New clip shows JFK arriving in Dallas in 1963

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Source: AP/Yahoo!

DALLAS – New color video footage showing President John F. Kennedy's arrival in Dallas the day he was assassinated is the best home movie ever made of the event, the curator of the Dallas JFK museum said.

The short clip, shot on 8mm film by a 15-year-old student, provides a rare, high-quality color close-up of John and Jackie Kennedy as they arrived in Dallas. The Sixth Floor Museum put the film on display for public viewing on Presidents Day.

Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, as his motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas. The footage shot earlier that day by William Ward Warren mainly shows Air Force One and Air Force Two arriving, and briefly features the Kennedys making their way through the crowd at the airport.

"Viewing this footage makes you feel as though you're standing next to Warren as he's filming it on that very day," museum curator Gary Mack said Monday. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza chronicles Kennedy's life and death and is located in the old book depository building from where Lee Harvey Oswald fired at the president's motorcade.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_new_jfk_film

View the video here: http://jfk.org/go/collections/ward-warren-film

[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R! Wow! Fascinating footage!

Great find and thanks so much for posting this! :yourock:

[Canuckistanian]

2. And Jackie's got that same pink suit on

The same one where she ended that day....the day that none of us will forget.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. It's still so sad and painful

after all these decades.

It has always seemed to me to be the day when everything went to pieces.

[SharonRB]

4. I was sitting here looking at that picture...

with tears in my eyes, thinking the exact same thing before I scrolled down to your post. That, to me, was truly the beginning of the end; the day our country started to go downhill.

[demosincebirth]

8. I can still remember the exact place where I was when I heard the news. Sad day for the U.S.

[SharonRB]

10. I was in class in the 9th grade

First started to hear rumblings walking from biology class to world history class and then the news came over the loudspeaker while I was in world history class.

[Yurovsky]

7. I saw an incredible picture this weekend...

of JFK & his family visiting Palm Beach (near where I live). It must have been shortly before he died as John-John was about the same age/size as he was at President Kennedy's funeral. The family just looked so happy, taking a break from colder climes and enjoying a little time at the Kennedy Palm Beach home. I looked at the young Carolie and wondered how difficult it must be to see your whole family die young.

All you can do is wonder "what if"... So much died with our young President, and 58,000+ Americans fates were sealed (and millions of Vietnamese). Next to the assasination of Lincoln, perhaps the greatest tragedy in American political history. And at least Lincoln was able to complete his greatest task. JFK never got a chance to complete his work in civil rights or in bringing the Cold War to a peaceful end. Instead we got Nixon & Reagan and a pair of bloodthirsty Bushes.

[tinymontgomery]

5. Lot's of interesting thoughts about this

one, great piece of footage to come out. Two, school's let their students out because the President Of the United States was coming to town, the Office meant something, the person holding it was respected even if you didn't agree with them. Three, normal (the average citizen) was able to get close to the President and the President saw real people. Maybe I wrong on these observations just my thoughts.

[customerserviceguy]

6. It is remarkable footage

When I first saw it yesterday, I had to ask, "why wasn't that released way before today?"

[SharonRB]

9. I wondered the same thing.

Why hold onto it for so many years?

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. The Love Field I remember as a kid

As a little boy, my grandparents, mom and I would pack sandwiches and we'd sit outside the airport in our car watching planes take off and land.

Yes, we were poor, and things like that we enjoyed. That's the way I remember Love Field.

[BlueIris]

12. Yikers.

It seems strange to know there are still "new" things popping up about the assassination at this late date.