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As the president was coming down from
Houston Street making his turn, it was

about halfway down there, I heard a
shot.

Then I heard another shot or two. I
couldn't say what it was one or two.

People were screaming.

It was out of air.

Everybody was laying flat on the ground
on the wall.

It appears as though something has
happened in the motorcade route.

repeat, has happened in the motorcade
route.

Three shots were heard to ring out.

Mrs. Kennedy was heard by reporters
nearby to scream, Oh, no.

Mrs. DePruder, certainly no one had a
better view of the assassination than

did. Abe DePruder got it from the
beginning to end, this middle -aged...

garment manufacturer who got the only
filmed evidence of the assassination

and not one of those world -famous
photographers back there in the press

A gentleman just walked in our studio
that I am meeting for the first time as

well as you. This is WFATV in Dallas,
Texas. May I have your name, please,

My name is Abraham Zapruder.

Mr. Zapruder?

Zapruder, yes, sir. Zapruder. And would
you tell us your story, please, sir?

I'm telling you right straight out that
if you are at all sensitive, if you're

at all queasy, then don't watch this
film.

President Kennedy went to Texas to take
his program to the people.

He had carried the state by only a
narrow margin in the 1960 election.

Traveling with the presidential party
are Vice President Lyndon Johnson and

Johnson and Texas Governor John Connolly
and Mrs. Nellie Connolly.

We thought John Kennedy was a handsome,
heroic figure.

We all thought we loved the Kennedys.

She was the royalty that our country had
never had.

She was very glamorous, very attractive,
beautifully dressed.

I loved that man. My family loved that
man. There were millions, I'm sure, who

loved that man.

He was an inspiration to the youth of
America.

I believe it's the first time that in
this country we had a president as young

as Kennedy was.

My grandfather had been taking home
movies since the mid -1930s.

He loved taking home movies, and he took
them of everything.

When he was looking to buy a camera, he
came in, said his name was Dave

Sapruder, and he said he was looking for
a camera and pulled off the camera of

the shelf. It was an 8mm, and it was a
Bell & Howell.

So he bought the camera from me.

I guess the price was right.

Thursday evening.

Beautiful.

President Kennedy speaks the League of
United Latin American Citizens.

Then, to ensure that his words will be
understood by all, he calls on Mrs.

Kennedy to address the League in
Spanish.

She spoke crisp Spanish, very simple
little speech, but got a big hand for

I remember the president in the
background looking a little lost and out

place.

The crowd there was, I'm sure,
overcapacity.

When he walked into our banquet,
everybody went wild, hollering, Viva

Viva Kennedy.

My grandfather was very determined to be
an American.

He was born in 1905 in imperial Russia.

They followed the pattern of many East
European Jews of that time.

You know, he came here at 15 years old.
He had no education. He had never

studied in school.

He learned English right away in night
school.

And then he did very much what Jews did
then. He went to work on 7th Avenue in

the garment industry.

My grandmother fell in love with my
grandfather immediately.

He fell in love with her too, and you
can see it in the pictures of them

together.

And then they had an opportunity to go
to Dallas.

He got Jennifer Jr.'s off -the -ground
undress company.

I think it was a pretty good working
environment.

Everybody called him Mr. Z.

My grandfather and grandmother were big
fans of John F. Kennedy.

Our family really believed that
President Kennedy could make the world a

place.

Friday morning, November 22nd.

It's 8 .45 and the weather is misty.

In spite of the weather, a large and
exuberant crowd turns out to see and

the President.

The President was in the parking lot
that morning without Mrs. Kennedy. There

was some obvious disappointment in the
crowd, and he made a nice remark.

There are no faint hearts in Fort Worth,
and I appreciate your being here this

morning.

Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself.

It takes longer.

But, of course, she looks better than we
do when she doesn't.

But we appreciate your welcome.

Here comes the President.

And that's Mrs. Kennedy coming in.

And for the ladies in the audience,
she's wearing a pink outfit trimmed in

black.

A few years ago, I introduced myself in
Paris by saying that I was the man who

had accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris.
I'm getting somewhat that same sensation

as I travel around Texas.

wonders what Lyndon and I wear.

Friday morning.

The presidential jet leaves Fort Worth
with a short flight to Dallas, where the

president has a scheduled luncheon
address.

I didn't have a camera with me at all
that morning.

I never believed I'd be able to see the
president.

So it was very surprising that he didn't
bring his camera.

He said, you know, I'm too short. I
won't be able to see anything.

He was sort of reserved.

He didn't have a lot of confidence,
partly because he didn't have a lot of

education. And so he wasn't always very
comfortable taking a risk or putting

himself out there. Even though he was
very bright and very clever, very funny,

very smart, he was hesitant in a way.

And so I think he just sort of decided
not to gamble on it somehow.

And it was Lillian Rogers, his
assistant, who said, you're the one

taking home movies for 30 years. You
know, you have to go home and get your

camera.

I believe I wouldn't have had the
pictures at all if it wasn't for my

Mrs. Rogers, who made me go home and get
the camera.

And it really is kind of a remarkable
close call because the history would be

completely different if we didn't have
that film.

Friday morning.

The president's jet lands at the Dallas
airport.

Love, Bill.

Several thousand enthusiastic Texans are
on hand to give the president and Mrs.

Kennedy a warm welcome.

I can remember the sky being so blue and
then these beautiful people get off the

plane. People like I'd never seen. I'd
never seen anybody in a tailored suit.

or any woman that had a high fashion, or
makeup. I remember the makeup.

It was so pristine.

Mrs. Kennedy is making one of her first
public appearances in several months.

It's unusual that Mrs. Kennedy was along
at all, because she didn't ordinarily

make this kind of trip with him.

Mrs. Kennedy, in August of 1963, was
pregnant.

And we were up on Cape Cod, and she all
of a sudden began having labor pains

when the baby was born. She named him
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy.

And then it was discovered that he had a
medical problem.

Unfortunately, he died about another day
later.

And they had a funeral service in
Boston, and he was buried in Boston.

We felt we had lost a member of our
family.

She remained in a very saddened,
depressed state

for a long time.

Gradually, she decided that she would
accompany her husband on his trip into

Texas to help him with his reelection
bid for 1964.

Although the President is running behind
schedule, he pauses momentarily to

shake a few hands.

What surprised me a little bit was that
Mrs. Kennedy followed right along.

She's always a little bit shy and didn't
usually go into a crowd like that, but

in this occasion she did.

My aunt and her best friend went down to
Love Field to greet the President and

the First Lady when they arrived.

My aunt remembers everyone pushing to
see the president, and she just was

stunned by how handsome and charming he
was.

And my Uncle Myron, who was watching the
motorcade from his office overlooking

Main Street.

My grandfather was at Jennifer Jr.'s. It
was just across the way from Dealey

Plaza.

Pretty much the whole factory, and went
down to see the president.

They closed the office at lunch, and
everyone went down.

The whole family was wrapped up in this
exciting moment.

Friday, ten minutes before noon.

The motorcade begins the 11 -mile ride
to the Dallas Trademark, where the

president is to deliver a major address.

Governor and Mrs. Connolly ride in the
presidential limousine.

After coming back with my camera from my
house, I went downstairs.

I was around 12.

And I was looking for a place where it
would be good enough to take pictures.

I've changed the place three times.

One place I couldn't stand very erect.

Another place a tree was in my way.

And finally I...

It's the very spot I stopped at.

And we decided that would be the best
place. We said, you can get up here,

you'll be above everybody.

No matter how many people are down here,
you won't have anybody blocking your

view.

He had vertigo, though.

If he got up there, he'd get dizzy.

So he said, you'll have to stand behind
me and hold on to me. I said, it's no

problem at all.

So we both got up there, and I stood
behind him, and I held on to him.

I told her to watch me while I take
those pictures because using a zoom

you kind of get dizzy and it says I
might have to have somebody to hold on

So we were kind of joking.

It had been raining, flight driven.

And because of that, the supervisor
called to see what the weather was like

to make a determination about whether or
not we would leave the bubble top in

the car.

Now, the bubble top is simply a piece of
glass.

It was decided that because the weather
was clearing up, the bubble top would be

off.

Any time you were in an open car, we
were very concerned because we all knew

vulnerability whenever you were in an
open car.

The president always felt that if the
people were good enough to come out and

see him, he was good enough to sit there
in the open car and let them see him.

They routed us right through the heart
of the town.

Dallas has sort of canyon streets.
They're quite narrow, and the building's

fairly tall. I mean, 10 -story building.

The crowd spilled out over the sidewalk,
so you really only had a lane of

traffic down the hill.

And we heard people saying, they're
coming, they're coming.

And the motorcade, it just seemed like a
lot of motorcycles, a lot of cars.

passing by, and the motorcade slowed

down. So I got this straight -on view of
President and Mrs. Kennedy.

And my impression at the moment was that
they were just gorgeous people, big,

like bigger, bigger, bigger than life.

And they seemed very relaxed and happy.

He started to accelerate, just barely.

About 50, 60 feet down Elm Street, I was
looking to my left to a grassy area.

There were very few people in that area.
Some people there taking pictures.

And then I watched.

For the arrival of the cars, I saw the
motorcycles, and then the car

As they turned, I started shooting the
pictures.

And he says, okay, here we go.

That's when I remember we started
actually doing the filming.

And I was shooting as they were coming
along, and Jacqueline and the president

were waving.

And as they came in line with my camera,
I heard a shot.

I heard an explosive noise to my right
rear.

And I saw the president grab at his
throat and lurch to his left.

I took the picture, and the shots were
still being fired.

She did scream. She says, my God, he's
been shot.

I saw the president looming over to
Jacqueline.

I didn't realize what had happened.

Then the second shot came, and then I
realized I

saw his head open up,

and I started yelling, they killed him,
they killed him.

I just looked straight up ahead of me
because that's the direction the sound

came from.

And I saw two black men leaning out of
the window of the fifth floor, looking

directly up above them. My eyes went on
up to the next floor and there was a

rifle. I could see the rifle in the part
of the stock and it being drawn in the

window.

When that bullet hit his head, the plume
went up.

And I went through that plume. It was
all over me and all over my helmet and

glass and everything.

So I knew something was wrong. Something
had happened.

So I jumped from the car and ran toward
the presidential vehicle.

Mrs. Kennedy was coming out on the
trunk.

I helped her as best I could to get back
into the back seat of the car.

I turned to Gail and I said, that's it,
hit the ground.

And we turned and threw our kids down on
the ground and covered them up.

People were screaming and, I mean, it
was utter chaos by that time.

Everybody was laying flat on the ground
almost.

All the focus was on the car.

The furthest thing was running up to the
car. And the motorcycle and the

policemen were, you know, flying up.

Certainly the first lady on the back of
the car, that was.

Pretty startling.

Many of the people came running down the
hill, and it was pretty frantic.

A lot of the policemen then had their
guns out.

Motorcycle policemen were up on the
grass.

People were running.

Then I got off the concrete block, and I
was walking back to my office.

I was still screaming, they killed him,
they killed him.

The people in the front kept on asking
what had happened, what had happened.

But I just kept on yelling.

They killed him.

I turned, I gave the thumbs down to the
follow -up car crew to let them know

that this was a dire situation.

The car accelerated.

I got up on top of the back of the car
as best I could to place myself in a

position to cover both Mrs. Kennedy and
the president.

If they were going to shoot in the car,
they were going to have to hit me.

I guess we were traveling maybe as fast
as 80 miles an hour as we went to a

hospital.

Mr. Zapruder apparently went directly
back to the office.

I ran down the slope.

There were three men in suits running
up, and that's who I met.

And I said, they killed him, they killed
him.

And my boss has it on film.

When I was in a state of shock when I
got back, I was kicking and banging at

desk. I couldn't understand how a thing
like this could happen.

I personally have never seen anybody
killed in my life.

And to see something like this shooting
a man down like a dog, I just couldn't

believe.

And my secretary kept on trying to
pacify me. She asked me if I wanted a

I thought she was crazy. I was, what are
you talking about? Who wants a drink

now?

I was interviewing anybody I could find.
And one of them I was interviewing

said, well, our boss has film of it. I
said, really? You know, where is he? And

it turned out he's in the very next
building from me.

where the shots had been fired.

He was a dress manufacturer.

I said, take me to him.

His camera was right on top of a filing
cabinet.

And I told him, we'll take it to the
Times -Herald and develop the film.

No, he said, I want to give it to the
FBI or the Secret Service.

On television, they were saying, Kennedy
has been wounded, perhaps fatally.

In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired
at President Kennedy's motorcade in

Dealey Plaza.

The first reports say that President
Kennedy has been seriously wounded by

shooting.

The breeder said, no, no, he's dead. I
know he's dead.

I was watching through the viewfinder,
and I saw his head explode like a

firecracker.

I called the office, and I hear
screaming and turmoil.

And I said, what's going on?

She said, oh, Mr. Schwartz, the police
are here with shotguns.

I said, what are you talking about?

And she said,

oh, Mr. Z has the films, and they want
the films. And he picked up the phone,

and he said, Erwin, it was terrible. I
saw his head come off.

I said, I'll be right there.

When I got off the elevator, there were
two policemen there with shotguns.

I said, what's going on?

And they said, we came to get the film.

The Secret Service says, well, let's see
if we can't get it developed.

I bet Channel 8 can do it.

And they put Zapruder on television.

A gentleman just walked in our studio
that I am meeting for the first time as

well as you. This is WFAA -TV in Dallas,
Texas. May I have your name, please,

sir? My name is Abraham Zapruder.

Mr. Zapruder?

Zapruder, yes, sir. Zapruder. And would
you tell us your story, please, sir?

I got out about a half hour earlier and
got to a good spot to shoot some

pictures.

And I found a spot, one of these
concrete blocks that I have down near

near the underpass.

And I got on top there. There was
another girl from my office. She was

behind me.

And as I was shooting, as the president
was coming down from Houston Street and

making his turn, it was about halfway
down there, I heard a shot.

And he slumped to the side.

Like this.

Then I had another shot or two. I
couldn't say what it was, one or two.

And I saw his head practically open up,
all blood and everything.

And I kept on drinking.

That's about all. I'm doing six again.

I think that pretty well expresses the
entire feelings of the whole world.

One of the nurses had just got a call
from the police dispatcher, and the

president had been shot.

He was on his way to the hospital.

Mrs. Kennedy was kind of standing by the
door. There were two men in the room,

and I assume they were the driver or
secret service people.

They very rapidly...

stepped aside when we came in. He said,
Ms. Kennedy stood by the door for a long

time.

A priest walked out and he said, at 1 p
.m. the president

died. And I just, I couldn't believe it.
It was like, God, no, please, no, no,

no, no, no.

I didn't even know my picture had been
taken until the next day.

All I remember is crying.

I'm in my office in the L .A. Bureau,
and I suddenly got the shot. Dick

Kennedy's been shot in Dallas, and New
York said, how fast can you get to

Dallas?

I went into the Adolphus Hotel to set up
an office, and I got a phone call from

a colleague that a local businessman had
photographed the assassination from

beginning to end with an 8mm home movie
camera, and she...

phonetically pronounced his name. She
said, Zapruder.

And I picked up the Dallas phone book
and ran my finger down the Zs, and there

it was, Zapruder Abraham.

I called him.

No answer.

I called every 15 minutes for the next
five hours.

You have the film in your camera. Yes, I
brought it on the studio. We'll try to

get that processed and have it as soon
as possible.

They were trying to develop those
pictures, but they couldn't develop them

because they were colored pictures.

And we had to go to Eastman.

The FBI said, we want you to shut your
machines down and process the film we

have here.

It took quite a few hours until we got
those pictures developed. It was about 9

.30 that night.

And that's the first time I saw these
pictures.

Then Zapruder's film came on.

And number one, it was needle sharp.
Two, the color was beautiful.

The focus was locked in perfect.

All during the movies, there's not a
sound, not a sound except the projector.

And when the projector was turned off,
it had to have been three, four, or five

seconds like this. Nothing.

When one voice said, my God.

I had three copies made, plus the
original.

One was given to Secret Service in
Dallas.

One copy I brought to the FBI.

And the third copy I had for myself.

And Zapruder had found something, and he
left.

And Zapruder and I walked out in the
street. We said, what a night.

And he went home, and I went home.

At 11 o 'clock, this weary voice
answered.

Mr. Sapruder had been contacted by other
reporters, and he'd asked them to come

to his office at 9, and I got there at
8.

He said, I'm about to show the film to
two secret service agents. So the three

of us went into this tiny whitewashed
room, and this old rickety 8 -millimeter

projector.

He turned to us and he said, are you
ready?

Turn it on.

And there was the motorcade coming
around the corner, and then the

limousine disappears behind a huge road
sign.

When it comes out, the president has
both of his fists jammed up underneath

chin.

He had been hit by the first bullet to
hit him.

And suddenly, we get to what we now know
is the infamous frame 313,

where the whole top of the president's
head just explodes up into the air.

When that happened, the three of us all
reacted with, It was as if

we had been simultaneously gut -punched.

Once I saw that film, I thought, There
is no way in hell that Life magazine

is not going to wind up with that film.

I said, that's an amazing piece of film,
Mrs. Perter.

I think it belongs in Life magazine.

We might even pay five, ten, maybe even
$15 ,000 for that.

And I finally got to $50 ,000, and I
said, if we have to go any higher than

that, I'm going to have to call New
York.

He looked up at me, and he said, let's
do it.

So I sat down at his typewriter, typed
out a nine -line contract,

and I walked out the back door.

with what turned out to be the most
famous home movie in American history.

It was then determined that Vice
President Johnson needed to take the

office.

I received a message.

Mrs. Kennedy wanted to see me, and she
simply reached out her hand and took my

hand and said, What's going to happen to
you now, Mr. Hill?

And I told her that I would be okay.

It was rather strange that she should
think of me at this particular time when

she was so concerned about what was
really happening with her husband.

But it was very, very nice, very
thoughtful.

I guess the real legacy will be that I
tried but I failed in attempting to

intervene between the president and the
assassin.

Across the world, there's shock and
grief at the assassination of President

Kennedy. A national day of mourning is
declared by President Johnson.

President Kennedy's body lay in state in
the rotunda of the U .S. Capitol

building. One million people lined the
funeral route before President John F.

Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington
National Cemetery in Virginia.

That week's issue of Life was already on
press when the president was shot.

They made black and white copies because
it was too late to do color at that

point.

Out of deference to the grieving Kennedy
family, they did not publish the

headshot, frame 313.

The copy of the film that went to New
York was then seen by corporate

executives, not only editors.

They were so stunned they decided they
wanted to buy all rights.

I called Abe Subruder about getting the
additional rights. It was a total of

$150 ,000 for all rights.

It's in a police car. Number 10.

At the Texas Theater in the Oak Cliff
section of Dallas, a 24 -year -old man

suspected of the assassination of the
president has been arrested.

Lee Harvey Oswald is also accused of
shooting dead a Dallas police officer, J

.D. Tippett, while making his getaway.

Mr. Zapruder wanted to avoid public
criticism for selling this film.

His lawyer finally said, I have a
suggestion.

You know, there's a funding set up for
all the Tippett family.

I would suggest that you give that first
$25 ,000 to

the Tippett family.

And Mr. Zapruder agreed instantly.

The Warren Commission has today
concluded that the assassination of

John F. Kennedy was the work of lone
gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.

No evidence was found of a conspiracy to
kill the president, nor was there

evidence of a conspiracy behind Oswald's
murder two days later by nightclub

owner Jack Ruby, who fired the fatal
shot inside the precincts of a Dallas

police station.

The Warren Commission noted Mr. Abraham
Zapruder's home movie as being most

helpful in establishing what happened
when the president was killed.

When President Kennedy was assassinated
here in Dallas, Abraham Zapruder was

standing on this concrete parapet with
an 8mm camera.

And with that camera, he recorded the
tragedy.

Mr. Zapruder, certainly no one had a...

better view of the assassination than
you did.

Did you then and do you now agree with
the findings of the Warren Commission?

Yes, I absolutely do.

In fact, I'm more convinced now because
of these controversial publications

coming out.

I took more of a little interest to read
it more carefully, and I find that the

findings of the Warren Commission are
more substantial than they are doubt.

They have no fact, no reason to believe
that there was

somebody else. They're just spicking, or
rather looking at the hole instead of

the donut.

Despite the Warren Commission finding,
conspiracy theories continue.

Critics claim Life magazine's refusal to
publicly release the Zapruder film is

part of a high -level cover -up.

I think for my grandfather, it was
largely a matter of feeling that he

trust Life magazine to handle the film
with care and with responsibility and

that it would be protected and it
wouldn't be exploited, which was a very

fear of his.

But then gradually, bootleg copies
started to get out. They started to

circulate.

It was 12 years from 1963.

until 1975 when the film was shown for
the first time on national television.

The very idea that something of this
magnitude could be kept from the

public for 12 years is astonishing.

I'm telling you right straight out that
if you are at all sensitive, if you're

at all queasy, then don't watch this
film.

put on the uh the late night movie uh
because this is uh very heavy it's the

film shot by the dallas dress
manufacturer abraham uh zapruda and it's

execution of president kennedy and now
at the bottom of the screen

the headshot that's the shot that blew
up his head it's the most horrifying

thing i've ever seen in the movies now
the warren commission said that All of

the shots were fired from behind by Lee
Harvey Oswald, and as you can see,

clearly, the head is thrown violently
backwards, completely consistent with

shot from the front.

I had this treasure.

I was going to share it. I was going to
get people to believe what I believed,

and we were going to rewrite history
together.

The next day, we get the ratings, and
the ratings went through the roof.

I'd like to know, Mr. Zapruder, your 8mm
film lends support to several theories

and is the basis for the present
controversy surrounding the

The shots came from someplace other than
a book depository building.

No, as a matter of fact, I heard some
comments about this and I went back to

place where I stood when I shot these
pictures.

I believe I would have heard a different
sound, a shot coming from my right ear.

The shots would have...

sounded much different.

I did not hear any different shots.

They have no substantial evidence of any
second party being involved or

conspirators being involved, yet they're
right about it.

Sensational literature.

That's what I think.

And after weeks and if not months of our
own probe and talking to everybody,

I came reluctantly to the conclusion
that Lee Harvey Oswald alone, acting

killed John Kennedy, you know, the
greatest man on earth.

Legally, we couldn't give the film to
the National Archives. We had to give

Zapruder family an opportunity to buy
it.

And in the end, we decided to return it
to the family for $1.

Later, the arbitration between the
federal government and the Sepurita

took place.

And then one day, I opened the paper and
I see the family has just gotten $16

million for the film.

The financial outcome was perfectly
fine.

There was no celebration.

This is what the arbitrators had
decided.

It seemed fair.

Over time, that film became less and
less ours and more and more belonged to

American public.

The film speaks to the total frailty of
human life.

Everything changes.

And then it could happen to them.

You know, the most beautiful, powerful
couple in the world, smiling and waving,

and she's incredibly gorgeous, and he's
so handsome, and then he...

gone, he's dead, and she's sprawled on
the back of the car.

People say that the 1950s ended when
Kennedy was assassinated, that these

editors at Life magazine, these white
guys and their ties, that they were the

ones who were deciding what the American
people should and shouldn't see.

But by 1975, you know, that was over.

That was over.

Abe Zapruder was stunned by what had
happened. You have to keep remembering,

have all seen the film.

Abe Zapruder saw the president being
murdered.

And, I mean, in many ways, I don't think
he ever quite got over that experience.

Mr. Zapruder, have you taken any more
movies since that fateful day here?

No, I'm sorry to say I used to be an art
and movie taker, and after that

tragedy, somehow I lost, I don't know
what it's called, an appetite or a

to take pictures. I'm sorry. I have a
beautiful grandchildren growing up. I'd

love to take some movies of them, but
somehow I'll have to get back to them.

somehow I just didn't have the desire to
do so.

The loss was great. It was an
inspiration to the youth.

And I believe that our country wasn't
what it is.

Strong.

But it could withstand a shock like
this. Would this be in another country

they have a one -man government?

A terrible tragedy could be to the whole
country if they weren't as strong as we

are. That's, I agree, the loss I think
was to this country.