| Description |
xiv, 368 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Note |
Paperback reissue of the 2003 edition with new preface. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-350) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. The film. 1. Abraham Zapruder films the assassination ; 2. Development and sale of the film ; 3. The film -- Part II. The film and private ownership of American history. 4. Ownership, copyright and the Zapruder film, 1963-1975 ; 5. Control and profits, 1975-1997 -- Part III. The film and the struggle for access. 6. Profits first: Time Inc. sues Bernard Geis Associates for theft and misuse of its Zapruder frames ; 7. A student, a scholar, and the Zapruder film: Gerard A. Selby Jr. and Harold Weisberg versus Henry G. Zapruder et al. -- Part IV. Theorists and the Zapruder film. 8. Prisoners of preconception: conspiracy theorists, Warren Commission defenders and the Zapruder film ; 9. Altered evidence, altered states: an introduction to those who claim the film was altered -- Part V. The film and the evidentiary base. 10. Official federal policy: do not investigate ; 11. The man in the doorway ; 12. The head shot and Zapruder frames 337 and 338 ; 13. Photographic proof of conspiracy: Zapruder frame 202 ; 14. A command appearance: Jim Garrison, Zapruder and Zapruder's film -- Part VI. The film and the single-bullet theory. 15. Official allegation: a single bullet explains all seven nonfatal wounds ; 16. Official evidence: the seven nonfatal wounds -- Part VII. The struggle to free the film. 17. Federal purchase: the government and the Zapruder film, 1963-2000 ; Epilogue: the Zapruder film and American history. |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- In motion pictures.
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Zapruder, Abraham.
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Amateur films -- Texas -- Dallas -- History -- 20th century.
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Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780700619436 (pbk.) |
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0700619437 (pbk.) |
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