Film Shows Kennedy Before Assassination
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An amateur film that captured President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, minutes before he was shot in Dallas was released by a federal board compiling a public record of the assassination. The three-minute, 16-millimeter film was taken by Dave Powers, a presidential aide, mostly captures the Kennedys arriving and departing from Texas airports and traveling in motorcades. Its release came on the day before the 33rd anniversary of the assassination by the Assassination Records Review Board.
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