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Documenting Our Lives

  • May 25, 2021
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Zoom, The Newberry Library
Documenting Our Lives: A Conversation about Film, Memory, and Preservation

On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder left his office hoping for a glimpse of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade as it passed by Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He ended up taking the most famous “home movie” in American history. Zapruder’s footage depicting the JFK assassination is now iconic, forever embedded in American culture and identity.

In this installment of “Conversations at the Newberry,” Abraham Zapruder’s granddaughter Alexander Zapruder will be joined by Jacqueline Stewart, a professor at the University of Chicago and the host of the Turner Classic Movies program “Silent Sunday Nights.” Together, the two will explore the connections between home movies, family history, and difficult memories, as well as the emergence of citizen journalism in the United States.

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