Zapruder Film

[Mitchell R Coffey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Richard Romeo" <richardromeo at hotmail.com> at Internet
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 1:52 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org at INTERNET
> Subject: Zapruder Film
>
> Any idea how in the heck the gov't is going to price an item like the
> Zapruder Film.  Seems their first bid of $ 1 million was
> deemed to low by
> the Zapruder family. What do you compare it too. There's no real
> benchmark--all I can think of are two recent events on film:
> Reagan's
> attempted murder in Washington, DC in 1981 and Sadat's murder
> in Egypt in
> 1983?
>
> Some day, in the year 2400, on the inter-galactic Travelling
> Roadshow, on
> Channel 1300, someone will break forth w/ this.
>
> Rich

Well, there is one grainy black-and-white home-videotape of the Lincoln
assassination, but this is thought to be a fake.

Mitchell Coffey
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Slim Pickins rode the bomb down laughing
Bucking to oblivion
In gravity's rainbow rodeo

 - Found anonymously felt-penned onto a wall
   in the Bancroft Library on the UC Berkeley
   campus, c. 1977