Pewter the man for the film showing the cessation of president kennedy described the history behind the film in her family. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here and for supporting san antonio book festival. The great adventure of literature in san antonio and we have an ordinary treat today to have been for with us. She has written an extraordinary book. Six seconds, a personal history of the pewter film. Its a book that you have to read to fully appreciate it. I can characterize it as a memoir of the zapruder film and its deeper than that. Its a memoir of the extraordinary experience, burden, destiny of the family, a family that has the extraordinary circumstances as refugees of jewish pilgrims in the ukraine, who find their way ultimately, to dallas texas. Alexandras grandfather was Abraham Zapruder the dressmaker who had the extraordinary occasion to find himself in that position, on that day, capture these 26 seconds of fateful witness of history. How many of you have seen the
Literature in san antonio and we have an ordinary treat today to have been for with us. She has written an extraordinary book. Six seconds, a personal history of the pewter film. Its a book that you have to read to fully appreciate it. I can characterize it as a memoir of the zapruder film and its deeper than that. Its a memoir of the extraordinary experience, burden, destiny of the family, a family that has the extraordinary circumstances as refugees of jewish pilgrims in the ukraine, who find their way ultimately, to dallas texas. Alexandras grandfather was Abraham Zapruder the dressmaker who had the extraordinary occasion to find himself in that position, on that day, capture these 26 seconds of fateful witness of history. How many of you have seen the zapruder film . Its extraordinary how many of you have seen gone with the wind . [laughter] its right up there. Its right up and they are in the annuals of our complex relationship to media. This document, this artifact, of our histor