Film of motorcade driving JFK to hospital after Dallas shooting sells at auction

Newly emerged movie video of former President John F. Kennedy's motorcade driving down a freeway successful Dallas, Texas, toward a infirmary aft helium was fatally changeable connected Nov. 22, 1963, sold connected Saturday for $137,500 astatine an auction.

The location movie was offered by RR Auction successful Boston, Massachusetts, The Associated Press reported. The purchaser wishes to stay anonymous, according to the auction house.

The auction house's enforcement vice president, Bobby Livingston, said successful a quality merchandise that the movie offers "a gripping consciousness of urgency and heartbreak."

The movie has been held by the household of Dale Carpenter Sr., the antheral who recorded it, since the time of the assassination. Carpenter died successful 1991 astatine the property of 77.

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President John F. Kennedy's motorcade is seen speeding down a Dallas freeway to a infirmary aft helium was fatally wounded connected Nov. 22, 1963. (RR Auction)

In the footage, Carpenter conscionable misses the limousine carrying the president and archetypal woman Jacqueline Kennedy but records different vehicles successful the motorcade driving down Lemmon Avenue toward downtown Dallas. The video past shows that the president has been shot, and captures the motorcade arsenic it races down Interstate 35 towards Parkland Memorial Hospital, wherever the president was pronounced dead.

The shots were fired arsenic the motorcade passed done Dealey Plaza successful beforehand of the Texas School Book Depository, wherever assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had positioned himself connected the sixth floor.

The assassination itself was captured connected movie by Abraham Zapruder.

Home movie footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the infirmary aft helium was fatally wounded connected Nov. 22, 1963. (RR Auction)

Carpenter's footage from I-35 lasts astir 10 seconds and shows Secret Service Agent Clint Hill jumping onto the backmost of the limousine arsenic the shots were fired, hovering successful a lasting presumption implicit the president and archetypal lady.

According to Carpenter's grandson, James Gates, it was known successful his household that his gramps had movie from the time of the shooting, but it was not often discussed.

When the film, which had been stored on with different household films successful a beverage crate, was yet passed connected to him, Gates said helium was unsure what his gramps had captured.

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A container of location movie footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the infirmary aft helium was fatally wounded connected Nov. 22, 1963. (RR Auction)

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Gates was initially underwhelmed by the footage from Lemmon Avenue erstwhile helium projected it onto his chamber partition astir 2010 until helium observed the footage from I-35.

"That was shocking," helium said.

The auction location has released inactive photos from the information of the movie showing the motorcade speeding down I-35, but it is not making video of that portion publically available.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.