11-22-63 Jamieson film company affidavit regarding developing original 0183.
11-22-63 Eastman Kodak Company Dallas affidavits of making copies 0185, 0186, and 0187.
11-23-63 FBI evidence receipt (Form FD-340), File No. 89-43-1A81, for the Secret Service's copy of the Zapruder film received from U.S. Secret Service Inspector Thomas J. Kelley by SA James W. Bookhout
11-23-63 Memorandum from Assistant Director C. D. DeLoach to Associate Director John Mohr ("8 Millimeter Color Film Taken at Scene of Assassination")
11-23-63 Additional Memorandum from Assistant Director C. D. DeLoach to Associate Director John Mohr ("Assassination of the President")
11-23-63 Initial Agreement between Abraham Zapruder and Richard B. Stolley on behalf of Life Magazine (eventually replaced by 11-25-63 Contract) (best copy available) View Plain Text.
11-25-63 Contract between Time, Inc. and Abraham Zapruder in the form of a letter to C.D. Jackson, Publisher, and signed by Abraham Zapruder and Richard Stolley on behalf of Time, Inc. View Plain Text.
11-25-63 Copyright registration: Class B, Reg. No. B 77445; claimant Time Inc. LIFE Vol. 55, No. 22 published (cover date 11-29-63); JFK assassination issue containing the first published Zapruder frames.
11-27-63 Pollard (LIFE) to AP and UPI, releasing six prints from the Nov. 29, 1963 issue on stated conditions, including the required copyright credit and a bar on alteration or television release.
11-29-63 Memorandum from SAs Robert M. Barrett and Ivan D. Lee to Dallas SAC (89-43) on the chain of custody of the 8mm film — given to SA James W. Bookhout by Secret Service Inspector Tom Kelley.
12-4-63 FBI Report on Zapruder’s Filming
12-6-63 Airtel from Director J. Edgar Hoover to Dallas SAC (89-43) enclosing a copy of the film to be turned over to the Secret Service for the Dallas Police Department.
12-7-63 Book copyright registration, Time Inc., John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition (Reg. No. A 673423).
1-7-64 Memorandum from Life general manager Arthur Keylor to managing editor George Hunt (cc C.D. Jackson) inventorying the original film and prints and directing that the original and the New York prints be retired to Time Inc.’s bank vault.
1-7-64 Letter from Life Bureau Chief to Secret Service Chief James Rowley Regarding Secret Service copies (Secret Service’s Copy) (View Life’s Copy)
1-14-64 Letter Dallas Special Agent In Charge Forrest Sorrels Regarding Secret Service copies
1-22-64 Letter from Forrest Sorrels to James Rowley Regarding Secret Service copies
1-27-64 Letter from James Rowley Responding to Life Bureau Chief Regarding Secret Service copies
2-3-64 Letter from Hoover to Rankin regarding Zapruder Camera Speed
2-11-64 Life Memorandum between John Jenkisson and Arthur Keylor, LIFE regarding an anticipated Warren Commission request to borrow the original film.
2-12-64 Letter from J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel of the President’s Commission, to Life Bureau Chief Henry Suydam requesting the original film.
2-27-64 Letter from J. Lee Rankin to Herbert G. Orth (LIFE) confirming preparation of 35 mm transparencies from FBI-designated frames.
3-9-64 Memorandum from Supervisor W. D. Griffith to Section Chief L. W. Conrad on Life's refusal to permit "frame by frame" projection for fear of damage.
4-21-64 Letter from Hoover to Rankin transmitting a set of 169 35 mm slides. Marked Commission Document (C.D.) 858.
6-2-64 Letter from Hoover to Rankin regarding retention of the cameras used by Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore, and Abraham Zapruder
7-8-64 Letter from Rankin to Zapruder requesting his testimony for the Warren Commission.
7-9-64 Letter from Harold R. Medina, Jr. (Cravath, Swaine & Moore) for Time Inc. to J. Lee Rankin, regarding use of the copyrighted photographs in the Warren Commission Report and the required copyright notice.
7-15-64 Letter from Barefoot Sanders regarding scheduling of Warren Commission testimony for Donald Sam Baker, James W. Altgens, Abraham Zapruder, Phillip L. Willis, and Warren Reynolds
7-22-64 Abraham Zapruder Deposition Testimony as it appears in the Warren Commission Report
9-28-64 Copyright registration: Class B, Reg. No. B 138324; claimant Time Inc. LIFE published (cover date 10-2-64); Warren Report issue.
10-64 (Estimate) Undated — National Archives and Records Service, Appendix A: Administrative Files Relating to Warren Commission Records and Kennedy Autopsy Materials. NARA's folder-by- folder index of its custody files. Names "P&C 065-103 Accessioning of Zapruder Camera
12-4-64 Letter from Hoover to Rankin regarding loaning film to CIA
12-15-64 FBI is not authorized to loan film to CIA
2-4-65 Letter from Richard Stolley (LIFE) to Paul Chretien (CIA), transmitting a film print for internal training only and asserting Time Inc.’s copyright and reservation of all rights.
2-10-65 CIA Copy of Zapruder Film Designated Confidential/CIA Internal Use Only.
2-16-65 Letter and signed agreement CIA (Paul M. Chrétien) to Richard B. Stolley (LIFE), accepting Time Inc.’s copyright conditions for a training print.
12-14-65 Letter from Director J. Edgar Hoover confirming that Zapruder frames 314 and 315 are reversed or transposed in Volume 18 of the Warren Commission Hearings (Commission Exhibit 885) — a printing error absent from the actual exhibit, the slides being correctly numbered — and noting the National Archives is aware of it.
9-29-66 Memorandum from Supervisor W. D. Griffith to Assistant Director Ivan Conrad answering Mark Lane's claim on the Jerry Williams Show that the FBI removed four frames and spliced the film,
10-7-66 LIFE publishes The Warren Report is not Enough by Loudon Wainright.
11-14-66 National Archives Letter to Harold Weisberg
11-21-66 LIFE press release (dated Nov. 20, 1966) announcing the “reasonable doubt” editorial position based on re-examination of the Zapruder film.
11-23-66 LIFE – Josiah Thompson consulting agreement, providing that materials Thompson supplied would become LIFE’s property.
11-21-66 LIFE Vol. 61, No. 22); “reasonable doubt” (cover date 11-25-66) / Issue re-examining the Zapruder film. Copyright registration: Class B, Reg. No. B 303025; claimant Time Inc.
1-19-67 to 6-19-67 LIFE–Josiah Thompson correspondence and memoranda
1-30-67 LIFE press release, statement of managing editor George Hunt addressing the accidental damage to frames 207–212 and releasing those frames for publication.
3-8-67 Letter from Pollard (LIFE) to Marion Johnson (National Archives), urging that the film be shown to qualified researchers but that no prints be made, citing the threat to LIFE's control.
3-24-67 Letter from Robert H. Bahmer, Archivist of the United States (National Archives), Responding to the 3-8-67 Richard O. Pollard (LIFE) letter and confirming that the Archives would advise requesters the film could be shown to qualified researchers but that LIFE would not permit its reproduction.
5-15-67 Mu 7813 — Copyright registration, Class L, unpublished motion picture: The Assassination of President Kennedy, author Abraham Zapruder, claimant Time Inc. (undated on the face). This is the registration of the film itself — arguably the most important of the three registrations, and it’s the one not on the list.
12-1-67 Time files Complaint against Bernard Geis Associates, Bernard Geis, Josiah Thompson, and Random House, Inc. Time is represented by Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
1-5-68 Defendants’ Answer in Time v. Geis.
5-1-68 Stipulation of Facts in Time, Inc. v. Geis
9-24-68 Order Granting Summary Judgment for Defendants View Published Order: Time v. Geis, 293 F. Supp. 130 (1968)
10-15-74 Letter from GSA about communications with Vice President of Time, Inc. View Plain Text.
3-24-75 Paul Hoch Memorandum Re Need to Investigate CIA and FBI
4-4-75 Draft Agreement between Time, Inc., and Zapruder’s heirs, Lillian Zapruder, Henry Zapruder, and Myrna Faith Hauser. Unsigned by Time.
4-8-75 Memorandum from Audiovisual Archives Division Director James W. Moore to the Archivist of the United States Regarding the Time, Inc. Offer and Courtesy Storage of the Original
4-9-75 Life Assignment of Copyright
4-11-75 Assignment of Copyright from Lillian Zapruder, Henry G. Zapruder, and Myrna Faith Hauser to LMH Company
4-16-75 Intraservice Memorandum Requesting Assignment of an Accession Number to the Time, Inc. Gift
4-23-75 Letter re CIA Training
4-24-75 Letter Thanking Time for Gift
4-24-75 Film is Part of Special Operations Training Program
5-7-75 Letter from CIA Responding to Paul Hoch Memorandum
5-12-75 Change of Holdings Report, Accession NN-375-222 — 323 Color Transparencies, Frames 164–486
5-13-75 Letter from Robert M. Trien to Acting Archivist James O'Neill Enclosing the Copyright Assignments and Specifying the LMH Copyright Notice [0043]
5-14-75 CIA Letter to Rockefeller Commission’s Robert Olsen Disclosing All Zapruder Textual Material
5-15-75 Cover Sheet, Transaction Dossier NN-375-222
6-3-75 Letter from James W. Moore to Robert M. Trien Agreeing to Comply with the Copyright Notice Request
9-8-75 Researcher Letter Requesting Whether FBI Loaned Copy to CIA
10-28-75 CIA Letter re CIA possession of Zapruder copy designated Confidential
5-20-76 CIA Made Three Additional Copies
5-20-76 CIA Releasing Copy to FBI and Redacting CIA Liaison Officer Mrs. Jane Roman
6-29-78 National Archives Receipt
6-29-78 Memorandum to File from Clarence F. Lyons, Jr. Regarding Delivery of the Original Film
7-10-78 Letter from Henry to National Archives re: Storage
9-28-82 CIA Review of Zapruder files
10-15-88 - Declaration of Gerard A. Selby, Jr. re Selby v. Henry Zapruder
10-20-88 - Complaint Filed by Gerard Selby and Harold Weisburg against Henry Zapruder and LHM, Civil Action No. 88-3043 (D.D.C.)
10-29-88 Letter from Henry G. Zapruder to Mark N. Goodman — Filed by the National Archives as “Typical Agreement for Use”
10-27-88 Notice of Dismissal, Selby v. Zapruder, Civil Action No. 88-3043 (D.D.C.)
4-25-89 Selby Weisberg v Zapruder Memorandum from R. Brad Powers, NARA Legal Services Staff, Regarding Selby and Weisberg v. Zapruder [0067, 0069]
5-1-89 Letter regarding Selby v Zapruder Lawsuit
11-16-90 Memorandum from William Cunliffe, Director, Special Archives Division
3-6-91 Letter from Anita L. Dove to Donald Roe Designating James Lorin Silverberg to Issue Permissions
7-16-91 Letter from Leslie C. Waffen to Thomas Wilson — "None of the originals are available for viewing"
5-15-92 Statement of Dr. Don W. Wilson, Archivist of the United States, on H.J. Res. 454, Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992
11-6-92 Memorandum from William T. Murphy Regarding Preservation Copying and the Omitted Intersprocket Imagery
4-5-93 to Silverberg Referring
9-1-93 Memo to NARA GC Re Fair Use
6-9-94 Notes re Zapruder Meeting
7-12-94 Notes Zapruder Silverberg
7-20-94 Letter re OLC Copyright
7-31-94 Ohio St Professor to Tunheim
8-26-94 Request to Determine Copyright Act
9-19-94 - Letters to Determine What Constitutes a Record
10-18-94 Demand from Silverberg to NARA
10-18-94 Demand from Silverberg to Marwell
10-18-94 Demand from Silverberg to Tunheim
10-18-94 Demands from Silverberg to Others
10-94 Draft Response to Silverberg
10-18-94 Demand from Silverberg to NARA
11-22-94 Walter Dellinger to Tunheim Regarding Lead Agency
12-16-94 NARA Letter from Runkel to Silverberg
12-22-94 Letter from Henry Authorizing Silverberg
12-27-94 Letter from Silverberg Demanding $15,000,000
1-10-95 Letter re: ADR from Silverberg
1-10-95 from Silverberg about 3 unreturned phone calls
1-13-95 Memo on Returning Silverberg’s Calls
2-3-95 Draft Possible Settlement to John Tunheim
2-3-95 Draft Possible Settlement with Edits
2-3-95 Fax Possible Settlement
2-6-95 Memo re: Questions for Meeting
2-14-95 Response from John Tunheim
4-6-95 - Memo to ask Life about Assignment
5-1-95 Letter to Harry Johnston
5-3-95 Memo on Takings, Copyright, and Payment
5-9-95 - Memo on Takings Rather than Tort
5-24-95 Letter to Tunheim with Draft
9-13-95 Call about Zapruder Taking
10-13-95 Copyright 15m Demand - Silverberg
10-17-95 Memorandum for Elizabeth A. Pugh, General Counsel, NARA, from Walter Dellinger, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Section 11(a) of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992
10-17-95 Memorandum from Kirk Manhardt, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, to Jeremy Gunn, ARRB, Disagreeing in Part with the OLC Opinion
10-18-95 Memo from Doug Horne re NPIC Review of Zapruder Film
12-21-95 Charles W. Mayn Technical Review
6-6-96 Handwritten Meeting Notes
6-10-96 Washington Post Article on James Files
7-16-96 Memo on Possession Custody and Control
7-24-96 Draft Settlement Zapruder
7-24-96 Draft Settlement with Notes
8-2-96 Proposed Settlement Agreement
8-23-96 Memo to Elizabeth Pugh
9-10-96 Settlement Contract Negotiations
9-26-96 Further Draft Settlement Agreement
9-30-96 Letter Re Zapruder Litigation
1-7-97 Letter from Kodak re: Zavada Report and $20,000 Contribution
2-6-97 Letter to James Milch re Zavada Report and Digitizing Zapruder Film
3-13-97 Film Map of Secret Service Copy No. 1 of the Zapruder Film (87.010; 1 MPPSK(P) 8mm), hand-drawn by ARRB analyst Douglas Horne based on his March 13, 1997 examination at NARA.
3-13-97 Film Map of Secret Service Copy No. 2 of the Zapruder Film (87.010; 1 MPPSK(P) 8mm), hand-drawn by Douglas Horne based on his March 13, 1997 examination at NARA.
3-27-97 Federal Register - Status and Disposition of the Zapruder Film to be considered
3-31-97 Inventory of Zapruder Film Copies
4-2-97 Complete Transcript of Assassination Records Review Board Hearing on the Taking of the Zapruder Film; List of Witnesses; Schedule; Detailed Agenda; Meeting Minutes; Statement of Robert Brauneis; Statement of Art Simon; Statement of David Lifton; Statement of Jim Lesar; Statement of Charles J. Sanders.
4-3-97 Email to Teresa Wilcox regarding status of NPIC records (Declassified 2022)
4-4-97 Film Map of the Original Zapruder Film (2002ZAP1; 1 ORSK(P) 8mm), hand-drawn by Douglas Horne based on his April 4, 1997 examination at NARA.
4-4-97 Kodachrome Advertisement
4-14-97 Kodak Digitization Quote
4-17-97 Federal Registry Notice of Meeting regarding Status and Disposition of Zapruder Film
4-24-97 ARRB News Release on Making Film a Permanent Public Record
4-24-97 Policy on Zapruder Film
5-16-97 Federal Register ARRB Notice of Postponing Release of Classified JFK Files
6-23-97 House Report Extending Life of ARRB
10-30-97 Response to Silverberg
9-16-98 Letter from George Tenet to Tunheim regarding CIA Compliance
9-30-98 Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board and
9-30-98 Appendix: Members of the ARRB
10-15-98 Arbitration Agreement - the Justice Department and the Zapruders agree to arbitrate for the value of the film
3-13-99 Federal Registry Notice of National Archives Meeting to Discuss Preservation
7-16-99 In Re Matter of the Zapruder Film (Arbitration Decision Awarding $16 million) Plain Text of Decision
Spring 2000 - The Failures of the ARRB by Douglas Horne
3-28-02 Monaco/Interformat Inspection and Duplication of Regular 8mm 541-ARRP-1 and 87.010
11-6-02 Preservation Suggestions
3-13-03 Federal Registry Adding Zapruder Film to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
2017 - National Archives Guidance on Requesting Copies of the Zapruder Film
Undated-Article and Patent - Trustworthy Digital Camera