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Roland Martin
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Roland Martin is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. His interests lie in American folklore, music, and regional histories. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he worked as music director for the student-run radio station WXYC.
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The Zapruder film is a 26-second, 8-mm, silent, color film shot by Abraham Zapruder that shows the assassination of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. It is the only known film to capture the entirety of the shooting and has been the subject of intense scrutiny since theā¦
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