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From: "Corbett, Bryan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Arcan-L (E-mail)" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: FW: the zapruder film


> FYI
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> From: Richard Cox [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:27 AM
> To: Forum for Archival Educators
> Subject: the zapruder film
>
>
> In the midst of many new books marking JFK's assassination, a very
> interesting study appeared that will be of interest to archivists and
> records managers.  David R. Wrone, The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's
> Assassination (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003) is a
> consideration of the famous film capturing the assassination in Dallas,
> discussing technical matters relating to the film, the looseness of the
> federal government in dealing with evidence about the assassination,
> battles over the ownership and copyright of the film (including the
> passage of two federal laws in 1965 and 1992), subsequent uses of the
> film, and how the film relates (or does not relate) to various theories
> about the murder of the president.  Wrone states that his book is
> "designed both to highlight the Zapruder film's history, content, and
> controversies and to revisit the flaws and failures of the Warren
> Commission and its official report on the assassination.  By doing so, I
> hope to encourage other scholars - especially those who continue to defend
> the Warren Commission - to reconsider the official evidence and
> conclusions and join with me in a collective march toward a deeper and
> more accurate understanding of the events of that dark day in November
> 1963" (p. 2).  This is not, however, another conspiracy book.  Wrone, a
> retired history professor, provides much that will be illuminating to
> archivists and other records professionals concerned about records,
> evidence, and government accountability.  For instance, after a final
> critical chapter about the federal government's purchase of the film from
> Zapruder's heirs, Wrone concludes: "Rather than damaging constitutional
> guarantees of private property, as some commentators contended and many
> bureaucrats have agreed, a taking of the Zapruder film and copyright
> without payment would have in fact reinforced the principles of a truly
> democratic society that had in the first place created the very concept of
> constitutionally protected private property" (p. 275).  There is much food
> for thought in this disturbing and well-researched work.
>
> Richard J. Cox
> Professor, Archival Studies
> Publications Editor, Society of American Archivists
> Editor, Records & Information Management Report
> Department of Library and Information Sciences
> School of Information Sciences
> University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> Voice:  412-624-3245
> FAX:    412-648-7001
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> homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ercox/
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