Zapruder with us. He has written an extraordinary book. 26 seconds, a personal history of the zapruder film. It is a book you really have to read you to really appreciate it. Even deeper than that it is a memoir of the extraordinary experience burden, destiny of family, a family that has his own extraordinary story and essentially refugees of jewish and he claims that find their way ultimately to dallas texas. And alexanders grandfather was Abraham Zapruder. The dressmaker who had the extraordinary occasion to find himself in that position on that day to capture these 26 seconds of faithful witness of history. And how many of you have seen the zapruder film . How many people have seen gone with the wind . [laughter] it is right up there. With american our relationship, a complex american relationship to media that this document, this artifact of our history is simultaneously an artifact of media and in some respects as one colleague of mine once described, it was the initiation of amer
Folks, i guess we are going to start here. So, thank you so much for coming and i hope you are comfortable because im going to talk for a bit here. My name is Mark Pendergrass as a about a third of the people in the audience do because that is their name, also. They are related to me. This is the bookstore i love to come to all independent bookstore with great hearts and is also close to where the pendergrass enclave has lived for many many years. I grew up he or in atlanta. I live in vermont, now. I come back here frequently to see my mother who is right here in my father who was very much involved in my research for this book. Read most of the manuscripts and who died last year at the age of 99 and a half and i just want to dedicate this whole talk to him. He was a wonderful, wonderful, kind, generous man and i dedicate the book to him into my mother into my made, my africanamerican maid whose name was willie mae and whom i call me and i will be talking about her maybe i should talk
Our family’s leader and matriarch, Dorothy Skuzeski, departed our world on July 13, 2023, at the age of 94 years, with children and grandchildren surrounding her .