Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auction

Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auction

THE SIGNAL

DALLAS (AP) — Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded sold at auction Saturday for $137,500.
The 8 mm color home film was offered up by RR Auction in Boston. The auction house said the buyer wishes to remain anonymous.

The film has been with the family of the man who took it, Dale Carpenter Sr., since he recorded it on Nov. 22, 1963. It begins as Carpenter just …

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