Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded was sold at auction for $137,500. The 8 mm color home film, recorded on Nov. 22, 1963, was offered by RR Auction in Boston. The buyer chose to remain anonymous.
The film, which had been in the possession of Dale Carpenter Sr.'s family, captures the motorcade as it traveled down Lemmon Avenue toward downtown. It then shows the aftermath of Kennedy being shot, with the motorcade rushing down Interstate 35. The shots were fired as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald was later found to have positioned himself on the sixth floor.
