I was browsing through the Albuquerque flea market one hot summer day and chanced upon a box of old 8mm films. There must have been over 20 cans, each with a neatly written label on the front. Most of the them had the usual stuff like family vacations, anniversary parties, and church picnics. You can imagine my surprise when I came across one labeled 1963-JFK assassination/funeral!

I calmly asked the guy how much he wanted for the whole box. After a bit of back and forth we settled on a fair price and I took my new found box of history directly home to set up my old projector and wait for the sun to set.

The film was in excellent shape and immediately started to show President John F. Kennedy with his wife Jackie in the presidential motorcade on that fateful day in Dallas Texas. My heart skipped several beats when I started to think this might somehow be a missing film of that event and how it could shine some light on what really happened and who was actually on the grassy knoll.

My excitement started to decrease when I noticed the image was film footage of a television broadcast of the day.

It was still an interesting glimpse into the past which is why I decided to capture the footage to share with the internet. The soundtrack I added is from Moby titled "One of these mornings" which seemed to fit the mood.