From Zapruder to smartphones: assassination footage reshapes America’s view of political violence

Charlie Kirk's assassination footage spread instantly across social media platforms, contrasting sharply with the decade-long delay before Americans saw JFK's Zapruder film.

Jamie Joseph is a U.S. Politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering transgender and culture issues, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and stateside legislative developments.

"You’ll never have an assassination again that we don’t have footage of," presidential historian and former Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Bush administration, Tevi Troy, told Fox News Digital. 

"I have an image in my head of what Lincoln’s assassination might have looked like, but every assassination since the Kennedy era, or even assassination attempts, there’s generally going to be footage about it now, and that’s just a very difficult thing," he said.