Newly released film footage of a motorcade driving down a Dallas, Texas, highway toward a hospital after former President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963 will be auctioned Saturday. It was sold for $137,500.
The home film was offered by RR Auctions of Boston, Massachusetts. Associated Press Reported. The auction house said the buyer requested to remain anonymous.
Bobby Livingston, the auction house's executive vice president, said in a news release that the film provides a “gripping sense of urgency and heartbreak.”
The film has been in the possession of the family of the photographer, Dale Carpenter Sr., since the day of the assassination. Carpenter died in 1991 at the age of 77.
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The motorcade of President John F. Kennedy, who was fatally injured on November 22, 1963, was photographed speeding down a Dallas freeway toward the hospital. (RR Auction)
In the video, Carpenter misses the limousine carrying the president and first lady Kennedy, but other vehicles in the motorcade are recorded driving down Lemmon Street toward downtown Dallas. Video then showed the president being shot and the motorcade speeding down Interstate 35 toward Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The shots were fired as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in front of the Texas School Book Depository. There, assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was stationed on the sixth floor.
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Home film footage of the fatally wounded President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward the hospital on November 22, 1963. (RR Auction)
The approximately 10-second video Carpenter shot from Interstate 35 shows Secret Service agent Clint Hill jumping into the back seat of the limousine and hovering over the president and first lady as the shots are fired. is reflected.
James Gates, Carpenter's grandson, said it was known in the family that his grandfather had the film at the time of the shooting, but it was never talked about much.
When the film, kept in a milk crate with other family films, was finally given to Gates, he said he had no idea what his grandfather had shot.
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A box of home films showing the fatally wounded President John F. Kennedy's motorcade traveling down a Dallas freeway to the hospital on November 22, 1963. (RR Auction)
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Gates was initially shocked when he projected the image from Lemmon Street onto his bedroom wall around 2010, but then he observed the image from Interstate 35.
“That was shocking,” he said.
The auction house released a still photo of the portion of the movie where the motorcade speeds down Interstate 35, but not video of that portion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
