Rare unseen video footage of John F. Kennedy assassination up for auction

Unseen footage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, showing the moments after the shooting as his limousine sped toward Parkland Memorial Hospital, is set to be auctioned later this month.

RR Auctions will sell the 40-second 8mm color film on September 28, with a current bid of $12,100. The film was shot by Dale Carpenter Sr., a truck driver who used his home movie camera to capture the event.

Carpenter's footage primarily features the motorcade on Lemmon Avenue heading towards Dealey Plaza. However, he missed filming the president's limousine and quickly moved to a different location near the North Stemmons Freeway on Interstate-35.

From there, Carpenter recorded the limousine racing to Parkland Memorial Hospital at 80 mph. The film also captures Secret Service agent Clint Hill clinging to the back of the car after he had leaped onto it following the shooting. Hill later recounted his experience in his 2013 memoir, *Five Days in November*, and the footage is expected to appear in an upcoming documentary about him.

In the footage, after the fatal shot, Jacqueline Kennedy can be seen standing up in the car, attempting to lift her husband’s body. In the foreground, the Secret Service agent is seen jumping onto the car’s rear fender. After 10 seconds of footage from I-35, the film cuts abruptly to a toddler playing with a toy dump truck.

While the most famous film of the assassination remains Abraham Zapruder’s, which captured the fatal shot in Dealey Plaza, this newly surfaced footage provides a rare look at the immediate aftermath. Carpenter, who passed away in 1991, never made the footage public. It is now being sold by his grandson, James Gates, who discovered the film in a milk crate.

Gates told the Associated Press that while the Lemmon Avenue footage initially seemed underwhelming, the scene of the limo rushing to the hospital left him "shocked."

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