A recently auctioned 8 mm color home film shows President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the hospital after he was fatally wounded on November 22, 1963. The footage, captured by Dale Carpenter Sr., begins with his car missing the presidential limousine but captures other vehicles in the motorcade before capturing the aftermath of the shooting.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.FILE - An undated image released by RR Auction shows home film footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the hospital after he was fatally wounded on Nov. 22, 1963.The 8 mm colour home film was offered up by RR Auction in Boston. The auction house said the buyer wishes to remain anonymous.
The film has been with the family of the man who took it, Dale Carpenter Sr., since he recorded it on Nov. 22, 1963. It begins as Carpenter just misses the limousine carrying the president and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy but capturing other vehicles in the motorcade as it travelled down Lemmon Avenue toward downtown. The film then picks up after Kennedy has been shot, with Carpenter rolling as the motorcade roars down Interstate 35.
The shots had fired as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where it was later found that assassinhad positioned himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor. The assassination itself was famously captured on film by Abraham Zapruder.An undated image released by RR Auction shows a box of home film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the hospital after he was fatally wounded on Nov. 22, 1963.
The auction house has released still photos from the portion of the film showing the race down I-35, but it is not publicly releasing video of that part.An undated image released by RR Auction shows home film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to a hospital after he was fatally wounded on Nov. 22, 1963.
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