A Collector's Item For All Americans!" chirps the flack copy on the box of Image Of An Assassination, the Zapruder family's attempt to cash in on their patriarch's fabled skill at being in the right place at the right time. After plodding through some uninteresting background information on Abraham Zapruder himself (he almost didn't take his camera that day, he was looking forward to showing the film to his family) and the absorbing history of the film itself, Image Of An Assassination finally gets to the 483 frames of 8mm film that most viewers really want to see. After watching every possible incarnation of the film—including the enhanced slow-motion version which reveals the previously unseen images between the sprocket holes—even the most skeptical viewer will be forced to an inescapable conclusion: The Zapruder film confirms, beyond all reasonable doubt, that John F. Kennedy was killed by having his fucking head blown almost completely off his fucking shoulders. Beyond an initial gut reaction to the presidential gore, it's difficult to say what else the viewing public could learn from this historic footage, restored or not. The story of the film itself, as the only visual record of the shooting, is actually the reason those who aren't fans of Faces Of Death may want to see this tape. Zapruder's savvy in selling to the highest bidder is a pretty good yarn, and one well worth thinking about, as is the film's first television broadcast on the Wake Up America show, hosted by one Geraldo Rivera. It's up to the individual to decide whether that or the grainy yet graphic film itself is reason enough to see Image Of An Assassination. But "A Collector's Item For All Americans!" it most certainly is not.