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    The film will be offered on September 28 by Boston-based RR Auction, an auction house that has sold items related to Kennedy and the assassination for nearly 40 years.

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    Footage has recently surfaced of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down the Dallas freeway toward Parkland Hospital after he was fatally wounded. The footage will be auctioned off later this month.

    While it may seem like a shocking find decades after the murder, experts say the discovery is not necessarily surprising.

    “These images, these films and photographs, they’re often still out there. They’re still being discovered or rediscovered in attics or garages,” Stephen Fagin, curator at The Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza, told CBS News. The museum is located in the old Texas Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald was positioned to shoot Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

    Boston-based RR Auction is offering the 8-millimeter home movie on Sept. 28. According to Bobby Livingston, the auction house’s executive vice president, the company has been selling items related to the Kennedy assassination, including Oswald’s wedding ring and a book of arms, for nearly 40 years.

    New footage of JFK assassination shows frantic scene

    The film was shot by Dale Carpenter Sr., a concrete company executive who lived in Irving, Texas, about 12 miles northwest of Dallas.

    Though he had no affinity for JFK, he was drawn to the pomp and circumstance of the president’s visit, according to the New York Times, which spoke to Carpenter’s family. Carpenter kept the film in a round metal canister labeled “JFK Assassination,” one of his sons, David Carpenter, 63, told the Times. He said he rarely showed the footage to others, likely because of its grim nature.

    The film shows two parts of the incident. First, people can see that Carpenter narrowly misses the limousine carrying the president and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Instead, he filmed other cars in the procession as it headed toward downtown Dallas.

    The story picks up after Kennedy is shot, as the president’s motorcade drives down Interstate 35 toward the hospital.

    “You see those American flags waving and the lights flashing,” Livingston told USA TODAY. “That limo is so etched in my memory as being in Dealey Plaza, that I recognized it as soon as I saw it.”

    The second part of the footage, which lasts about 10 seconds, shows Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who is seen in the famous photo jumping into the back of a limousine as shots ring out in Dealey Plaza. He is standing above the president and Jacqueline Kennedy, who can be seen in her famous pink suit.

    “The second thing that really horrifies me is seeing Mrs. Kennedy’s pink suit as the car drives by. It’s so striking, so iconic,” Livingston said.

    The most famous footage of the event was shot by Abraham Zapruder. After the shooting, Kennedy’s motorcade sped down I-35 toward Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that day.

    A murder full of doubt

    To this day, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains a frequent target of conspiracy theories. By December 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration had released more than 14,000 documents related to the JFK assassination.

    Another 515 documents have been withheld entirely by the archives, and 2,545 documents have been partially withheld. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at the time that 97 percent of the nearly 5 million pages in their possession relating to the JFK assassination had been released.

    Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected] and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.

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