Washington - The US Justice Department has agreed to pay $16 million to the heirs of Mr Abraham Zapruder, the amateur film-maker who captured the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
The amount of the settlement was set by an arbitration panel, after the US government and the Zapruder family failed to agree on a fair price. Mr Zapruder's camera captured Kennedy's assassination as his motorcade drove along a Dallas street on November 22nd, 1963 and he sold his rare footage to Life magazine for $150,000.