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Abraham Zapruder's vintage home movie camera displayed in a museum exhibit, with an informational placard and a black-and-white photo in the background.
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Abraham Zapruder

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Abraham Zapruder's vintage home movie camera displayed in a museum exhibit, with an informational placard and a black-and-white photo in the background.
The camera that captured history Abraham Zapruder's camera, as part of a museum exhibition on the life and death of John F. Kennedy, 2013.

Abraham Zapruder was an American manufacturer who captured the assassination of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy on film on November 22, 1963. His 26-second, 8-mm silent color film is known as the Zapruder film. This film is historically significant because it is the only known footage to document the entire event and has been extensively analyzed for evidence related to the assassination. The Zapruder film is considered one of the most famous home movies in history.12

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