President John F. Kennedy's Assassination Video

The U.S. government paid the heirs of Abraham Zapruder $16 million for his film of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the highest price ever paid for a historical American artifact. The photography buff aimed his 8mm Bell & Howell at President Kennedy’s passing motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and captured 26.3 seconds of full-color footage that long outlived him. The film was an important part of the Warren Commission hearings and all subsequent investigations of the assassination, and is one of the most studied pieces of film in history.