JFK's Assassination: How LIFE Brought the Zapruder Film to Light

Film still from Abraham Zapruder's home movie of the Kennedy assassination, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963.
Film still from Abraham Zapruder's home movie of JFK's assassination in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963. (SEE VIDEO BELOW.) (Zapruder Film © 1967 (renewed 1995) The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza)

Former LIFE editor Richard Stolley shares the incredible story of how he purchased the Zapruder film of JFK's murder for LIFE magazine in 1963.