When I was 17 I went down to Fifth Avenue with my cousin just to walk around Manhattan. I didn't know that President Kennedy would be riding through the area on that day. We were able to see the crowd waiting to see him . As his limousine pulled through ,I was only able to see the back of his head Little did I know that in a month or so that's exactly where he would be shot. The memory of that day stays with me even now and if I close my eyes I can still see the back of his head.
Yes and no. The back of his head was the exit wound. Tissue, bone, blood, hair was on the two motorcycles at the left side rear corner. To be there the bullet entered his head coming from the right side and forward of the President's body. That fatal blow was a bullet with a nose of Mercury Fulminate. It entered his right temple area. That is why there is a large spray of blood shown by the Zapruder film. The nose material exploded on contact with the skull.
I was just a youngster when JFK was killed. I remember my mother crying over the news. Back then we were taught to respect our elders and our President regardless of political party. We will never know what great things Kennedy could have done. This was a very sad day for America. This car should have never been touched or used again after the assination!
I think it was said, and I read it, that after the president was murdered on that day and date, and after the car was supposedly worked over with all new parts, new interior, etc, it was suppose to have been put into a museum as I have read it and understood it, any president afterward wouldn't want to ride in that car ever again because of the history and tragedy that surrounds it. I still say and think that this car had a twin they switched with, taking the vehicle identification numbers off of the car the murder happened in, and put on another exact car to make it look like it was the one the president was in on that fateful day and hour of his murder. The one used, could have been easily crushed and sent to a steel mill and melted down as scrap, erasing all the pertinate evidence in order to hide the perpetrators of this murder. Furthermore, I also have read that just before the bullets began flying or, started flying around, ole Johnson there hit the deck in the Cadillac he was riding in, what exactly does that say or tell you about all of this? There is truly something there as to the truth to all of this that the government will not release nor allow to be reliesed until all of us who was alive at that time, both young and old are all dead, by that time, nobody will care any longer as it will now be considered ancient history. A very well though out plan, I should say.
yes I was pretty young when JFK was assassinated. I was sitting in our kitchen rocking on my rocking chair and they interrupted the music to announce JFK had been assassinated. I ran up to the bathroom to get mom. she was getting ready for work. that family to me was AMERICA, AMERICAN, and PATRIOTIC.
I was 10 and it was announced over the school PA system, I saw Oswald get shot by Jack Ruby live on television. I agree trump getting elected was almost as sad.
It is outrageous that President Kennedy's limousine was completely rebuilt following his assassination. It should have gone intact to either the Smithsonian or the National Archives. To reuse it was grotesque and insensitive. How Lyndon Johnson could have stood riding in that vehicle is beyond understanding. It was as if he and others were trying to erase the assassination from American history.
I believe it was as it was sent back to Detroit for a new windshield, and cleaned up after this murder was completed upon this man. I often wonder if they had an exacrt duplicate of this car in Detroit and switched VIN numbers on it and crushed the one that was in Dallas in order to destroy evidence. This was a crooked, well thought out plan that succeded and advanced some out there who didn't deserve to be moved forward instead they should have faced full prosecution for what they have done. Don't worry, God in heaven will handle and pass out their fate for their crooked sceames.
@@danbasta3677 I'm reading "A Deeper, Darker Truth" by Tom Wilson right now, very interesting, he feels there was a big coverup and offers proof, he doesn't even think Oswald shot him thought there were several shooters.
I was born 2 months later in January. My dad had already left my mom, and she was in a depressed state. I guess I helped raise her spirits. I didn’t realize this same Lincoln was in service until 1977! Peace all. 🕊️
A good excerpt that gives us a lot of technical information about the limo. I've long been interested in official state cars especially the X-100 so I found this very interesting thanks. I own two models of this limousine in 1:43 scale, JFK blue & LBJ black.
A primary reason why the Ford Lincoln Continental had been selected as the presidential limo is simply because Ford was the only U.S. manufacturer with a four-door convertible. Of course, that became moot after the assassination because convertibles hav en’t been used since.
That dark blue color is just stunning looking (far better than black) for any car, much less for a presidential limo. The (Ford) Lincoln Continental was just as highly prized as the GM Cadillac, the Rolls Royce of cars from the 1950s and 1960s. My grandparents owned nothing but Cadillacs, and it was always a fun ride when I was traveling with them. When gas wars were typical, and I remember from the mid-1960s when gas cost between 22 and 26 cents per gallon, depending on the time of year, and if another gas war erupted!
I've run across that blue-black color as a factory-offered choice twice. I'm sure there must have been more -- I just never met them. Ford used it through the late-60s -- it shows up sometimes at classic car shows. The color also turned up on a mid-1990s Mazda MX3. I was all set to pick up the MX3 when my daddy (who had located the car, told me how much I'd like the color, and had given me a lift across town so I could write my check and drive it home) noticed the paint appeared to have little circular irregularities all over it -- as though the rain that day was dissolving the outer coat. Unbelievable. The dealership said it was normal, but if it was, why were no other cars afflicted with the all-over pockmarks? I ended up with black instead. Good ol' reliable black.
When I think of John F Kennedy I think of The 1961 Lincoln Continental both were new and vibrant and reflected the forword hope and enthusiasm of America at that time ... I was just 2 months old when President Kennedy was assasisinated so my only remembrance is though historical footage and documentaries . I personally feel that the Lincoln x 100 limousine should have been a protective hardtop in the first place ; Instead of a convertible and bulletproof !!! He (President Kennedy ) should never have been out in the open where he could be shot at by an assassin.
Never again in US history will the citizenry enjoy the public access to our president that occurred during JFKs tenure. A different time and culture defined our nation until 11/22/63. Sadly, we have never regained that innocence and access to our president.
The Bubble top or the roof compartment should’ve been installed directly on the Ford Lincoln Limousine, the very minute that President Kennedy left Love Field from the airport in Dallas Fortworth, on that fatal day in November 63. Thank you. Johnny, Montréal, Canada
I was in second grade in school at that time, 7 years of age. After the murder took place, and all the shock and hurt it gave to the people of this country, the teacher in school mentioned that Kennedy didn't want to have a hard top on this car that he wanted to be right there with the people and that he is the peoples president that he is just a plain ole Joe bag of doughnuts just like everybody else is out there. In class, we would be reading and studying things like geography and history for the time allotted and class participation was essential and then, we get off the discussion of studies, and start talking about last Thursdays murder of the president on national television. It all was very fresh on our minds, everybody's minds, it hurt so much.....................
The government didn't have a replacement on order and all the older white house limousines had too much mileage on them and repair parts were hard to get for President Eisenhower's 1957 Chrysler limousine which was the newest of the limos in the white house fleet.
unbelievable that they "rebuild" the car less than 3 weeks after the assassination of JFK. That car was so important as evidence, but also as a big historical reminder.
Yes it is the best thing is that everyone is not seeing is I've watched a hundred videos on the assassination and they all show 6 seats in the car strange I watch this video and I see 4 seats like every witness recalls something to look into
As stated before, I wonder if they had a duplicate of this car in Detroit and switched VIN numbers on it and crushed the one that was in Dallas on that day just so they can further destroy evidence.
Al Capone's limousine was confiscated by the government, and was used for a time by FDR. In fact, when he was told whose car it had been, Roosevelt replied, "I hope Mr. Capone doesn't mind."
2:31 My fav pt of this short Documentary Beautiful how that 61' Lincoln Continental rolls in smoithly perfectly. I have both diecast models of the 61' & the x-100 Kennedy/Johnson model Lincoln limo w the bubbletop.
Very true agree with you. I'm from India and look what happened to Mrs Indira Gandhi she was walking from her home to her 'Home Office' and she was assassinated by her own security guards. And Mr Rajiv Gandhi (her son) in an open field where he had gone canvassing for the coming General Election. That nothing had been learnt from JFK's assassination is amazing. In fact even M K Gandhi (yes in all honesty I refuse to call the man 'Mhatma')was assassinated in a similar manner.
That car should've been retired immediately following that terrible day in Dallas, out of respect and decency, would you want to be a President and sit in the back of that car? That was just poor taste
@@matsong5134 I've heard the same & I believe he was. I've heard that George Bush Sr was part of the CIA at the time & maybe had something to do with it as well & he was in Dallas that day standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository but unsure if this was true or not.
This limousine in it’s original configuration was as classy and stylish as the President it was originally designed and delivered to. Then Lyndon Johnson got hold of it after that terrible day in Dallas and had it torn apart using the feeble excuse it was quicker to rebuild it than to build a new car. Yeah... Right! Like it wasn’t the only car they had in the presidential motor pool. It was clearly done to destroy evidence. By all accounts Johnson hated using the car. The car originally took six months to built from a stock Continental convertible to delivery as GG300 parade car for president Kennedy. After the assassination it went back to the builders, but didn’t re-enter service until October ‘64. So much for being Quicker to rebuild a car from scratch. Anyone else smell something fishy? It’s a shame that the museum couldn’t do a sympathetic restoration and put it back to the way it looked in the Kennedy era just prior to the assassination. The way it looks today, it just looks like any other stretch Lincoln from that era with the exception of a few red lights.
I wholeheartedly agree with your written comments. Getting parts for this car after the mess was already created and done would taken awhile, a long while to get and complete a rebuilding process. My thoughts on this is that an exact duplicate car just like the one the president was murdered in was parked side by side the damaged Lincoln and the VIN (vehicle identification number) that is rivided on the dashboard was taken off the damaged car, reinstalled on the duplicate car along with all the paperwork title and insurance certificates, and duplicate milage that can be either rolled up or backwards, then sent to DC and parked into the garage. After that, the car that is damaged along with fake paperwork and the VIN number is taken to the crusher, and sent to a steel mill to be melted down. Easy as pie, with a flick of the bic pen and transference of the paperwork, a small drill to drill out the vin number and a rivet gun and some rivets to do the job much more easily and simpler and above all quicker AND to destroy any evidence that will look like those who perpetrated this murder look innocent.
My dad had claimed that he was building that bumper for this limousine. Secret service I tried to get them to release info about the limo and they would not respond to my request..(FOIA request) I think that there is now some sort of mystique behind this limousine now and I had hoped to write a book about it.
Of all the government waste, I could never understand why they didn’t retire this car. I know they needed it for Johnson, but a new one could have replaced it it, once it was available.
On the night of Saturday, Nov 23, '63 - without log entries - the limo was taken back to Dearborn, gutted, windshield, interior, and damaged trim replaced. It was back in WH garage on Monday. Thus the first 'official' photos from Monday night show the car in perfect condition. Evidence destroyed, cover up intact. It's not hard to find the photos of the windshield with the hole, and President Kennedy's blood and brains (a lot) in the back seat. I post them often, key reminders of this horrific event. Strange what history (the guilty) wants us to forget.
It is horrific. As soon as the limo arrived at Parkland,SS agents began taking buckets of water and washing out the blood soaked back seat. This was just one example of the many instances of destruction of forensic evidence.
I personally think that a identical car was parked side by side of the car the president was murded in. I say, for the record, that the vin numbers of the car was taken off of the car and transfered to the identical car and shipped later to the White House garage. All they would have to do is bump up the exact milage of the identical car, already have the title and vehicle identification number transfered to paperwork making it LOOK all legal which is much more easier than to replace parts that might take some time to get a hold of and would keep this car from being shipped back to the capital of the nation. The car the murder took place in, was then taken along with the identicral cars vin number and title of the car to a scrap yard crushed, sent to a steel mill and melted down. WALA! All your evidence approprately destroyed, easily, I should say. In the meantime the identical car is now back in DC whare it's suppose to be at. Ready to be used for ole johnson. Not a rocket scientist just a plain ole Joe bag of doughnuts here, I was 7 years of my age when all this stuff was happening,.
Well Dan, I wouldn't discount your theory out except the original car was much more heavy due to all stuff that was originally done to it. Having said that it would be very possible to have a lookalike hanging around somewhere in order fake out the public. Either way it was done from the inside or the top.
No this is not the car Kennedy was riding in. It was a crime scene that has been restored like new. Wonder why ? Look at the car Bonnie and Clyde died in. You can see the difference.
And nobody in the Kennedy family disputed the reasoning that Oswald was the lone gunman. They didn't all buy into the Warren Report, but if there had been more than two shooters, Robert Kennedy would have had the power to find out being Attorney General at the time. Not even J Edgar could have stopped him in gathering and revealing that information.
The car is preserved and on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. Along with the Reagan, Eisenhower and FDR limos. TR's horse-drawn brogue is also there.
When I was a high school er during this period we were told that the Johnson car was a completely different car and that the Kennedy car had been crushed.
The Presidential state car is the official state car used by the President of the United States. A variety of vehicles have both officially and unofficially been acknowledged as the presidential vehicle. Since the late 1930s, the Federal government of the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_state_car_(United_States)
As a boy of 7 years old I stood beside Pres . Kennedy in Wexford , Ireland . I was fascinated by cars and was needless to say fascinated by this extraordinary car even more so than by the President . As for the assassination , well I think it was a mob job . Bobby Kennedy pissed off the big crime boss Giancana in Chicago who had in turn swung the Illinois vote in 1960 in favour of Kennedy at the behest of Joe Kennedy . For all his trouble Bobby went after organised crime as a terrier would after a rat .
True on Robert as Attorney General did in going after the Mob, but they could not do the deed without government help, and then the massive cover-up without government agencies and powerful individuals again. Enter the CIA, FBI Director J.E. Hoover), and his good friend and neighbor, LBJ, who was the ringleader of the coup d'etat, as most successors are from a coup throughout history. Other hard evidence in the VP demanding Kennedy visit Texas from as far back as April 1963. The fix was then going to be in-place to the date, place for the kill, and then what to say and do after. The VP, Hoover, Nixon, and other insiders met on Thu. night Nov. 21 to go over the plan, "The Big Event" as they labeled it, at Big Oilman's Clint Murchison's house in North Dallas. This is documented proof by LBJs mistress, Madeleine Brown, her report here on YT.
A beautiful car for sure. President Kennedy loved to ride around in convertibles. He was in innocent times, but that innocence ended on November 22, 1963.
Fantastic car One of my favourite ever cars Immortalised by Jack ' s murder Original low rider showed that Jack Did it (excuse the pun ) in style Great footage of Selassie in the limo too
I believe I read somewhere that the deep blue was to match the many dark blue suits JFK wore... Suits from that era had a sheen to them... so hence the metallic blue...
I really like when the hard top is put on the limousine and I sometimes like when the bubble top is put on JFK is my number 1 favorite president if JFK was alive today I would marry him🙂🙂🙂
A beaut of a car and very historical. It sickens me to think of LBJ and his big-as-all-Texas-ass sitting in it, not even a full year after JFK was assassinated! The car should never have been used again and conserved in it's original state. Just like Jackie's pink suit, for the world to "see what they did" to her husband.
Eu não me canso de ver os vídeos de jonh kennedy ele foi o unico presidente americano em que o povo o amava a morte de jonh kennedy foi um golpe no sonho dos americanos naquele dia tragico e dolorosa para uma nação conservadora que acredita nos seus ideais amargo dia 22 de novembro de 1963
The Lincolm SS-100X became a crime scene at 12.30 pm on Nov 22 1963. That crime scene was compromised when the secret service man was filmed washing off JFK's body fluids thereby destroying critical evidence. Witnesses at Parkland hospital saw a front entry bullet hole in the windscreen near the rear vision mirror but that evidence was quickly destroyed. There were also other internal marks above the windscreen. What other internal or external bullet marks were on the car body or upholstery? The FBI were supposed to conduct a crime scene investigation on the Lincoln in the Whitehouse garage but the crime scene had already been compromised. Whoever authorised the destruction of the windscreen is guilty of a serious offence. The SS man who washed down the car at Parkland should have been charged. The FBI agents who blatently intimidated witnesses should have been charged. That was never going to happen with the cross dressing fox in charge of the henhouse.
Though this car was dismantled from protecting JFK at his request - there was still no excuse why that entire motorcade route wasn't totally secured by the Secret Service - and EVERY building around it ,BEFORE the president and his entourage arrived on it .I still blame them for their humongous blunder on that fatal day. I think that were paid off .
You need to read The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine. It discusses Kennedy's security while he was POTUS. There were only a few dozen agents permanently assigned to the president back then and about 200 in the whole country. Typically there were five or six agents on duty at any given time except when he was out in public. They had no where near the resources they do now. The Secret Service was badly underfunded and undermanned.
@@jec1ny yeah well, now they are paranoid to the point of absurdity. What is the need for a decoy limo when the real one is bulletproof, bombproof and can travel 50 miles even with its tires shot out? And the motorcade has become ridiculously long. Does he really need 20 government cars escorting him everywhere?
I would say this is from his June 1963 trip to Ireland. I watched a documentary of that & it showed the bubble top roof in use a lot because of the rainy weather.
The footage from 2:29 to 3:17 was from JFK's trip to England in '63. Higher quality video can be viewed here at 1 minute 30 seconds: ua-cam.com/video/wGRAwFUcXTU/v-deo.html
Arguably, the original incarnation was the most beautiful piece of work that H&E ever produced... Also, it's funny to me that the car was so quickly refurbished after what happened- you'd think that The Agencies would have wanted to do some major forensics on it. Lastly, I'd bet a nickel on as to WHY Johnson wouldn't use the car for such a long time afterward! It don't take no genius to figure that one out.
It wasn't "so quickly refurbished". It was kept in Washington for months, specifically for the sake of evidence of the assassination, before it was sent to Detroit to be made safer.
I wish they would restore it back to its 1963 appearance as much as possible, most importantly the paint color Kennedy used. No wonder LBJ wouldn't ride it until it was gutted...guilt feelings.
I think the car went to Sydney Australia at some point with LBJ, Protesters threw paint or something at it so it had to be repainted in Australia. Not sure if this atually happened or is a myth.
From Nov.11 1963 after all evidence was destroyed it was tuned over to a company to be gutted on Dec.12 1963.This video failed to mention the windshield being replaced before gutting.
@TermsofService - Yes I see. However many think the "mysterious" replacement of the windshield was to hide evidence of a bullet hole "fired from the front". _Case Closed_ by Posner & Bugliosi's book explain everything .
That was a lovely car. Very sad that it was repainted at Lyndon Johnson's demand. In fact the car should have been immediately been RETIRED and maintained in it's original Blue Colour. I checked out the image of the colour and found that the beauty is a few shades lighter than the 'MID NIGHT BLUE' that MARUTI SUZUKI introduced with their RITZ car.
Hola sr este es un señor carrazo muy distinguido. Entre las personalidades. De nuestro mundo actual porque lo usan los presidente y reyes y embajadores. De todo los país del mundo y además la historia esta de lincon esta ligada con el presidente kenney presidente de los estados unidos de América y habar de la historia de los estados unidos de América es hablar de un hermoso país. Y de la marca de automóvil de lincon hoy 21 mayo 2019/saludos desde mi país de México
I wondered if that was because of no openings. It was said the brake lines were encapsulated with bullet protection, so they may have thought that was important.
The Lincoln lives at The Henry Ford Museum and I can't wait to renew my membership so I can go on the 60th anniversary of the assignation. I have yet to take a trip to the museum and not stroll through the presidential vehicles they have to see this gem!
I always thought the early '60s Lincoln Continentals were the best-looking cars of that time (honorable mention goes to the Ford T-birds from the same time). And, of course, the 1961 Lincoln limousine used by President Jack Kennedy was the best of the lot. On November 22, 1963, I was nine years old and in the fourth grade. I remember the the lying-in-state, the shooting of Oswald, and the burial in Arlington. What I also remember is the enormous outpouring of grief from around the world. There was something about Kennedy that resonated with people everywhere. Until Kennedy's assassination, presidents routinely traveled in open cars. After that . . . never. Personally, I think that walling off the President from the people is overdone. A due regard for the President's safety is all very well, but the people are entitled to see and hear their President up close and personal. Also, the man who aspires to be his country's leader should be willing to get out among the people. A president shouldn't be a physical coward.
It's not about a President being cowardly. In fact most are willing to take the risk. LBJ and RFK standing on the roof of the limo, which by then was enclosed. Inauguration Day 01/20/1977, the Carters walking down PA Avenue from the Capitol to the White House against the advice of the very nervous Secret Service. Before that Carter's predecessor, Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts when briefly not in the car. Ronald Reagan survived being seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. There were three prior Presidential assassinations. Lincoln in 1863, Garfield in 1881, and McKinley in 1901. While there had been body guards before McKinley, presidential security was not taken very seriously until McKinley's assassination. It was at that point the Secret Service, the only federal police force was assigned to provide security for the President. The Kennedy assassination was the first in 62 years and JFK was the first POTUS lost under Secret Service protection. Most presidents would prefer to be more accessible to the public, but with the history I just described, it should be understood why the Secret Service does their job incredibly well. There's been other attempts on the lives of Presidents, Jackson, T.R. Roosevelt, F.D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Each of those incidents have their own stories, but would add to the length of what I know is a long post. The issue here is not the courage of the President, it is the overwhelming responsibility of the Secret Service whose job is to protect the leader of the free world.
The very second JFK was removed from the car and taken into the hospital, the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA should have wrapped this car, sealed it, and taken it back to the FBI headquarters for forensic analysis and a bolt, by bolt disassembly. Then, once his assassination investigation was completed, this car should have never seen the day of life again. Even if there were no plans for another Presidential Limo, and there was nothing in the works, this car should have CEASED existence! and even if the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA were not obliged to do all that, the damn Dallas police department should have. It was, above all, a murder committed in the city of Dallas. What the heck was everyone's problem? This was 1963, not 1763. By that time, there was established protocols for a murder investigation. Good Lord was this whole thing botched.
the dallas police did ok they got their man however it was not a federal crime to kill the president until kennedy was killed. I agree the car should of been left alone instead of cleaning his brain & blood off the car, I have always wondered what happened to the blood stained interior ? I can't believe that Johnson, Nixon, ford & carter were not creeped out by riding in it. I think the henry ford people should restore the car the way is was when he died. after all that is what it really is famous for.
cia , fbi , hoover , ss all were involved it the setup and the cover up till now best way to conceal the crime scene is tu remove the evidence still in the car and re furbish it and put back in service under close ctl of ss through 78 or some !
@@richardpowell424 all those presidents became so cause they were in the know and had to keep secrecy and never open the case again otherwise they d have had the same fate
Beautiful car, I was 10 and in school the day JFK got shot, it was announced over the school PA system, I saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV a few days later. Regular TV was completely shut down at least during the day, very sad time.
@@KB-ke3fi I'm reading Robbie Robertson's book 'Testimony' right now and the Hawks (The Band was known as the Hawks before they were known as the Band) played in Jack Ruby's club for several weeks before Jack shot Ruby, Robbie said he acted like a speed freak.
The biggest mystery is WHO authorized the removal of the bubble top that day at Love Field in Dallas. Secret Service never cleared the buildings ahead of time per standard protocol. And how did Oswald know the top was going to be removed, if the decision was made at the last minute, at the airport?
About the Plexi top.... I've heard several different stories about it. One was that Kennedy himself said that he 'wanted the public to see their President', another was that The Secret Service convinced him that it would be a really hot day in Dallas, so they advised the Kennedys that it would be much more comfortable without it... Another story was that Jacqueline didn't like the bubble roof because it made the car too hot in the sun, it would wreck her outfits... Several stories.
@@lordmangalord5984 Wrong info...the truth is, the parade route was published in local newspapers, at least three days before JFK died...Oswald could have easily seen that, and thought about changing history, and striking a blow for Marxism/communism--which he was fascinated with.
Music is distracting. Too bad they did not go with the color Kennedy wanted. So the one at the Ford museum is really not the actual car Kennedy was in.
I always wondered why the car looks a different shade of blue in some photos...now I know!
When I was 17 I went down to Fifth Avenue with my cousin just to walk around Manhattan. I didn't know that President Kennedy would be riding through the area on that day. We were able to see the crowd waiting to see him . As his limousine pulled through ,I was only able to see the back of his head Little did I know that in a month or so that's exactly where he would be shot. The memory of that day stays with me even now and if I close my eyes I can still see the back of his head.
Yes and no. The back of his head was the exit wound. Tissue, bone, blood, hair was on the two motorcycles at the left side rear corner.
To be there the bullet entered his head coming from the right side and forward of the President's body.
That fatal blow was a bullet with a nose of Mercury Fulminate. It entered his right temple area. That is why there is a large spray of blood shown by the Zapruder film. The nose material exploded on contact with the skull.
I was just a youngster when JFK was killed. I remember my mother crying over the news. Back then we were taught to respect our elders and our President regardless of political party. We will never know what great things Kennedy could have done. This was a very sad day for America. This car should have never been touched or used again after the assination!
I was born 4 years later but I can only imagine when I see videos or read about it.
I think it was said, and I read it, that after the president was murdered on that day and date, and after the car was supposedly worked over with all new parts, new interior, etc, it was suppose to have been put into a museum as I have read it and understood it, any president afterward wouldn't want to ride in that car ever again because of the history and tragedy that surrounds it. I still say and think that this car had a twin they switched with, taking the vehicle identification numbers off of the car the murder happened in, and put on another exact car to make it look like it was the one the president was in on that fateful day and hour of his murder. The one used, could have been easily crushed and sent to a steel mill and melted down as scrap, erasing all the pertinate evidence in order to hide the perpetrators of this murder. Furthermore, I also have read that just before the bullets began flying or, started flying around, ole Johnson there hit the deck in the Cadillac he was riding in, what exactly does that say or tell you about all of this? There is truly something there as to the truth to all of this that the government will not release nor allow to be reliesed until all of us who was alive at that time, both young and old are all dead, by that time, nobody will care any longer as it will now be considered ancient history. A very well though out plan, I should say.
yes I was pretty young when JFK was assassinated. I was sitting in our kitchen rocking on my rocking chair and they interrupted the music to announce JFK had been assassinated. I ran up to the bathroom to get mom. she was getting ready for work. that family to me was AMERICA, AMERICAN, and PATRIOTIC.
Assination? No, he was shot in the head.
@@mrmojorisin8752 why isn't that an assassination?
Excellent history lesson. thank you David for all the post about this amazing President and the history of the time.
I think JFK was the most charming President USA ever had.
The second one should be President Ronald Reagan
@@GTPhan Reagan wasn't second to any other president. Ever
Taft for me
The world is a much worse place without him i know that.
Because he stayed happy and high.
Car was a crime scene should have never been touched
Obviously part of the coverup!!
Should it taking by me
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@@davidkite7077 I tend to agree with you. When said was rebuilt vs buying a new one does sound like a cover up.
I agree with Mark, was a crime scene & should never been touched.
The color of the limo Kennedy Blue..ppg has a color called Kennedy Blue until this day...true story.
A beautiful vehicle, forever entombed in tragic history.
That was one beautiful car. Too bad it relates to a tragedy.
The death of President John F. Kennedy was one of the saddest day in American history.
Me and him have the same Birthday may 29th 🎂 RIP JFK
Thew election of Trump WAS THE saddest day in world history.
Sure was. Only seven at the time, and it had a deep inpact on everyone out there.
I was 10 and it was announced over the school PA system, I saw Oswald get shot by Jack Ruby live on television. I agree trump getting elected was almost as sad.
I'll say.
Outstanding as always David , thank you . Best always Robert New York City .
David. This is really excellent. I'm really liking the background music. Thanks.
Im very happy your channel is back up as well.
Thanks for all these audio and video clips, David.
KENNEDY BLUE you ask for it they'll get it for you. Straight up fact.
It is outrageous that President Kennedy's limousine was completely rebuilt following his assassination. It should have gone intact to either the Smithsonian or the National Archives. To reuse it was grotesque and insensitive. How Lyndon Johnson could have stood riding in that vehicle is beyond understanding. It was as if he and others were trying to erase the assassination from American history.
That car should have been retired immediately after President Kennedy was assassinated
I agree 100%.
I believe it was as it was sent back to Detroit for a new windshield, and cleaned up after this murder was completed upon this man. I often wonder if they had an exacrt duplicate of this car in Detroit and switched VIN numbers on it and crushed the one that was in Dallas in order to destroy evidence. This was a crooked, well thought out plan that succeded and advanced some out there who didn't deserve to be moved forward instead they should have faced full prosecution for what they have done. Don't worry, God in heaven will handle and pass out their fate for their crooked sceames.
Maybe its sitting in an illuminati trophy room along with jfks brain, which btw was actually stolen from the national archives.
@@danbasta3677 I'm reading "A Deeper, Darker Truth" by Tom Wilson right now, very interesting, he feels there was a big coverup and offers proof, he doesn't even think Oswald shot him thought there were several shooters.
I agree 100%. Put into storage as crime scene evidence. Who the heck would want to ride in it after that? No me for sure.
I was born 2 months later in January.
My dad had already left my mom, and she was in a depressed state.
I guess I helped raise her spirits.
I didn’t realize this same Lincoln was in service until 1977!
Peace all. 🕊️
Who had the terrible task to clean it up after that horror, someone who had a strong stomach & mind.
Fact remains that should have never been done that car was a crime scene they got rid of the evidence!
The car that will unfortunately live in infamy forever...it didn't deserve that..those were magnificent cars.
Wow I'm surprised they didn't retire that car...I wouldn't of had the Heart to ride in it after Dallas.
It clearly should have been retired--and thoroughly inspected for any and all evidence.
A good excerpt that gives us a lot of technical information about the limo. I've long been interested in official state cars especially the X-100 so I found this very interesting thanks. I own two models of this limousine in 1:43 scale, JFK blue & LBJ black.
Rare VHS uploads
At least LBJ had the decency to have her painted black after the assassination.
A primary reason why the Ford Lincoln Continental had been selected as the presidential limo is simply because Ford was the only U.S. manufacturer with a four-door convertible. Of course, that became moot after the assassination because convertibles hav
en’t been used since.
That dark blue color is just stunning looking (far better than black) for any car, much less for a presidential limo. The (Ford) Lincoln Continental was just as highly prized as the GM Cadillac, the Rolls Royce of cars from the 1950s and 1960s. My grandparents owned nothing but Cadillacs, and it was always a fun ride when I was traveling with them. When gas wars were typical, and I remember from the mid-1960s when gas cost between 22 and 26 cents per gallon, depending on the time of year, and if another gas war erupted!
I've run across that blue-black color as a factory-offered choice twice. I'm sure there must have been more -- I just never met them. Ford used it through the late-60s -- it shows up sometimes at classic car shows. The color also turned up on a mid-1990s Mazda MX3. I was all set to pick up the MX3 when my daddy (who had located the car, told me how much I'd like the color, and had given me a lift across town so I could write my check and drive it home) noticed the paint appeared to have little circular irregularities all over it -- as though the rain that day was dissolving the outer coat. Unbelievable. The dealership said it was normal, but if it was, why were no other cars afflicted with the all-over pockmarks? I ended up with black instead. Good ol' reliable black.
When I think of John F Kennedy I think of The 1961 Lincoln Continental both were new and vibrant and reflected the forword hope and enthusiasm of America at that time ... I was just 2 months old when President Kennedy was assasisinated so my only remembrance is though historical footage and documentaries . I personally feel that the Lincoln x 100 limousine should have been a protective hardtop in the first place ; Instead of a convertible and bulletproof !!! He (President Kennedy ) should never have been out in the open where he could be shot at by an assassin.
Hard to belieive that there was no Armour protection in that car...Those were the good old days.
Never again in US history will the citizenry enjoy the public access to our president that occurred during JFKs tenure. A different time and culture defined our nation until 11/22/63. Sadly, we have never regained that innocence and access to our president.
The Bubble top or the roof compartment should’ve been installed directly on the Ford Lincoln Limousine, the very minute that President Kennedy left Love Field from the airport in Dallas Fortworth, on that fatal day in November 63. Thank you. Johnny, Montréal, Canada
I was in second grade in school at that time, 7 years of age. After the murder took place, and all the shock and hurt it gave to the people of this country, the teacher in school mentioned that Kennedy didn't want to have a hard top on this car that he wanted to be right there with the people and that he is the peoples president that he is just a plain ole Joe bag of doughnuts just like everybody else is out there. In class, we would be reading and studying things like geography and history for the time allotted and class participation was essential and then, we get off the discussion of studies, and start talking about last Thursdays murder of the president on national television. It all was very fresh on our minds, everybody's minds, it hurt so much.....................
@@danbasta3677 It hurt so much, that you got the day wrong--it was on a Friday.
The bubble top was just plastic and not at all bulletproof.
I just think it was so unbelievably disrespectful to continue using it! I cannot understand how they could have done this.
The government didn't have a replacement on order and all the older white house limousines had too much mileage on them and repair parts were hard to get for President Eisenhower's 1957 Chrysler limousine which was the newest of the limos in the white house fleet.
The limo was made into a hardtop, and continued to be used until the mid 70s, which I think was rather tasteless!
unbelievable that they "rebuild" the car less than 3 weeks after the assassination of JFK. That car was so important as evidence, but also as a big historical reminder.
bada bing yea whose idea was that...sick bastards
So true 😒
Yes it is the best thing is that everyone is not seeing is I've watched a hundred videos on the assassination and they all show 6 seats in the car strange I watch this video and I see 4 seats like every witness recalls something to look into
As stated before, I wonder if they had a duplicate of this car in Detroit and switched VIN numbers on it and crushed the one that was in Dallas on that day just so they can further destroy evidence.
It's called a COVER UP.
Jonh kennedy ficará para sempre na memória dos americanos e também de todos aqueles que viram ele passar com a sua famosa limousine sx100
Limousines were not yet bulletproof in 1961..Hard to imagine he rode in regular Lincolns during many appearances..
Hoover's car was bulletproof.
Al Capone's limousine was confiscated by the government, and was used for a time by FDR. In fact, when he was told whose car it had been, Roosevelt replied, "I hope Mr. Capone doesn't mind."
What would it matter if it had been bullet proof? The top was down and JFK was completely exposed.
Interesting history of this Lincoln Continental
One of the few cars that really looks good stretched.
So much history about Kennedy, LOTS OF HISTORY ON THE KENNEDY PHOTOS/VIDEOS!
I cant Believe Lbjs Ass Sat In That Limozine, After Jfk Was Killed WTF
He was the president take it you was not fond of him
@@randyharris3175 LBJ filmed his cattle breeding.
@@56cadd So what if true.
@@randyharris3175 ya, an average everyday hobby. 😆
2:31 My fav pt of this short Documentary Beautiful how that 61' Lincoln Continental rolls in smoithly perfectly. I have both diecast models of the 61' & the x-100 Kennedy/Johnson model Lincoln limo w the bubbletop.
Cool!
Such a gorgeous vehicle. It's a shame that open limousine motorcades are a thing of the past.
Very true agree with you. I'm from India and look what happened to Mrs Indira Gandhi she was walking from her home to her 'Home Office' and she was assassinated by her own security guards. And Mr Rajiv Gandhi (her son) in an open field where he had gone canvassing for the coming General Election. That nothing had been learnt from JFK's assassination is amazing. In fact even M K Gandhi (yes in all honesty I refuse to call the man 'Mhatma')was assassinated in a similar manner.
That car should've been retired immediately following that terrible day in Dallas, out of respect and decency, would you want to be a President and sit in the back of that car? That was just poor taste
I agree.
People say LBJ didn’t care Kos he was behind JFK’s death
@@matsong5134 I've heard the same & I believe he was. I've heard that George Bush Sr was part of the CIA at the time & maybe had something to do with it as well & he was in Dallas that day standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository but unsure if this was true or not.
@@matsong5134 democrats don't kill each other.
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Imagine having to drive in the same car the guy before you was killed in😐
Very intresting video.
This limousine in it’s original configuration was as classy and stylish as the President it was originally designed and delivered to.
Then Lyndon Johnson got hold of it after that terrible day in Dallas and had it torn apart using the feeble excuse it was quicker to rebuild it than to build a new car.
Yeah... Right!
Like it wasn’t the only car they had in the presidential motor pool.
It was clearly done to destroy evidence.
By all accounts Johnson hated using the car.
The car originally took six months to built from a stock Continental convertible to delivery as GG300 parade car for president Kennedy.
After the assassination it went back to the builders, but didn’t re-enter service until October ‘64.
So much for being Quicker to rebuild a car from scratch.
Anyone else smell something fishy?
It’s a shame that the museum couldn’t do a sympathetic restoration and put it back to the way it looked in the Kennedy era just prior to the assassination.
The way it looks today, it just looks like any other stretch Lincoln from that era with the exception of a few red lights.
I wholeheartedly agree with your written comments. Getting parts for this car after the mess was already created and done would taken awhile, a long while to get and complete a rebuilding process. My thoughts on this is that an exact duplicate car just like the one the president was murdered in was parked side by side the damaged Lincoln and the VIN (vehicle identification number) that is rivided on the dashboard was taken off the damaged car, reinstalled on the duplicate car along with all the paperwork title and insurance certificates, and duplicate milage that can be either rolled up or backwards, then sent to DC and parked into the garage. After that, the car that is damaged along with fake paperwork and the VIN number is taken to the crusher, and sent to a steel mill to be melted down. Easy as pie, with a flick of the bic pen and transference of the paperwork, a small drill to drill out the vin number and a rivet gun and some rivets to do the job much more easily and simpler and above all quicker AND to destroy any evidence that will look like those who perpetrated this murder look innocent.
My dad had claimed that he was building that bumper for this limousine. Secret service I tried to get them to release info about the limo and they would not respond to my request..(FOIA request) I think that there is now some sort of mystique behind this limousine now and I had hoped to write a book about it.
Of all the government waste, I could never understand why they didn’t retire this car. I know they needed it for Johnson, but a new one could have replaced it it, once it was available.
On the night of Saturday, Nov 23, '63 - without log entries - the limo was taken back to Dearborn, gutted, windshield, interior, and damaged trim replaced. It was back in WH garage on Monday. Thus the first 'official' photos from Monday night show the car in perfect condition. Evidence destroyed, cover up intact. It's not hard to find the photos of the windshield with the hole, and President Kennedy's blood and brains (a lot) in the back seat. I post them often, key reminders of this horrific event. Strange what history (the guilty) wants us to forget.
It is horrific. As soon as the limo arrived at Parkland,SS agents began taking buckets of water and washing out the blood soaked back seat. This was just one example of the many instances of destruction of forensic evidence.
They had to get it was washed out so his murderer could ride around in it.
I personally think that a identical car was parked side by side of the car the president was murded in. I say, for the record, that the vin numbers of the car was taken off of the car and transfered to the identical car and shipped later to the White House garage. All they would have to do is bump up the exact milage of the identical car, already have the title and vehicle identification number transfered to paperwork making it LOOK all legal which is much more easier than to replace parts that might take some time to get a hold of and would keep this car from being shipped back to the capital of the nation. The car the murder took place in, was then taken along with the identicral cars vin number and title of the car to a scrap yard crushed, sent to a steel mill and melted down. WALA! All your evidence approprately destroyed, easily, I should say. In the meantime the identical car is now back in DC whare it's suppose to be at. Ready to be used for ole johnson. Not a rocket scientist just a plain ole Joe bag of doughnuts here, I was 7 years of my age when all this stuff was happening,.
Well Dan, I wouldn't discount your theory out except the original car was much more heavy due to all stuff that was originally done to it. Having said that it would be very possible to have a lookalike hanging around somewhere in order fake out the public. Either way it was done from the inside or the top.
@@robwhitehead9602 This is why after all these years later, it will always be known as a conspiracy that won't go away.
I was 3 Years Old And Vaguely Remember Watching The News It Got To The Point Where All The Channels Were Covering It For Wks.
This was very informative. I am so glad that I found your channel. I enjoy all of your videos. Thanks for sharing, David!
No this is not the car Kennedy was riding in. It was a crime scene that has been restored like new. Wonder why ? Look at the car Bonnie and Clyde died in. You can see the difference.
Legendary car
where are the original licence plates GG-300?
Wow! Thanks for all this information.
Modern technology has proven that Oswald was the lone gunman. Case closed.
And nobody in the Kennedy family disputed the reasoning that Oswald was the lone gunman. They didn't all buy into the Warren Report, but if there had been more than two shooters, Robert Kennedy would have had the power to find out being Attorney General at the time. Not even J Edgar could have stopped him in gathering and revealing that information.
1960s technology did a pretty good job too but yes certain things have been clarified since then.
You are so right!...fifteen pieces of hard evidence, and 34 pieces of heavy circumstantial evidence make for an airtight case against LHO.
Good to see Kennedy in a hardtop car I thought they always put him in a open car like FDR
When she was volunteering at the Red Cross during WW2, Mrs. FDR would walk to work alone on the streets of Washington. How times have changed.
Im watching this on Wednesday June 14th, 2023, 62 years to the day this magnificent Continental was delivered to the White House.
Look at that. Two rows of seats (the back row clearly has extra space, for a possible 3rd row. But DOESN'T).
The car is preserved and on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. Along with the Reagan, Eisenhower and FDR limos. TR's horse-drawn brogue is also there.
Who would care about ronald mcdonald reagan's limousine? I sure don't. I hated him, he messed this country up big time.
Yeah, that was a good narration wasn't it.. Thanks I enjoyed it.What an incredible sight it must be.
When I was a high school er during this period we were told that the Johnson car was a completely different car and that the Kennedy car had been crushed.
The Presidential state car is the official state car used by the President of the United States. A variety of vehicles have both officially and unofficially been acknowledged as the presidential vehicle. Since the late 1930s, the Federal government of the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_state_car_(United_States)
As a boy of 7 years old I stood beside Pres . Kennedy in Wexford , Ireland . I was fascinated by cars and was needless to say fascinated by this extraordinary car even more so than by the President . As for the assassination , well I think it was a mob job . Bobby Kennedy pissed off the big crime boss Giancana in Chicago who had in turn swung the Illinois vote in 1960 in favour of Kennedy at the behest of Joe Kennedy . For all his trouble Bobby went after organised crime as a terrier would after a rat .
True on Robert as Attorney General did in going after the Mob, but they could not do the deed without government help, and then the massive cover-up without government agencies and powerful individuals again. Enter the CIA, FBI Director J.E. Hoover), and his good friend and neighbor, LBJ, who was the ringleader of the coup d'etat, as most successors are from a coup throughout history. Other hard evidence in the VP demanding Kennedy visit Texas from as far back as April 1963. The fix was then going to be in-place to the date, place for the kill, and then what to say and do after. The VP, Hoover, Nixon, and other insiders met on Thu. night Nov. 21 to go over the plan, "The Big Event" as they labeled it, at Big Oilman's Clint Murchison's house in North Dallas. This is documented proof by LBJs mistress, Madeleine Brown, her report here on YT.
A beautiful car for sure. President Kennedy loved to ride around in convertibles. He was in innocent times, but that innocence ended on November 22, 1963.
Didn't realize the presidential car went through so much abuse on trips that it had dents after each one.
4:00 ..."providing greater visibility of the President"... and a greater target.
Fantastic car
One of my favourite ever cars
Immortalised by Jack ' s murder
Original low rider showed that Jack
Did it (excuse the pun ) in style
Great footage of Selassie in the limo too
I believe I read somewhere that the deep blue was to match the many dark blue suits JFK wore...
Suits from that era had a sheen to them... so hence the metallic blue...
I really like when the hard top is put on the limousine and I sometimes like when the bubble top is put on JFK is my number 1 favorite president if JFK was alive today I would marry him🙂🙂🙂
And you would have to put up with his philandering ways!
A beaut of a car and very historical. It sickens me to think of LBJ and his big-as-all-Texas-ass sitting in it, not even a full year after JFK was assassinated! The car should never have been used again and conserved in it's original state. Just like Jackie's pink suit, for the world to "see what they did" to her husband.
It's at the Henry Ford. A museum in Michigan. I saw it a few weeks ago. They had Reagan's limo too.
Billy Krzemien LBJ never sat in that limo..it creeped him out
Look at 9:45
Billy Krzemien Right
Where's the Pink suite today ??
Wonder who got the job to clean the car seats after the DEED was done?
Eu não me canso de ver os vídeos de jonh kennedy ele foi o unico presidente americano em que o povo o amava a morte de jonh kennedy foi um golpe no sonho dos americanos naquele dia tragico e dolorosa para uma nação conservadora que acredita nos seus ideais amargo dia 22 de novembro de 1963
The single rose placed beside the car, every year, is from me.
I did not know any of that
Wow
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The Lincolm SS-100X became a crime scene at 12.30 pm on Nov 22 1963. That crime scene was compromised when the secret service man was filmed washing off JFK's body fluids thereby destroying critical evidence. Witnesses at Parkland hospital saw a front entry bullet hole in the windscreen near the rear vision mirror but that evidence was quickly destroyed. There were also other internal marks above the windscreen. What other internal or external bullet marks were on the car body or upholstery? The FBI were supposed to conduct a crime scene investigation on the Lincoln in the Whitehouse garage but the crime scene had already been compromised. Whoever authorised the destruction of the windscreen is guilty of a serious offence. The SS man who washed down the car at Parkland should have been charged. The FBI agents who blatently intimidated witnesses should have been charged. That was never going to happen with the cross dressing fox in charge of the henhouse.
Though this car was dismantled from protecting JFK at his request - there was still no excuse why that entire motorcade route wasn't totally secured by the Secret Service - and EVERY building around it ,BEFORE the president and his entourage arrived on it .I still blame them for their humongous blunder on that fatal day. I think that were paid off .
You need to read The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine. It discusses Kennedy's security while he was POTUS. There were only a few dozen agents permanently assigned to the president back then and about 200 in the whole country. Typically there were five or six agents on duty at any given time except when he was out in public. They had no where near the resources they do now. The Secret Service was badly underfunded and undermanned.
@@jec1ny yeah well, now they are paranoid to the point of absurdity. What is the need for a decoy limo when the real one is bulletproof, bombproof and can travel 50 miles even with its tires shot out? And the motorcade has become ridiculously long. Does he really need 20 government cars escorting him everywhere?
Impossible to do.
Why are there two different license plates "GG- 300" and "227-100"?
I especially like the one part I always enjoy watching at 2:30
I would say this is from his June 1963 trip to Ireland. I watched a documentary of that & it showed the bubble top roof in use a lot because of the rainy weather.
The footage from 2:29 to 3:17 was from JFK's trip to England in '63. Higher quality video can be viewed here at 1 minute 30 seconds:
ua-cam.com/video/wGRAwFUcXTU/v-deo.html
Arguably, the original incarnation was the most beautiful piece of work that H&E ever produced...
Also, it's funny to me that the car was so quickly refurbished after what happened- you'd think that The Agencies would have wanted to do some major forensics on it.
Lastly, I'd bet a nickel on as to WHY Johnson wouldn't use the car for such a long time afterward! It don't take no genius to figure that one out.
It wasn't "so quickly refurbished". It was kept in Washington for months, specifically for the sake of evidence of the assassination, before it was sent to Detroit to be made safer.
Looks like they put 57 Lincoln hubcaps on it in the pics
No armour plating no bulletproof glass and an underpowered engine
I wish they would restore it back to its 1963 appearance as much as possible, most importantly the paint color Kennedy used. No wonder LBJ wouldn't ride it until it was gutted...guilt feelings.
I think the car went to Sydney Australia at some point with LBJ, Protesters threw paint or something at it so it had to be repainted in Australia. Not sure if this atually happened or is a myth.
Looks like they added an arm rest in the back seat as well.
This car changed the way U S Presidents were transported.
Hess & Eisenhardt also did hearses and ambulances.
how ironic
Cost over 100k in 61? Practically a million in today's $. And nothing special as far as security features. Wow.
LBJ always avoided riding in that car....Gee ya think? 🤔
From Nov.11 1963 after all evidence was destroyed it was tuned over to a company to be gutted on Dec.12 1963.This video failed to mention the windshield being replaced before gutting.
@TermsofService - Sounds like you read _"Reclaiming History"_ by Bugliosi ? 👌
@TermsofService - Yes I see. However many think the "mysterious" replacement of the windshield was to hide evidence of a bullet hole "fired from the front". _Case Closed_ by Posner & Bugliosi's book explain everything .
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That was a lovely car. Very sad that it was repainted at Lyndon Johnson's demand. In fact the car should have been immediately been RETIRED and maintained in it's original Blue Colour. I checked out the image of the colour and found that the beauty is a few shades lighter than the 'MID NIGHT BLUE' that MARUTI SUZUKI introduced with their RITZ car.
that car was not bullet proofed. the bubble top wasn't either. while the directer of the FBI's car was.
Hola sr este es un señor carrazo muy distinguido. Entre las personalidades. De nuestro mundo actual porque lo usan los presidente y reyes y embajadores. De todo los país del mundo y además la historia esta de lincon esta ligada con el presidente kenney presidente de los estados unidos de América y habar de la historia de los estados unidos de América es hablar de un hermoso país. Y de la marca de automóvil de lincon hoy 21 mayo 2019/saludos desde mi país de México
Why did they use the 50's hubcaps? Did JFK like them better? I could never figure that out. The 60's caps look so much better to me.
I wondered if that was because of no openings. It was said the brake lines were encapsulated with bullet protection, so they may have thought that was important.
Take it easy!...I owned a 1957 Lincoln , and those hubcaps were awesome!
The Lincoln lives at The Henry Ford Museum and I can't wait to renew my membership so I can go on the 60th anniversary of the assignation. I have yet to take a trip to the museum and not stroll through the presidential vehicles they have to see this gem!
I always thought the early '60s Lincoln Continentals were the best-looking cars of that time (honorable mention goes to the Ford T-birds from the same time). And, of course, the 1961 Lincoln limousine used by President Jack Kennedy was the best of the lot.
On November 22, 1963, I was nine years old and in the fourth grade. I remember the the lying-in-state, the shooting of Oswald, and the burial in Arlington. What I also remember is the enormous outpouring of grief from around the world. There was something about Kennedy that resonated with people everywhere.
Until Kennedy's assassination, presidents routinely traveled in open cars. After that . . . never. Personally, I think that walling off the President from the people is overdone. A due regard for the President's safety is all very well, but the people are entitled to see and hear their President up close and personal. Also, the man who aspires to be his country's leader should be willing to get out among the people. A president shouldn't be a physical coward.
A real classic design of the 60's, right up there with the 63 Sting Ray
It's not about a President being cowardly. In fact most are willing to take the risk. LBJ and RFK standing on the roof of the limo, which by then was enclosed. Inauguration Day 01/20/1977, the Carters walking down PA Avenue from the Capitol to the White House against the advice of the very nervous Secret Service. Before that Carter's predecessor, Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts when briefly not in the car. Ronald Reagan survived being seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. There were three prior Presidential assassinations. Lincoln in 1863, Garfield in 1881, and McKinley in 1901. While there had been body guards before McKinley, presidential security was not taken very seriously until McKinley's assassination. It was at that point the Secret Service, the only federal police force was assigned to provide security for the President. The Kennedy assassination was the first in 62 years and JFK was the first POTUS lost under Secret Service protection. Most presidents would prefer to be more accessible to the public, but with the history I just described, it should be understood why the Secret Service does their job incredibly well. There's been other attempts on the lives of Presidents, Jackson, T.R. Roosevelt, F.D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Each of those incidents have their own stories, but would add to the length of what I know is a long post. The issue here is not the courage of the President, it is the overwhelming responsibility of the Secret Service whose job is to protect the leader of the free world.
The very second JFK was removed from the car and taken into the hospital, the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA should have wrapped this car, sealed it, and taken it back to the FBI headquarters for forensic analysis and a bolt, by bolt disassembly. Then, once his assassination investigation was completed, this car should have never seen the day of life again. Even if there were no plans for another Presidential Limo, and there was nothing in the works, this car should have CEASED existence! and even if the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA were not obliged to do all that, the damn Dallas police department should have. It was, above all, a murder committed in the city of Dallas. What the heck was everyone's problem? This was 1963, not 1763. By that time, there was established protocols for a murder investigation. Good Lord was this whole thing botched.
FFS not one word of Oswalds interrogation was ever recorded not on tape or paper, Kennedy dead..case closed ...next..
cause all those 3 were not innoncent to all of it
the dallas police did ok they got their man however it was not a federal crime to kill the president until kennedy was killed. I agree the car should of been left alone instead of cleaning his brain & blood off the car, I have always wondered what happened to the blood stained interior ? I can't believe that Johnson, Nixon, ford & carter were not creeped out by riding in it. I think the henry ford people should restore the car the way is was when he died. after all that is what it really is famous for.
cia , fbi , hoover , ss all were involved it the setup and the cover up till now
best way to conceal the crime scene is tu remove the evidence still in the car and re furbish it and put back in service under close ctl of ss through 78 or some !
@@richardpowell424 all those presidents became so cause they were in the know and had to keep secrecy and never open the case again otherwise they d have had the same fate
Beautiful car, I was 10 and in school the day JFK got shot, it was announced over the school PA system, I saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV a few days later. Regular TV was completely shut down at least during the day, very sad time.
Bob politely correcting you here, it was Lee Harvey Oswald who was shot
@@death_star11 Haha! Yes, thanks, I meant to say Jack Ruby shot Oswald.
@@G8GT364CI yip...and Jack Ruby had mob connections
@@KB-ke3fi I'm reading Robbie Robertson's book 'Testimony' right now and the Hawks (The Band was known as the Hawks before they were known as the Band) played in Jack Ruby's club for several weeks before Jack shot Ruby, Robbie said he acted like a speed freak.
BALLIN!
When cars had style!!!
The biggest mystery is WHO authorized the removal of the bubble top that day at Love Field in Dallas. Secret Service never cleared the buildings ahead of time per standard protocol. And how did Oswald know the top was going to be removed, if the decision was made at the last minute, at the airport?
About the Plexi top....
I've heard several different stories about it.
One was that Kennedy himself said that he 'wanted the public to see their President', another was that The Secret Service convinced him that it would be a really hot day in Dallas, so they advised the Kennedys that it would be much more comfortable without it... Another story was that Jacqueline didn't like the bubble roof because it made the car too hot in the sun, it would wreck her outfits... Several stories.
@@slicksnewonenow it's not hot that time of year in Dallas....ever.
and also how did oswald know that they would take that route since supposedly not even the FBI knew of that path they would take
@@lordmangalord5984 Wrong info...the truth is, the parade route was published in local newspapers, at least three days before JFK died...Oswald could have easily seen that, and thought about changing history, and striking a blow for Marxism/communism--which he was fascinated with.
61 GRILL HAS BEEN CHANGED..
But LBJ do purchase another Continental in 1965?
Music is distracting. Too bad they did not go with the color Kennedy wanted. So the one at the Ford museum is really not the actual car Kennedy was in.