A long-lost version of Air Force One recording made just after President John F Kennedy's assassination in Dallas in 1963 has been found, and it is now up for sale for US dollars 500,000, a media report said.
In fact, the two-plus hour recording includes half-an-hour of never-before-heard conversations from the Air Force trip between Dallas and Washington. The US presidential aircraft was carrying JFK's body.
The reel-to-reel tape is inside its original box with a typewritten label showing it was made by the White House Communications Agency for Army General Chester "Ted" Clifton
Jr, who was Kennedy's senior military aide and was in Dallas motorcade when the president was assassinated.
The tape is titled "Radio Traffic involving AF-1 in flight from Dallas, Texas to Andrews AFB on November22, 1963", 'The Daily Telegraph' online reported.
It consists of in-flight radio calls between the aircraft, the White House Situation Room, Andrews Air Force Base, and a plane that was carrying Kennedy press secretary
Pierre Salinger and six Cabinet members from Hawaii to Tokyo when the president was assassinated.
Gen Clifton collected the recording from the JFK administration, and Philadelphia's Raab Collection bought his archive after his widow died in 2009, and is now putting the
recording up for sale.
"As Americans have looked to the history of the Kennedy assassination in search of answers, somewhere in an attic there existed a tape made years before the only known surviving version, of the conversations on Air Force One on that fateful day," said Nathan Raab, vice president of The Raab Collection.
In fact, the two-plus hour recording includes half-an-hour of never-before-heard conversations from the Air Force trip between Dallas and Washington. The US presidential aircraft was carrying JFK's body.
The reel-to-reel tape is inside its original box with a typewritten label showing it was made by the White House Communications Agency for Army General Chester "Ted" Clifton
Jr, who was Kennedy's senior military aide and was in Dallas motorcade when the president was assassinated.
The tape is titled "Radio Traffic involving AF-1 in flight from Dallas, Texas to Andrews AFB on November22, 1963", 'The Daily Telegraph' online reported.
It consists of in-flight radio calls between the aircraft, the White House Situation Room, Andrews Air Force Base, and a plane that was carrying Kennedy press secretary
Pierre Salinger and six Cabinet members from Hawaii to Tokyo when the president was assassinated.
Gen Clifton collected the recording from the JFK administration, and Philadelphia's Raab Collection bought his archive after his widow died in 2009, and is now putting the
recording up for sale.
"As Americans have looked to the history of the Kennedy assassination in search of answers, somewhere in an attic there existed a tape made years before the only known surviving version, of the conversations on Air Force One on that fateful day," said Nathan Raab, vice president of The Raab Collection.
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