1963 footage of motorcade racing John F Kennedy toward hospital sold for $137,500 at auction
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Footage showing the 35th president of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) being rushed to a hospital after he was fatally shot on November 22, 1963, was sold at an auction on Saturday (Sept 29) for $137,500. The footage captured Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward the Parkland Memorial Hospital.
A report by the news agency Associated Press early Sunday said that the8 mm colour home film was offered up by RR Auction in Boston. The auction said that the buyer wished to remain anonymous.
Kennedy was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald who was positioned as a sniper on thesixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository as Kennedy travelled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Two days after being accused of killing then-American president, Oswald was shot dead by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby.
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Who recorded the footage?
The Associated Press report said that the footage was recorded by Dale Carpenter Sr. The footage begins as Carpenter just missedthe limousine carrying the president and first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy but captured other vehicles in the motorcadeas 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.
Carpenter’s footage from I-35, which lasts about 10 seconds, shows Secret Service Agent Clint Hill — who famously jumped onto the back of the limousine as the shots rang out — hovering in a standing position over the president and Jacqueline Kennedy, whose pink suit can be seen. The president was pronounced dead after arriving at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
The footage has been with Carpenter's family since he recorded it on November 22, 1963.
Carpenter’s grandson, James Gates, told the news agency that while it was known in his family that his grandfather had film from that day, it wasn’t talked about often.
So Gates said that when the film was eventually passed on to him, he wasn’t sure exactly what his grandfather, who died in 1991 at age 77, had captured.
Projecting it onto his bedroom wall around 2010, Gates was at first underwhelmed by the footage from Lemmon Avenue. But then, the footage from I-35 played out before his eyes. “That was shocking,” he said.
'A gripping sense of urgency, heartbreak'
Bobby Livingston, executive vice president ofthe RR Auction, said that Carpenter's footage“provides a gripping sense of urgency and heartbreak.”
The auction house has released still photos from the portion of the film showing the race down I-35, but it has not publicly released the video of that part.
(With inputs from agencies)