Abraham Zapruder Lived at 3909 Marquette in University Park in 1963: JFK Week and Dallas Real Estate
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These are notes shown in the issue of LIFE: 50 Years Later that is on newsstands with the incredible gut-wrenching story of how Life editor Dick Stolley obtained the video of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas 50 years ago. It was shot carefully with a Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD camera, by University Park resident Abraham Zapruder.
Amazing to think that now, 50 years later, we all have video cameras right in our hands with our smart phones: look at the videos that resurface moments after tragedies such as the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Despite the hundreds of media in Dallas that day for President Kennedy’s visit, it was Zapruder, a clothing manufacturer (I actually remember his label “Jennifer Juniors”) who was standing on a block of cement and steadily filming away, steady hand even during the most horrific scene, the famous frame 313. That frame was left out of the publication of the photos out of respect for the President and his family. I don’t recall ever seeing it until the last few weeks.
You must read this report in TIME MAGAZINE , The JFK Image So Awful I Had to Cover My Screen: Two Weeks With the Zapruder Film. And look at frame 313. It will give you the same chills that we got when we saw people jumping out of the World Trade Center on 9/11.
The note above says 3009 Marquette, and that address doesn’t exist today. According to the deposition Zapruder gave to the Warren Commission, he lived at 3909 Marquette.
This was the house (pictured above) that was at 3909 Marquette in 2012. Built in 1947, it had 3154 square feet, two bedrooms and two baths. It sold in May of last year for about $1.1. The lot was purchased by Paul Ching, whose son, Marc, is a real estate agent and developer at Allie Beth Allman.
I called Marc and he confirmed this was the Zapruder home. They tore the home down because in 2012 it was not in great shape, obviously, but in the process Marc’s parents found some JFK memorabilia.
Dallas past, and present.
A HUGE toast to Lindy Decker, mother of my fabulous son-in-law for the tip. At CD, we don’t tip hats, we tip flutes!
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Amazing! So glad there are some photos of the house at least. And I wonder what kind of memorabilia they found?!
Amazing! So glad there are some photos of the house at least. And I wonder what kind of memorabilia they found?!
[…] Earlier this week, I told you about 3909 Marquette, which was once the home address of Abraham Zapru… of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas 50 years ago. He filmed meticulously with a Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD camera and his work today remains the sole video chronicle of the horrific event. […]
[…] Earlier this week, I told you about 3909 Marquette, which was once the home address of Abraham Zapru… of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas 50 years ago. He filmed meticulously with a Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD camera and his work today remains the sole video chronicle of the horrific event. […]
yes sorry i am late on the scene, but took a few days to track down.. what letters were found, was a camera that was dismantled found also or parts of a camera. i am trying to find zapruders camera/gun. i have traced it to this house. now distroyed.. obviously nothing of great importance found or it would be all over news. are their any spots in back yard that had escavating done before 1972. a small pond or were a family pet was burried??
if red is zapruder handwriting , then green is not zapruder.. or vise versa . OR neither is zapruder handwriting.
LIFE magazine tampered with zapruder film, LIFE paid off zapruder hit team with 150,00 dollers disquised as a film buy out with zapruder later getting a bonus 25,000 anonymously for the kill shot..which he donates to look like a perfect witness and all round nice guy…
oh yes , was any of the photo's your parents found have a lady in a green dress. or a lady in a creamish colour dress, or women in a full red coat. see zapruder protected himself and took photo's of his workers. these photo are actually important. why would zapruder take photo of his staff you ask?? because when you operate a sniper team and deal with government agencies, this is what you do to survive..
yes sorry i am late on the scene, but took a few days to track down.. what letters were found, was a camera that was dismantled found also or parts of a camera. i am trying to find zapruders camera/gun. i have traced it to this house. now distroyed.. obviously nothing of great importance found or it would be all over news. are their any spots in back yard that had escavating done before 1972. a small pond or were a family pet was burried??
if red is zapruder handwriting , then green is not zapruder.. or vise versa . OR neither is zapruder handwriting.
LIFE magazine tampered with zapruder film, LIFE paid off zapruder hit team with 150,00 dollers disquised as a film buy out with zapruder later getting a bonus 25,000 anonymously for the kill shot..which he donates to look like a perfect witness and all round nice guy…
oh yes , was any of the photo's your parents found have a lady in a green dress. or a lady in a creamish colour dress, or women in a full red coat. see zapruder protected himself and took photo's of his workers. these photo are actually important. why would zapruder take photo of his staff you ask?? because when you operate a sniper team and deal with government agencies, this is what you do to survive..