Abraham Zapruder

Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who filmed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Of Russian-Jewish descent, Zapruder resided in Dallas and founded a fashion company. On the day of the assassination, he captured the shooting in a home movie while filming Kennedy's presidential limousine as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. The Zapruder film is regarded as the most complete footage of the assassination. Zapruder died in 1970.