Zapruder had given it to her.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears to the extremities. I acquired the copy of the book ‘The Death of a President’ signed by the author as part of my mother’s estate…I had seen it once before she died and she told me Mr. Zapruder to get his camera the world would probably not know much about the event. She always felt that her legacy was that if she had not persuaded Mr. Zapruder to go back to his home and get his movie camera which he did and the rest is history. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the son of Lillian Rogers, which reads in part: “My mother, deceased, Lillian Rogers worked for Abaraham Zapruder at the time of the JFK assassination…On that day she urged Mr. From the library of Zapruder’s assistant Lillian Rogers, whom he gifted the book to with the original transmittal envelope postmarked at Dallas on Novemsigned by Zapruder, “Mr.
Zapruder is mentioned over a dozen times in the present volume, as is referenced in the index. Later referred to as the ‘Zapruder film’, the film offered an exceptionally clear view of the assassination and became an important part of the Warren Commission hearings and all subsequent investigations into the assassination. Kennedy while filming the procession of the presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Association copy, inscribed by William Manchester to Abraham Zapruder in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For Abe Zapruder – With gratitude and warmest regards – Wm Manchester 13 III 67.” The recipient, Abraham Zapruder, unexpectedly witnessed and filmed the assassination of John F. First edition of the historian’s most well-known and enduring work.
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