Texas man finds never-before-seen photo from JFK assassination hidden in thrift store

A Texas man has found a historic photograph of one of the darkest days in American history.

George Rebels wasn’t expecting presidential assassination memorabilia when he bought a copy of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive Anthology at Souls Harbor secondhand in Ferris, Texas, in November.

Rebeles was surprised to find a Polaroid photo in the CD’s case that had nothing to do with classic rock – instead it featured former President John F. Kennedy, according to WFAA-TV.

The photo shows Kennedy riding through the streets of Dallas in a motorcade minutes before he was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Kennedy looks towards the cheering crowds eager to greet him in the photo.

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The Rebeles discovered the photo a month after buying a classic rock record.

“It wasn’t until I turned it over that I noticed what it was.”

The inscription on the back of the photo reads: “11-22-63” – the date of the assassination of the 35th president.

“Of course, I knew right away that it was an unpublished photograph. So I was excited,” the collector said of the find.

“It just seemed odd to me to find it in a CD case.”

“I was shocked.”

The rebels questioned “the chronology and how it relates to the presidential assassination.”

“And the way it could end up in a small town thrift store fascinates me.”

Farris Rookstool III, a former FBI agent and JFK historian, told WFAA that the photo was taken shortly after the president’s arrival in Dallas.

According to Ruxtul, the photo was taken when JFK left Love Field.

The assassination remains one of the most hotly debated topics in American history, and many members of the public doubt that Oswald acted alone.

Half of Americans said they believe multiple conspirators, not just Oswald, were involved in the assassination, responding to a December NBC News poll.

Rebeles has not yet decided whether he is going to sell the photo as a historical artifact or keep it for himself.

“Probably intrinsic value, of course, but as far as monetary value, I have no idea.”

He is personally unsure of the federal government’s final findings that Oswald was a lone killer, as outlined in the 1964 Warren Report.

“I’m not a big fan of conspiracies or anything like that, but sometimes things don’t quite add up.”

This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.

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