“Explosive New JFK Footage: Is It the Shocking Evidence That Could Finally Unravel the Mystery of Multiple Shooters?”
The film then picks up after Kennedy has been shot, with Carpenter rolling as the motorcade roars down Interstate 35.”This is remarkable, in color, and you can feel the 80 mph,” said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of the auction house.
The footage from I-35 — which lasts about 10 seconds — shows 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.
“I did not know that there were not any more shots coming,” Hill said
“The shots had been fired as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where it was later found that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had positioned himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor.
Mart.Carpenter’s grandson, James Gates, said that while it was known in his family that his grandfather had film from that day, it wasn’t talked about often.
So Gates said that when the film, stored along with other family films in a milk crate, was eventually passed on to him, he wasn’t sure exactly what his grandfather, who died in 1991 at age 77, had captured.
