Film about motorcade driving JFK to hospital after Dallas shooting sells for $137,500

Newly surfaced film video of former President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade driving down a highway toward a hospital in Dallas, Texas, after he was fatally shot on Nov. 22, 1963, sold for $137,500 at auction on Saturday sold.

The home film was offered by RR Auction in Boston, Massachusetts, The Associated Press reported. According to the auction house, the buyer wishes to remain anonymous.

Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of the auction house, said in a press release that the film conveys “a gripping sense of urgency and heartbreak.”

The film has been in the family of Dale Carpenter Sr., the man who recorded it, since the day of the assassination. Carpenter died in 1991 at the age of 77.

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In the footage, Carpenter narrowly misses the limousine carrying the President and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, but records other vehicles in the motorcade heading down Lemmon Avenue toward downtown Dallas. The video then shows that the president was shot and shows the motorcade speeding down Interstate 35 toward Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the president was pronounced dead.

The shots were fired as the motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had positioned himself on the sixth floor.

The attack itself was filmed by Abraham Zapruder.

Home movie footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade racing along a Dallas highway to the hospital after he was fatally wounded on November 22, 1963. (RR Auction)

Carpenter’s footage from I-35 lasts about 10 seconds and shows Secret Service Agent Clint Hill jumping into the back of the limousine as the shots are fired and hovering standing over the president and first lady.

According to Carpenter’s grandson James Gates, it was known in his family that his grandfather had films from the day of filming, but it wasn’t talked about often.

When the film, which had been stored in a milk crate with other family films, was finally given to him, Gates said he wasn’t sure what his grandfather had recorded.

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A box containing home movies of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade racing along a Dallas highway to the hospital after he was fatally wounded on November 22, 1963. (RR Auction)

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Gates was initially disappointed with the footage from Lemmon Avenue when he projected it on his bedroom wall around 2010, until he viewed the footage from I-35.

“That was shocking,” he said.

The auction house has released stills from the portion of the film that shows the motorcade speeding down I-35, but is not making the video of that portion publicly available.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.