GARY MACK, CURATOR AT THE SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM AT DEALY PLAZA, DALLAS, TX, IS CALLING IT 'THE BEST HOME MOVIE KNOWN TO EXIST OF THE KENNEDY ARRIVAL IN DALLAS ON 22.NOVEMBER.1963' THAT HE HAS EVER SEEN. FOR THE FIRST TIME, COLOUR FILM AND NEW GLIMPSES OF PRESIDENT AND MRS KENNEDY ARRIVING ON AIR FORCE ONE ON THE FATEFUL DAY IN BEING RELEASED FOR PUBLIC VIEWING. ON 22.NOVEMBER.1963, LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS WERE BROADCASTING COVERAGE OF THE KENNEDY ARRIVAL AT DALLAS LOVE FIELD AIRPORT. AT THE TIME, MEDIA OUTLETS NATIONWIDE WERE PRIMARILY USING ONLY BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO AND MOVIE CAMERAS. EXCEPT FOR ONE WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER, WHOSE BRIEF FILM REMAINED UNRELEASED FOR YEARS, THE ONLY COLOUR IMAGES OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN DALLAS WERE MADE BY AMATEURS FILMING THEIR PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE FIRST FAMILY. THERE WERE MANY, PERHAPS 100 OR MORE, CAMERAS AT LOVE FIELD AND ALONG THE MOTORCADE ROUTE THAT DAY. THE VAST MAJORITY HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BY THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING AMATEUR FILM SOT BY WILLIAM WARD WARREN OF DALLAS. WARREN NOW 61, WAS 15 AT THE TIME OD THE ASSASSINATION. STUDENTS WERE GIVEN THE DAY OFF OF SCHOOL FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL VISIT, SO HE DECIDED TO TAKE HIS CAMERA TO CAPTURE THE ARRIVAL AT LOVE FIELD. WARREN HAS DONATED THE 8mm HOME MOVIE TO THE SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM AT DEALY PLAZA. 'VIEWING THIS FOOTAGE MAKES YOU THINK AS THOUGH YOU'RE STANDING NEST TO WARREN AS HE'S FILING IT ON THAT VERY DAY', MACK SAID. 'MANY BELIEVE THAT THEIR IMAGES CAPTURED ON 22.NOVEMBER.1963 AREN'T IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY DON'T SHOW THE ASSASSINATION. THE SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM'S INTEREST IS PRESERVATION AND HOPING THE IMAGES MAY HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT TEH KENNEDY VISIT IN ITS ENTIRETY, NOT JUST TEH ASSASSINATION.'
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