracy theories and public skepticism about the Warren Commission's lone-gunman conclusion. The broadcast directly contributed to the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976, which concluded that Kennedy was 'probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.'
March 6, 1975
51 years ago
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