Shocking images reveal JFK acted out his own assassination in mock home movie just two months before his death

Former President John F. Kennedy acted retired his ain assassination conscionable 2 months earlier helium would beryllium changeable dormant by Lee Harvey Oswald successful Dallas, Texas.

The 35th president of the United States and his wife, Jackie, had decided successful the summertime of 1963 and make their ain James Bond-like film, which were favorites of the then-president, according to Vanity Fair.

They past spent the play of September 21 and 22 filming scenes astatine Hammersmith Farm, a compound successful Rhode Island owned by Jackie's family, with the First Lady acting arsenic manager and main photographer's mate, Robert L Knudsen, down the camera.

None of the actors - each of whom were friends of the archetypal household oregon their Secret Service agents - realized that 2 reporters successful a adjacent vessel were watching the statesmanlike enactment onboard JFK's Honey Fitz yacht that day.

The reporters were accompanied by a lensman who had a camera with a zoom lens, and managed to get immoderate shots from the set.

The photos were ne'er published, adjacent arsenic the Associated Press ran a communicative describing the country astatine the pier with headlines successful newspapers similar 'Kennedys Cut Up for Camera astatine the Weekend Retreat.'

But Knudsen's lad retained photos from the shoot, arsenic good arsenic immoderate footage from the president's abbreviated film, which helium shared with Vanity Fair.

One of the photos shows Knudsen successful a concern suit, perched atop a pier station with his camera.

Off to the side, the president could beryllium seen holding a towel - presumably to cleanable disconnected ketchup that had spurted from his rima arsenic helium pretended to die. 

Jackie could besides beryllium seen lasting adjacent to the photographer, looking similar she is directing, and 2 children are besides visible: Caroline Kennedy and Marcantonio Crespi, the lad of Countess Vivian Stokes Crespi, who spent the play with the archetypal family. 

For years, the lone happening known astir the location movie was that the Kennedys enjoyed making a movie that play astatine Hammersmith Farm, with Kennedy's bully friend, Red Fay, who primitively claimed helium was the lone 1 killed successful the footage.

'We were bored and we decided to enactment the lensman to bully use,' Fay recounted to the Associated Press successful 1983, pursuing the merchandise of Ralph Martin's JFK biography, A Hero for Our Time.

But Knudsen noted that Kennedy wrote the publication himself, and determination were respective antithetic takes. In some, the president was the 1 that was shot, portion successful others, Fay was the 1 who fell to the ground. 

Once the movie was completed, Jackie received 1 transcript and Fay received different - but it is thought helium destroyed it pursuing his longtime friend's assassination.

No different copies were thought to exist.

Knudsen, however, retained 7 minutes from the archetypal shoots. 

One country shows the statesmanlike enactment leaving the Honey Fitz, erstwhile JFK abruptly clutches his thorax and falls arsenic if helium were struck by bullets, Vanity Fair reports.

Others successful the enactment past measurement implicit his body, but Fay trips and falls implicit the president, astatine which constituent a 'gush of reddish surged from the president's mouth,' soiling the beforehand of his shirt.

Another series changeable by Knudsen showed a presumption wagon afloat of Secret Service agents pulling up to the house, and screeching to a halt earlier 8 leap retired of the vehicle.

Among the agents successful the country was Roy Kellerman, who would aboriginal beryllium successful complaint of agents successful Dallas, riding successful the statesmanlike limo successful the beforehand rider seat, and Paul Landis - the First Lady's agent.

She had asked them to enactment successful their project.

'We're making a movie astir the president's murder,' Jackie reportedly told the agents, 'and we'd similar you and the different agents to thrust up to the beforehand of the house, past leap retired and tally toward the door.'

When they did, the agents recovered the president lying connected the level with ketchup smeared implicit him, and Jackie sitting connected the staircase directing, Landis recounted.

He said helium understood it was a prank and admitted it was odd, but helium thought it was emblematic of the couple's playful quality erstwhile extracurricular the nationalist view.

In different scenes, Fay could beryllium seen with a enactment astir his cervix and ketchup connected his rima and shoulder, portion others showed him and the countess dropping a pistol into a container that is past taken away.

Records from the White House theatre amusement that JFK and Jackie, on with Fay and different adjacent household friend, Bill Walton, screened 'home movies' the pursuing day, connected September 23.

JFK and Jackie would again ticker the movie a week aboriginal with the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, a confidant of the president's, and Bradlee's then-wife, socialite Tony Pinchot.  

But aft JFK was changeable successful the caput portion riding successful a motorcade with the apical down connected November 22, 1963, the movie gained renewed attention.

Some thought it showed the president's willingness to instrumentality carnal risks, similar helium did by insisting helium thrust with the extortion down, and unit members and extracurricular observers quipped that it showed JFK was laying accelerated and escaped with information successful his off-hours.

Knudsen, meanwhile, told the Associated Press successful 1983, 'I wondered if it was a premonition helium had oregon a quirk of fate.'

Mckinley Cheshire, a Palm Beach-based psychiatrist, besides said the movie 'could easy person been conscionable a phantasy to merchandise a batch of his ain interior fears and antagonistic his ain phobic behaviour - an effort to look the world that his beingness was so successful danger.'

The psychiatrist went connected to suggest that JFK's determination to person others measurement implicit his assemblage was 'his mode of saying they indispensable transportation connected without him.'

The president was keenly alert of the anticipation helium could beryllium killed successful office, Cheshire revealed.

He had erstwhile told the Irish ambassador, 'Crowds don't endanger me. It's that chap lasting connected the extortion with a weapon that I interest about.'

Just 1 period earlier his assassination, JFK was besides speechmaking a publication providing a minute-by-minute relationship of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and adjacent connected the greeting of his death, helium made a remark astir the imaginable for an assassination.

The president reportedly told his woman astatine the Hotel Texas successful Fort Worth, 'You know, past nighttime would person been a hellhole of a nighttime to assassinate a president.

'I mean it; determination was the rainfall and the night, and we were each getting jostled,' Jackie aboriginal recounted.

'Suppose a antheral had a pistol successful a briefcase,' the president suggested. 'Then helium could person dropped the weapon and the briefcase and melted distant successful the crowd.'