Abraham Zapruder, then a businessman in Dallas, almost didn’t record the Kennedy assassination video as forgot the video recorder at home, and only returned to take it at the insistence of his dress factory assistant.
During his lunch break, he then walked out to Dealey Plaza accompanied by a female member of his staff, chose a good spot, and started recording Kennedy’s drive-past, inadvertently capturing the assassination, thus creating The Zapruder Film, a 26-second, 486-frame, silent colour “movie”, including the notorious frame 313: the fatal shot.