When the Russian ambassador to Turkey was killed in front of cameras by an assassin, Alexandra Zapruder had one thought: "There's another Zapruder film." Her new book, Twenty-Six Seconds, looks at how her grandfather's film of the John F. Kennedy assassination changed media and American life, and how her family dealt with the grave responsibility of being part of American history.

In the Spiel, there's a war on Mike's birthday.

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