(U-WIRE) FORT WORTH, Tex.-On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd of supporters at a breakfast at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth. As he joked with the crowd, laughter and joy spread throughout the ballroom.

But hours later, sadness and grief spread across the nation as Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Those few hours in Fort Worth, captured on 8mm film, were discovered in the Mary Couts Burnett Library among material donated to the university.

In 1990, former Speaker of the House and current TCU professor Jim Wright donated the collection of material he compiled during his 34 years in Congress. The 8mm film was found among the material, and it has left TCU archivist Glenda Stevens wondering who owns the film.

Most work comes to the library with an identified creator, Stevens said. Books have authors and letters have signatures, but this film is different because no one knows who shot the footage, she said.

“In the case of a piece of film like this, it could have been from someone who was in the district and at the breakfast,” Stevens said.