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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
JFK's Last Night Alive Revealed on Home Movie
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)

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. (More JFK stories.)

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