Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Control of Zapruder film at issue

WASHINGTON The 8-mm. film of John F. Kennedy's assassination, 26seconds of horrific images that will forever flicker in the memory ofAmerica, is again causing controversy.

A congressional review board overseeing records of the 1963shooting is hearing arguments over its possible release from theNational Archives, where it is kept in a specially cooled chamberalongside Eva Braun's home movies of Adolf Hitler.

Efforts are being made to stop it from being returned to therelatives of Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas dress manufacturer who shotthe film.Life magazine first got hold of the pictures, paying $150,000for the rights, but five years after Zapruder's death from …

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