| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images. By David M. Lubin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiv, 341 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-520-22985-1.)
The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination. By David R. Wrone. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xii, 368 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1291-2.)
When scholars begin to address the ways in which the history of an event was initially documented, the target of address provokes different kinds of scholarly questions. Often such a move occurs in tandem with increasing public sophistication regarding the kind of documentation being used, changes in the modes or technologies of documentation, and a persistent focus on the target of address that makes how it is examined as important as what is being examined.	1
Such is the case with David M. Lubin's Shooting Kennedy and David R. Wrone's The Zapruder Film. Both books tackle the life and death of John F. Kennedy through the prism of its visual documentation, underscoring the point that visual documentation is key, not peripheral, to understanding the past.	2
The visuals surrounding John F. Kennedy have long been a target of interest. No stranger to the camera, Kennedy developed as president an ongoing relationship with the reporters and photographers who were intent on documenting his every move, to the extent that in later years his close ties with the media were held responsible for obscuring some of the less palatable aspects of his life and administration. With his death, the link between the man and the media was further sustained. The display and replaying of the still photographs and films taken on the day of his assassination strengthened the already existent symbiosis between Kennedy and his images, allowing that day in Dallas to live on in collective memory through its visuals.	. . .

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