From Zapruder to smartphones: Assassination footage reshapes America’s view of political violence
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it took more than a decade before Americans saw the infamous Zapruder film.Today, the killing of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk can be replayed in dozens of high-definition clips across social media, reshaping how the nation confronts political violence in real time."You’ll never have an assassination again that we don’t have footage of," Tevi Troy, a presidential historian and former secretary of […]