What did abraham zapruder do for a living

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(1) Eddie Barker interviewed Abraham Zapruder for the documentary The Warren Report: Part 2, CBS Television (26th June, 1967)

Eddie Barker: Abraham Zapruder, whose film of the assassination was studied at length on last night's program, was standing up on this little wall right at the edge of the grassy knoll. Now, shots from behind that picket fence over there would have almost had to whistle by his ear. Mr. Zapruder, when we interviewed him here, tended to agree that the knoll was not involved.

Abraham Zapruder: I'm not a ballistics expert, but I believe that if there were shots that come from my right ear, I would hear a different sound. I heard shots coming from - I wouldn't know which direction to say-but they was driven from the Texas Book Depository and they all sounded alike. There was no difference in sound at all.

(2) Gregory Burnham, Amazing Web Of Abraham Zapruder: The Man Who Filmed JFK's Assassination (undated)

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Abraham Zapruder

Witness to the Kennedy assassination

Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. He unexpectedly captured the shooting in a home movie while filming the presidential limousine and motorcade as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. The Zapruder film is regarded as the most complete footage of the assassination.

Early life

Zapruder was born into a Jewish family in the city of Kovel, the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the son of Israel Zapruder.^[1] He received only four years of formal education in Ukraine. In 1909, his father left for North America. In 1918, Abraham Zapruder left Kovel for Warsaw with his family. In 1920, his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, New York where they were reunited with Israel Zapruder.^[2][3]

Studying English at night, he found work as a clothing pattern maker in Manhattan's garment district. In 1933

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On November 22, 1963, nobody knew who Abraham Zapruder was. The Dallas businessman was happily living a perfectly ordinary life when he left his office to go to Dealey Plaza to take some film of the President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade as it passed through the streets of Dallas with his home movie camera. What happened next was shocking and horrifying to the entire nation: in broad daylight, the President was brutally murdered, right in front of his wife and a hundred other witnesses.

Abraham Zapruder not only had a front row seat for one of the most horrific crimes in American history, he actually filmed it with his camera: the only person in the plaza that day who’d captured the entire assassination from start to gruesome finish. Now he had to decide what to do with it, all the while managing his own grief at the slain President and the trauma that came with witnessing a man murdered in cold blood right in front of you.

What he’d filmed that day, known to history as “the Zapruder Film,” has become a central part of telling the story of JFK’s assassination: used to “prove” wha