Film of motorcade driving JFK to hospital after Dallas shooting sells at auction

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

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

The auction house's executive vice president, Bobby Livingston, said in a news release that the film offers "a gripping sense of urgency and heartbreak."

The film has been held by 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 just misses the limousine carrying the president and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy but records other vehicles in the motorcade driving down Lemmon Avenue toward downtown Dallas. The video then shows that the president has been shot, and captures the motorcade as it races down Interstate 35 towards Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the president was pronounced dead.

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

The assassination itself was captured on film by Abraham Zapruder.

Carpenter's footage from I-35 lasts about 10 seconds and shows Secret Service Agent Clint Hill jumping onto the back of the limousine as the shots were fired, hovering in a standing position over the president and first lady.

According to Carpenter's grandson, James Gates, it was known in his family that his grandfather had film from the day of the shooting, but it was not often discussed.

When the film, which had been stored along with other family films in a milk crate, was eventually passed on to him, Gates said he was unsure what his grandfather had captured.

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Gates was initially underwhelmed by the footage from Lemmon Avenue when he projected it onto his bedroom wall around 2010 until he observed the footage from I-35.

"That was shocking," he said.

The auction house has released still photos from the portion of the film showing the motorcade speeding down I-35, but it is not making video of that part publicly available.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

OutKick's Clay Travis interviews Trump on epic SEC clash, state of race: 'This is really big time football’

Former President Trump was caught up in the excitement of the longstanding University of Alabama and University of Georgia rivalry, participating in a wide-ranging interview on college football and the intersection of politics.

In an exclusive OutKick interview with Clay Travis, Trump highlighted the "energy" from the Alabama vs. Georgia game on Saturday night.

"This is really big time football, and it’s great to see," Trump said.

The audience inside the stadium cheered as Trump was shown on the jumbo TV screens, on a video board, watching the game with Sens. Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville and Steve Daines of Montana.

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When asked about his appeal with the younger voter demographic, Trump said that his campaign was "way up."

"We're way up with young people. It's an honor. They're very smart. And she [Kamala Harris] berated them, saying that ‘they aren’t smart' and, I'll be honest, they're a lot smarter than her," he said.

"There has never been energy like there is now. And I guess it's me, but it's also when they look at our country and what has happened. Our country is going bad, and it's in a very dangerous place right now. But we love our country, and we're going to make it great again.

The changes to the NFL's kickoff caught Trump's attention, with the Republican nominee praising college football with sticking with the previous rules. 

"Big time college football is as big as the NFL," he said. "I don't know what they're doing with the kickoff return in the NFL. And I don't want to get involved in controversy, of course, but it looks so bad. 

"And I noticed that they hadn't' done that in college, and they shouldn't do it," he said. "And I think the NFL should go back. And maybe it is a little bit more dangerous, but I doubt that it's any more dangerous. It's football."

"I think they made a terrible mistake in doing that," he said.

Trump turned his attention to Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, who attended Saturday's game between Minnesota and Michigan in Ann Arbor.

"He got booed out of the stadium," he said. "And you saw the hand that we got – it was a little bit different." 

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"We'll have to see what happens on November 5. I think it's the most important day in the history of our country," Trump said. "That's going to be the biggest election we've ever had because our country is going bad. I used to say that they are destroying, no they have destroyed our country, and we're going to bring it back." 

Trump turned his attention to seven-time NFL Super Bowl champion, Tom Brady, who made his debut in the broadcast booth for FOX Sports.

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"I think he's done really well. And I think he'll do really well. He's a winner, he's a champion," Trump said when asked about his performance. "And, there are a lot of people that are jealous of him, so they're always going to say, no matter how well he does, they'll stay as negative as they can."

"I think he's doing fantastically well," he said.