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JFK's Last Night Alive Revealed on Home Movie

He spoke at League of Latin American Citizens event

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 23, 2011 4:29 AM CST

(Newser) – John F. Kennedy's last night alive was captured on film that has been turned over to a museum. The silent home movie sat for years in a drawer in the Houston home of Roy Botello, now 88. He filmed the president, smiling warmly, as he spoke at a Houston hotel for the League of the United Latin American Citizens. Botello, who was sitting in the front row, also filmed the first lady and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. "Everyone went nuts" when the Kennedys turned up, recalls Botello. JFK was assassinated the next day. The film was transferred to video and turned over to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, reports ABC News.

This frame grab provided by the The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas shows President John F. Kennedy on the eve of his 1963 assassination.
This frame grab provided by the The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas shows President John F. Kennedy on the eve of his 1963 assassination.   (AP Photo/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza)
President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy await their time to speak before members of a Hispanic organization on  the eve of JFK's 1963 assassination.
President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy await their time to speak before members of a Hispanic organization on the eve of JFK's 1963 assassination.   (AP Photo/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza)
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COMMENTS
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T-MAN
Feb 23, 2011 11:32 PM CST
Nice to see a color film of President Kennedy last night on earth.
Dave99
Feb 23, 2011 6:42 AM CST
Right wing logic Government can't do anything right and lies to us all the time but when it came to the Warren Commission they got it right and didn't lie to us.
 

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