Does the New JFK Film Show Windshield Damage?
The New York Times doesn't know it, but a newly discovered home movie may have evidentiary value for the JFK assassination mystery
A film of President John F. Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, shot by late Texas businessman Dale Carpenter Sr., is now up for sale at auction. The New York Times reports that the footage, a “family heirloom,” was confined to “comparative obscurity,” screened only privately (and rarely), and kept in a metal film canister for decades.
On the day of the assassination, having just missed JFK on Lemmon Avenue, Carpenter — then a truck driver — hurried to Stemmons Freeway for a second chance at capturing the waving head of state and his telegenic wife, Jacqueline. Carpenter was able to film the presidential limousine from his new position, but only after the shooting, when it had emerged from under the Triple Underpass that borders Dealey Plaza to the west.
He captured “an urgent and chaotic scene,” the Times wrote yesterday, with First Lady Jackie Kennedy “in her pink Chanel outfit, little more than a blur.” America’s newspaper of record published only very short segments of the moving image on its website.
JFK Facts managing editor Steve Byrne has raised a thought-provoking question: Will this movie offer any new clues to the truth behind the killing?
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