Newly Uncovered JFK Assassination Footage Shows Motorcade Rushing President to Hospital After Shooting

In this file photo from Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy slumps in the back seat of the presidential limousine as it speeds down Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas after being fatally shot. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over him, while Secret Service agent Clint Hill attempts to guide her back into her seat.

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Newly discovered footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward the hospital after he was fatally wounded is set to be auctioned later this month.

While the find isn't surprising, even more than 60 years after the assassination, experts note that such materials are often rediscovered. "These films and photographs are still being found in attics or garages," said Stephen Fagin, curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which chronicles the events of November 22, 1963.

RR Auction will offer the 8mm home film on September 28 in Boston. The footage, shot by Dale Carpenter Sr., begins just after the limousine carrying JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy passes, capturing the rest of the motorcade along Lemmon Avenue. After the president is shot, the film shows the motorcade speeding down I-35 toward Parkland Memorial Hospital, where JFK was pronounced dead.

The footage, which lasts about 10 seconds, includes Secret Service agent Clint Hill standing on the back of the limousine, hovering over the Kennedys. Hill, who famously jumped onto the limousine after the shots were fired, recounted his actions, saying, "I didn’t know if more shots were coming."

Carpenter's grandson, James Gates, said his family knew about the film but hadn’t discussed it much. Gates, who found the footage in a milk crate of family films, was struck by Hill's position on the back of the limousine. In 2012, he contacted Hill to show him the footage before making any public moves.

An undated photograph provided by RR Auction showcases a frame from home movie footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding along a Dallas freeway toward the hospital after he was fatally shot on November 22, 1963. This image is taken from film captured by Dale Carpenter Sr., which is scheduled to be auctioned later this month.

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The auction house has shared stills of the film but is not releasing the full footage publicly. Farris Rookstool III, a historian and former FBI analyst who has seen the film, said it provides a more complete look at the rush to Parkland Hospital than other known footage. He hopes it will be used by filmmakers in the future.

Fagin explained that new materials related to JFK's assassination continue to surface. In 2002, Jay Skaggs, a photographer captured in images from that day, walked into the Sixth Floor Museum with a shoebox containing 20 previously unknown photographs of Dealey Plaza, including the only known color images of the rifle being removed from the Texas School Book Depository.

In December 2022, the National Archives released 13,173 previously sealed documents related to JFK's assassination, following an executive order by President Biden. Although 97% of the roughly 5 million pages in the archives have now been disclosed, some documents remain classified, with experts arguing that they may contain sensitive information involving government agencies like the CIA.

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