On November 22, 1963, a Texas businessman and home movie buff from a Dallas suburb drove into Dealey Plaza with his 8mm camera to capture the posh of the presidential motorcade. He ended up filming the president's limousine as it was racing to the Parkland Hospital.
FILE - Seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963. On Nov. 22, 1963, a Texas businessman and home movie buff from a Dallas suburb drove into Dealey Plaza with his 8mm camera to capture the posh of the presidential motorcade.
He was one of a couple hundred thousand people who turned out to see the president that day. He ended up filming the president's limousine as it was racing to the Parkland Hospital seconds after Kennedy was shot. He stowed that film reel in a round metal canister inside a milk crate filled with other home movies. Decades later, his grandson discovered it.
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