Last Updated on 05/09/2024 by Arun jain
President John F. Newly emerged film footage of Kennedy’s motorcade proceeding down a Dallas freeway toward the hospital He was mortally wounded It will go up for auction later this month.
Experts say the discovery is not surprising even 60 years after the murder.
“These images, these films and photographs, often they are still out there. They’re still being found or rediscovered in attics or garages,” said Stephen Fagin, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which tells the story of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination.
RR Auctions will offer 8mm home film in Boston on September 28. It begins with Dale Carpenter Sr. The limousine carrying President and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy not only misses but overtakes other vehicles at the Motor Cafe as it heads down Lemon Avenue. The film picks up after downtown Kennedy is shot, with Carpenter rolling as the motorcade roars down Interstate 35.
“This is remarkable in color and you can feel the speed at 80 miles per hour,” said Bobby Livingston, the auction house’s executive vice president.
The footage — which lasts about 10 seconds — from I-35 shows Secret Service Agent Clint HillWho jumped into the back of the limousine as the shot rang out, with the president and Jacqueline Kennedy, who could be seen in a pink dress, hovering in a standing position above.
“I didn’t know there weren’t going to be any more shots,” Hill said. “I had a vision that, yes, there were probably going to be more shots when I got up there.”
The shooting occurred as the motorcade passed Daly Plaza in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where the killer was later identified. Lee Harvey Oswald Positioned himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor. The assassination itself was famously captured on film by Abraham Zapruder.
After the shots, the motorcade turned onto I-35 and sped off Parkland Memorial HospitalWhere Kennedy would be pronounced dead. The motorcade took the same route to get Kennedy to his next stop, a speech at the Trade Mart.
James Gates, Carpenter’s grandson, said that while it was known in his family that his grandfather had a film from that day, it was not often talked about. So Gates said that when the film, stored among other family films in a milk crate, was finally given to him, he wasn’t sure what his grandfather, who died in 1991 at age 77, had captured.
Projecting it on his bedroom wall around 2010, he was first struck by the footage from Lemon Avenue. But then, footage of I-35 unfolded before his eyes. “It was shocking,” he said.
He was particularly struck by Hill’s precarious position in the back of the limousine.
Shortly after arriving at the hospital, Hill was on the phone with CBS Bay Area Attorney General Robert Kennedy. informed.
“He said ‘Well, how bad is it?’ And I didn’t want to tell him that his brother was dead,” Hill told the station. “So I said, ‘That’s as bad as it gets,’ and with that, he just hung up.”
Around that time Hill’s book, “Mrs. Kennedy and Me,” published in 2012, brought Gates into contact with Hill and his co-writer, Lisa McCubbin, who became Lisa McCubbin Hill when she and Hill married in 2021.
McCubbin Hill said it was admirable that Gates was sensitive enough to want to see the footage before Hill did anything else to him. She said that while she was familiar with Hill’s description of riding down the interstate in a limousine, “to see the footage of it actually happening … just kind of stops your heart.”
The auction house has released stills from the film footage but is not making public the portion showing the motorcade racing on the interstate.
A historian, documentary filmmaker and former FBI analyst who has seen the film said it depicts the rush to Parkland more fully than other, more fragmented film footage he has seen. He said the footage offers “a new look at the race to Parkland” and he hopes that after the auction, it will end up somewhere where it can be used by filmmakers.
Fagin said the murder was such a traumatic event that it was natural for people to keep material related to it, so there is always the possibility of new material surfacing.
He said historians have wondered for years about the man who can be seen taking the photo in one of the photos of the day.
“For years we had no idea who the photographer was, where his camera was, where these images were,” Fagin said.
Then, in 2002, Jay Skaggs walked into the museum with a shoebox under his arm. He was the photographer captured in the photo, and in that shoebox were 20 images of Dealey Plaza before and after the killings, including the only known color photographs of the rifle being removed from the Texas School Book Depository building, Fagin said.
“He just gave us that box,” Fagin said.
In December 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration released a treasure 13,173 documents Shortly after being issued by President Biden, related to JFK’s assassination Executive Order Thousands of others authorize their disclosure while keeping sensitive records hidden.
At that time, the Archives said Of the approximately 5 million pages in its collection related to the assassination, 97% have been declassified. But some experts said the government continues to redact or withhold important information that could cast the CIA or other agencies in a negative light.
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