Images reveal US Secret Service agents driving the stricken president through Dallas to hospital in a desperate bid to save his life.
motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded will go up for auction later this month."These images, these films and photographs, a lot of times they are still out there. They are still being discovered or rediscovered in attics or garages," said Stephen Fagin, curator at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which tells the story of the assassination on November 22, 1963.
The footage from Interstate 35 — which lasts about 10 seconds — shows US Secret Service agent Clint Hill — who famously jumped onto the back of the limousine as the shots rang out — hovering in a standing position over the president and Jacqueline Kennedy, whose pink suit can be seen.US President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the Presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas after being fatally shot.
After the shots, the motorcade turned onto I-35 and sped toward Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy would be pronounced dead. It was the same route the motorcade would have taken to deliver Kennedy to his next stop, a speech at the Trade Mart. McCubbin Hill said it was admirable that Gates was sensitive enough to want Hill to see the footage before he did anything else with it. She said that while she was familiar with Hill's description of being perched on the limousine as it sped down the interstate, "to see the footage of it actually happen ... just kind of makes your heart stop."
A box of home film footage of US President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the hospital after he was fatally wounded on November 22, 1963.
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