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!
— Daily Local Real Estate Dish By Dallas Real Estate Insider — Candy Evans at CandysDirt.com