Show of the week: The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination
Footage of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination taken by cameramen and onlookers has been restored and assembled into a two-hour chronology of the tragedy. Much of it has never been broadcast nationally.
The amateur film of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, taken by onlooker Abraham Zapruder on Nov. 22, 1963, has long been the iconic representation of the tragedy. But dozens of cameramen from television stations in Texas also recorded the events of that day, as did other home-movie cameras. Much of that footage has never been broadcast nationally. Now those recordings have been restored, digitized, and assembled into a gripping two-hour chronology of a pivotal event in modern American history. Monday, Nov. 23, at 9 p.m., National Geographic Channel
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