Grade 3 , my teacher came into class and told us, she cried. I’ll never forget it. I’m a Canadian by the way this was a tragic event for us too. I personally don’t think America has ever been the same.
@@insertnamehere313 hey don’t laugh. The person feels sympathy for us. Americans. We lost a really good president. Even thou JFK was flawed. It made him human. Some of our nations leaders back then respected him. Even thou I wasn’t born none of us were. The sad thing is all generations to come after that bloody horrific day. Never heard of him. Except through that museum. Small stories from ppl who met him. Descendants of JFK. History books. Pretty much it. Now we as Americans will never have the chance to meet him about 20 - 30 years ago. We/my generation were robbed of the chance. It sucks.
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@@michaellynch3043 This limousine was updated before President Kennedy's death. The Continental was a 1961 model but carried the more subdued front end styling of the 1962. The 1961 model shared front end styling with the all new Thunderbird. The badging (nameplate) was also updated after President Kennedy's death showing a sleek Continental scripted nameplate that carried over well into the '70's.
As a little kid, I sent JFK a birthday note - 1961 or 1962 - and received a note back, signed by his executive secretary Evelyn Lincoln. My mom saved the note and mailing envelope in a scrapbook she kept for me. Still have it (stored in an environmentally controlled storage unit). Preservation of presidential records were not so complete back then - but some of JFK's records have been digitized. They aren't greatly organized but I spent some time going thru them, hoping to find my original note. No such luck. While some citizen letters are scattered through the digital records, I did not locate my note. Bummer.
My hubby sent a hraduation invitation to Nixon. He got a letter back from the WH, saying Congratulations on graduating, but that with regrets, Nixon could not attend.
I was 5 yrs. old when this happened I was playing on the floor with toy trucks and my mom started screaming OMG NO! Over and over,I remember Walter Cronkite taking off his glasses and saying the President had passed . Vivid memories for a 5 yr. old !
I was 5 as well, my Mom worked on JFK’s election, she was shook, I remember no cartoons, very sad event, I’ve studied this since High School and feel I know how this went down,
I was 4 and remember Bozo Circus being interrupted by a news bulletin. I called out for my mom who was in the kitchen. She came in and heard Walter Cronkite say the President had been shot. She started crying and told me to "pray for the President." Shortly thereafter, he came back on to announce the President had died. A very solemn day and days to follow. I remember the atmosphere in the neighborhood went quiet. Several family members came to watch the funeral. Such a horrible tragedy in so many ways.😢
I was 7. I have come to believe that as children we were traumatized in a way the adults were not, and that's why our generation has and still is obsessed by it. I want to know the truth before I die.
59 years ago today. I was in the 6th grade. Like everyone alive then, I remember that day & the trauma we all felt clearly. I've read & watched every piece I can find about that & the next few days. Like most people, I'm convinced we will never know what really happened that day, one of the saddest days in our country's history.
Me too. I was in 6th grade. I've spent so much of my life reading and watching documentaries. All of the records were supposed to be released in 2017. But there are 16,000 still sealed. The only reason I can figure is that some of the principals are still alive.
I have done the same thing as far as reading & getting every story by anyone that was there when it happened. It's pretty obvious now 59yrs. later & the government is still stating "National Security" is the reason we can't see ALL of the classified documents. With that statement our own government is confessing that they were apart of the assassination of the best President that we have had in the past 60yrs. RIP Mr. President
I was 10 yrs. old, in the 4th grade when President Kennedy was assassinated. Our principal was crying when he made the announcement over the PA system what had happened, and we would be going home as soon as they could get the busses there. Every time I see those pictures it takes me back to that awful day.
I'm a Canadian who was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. I remember being 5 years old and coming upstairs from the basement and standing in the doorway. My aunt had just come home from her work as a nurse and she was talking to my mom in the kitchen, and I think they were both crying. I asked them what was wrong and they told me President Kennedy had just been assassinated. I didn't know what that meant and I don't think they tried to explain it to me either. How could a 5 year old understand that? Anyway, they told me to go watch TV or something along those lines. So there is my tale of recalling where I was and what I was doing on November 22, 1963. 🤔🤨
I wonder how many people remember where they were when they heard president Kennedy was assassinated?!! I was in the 4th grade and my class was out on the playground that day. My teacher cut our recess short, made us line up and went back into our classroom. Once we were back in our room, we were instructed then to put our head on our desk and be silent for the remainder of the day. Our teacher then told us about president Kennedy's assassination. I remember feeling very emotional and started to cry. I don't think that I was the only one crying, because I heard some other kids as well as my teacher crying.
I still remember that day . I was 7 years old and lived in Gelnhausen, a German town with an American garrison. My parents , our friends , neighbours, everybody were shocked, concerned and full of sadness .
@The History Underground I am sure there's plenty. I've met so many that refuse to talk about it. Very sad. I was in 2nd grade in Blessed Sacrament in Norfolk, VA, and immediately knew something had happened when the principal wheeled in a cart with a TV on it. We watched the news for the rest of the afternoon. We all prayed. I will never forget those next few days, until JFK's funeral and the rider less horse. John Jr.'s salute...😞
It is amazing that the original car was still in use up to 1977, albeit with lots of upgrades. I somehow found that weird. Instead of spending a lot of money on the refurbishing getting a couple more would have made more sense.
@@johnbettano6026 I've read LBJ wanted it for use if he ran for election in the fall of '64. Which, he did. I was 12 years old when LBJ spoke at a campaign rally at the Omaha NE airport, and my dad took me to see him since it was a warm sunny fall day. As LBJ and this car slowly approached, my dad lifted me to stand on a car trunk and I have vivid memories of seeing LBJ inside with that light blue leather and the " glass " roof fascinated me. I remember my dad saying " if only JFK had that top on the car......."
I wasn't alive when this all happened, but I've always had a huge fascination with the JFK assassination. This is a really cool video. History is so important. I love your Antietam videos too, as I live in the area and try to educate not only young people, but all ages. We venture on Antietam creek under Burnside Bridge so often, it's almost forgotten. So much natural beauty, but such an ugly past. "History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." -Sydney J. Harris
This is a very moving video! Produced very well. Thank you, Erik and JD. I was only a little first grader when JFK was shot, but I remember the day of his funeral, my mom watching it on TV. That backwards boots in the stirrups of the saddle caught my eye. It was probably the death of our country as we knew it. Things have not been the same since. My parents talked about that over the years until they passed.
I was a small child in the first grade, yet I remember this day like it was yesterday. It was so surreal and nightmarish. It had a 9/11 feel across the world.
By the way, the shot of the interior of a limo at4:36 was a view of the follow up car that held VP Johson and Lady Bird. Same brand of the lead Lincoln, but a normal 4 door sedan with no jump seats. Yellow roses were given to Lady Bird and red roses to Jackie in the lead limo.
Harold, exactly correct and something never noted when that car is shown in photos. It was also a 1964 model on loan from a local dealer as they were brand new in fall, 1963. Thanks for your clarification.
@@normanplatt1239 That picture is at Fort Worth (it shows the Tarrant County Court in background) which was almost certainly taken the day before the assassination, 21st November.
Kennedy didn't want the ''bubble top ''on. They didn't anticipate a sniper. I was in the second grade and I remember the nun coming in crying telling us the president had been shot and we all stood and prayed for him. We went home early my mother came home early from work in tears, my grandmother was home crying. IT was so horrible. All I can remember was those drums slowly beating for days during the funeral. At the time my mother worked for Brooks Brothers where Kennedy would buy his clothes. He died wearing the Brooks button down blue stripped Oxford shirt with a charcoal plain weave pinhead suit with cuff bottom trousers and a Dior blue tie. Note; when President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 he was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat. I know so much because worked for this company for years.
Amazing how “they” didn’t allow proper forensic examination of both the car and his body. They needed to cleaned up to prevent revealing what actually happened
Who are “they”? The truth is there is no day. Forensic science than wasn’t like today either. People just wanted believe stuff as the truth is too straightforward or dull for them to accept. Same as moon landings, 911 etc.
It was planned by the democrats so they could insert LBJ in as president because KFK was following DeWitt Enshower policy's of only sending advisor's into Vietnam and the democrats wanted a war to make millions on the black market.
Wow, JD! Your memorial video elicited strong emotions as I recalled that day and the weekend through the funeral on Monday. I was in 6th grade. 2 other famous men died on 11/22/1963 - not as dramatically, or tragically, but perhaps significantly - C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Thanks for another important piece of history!
I'm from Boston Mass. Proper. I was a 12-year-old sitting in a 6th/7th grade class in one of the many Parochial Schools in the City. The shock on the Nun's face as another Nun whispered the news. She composed herself as an uncanny mood settled over the Class. "President Kennedy has been Shot." Hardly a word was said but the "Energy" within the room was felt in my bones as all just stared at the Teacher. It was so indescribable as many looked around and repeated in a whisper - "President Kennedy has been Shot." Various "Oh, my God." 'Sighs'. A few Girls began to 'Cry'. Utter Shock. I am sitting there Numb. Tragic.
One of my uncles was all of 19 years old and was in an armored unit stationed at the Fulda Gap, Germany when this happened. He and the members of his unit were convinced the Soviets were about to hit them. The shock of the event plus the rumors that were flying were, in his words, scary yet motivating. I have been to the book depository and the area from which Oswald is said to have shot Kennedy from did provide a great sniper’s nest. However, I have very hard time believing Oswald acted as the only shooter.
Many people still believe the Mafia did it. The "Mob" did not murder JFK and then subsequently cover it up for decades by destroying Government records... and the "Mob" did not select the Warren Commission either. The Mob doesn't have control of the media narrative to spin the LIE for 60 years! *The United States of Israel MURDERED JFK*
I was in the 1st grade in Ft Worth Texas. The principal called an assembly in the auditorium for the whole school grades 1 - 6. She told us about the president and we were sent home. I walked home to find my mother crying in front of the TV. Will never forget.
Was wondering if you would do a JFK piece today. I still remember where I was and what the afternoon & evening looked like around my household. School had been let out early because of the event and us kids, along with our mom were gathered around the TV, watching live news, when our dad came in from work. He had no idea what had happened earlier. He had served with the OSS during the war and was a very calm, rational man with little to no temper. When he saw & heard what happened, he threw down whatever he was carrying, stormed back outdoors exclaiming "My God, the bastards actually did it". He never shared what he meant with that statement. Looking back, that was my first red pill moment. Thanks JD.
I was almost 5 years old when this occurred. We were living at Mount Tamborine in Queensland, Australia. My late Dad was a member of the Australian Army and posted to the Land Warfare Centre at Canungra. I remember the Australian Army went on war footing. One of two occasions this being the first and the second was when our Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in the surf at Cheviot Beach, Victoria in 1967. I recall my mother being very upset when President Kennedy was assassinated. We thought Dad was off to war. It was a sad time indeed.
The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy For the Devil" contains the lyrics "I shouted out who killed the Kennedy's" in it's finished version. The song went through a lot of development, originally it was an acoustic Bob Dylan like folk song with the lyrics "I shouted out who killed John Kennedy." As the song evolved, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, and the lyrics were updated.
I grew up in Salt Lake City and a couple of months before his tragic death he visited there. My mom, two sisters and I went to see him. His car pulled up across the street directly in front of me. I clearly remember his hair blowing in the breeze and his beautiful smile. Then we made a mad dash to the tabernacle to see him speak. The place where I sat had a direct unobstructed line of view to the podium and him. I will always treasure these memories.
I was three years old at the time of JFK's assassination. One of my earliest memmories was watching the television in my grandma's house and asked her, what she was watching. She told me it was the funeral for the President. He was shot in Dallas, TX. Forward some 59 years later, a couple friends and I journeyed to the Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH last October. It took a day and a half to see everything (there are 19 acres floor space) , including THE Air Force One, which ferried JFK's body back to DC. I can't recomend this museum enough! Great video on this auspicious day.
I've seen the limousine at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. I never really gave thought about the blood. Pretty interesting that some of the upholstery ended up in private hands.
Not only that...but a Secret Service Agent kept a copy of the autopsy photos for himself!...Eventually, those copies made it into a couple of books concerning the murder. so much for "security" in those days!
JD. I now live in montana , born in the BRONX NY my dad was a big shot in construction in the late tos and ups he was in charge of 36 buildings in the world's fair in New York. From 64 to 65 give or take. He was in charge of the Texas pavilion to make a long story short he met Connally during the build Connally liked what he was doing ,asked my dad what can he do for him. My dad asked him to send 3 cowboy hats one for my dad one for me and my brother. Well. About a month after they met a box came to our house in long island NY. With 3 hats in it . I still have mine it don't fit anymore but I'll never get rid of it... I hope you read this THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA......
In addition, the chair Lincoln was sitting in at Ford’s Theater when he was assassinated is there, too, and also the Rosa Parks bus.@@TheHistoryUnderground
You are the only one today that I have seen that has posted anything about this. 59 years ago today. I was watching it on TV in black and white as it happened. Good job for posting and recognizing this sir!
Formal limousines, which the presidential car Kennedy was riding in basically was, typically had/have jump seats that fold into the partition behind the driver. You pointed those out as if they were unusual. They were standard.
I guess the most famous “relic” from that infamous day is the 1961 Lincoln. After it was rebuilt, it was sent back to the White House motor pool. I believe it was returned in the spring of 1964. The Lincoln continued to be used until the mid 70’s, after which it was sent back to Ford. It was quite a few years before it went on permanent, public display at The Henry Ford. I recall the press leading up to the limousines unveiling. The museum has a nice display of presidential limousines, beginning with the Lincoln Ronald Regan used the day he was shot at the Washington Hilton. After that attempt, this Lincoln was returned to Ford to be rebuilt as well. Sheet metal and trim from a 1979 Lincoln Town Car were used to restore the car. That’s why this Lincoln appears much different from the day of the Regan shooting. Some people are confused by the dramatic difference in the look of the car since it was restored in the early 80’s, but looks like a 79 model. During the 80’s, Lincolns and Cadillacs were used by president Regan until the day of the Bush inauguration. On Inauguration Day, a new Town Car limousine was introduced for Bush’s use. I believe that is the last time a Lincoln was used by the President. One of the things I found interesting, is when you stand beside the Kennedy Lincoln, the passenger window is rolled down. You can count the sheets of glass in the bullet proof window. I believe there are 4 or 5 panes of glass which make it at least an inch thick. The many times I’ve seen this car, nobody speaks as they approach or view the limousine.
Was 4 years old at a Sears and Roebuck with my mom. The store was empty except for the television section. Everybody in the store was there.Next thing I remember I was in our, a Ford Galaxie 500, trying to calm my mother down as she cried uncontrollably. The day Nov 22nd 1963. The country has never been the same since.
These swatches of the "blood stained" leather come up for sale once in awhile. Too soon? possibly, but in a museum it has a place I believe. I have a hair of JFK, cut the year he died. Thank for not showing the head shot - very respectful of you. It is out there if someone wishes to view it.
I was in the 2nd grade and I remember all the teachers crying. At lunchtime in the cafeteria you could hear a pin drop where on any other day, it was bedlam.
For some reason, this item freaks me out...As a casual student of the assassination, I know that the Secret Service, while the car was parked at Parkland Hospital, made a lame attempt to clean off the interior of the car, throwing a bucket of water into the interior...this was very bad behavior, as clearly the vehicle was a main piece of evidence, and should never have been touched up, without being examined very closely!...and this rep of Ford, keeping a stained section of the upholstery, seems to be a sort of creep!. I have never heard of this strange story, and have been reading about what happened to the car, where it was shipped to be refurbished, etc. This vehicle was actually used by LBJ, and then by Nixon....one would think that they would not be using the infamous Death Car--but they did!..I wonder if a DNA sample of that blood stain would reveal anything new, regarding the mediocre health of JFK.
Even though I wasn't around yet, hardly a day goes by I don't think of the events of Friday, November 22nd, 1963. Over the years, beginning at around age 13, I began studying and researching this tragic day in American history. Thank you for sharing this video.
Such interesting yet morbid curiosity. Every time I see the video footage of the assassination, I always think, if only the car didn't turn left on to Elm street. Within a minute of turning, history changed.
Finally I’ve stumbled across a rational explanation for what has been claimed to be a Mandela effect. Back in the day I read a lot of books about conspiracies, and viewed the Zapruder film pre-internet days. After all of that, I recall the vehicle as a four-person capacity limo. And was a little shocked 25 years after studying it, that the limo "is now" a six-seater! Did history change while our memory stayed the same? Not on this one. It's the fold-down jump seats that put this to rest with a down-to-earth explanation. Sometimes the seats were up and in use, and there we have a six-seater limo. But other times, those seats were folded down -- completely out of sight. And there's the four-seater that we recall. I recalled a four seater. It had a driver, with Governor Connelly seated next to the driver. And then the president and first lady behind them in a four-seat limo. It had been 25 years since I’d read the last book and viewed the Zapruder footage. And I remember the photo of the limo at the hospital, with the bouquet of flowers in the bloodied interior. It looks like a four-seater. I’ve looked at several videos on RUclips about the “JFK Mandela Effect,” and honestly I was shaking my head and wondering if…. maybe there’s something to this one? The hosts of the videos cited a museum somewhere that has a recreation of the limo, which is a four-seater. So many people’s memories, including mine, was that it was a four-seater, with no Mrs. Connelly, and no secret service agent to the right of the driver, just the governor. The Mandela theory is that our memories _are_ correct. The theory is that somehow history changed just enough to where something caused the vehicle to be six seats instead of four. Yet somehow hundreds of thousands, including me, still recall it being a four-seater. And there _was/is_ a decent amount of pictures of a four-seater and existing recreations of a four-seater. Am I a little bummed it didn't have a science fiction-like time travel/alternate timeline event? Well, yeah, a little - that’s pretty exciting stuff! But the middle seats were fold-down. Not nearly as exciting as alternate timelines and time travel, still, mystery solved. In my mind, anyway. Anyway, thanks for a nicely and tastefully done video - interesting and educational. Thanks again, I’ve liked and subscribed. If you haven’t heard of the Mandela effect or want to know more just search for it here on RUclips. There are hundreds of them. (For example, I sure don’t recall C-3PO from Star wars having one silver leg!)
I was in the 1st grade. My Dad was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska in the Army. We lived on base, so I attended the elementary school on base there. My teacher was called out into the hall and stayed for a little bit and when she came back in was sobbing. She asked us if we knew who the President of the United States was, and we all said YES Ma'am. Well, she continued, someone has shot him, and he has gone to heaven. We all started crying. I SO REMEMBER that.
At 7.58 on the still picture, can anyone else see the shaded figure on the top right side? Why when everyone is running away does it look like the figure is walking slowly in a different direction?
I was 12 at the time and remember that day very well. What I can't get anyone to explain to this day was the head shot. Ok Oswald got off the first 2 shots then came the head shot. I've had plenty of experience with weapons and have visited the Dallas Book Depository and stood on the spot Kennedy was shot. My question is if Oswald did make the head shot why was Kennedys skull fragments and brain matter spattered all over the trunk lid? You can see Jackie climbing onto the trunk lid trying to gather the pieces up. If Oswald's shot came from behind wouldn't Kennedys brain matter be scattered over the front of the limo and onto the dash? It just doesn't make sense. I still say the head shot came from a forward position.
I was born in April of "62" and I remember my show, lunch with Casey, being interrupted. My Mom was upset and crying when they announced what happened. I didn't completely understand at the time what was going on, I just knew it was something bad. It felt like the world got a whole lot scarier after that.
Been a Kennedy fan since 1988. I hope one day to visit the JFK Presidential Library and Arlington National Cemetery. When I was in college, I took a journalism class and wrote a story about the assassination.
I worked at Hess and my friends dad was head of engineering, my friend came home from school one day and noticed the garage door was partially open, a car that was to long was inside. It was the Kennedy car. They kept it there to hide from the media. Before transporting it to the factory. .l worked on the Reagan presidential car while I was there. Great job.
Curios? The upholstery cited at the opening of that wooden case, which was stated as the upholstery that was in the limousine in Dallas -- AND had Kennedy's blood on it was two tone -- further backed up by photos (and what appeared to be both Kennedy (in Dallas) and LBJ (in front of the Portico of the Whitehouse -- in Washington D.C. As well, the 'seaming' on that seat had the sides, upper (and presumably the bottom -- of the seatback) in the darkest leather (the right-side swatch as presented by you in the case) and was NOT segmented -- in the slightest. The lighter color leather (as was represented by the encasement -- and on the lower left-hand side, an insert -- if you will, was segmented in a square pattern. At 4:37 in your video,, in the famous picture of the back seat of the limo (the one that Kennedy's wife climbed in order to retrieve (as some would say), a part of John Kennedy's head, and was subsequently climbed over that trunk by SS Agent: Clint Hill) at Parkland Memorial Hospitals' Emergency Room entrance -- the one with the bouquet of flowers (scattered) that Mrs. Kennedy appeared to have held or was 'stashed', CLEARLY shows that there was only one tone (Dark Blue or Black) (meaning that the light blue upholstery is now BROUGHT INTO QUESTION -- and that that seat had upholstery seams that ran vertically the full height of the seatback. As they say... 'Sumpin' ain't right...' Also, the car WAS painted either dark blue or black -- NOT the light blue or light metal color that existed all around the door handle in the picture at 4:37 -- in the video submission. So, that makes me wonder if this car was a duplicate -- or is this: 'Barbara Streisand'? Methinks that someone is 'yankin' yer chain'?
The Auto Museum in Roscoe IL has the same exact leather sample with JFK's bloodstain... They also have the Secret service car that was following ditrectly behind JFKs limo, they also have JFK's coffin flag, and they also have the ambulance that took Oswald to the Hospital. The museum is the Historic Auto Attractions, Roscoe, Illinois.
For a great book on this tragic event look for: "Who really killed JFK, The case against LBJ " by Clint Hill. ( Hill was secret service agent for Jackie Kennedy)
Never heard about this book...is it new? I know that Mr. Hill, who is very elderly now, married a nice-looking woman who had helped him write his first book...She is like 40 years younger than Mr. Hill...I feel she married him in order to write more books about his situation with the Kennedy clan. Nice work, if you can get it! Mr. Hill gave a very recent interview, and he was using an oxygen device...I think his life is near the end.
I was 3 years old. My grandpa was watching tv when they interrupted the program with the report. I remember seeing it over and over again. Remember that day like it was yesterday.
The Lincoln Continental stretch limousine also had a very powerful engine and retractable running boards for Secret Service agents---which were not used because they could have been lethal to spectators if they got too close to the car. There is a color photograph taken in bright light of the back seat where President Kennedy's body had lain and it is truly horrific. I'm sure it was taken by the Secret Service before the limo was torn apart and searched.
Thank you Eric for bringing this to us..we did have 3 people bleeding though so the "blood" part (lacking DNA) would be conjecture..LBJ approved work on the car on December 12th..20 days after JFK was killed in it...rushed to chop up that car..plenty of time for a complete forensic analysis??right?? THAT tells you all you need to know
@@PeterOkeefe54 no thanks. It's well presented garbage. You were gullible enough to fall for it and get in a undenfendable position based on speculation and lies. My position and arguments are based on the testimony of the people that were there or involved. And the forensics. What's your endgame? Who do you have shooting and where from?
I’m like most of the commenters here, I was 9 years old in the 4th grade classroom. Remember the teacher coming in to tell us kids. Remember much of the discussions and the following several days of TV coverage , the funeral, Oswald, Ruby. I’m 70 now. And occasionally watch and reread the details and videos.
JD - Just a note that there are several places around the country that have obtained small sections of the blood stained upholstery of the Kennedy Lincoln. The most impressive display of Kennedy artifacts can be found in Northern Illinois at the Historic Auto Attractions museum. I know the owner personally and he would love to give you a private tour of the facility. In fact, he just obtained an exact replica of the Kennedy limo as it existed on November 22, 1963. The car has quite a history of it’s own. Of course, the actual car is at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Let me know if your interested. I would be honored to set it up.
9:16 These are known as “jump seats”. The backwards opening doors at the rear compartment are called “suicide doors”. The Secret Service Cadillac following Kennedy’s car wound up in private hands in Ohio. My dad’s job was to host VIPs when they came to his college. He would rent that car to pick up the dignitaries from the airport. One of the guys he picked up was a not-well-known Congressman named Jerry Ford. Years later, President Ford refused to ride in the Kennedy car, though the govt still had it. I wonder if he knew he was riding in the chase car??
If you have not yet JD, check out The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. highly recommended experience to learn about the case and JFK. They have some very cool artifacts.
That limousine was built brand new without a tiny spec of armor protection in it of any kind whatsoever. My father was a hand picked top Ford executive over the entire executive leasing car program for all of Ford’s space and military top secret government technology research division Aeronutronic Systems Incorporated’s executives headquartered where he operated from in Newport Beach, California, and with operations as large situation in major cities in key locations across the world which he was equally head of the executive lease car program for in each of those facilities. When I was around eight years of age months before the assassination he told me about Von Ferguson. He didn’t know him personally, but he told me what Ferguson’s unique responsibilities were as regards that specific ‘61 Lincoln Continental.
I was 12 years old when Kennedy was assassinated. I was young but I could feel the trauma to the entire nation inflicted by that event. John Kennedy was certainly a flawed individual but his election symbolized a sense of transition to a new and optimistic future. Much of that sense died with him as his successor seems rooted in old politics and was soon overcome by the division’s created by the Vietnam War. The truth was that Lyndon Johnson probably had a more progressive agenda regarding civil rights, structural poverty and education than Kennedy. I have to admit I’m ambivalent about this sort of artifact. I guess it makes history more tangible but it’s a little macabre thinking about the guy who decides to section the bloody seat into convenient sellable squares thinking hey this will be worth a whack of money.
LBJ was a rather cold-blooded fellow. And anyone who knows the history of his association with, and selection as JFK's running mate, knows there was no affection between them. In fact they disliked each other, intensely on Johnson's side. Kennedy treated Johnson with disdain, and shut him out of most important councils. It was just a calculated political jointer, intended to pick up southern states, and have Johnson work his political expertise with the Senate. Johnson certainly didn't suffer any emotional pangs sitting on the seat where his political antagonist had bit the dust. Probably rather satisfying as a matter of fact.
I was at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village shortly after the JFK Limo was put on display in 1977/78. I was on a grade school field trip and it was the middle of the week and there wasn't a big group of people attending that day because it was not the "Tourist Season" time of year as School was still going on and people usually didn't visit these places until summer vacation time or weekends so we had our run of the place and back then security was very lax as it was the late 70s. I was able to walk up to the JFK Limo and opened the passenger side rear door (It was a suicide type door with the hinge at the rear of the door) and sat in the car where JFK was sitting when he was shot. I was with several class mates and one of them went and told the teacher I was in the car and by the time my teacher got there I was out and behind the barrier that surrounded the Limo. I was questioned and scolded but was able to go on to another great mischievous stunt as we went to see the Logan County Courthouse where Abe Lincoln practiced law before becoming President which had been shipped to Greenfield Village and set up as a Lincohn collection by Henry Ford and the Famous "Ford Theatre Rocking Chair" in which Lincoln was shot in by Booth was on display there (it is now still on site but in another area of the Museum and protected by Plexi Glass on all sides) and I didn't take the dare to sit in it but I did cross the barrier and ran my hand across the top which was discolored from the blood stains and I was told to get behind the barrier and behave or I would have to spend the remaining time of the trip sitting on the Bus waiting for our hour trip back to Flint. I was lucky to experience those 2 amazing artifacts up close and personal and there is hundreds of other super cool displays in that museum which I highly recommend you to take a few days and experience everything they have to show. There is a locomotive that is the largest ever built that you can climb into and it's breath taking. Take time to add that to your bucket list as it's a very historical place to visit that you won't be disappointed in. I was lucky enough to be a little kid and get away with something that I'm sure you would be arrested for in this day and age but I can say I touched the items that were connected to 2 of our Greatest Presidents that were Assassinated while sitting in both of those items. It is very rare to come across a collection of such historical important articles but the late Great Henry Ford collected and displayed so much American history and saved it for future generations to see.
Remembering seeing Oswald getting shot on November 24, 1963. Seeing the jail in 1998 ,Parkland Hospital 1998,Tippet shooting 1998 Movie House 1998. Further Baylor University. Quiet a lot to see regarding JFK assassination as well as the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza , Peter Russo
II Remember this, I was 14teen years old when the anounce this on the school speaker , ..that Thanksgiving was the most saddest Thanksgiving as I watch the Funeral procession...
Watch the video about the Assassination of JFK and the 9-11 event produced by John Connally's son. The video explains what actually transpired that day. The assassination was orchestrated by 15 plus politicians and wealthy individuals. They met the night before and planned the entire assassination. It explains in detail how there were 7 assassins who were paid to kill JFK. The six planted all around the corner, but the kill shot came from the sewer about 50 feet in front of the car. That's why his head went backwards when hit. It is an eye opening video and explains everything. 🇺🇲🙏🇺🇲🙏🇺🇲
I will never forget this day for as long as I live, I remember the hurt we all felt as the news broke that JFK had died, living in South Florida when JFK flew into Palm Beach we would see him drive by our home and he would always wave to my Brother & I, to me he was a hero.
Hi JD and Erik. Got a question, at 4:39 is that the same car that JFK was shot in? The seat arrangement looks different, it looks more like a standard Lincoln. Years from now Americans will look back at the current administration and say "it was some of the most tragic and dark days in American History." Thanks for your hard work and posting another piece of American History.
That was the interior of Johnson’s limo. I was showing random pics from the day and should have made a note of it. I’ll make a note in the description.
It was such a lame attempt...but remember, the Secret Service was in deep shock! They had utterly failed to protect the President, and were very upset, nervous, and anxious to get the hell out of Dallas.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Yeah, I agree. There was probably a healthy dose of trying to ward off any resemblance of disrespect mixed into that atmosphere as well. They had to get back to the airport at some point, and what if Mrs. Kennedy wanted to ride in the limo again? no matter how small a chance, she can't be sitting in her husbands pool of blood. You're right about everyone being in shock, and in those situations many things you do on the spur of the moment may not later make much sense.
What about the testimony of the Foreman from Ford motors ! who said who said he changed the windshield with the bullet hole in the front of it coming through it 100% fact
I was almost one year old when JFK was killed. I had a little rubber baby doll named John John. Today, I saw one of his convertible automobiles that was a beautiful blue color in Arkansas at the museum on Peite Jean Mountain. That was a sad day and it's still sad.
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Grade 3 , my teacher came into class and told us, she cried. I’ll never forget it. I’m a Canadian by the way this was a tragic event for us too. I personally don’t think America has ever been the same.
Unfortunately, you are correct.
Yeah we probably wouldn't be tax cattle right now if he didn't get killed.
You are right. We had our future taken from us.
Canada here!!...i remember our teacher,too and telling us....:(:(
@@insertnamehere313 hey don’t laugh. The person feels sympathy for us. Americans.
We lost a really good president. Even thou JFK was flawed. It made him human. Some of our nations leaders back then respected him.
Even thou I wasn’t born none of us were. The sad thing is all generations to come after that bloody horrific day. Never heard of him. Except through that museum. Small stories from ppl who met him. Descendants of JFK. History books. Pretty much it.
Now we as Americans will never have the chance to meet him about 20 - 30 years ago. We/my generation were robbed of the chance. It sucks.
That limo should have been preserved by the FBI as part of the crime scene and shouldn’t have gone anywhere.
… yes sir!.. same as the “9/11” crime scene… and most recently- the “Maui” crime scene…
They removed all evidence 🧾 just shady dirty work smh
They taking that limo is suspicious and odd they planned this crime how 🖤😳 evil👿👿👿
Agree but they had evidence to destroy
@@anthonyrowe7805 … yeah- kinda reminiscent of the bush/cheney psychopaths’ administration- 9/11 MASS MURDER- inside job crime…
NOTE: At the @4:30 mark, the vehicle shown is the car that LBJ was riding in. I was inserting images from that day and should have made a notation in the video. Apologies for any confusion.
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Most people don't know that the Kennedy Presidential Limousine is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan
@@michaellynch3043 This limousine was updated before President Kennedy's death. The Continental was a 1961 model but carried the more subdued front end styling of the 1962. The 1961 model shared front end styling with the all new Thunderbird. The badging (nameplate) was also updated after President Kennedy's death showing a sleek Continental scripted nameplate that carried over well into the '70's.
@@TeamTrumpUSA I've read that the car stayed in service until 1977, though I can't say for sure which presidents actually rode in it.
As a little kid, I sent JFK a birthday note - 1961 or 1962 - and received a note back, signed by his executive secretary Evelyn Lincoln. My mom saved the note and mailing envelope in a scrapbook she kept for me. Still have it (stored in an environmentally controlled storage unit).
Preservation of presidential records were not so complete back then - but some of JFK's records have been digitized. They aren't greatly organized but I spent some time going thru them, hoping to find my original note. No such luck. While some citizen letters are scattered through the digital records, I did not locate my note. Bummer.
Don’t give up. Find that note !
My hubby sent a hraduation invitation to Nixon. He got a letter back from the WH, saying Congratulations on graduating, but that with regrets, Nixon could not attend.
Maybe he kept it by his side a personal belonging
@@thruitallauto2538 That is pretty nonsensical.....
I was 5 yrs. old when this happened I was playing on the floor with toy trucks and my mom started screaming OMG NO! Over and over,I remember Walter Cronkite taking off his glasses and saying the President had passed . Vivid memories for a 5 yr. old !
I was 5 as well, my Mom worked on JFK’s election, she was shook, I remember no cartoons, very sad event, I’ve studied this since High School and feel I know how this went down,
I was 4 and remember Bozo Circus being interrupted by a news bulletin. I called out for my mom who was in the kitchen. She came in and heard Walter Cronkite say the President had been shot. She started crying and told me to "pray for the President." Shortly thereafter, he came back on to announce the President had died. A very solemn day and days to follow. I remember the atmosphere in the neighborhood went quiet. Several family members came to watch the funeral. Such a horrible tragedy in so many ways.😢
I was also 5 and remember Mom crying, I remember no cartoons, I have researched this sad chapter in American history and believe nothing we were told
I was 7. I have come to believe that as children we were traumatized in a way the adults were not, and that's why our generation has and still is obsessed by it. I want to know the truth before I die.
59 years ago today. I was in the 6th grade. Like everyone alive then, I remember that day & the trauma we all felt clearly.
I've read & watched every piece I can find about that & the next few days. Like most people, I'm convinced we will never know what really happened that day, one of the saddest days in our country's history.
Me too. I was in 6th grade. I've spent so much of my life reading and watching documentaries. All of the records were supposed to be released in 2017. But there are 16,000 still sealed. The only reason I can figure is that some of the principals are still alive.
@@lds251 If some of them still alive they must be above 90 years old.
I have done the same thing as far as reading & getting every story by anyone that was there when it happened. It's pretty obvious now 59yrs. later & the government is still stating "National Security" is the reason we can't see ALL of the classified documents. With that statement our own government is confessing that they were apart of the assassination of the best President that we have had in the past 60yrs. RIP Mr. President
Read above comment, thanks.
@Michael Hoffman Yes, Oswald did it alone, end of story.
I was 10 yrs. old, in the 4th grade when President Kennedy was assassinated. Our principal was crying when he made the announcement over the PA system what had happened, and we would be going home as soon as they could get the busses there. Every time I see those pictures it takes me back to that awful day.
One of the first times a channel shows respect in not showing the head shot. A human being is tragically killed there. Thank you.
I'm a Canadian who was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. I remember being 5 years old and coming upstairs from the basement and standing in the doorway. My aunt had just come home from her work as a nurse and she was talking to my mom in the kitchen, and I think they were both crying. I asked them what was wrong and they told me President Kennedy had just been assassinated. I didn't know what that meant and I don't think they tried to explain it to me either. How could a 5 year old understand that? Anyway, they told me to go watch TV or something along those lines. So there is my tale of recalling where I was and what I was doing on November 22, 1963. 🤔🤨
I wonder how many people remember where they were when they heard president Kennedy was assassinated?!! I was in the 4th grade and my class was out on the playground that day. My teacher cut our recess short, made us line up and went back into our classroom. Once we were back in our room, we were instructed then to put our head on our desk and be silent for the remainder of the day. Our teacher then told us about president Kennedy's assassination. I remember feeling very emotional and started to cry. I don't think that I was the only one crying, because I heard some other kids as well as my teacher crying.
Oh wow. Wonder how many others stories like that are out there.
I do and I will never forget it. I was 8.
I still remember that day . I was 7 years old and lived in Gelnhausen, a German town with an American garrison. My parents , our friends , neighbours, everybody were shocked, concerned and full of sadness .
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I am sure there's plenty. I've met so many that refuse to talk about it. Very sad.
I was in 2nd grade in Blessed Sacrament in Norfolk, VA, and immediately knew something had happened when the principal wheeled in a cart with a TV on it. We watched the news for the rest of the afternoon.
We all prayed.
I will never forget those next few days, until JFK's funeral and the rider less horse. John Jr.'s salute...😞
I remember. We went into a silent study session. We knew what had happened but it didn’t seem to be real.
It is amazing that the original car was still in use up to 1977, albeit with lots of upgrades. I somehow found that weird. Instead of spending a lot of money on the refurbishing getting a couple more would have made more sense.
LBJ ordered the limo immediately rebuild, good to see something from the car, the car should have been preserved intact IMO.
Yeah, would have been nice. I'm not sure that they were thinking about the lasting history in the moment though.
No he didn't. Immediately?
I offten have wondered why there was such a rush to clean it up and strip it out
LBJ was as crooked as the day is long. A racist alcoholic. He took us into Vietnam when Kennedy was against it.
@@johnbettano6026 I've read LBJ wanted it for use if he ran for election in the fall of '64. Which, he did. I was 12 years old when LBJ spoke at a campaign rally at the Omaha NE airport, and my dad took me to see him since it was a warm sunny fall day. As LBJ and this car slowly approached, my dad lifted me to stand on a car trunk and I have vivid memories of seeing LBJ inside with that light blue leather and the " glass " roof fascinated me. I remember my dad saying " if only JFK had that top on the car......."
I wasn't alive when this all happened, but I've always had a huge fascination with the JFK assassination. This is a really cool video. History is so important. I love your Antietam videos too, as I live in the area and try to educate not only young people, but all ages. We venture on Antietam creek under Burnside Bridge so often, it's almost forgotten. So much natural beauty, but such an ugly past. "History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." -Sydney J. Harris
This is a very moving video! Produced very well. Thank you, Erik and JD. I was only a little first grader when JFK was shot, but I remember the day of his funeral, my mom watching it on TV. That backwards boots in the stirrups of the saddle caught my eye. It was probably the death of our country as we knew it. Things have not been the same since. My parents talked about that over the years until they passed.
I was a small child in the first grade, yet I remember this day like it was yesterday. It was so surreal and nightmarish. It had a 9/11 feel across the world.
CIA Deep State ops are like that...
By the way, the shot of the interior of a limo at4:36 was a view of the follow up car that held VP Johson and Lady Bird. Same brand of the lead Lincoln, but a normal 4 door sedan with no jump seats. Yellow roses were given to Lady Bird and red roses to Jackie in the lead limo.
Harold, exactly correct and something never noted when that car is shown in photos. It was also a 1964 model on loan from a local dealer as they were brand new in fall, 1963. Thanks for your clarification.
I agree wrong car.. Pic 0:27 show wrong color?
@@normanplatt1239 That picture is at Fort Worth (it shows the Tarrant County Court in background) which was almost certainly taken the day before the assassination, 21st November.
Red roses for a blue lady, as the song goes.
Kennedy didn't want the ''bubble top ''on. They didn't anticipate a sniper. I was in the second grade and I remember the nun coming in crying telling us the president had been shot and we all stood and prayed for him. We went home early my mother came home early from work in tears, my grandmother was home crying. IT was so horrible. All I can remember was those drums slowly beating for days during the funeral. At the time my mother worked for Brooks Brothers where Kennedy would buy his clothes. He died wearing the Brooks button down blue stripped Oxford shirt with a charcoal plain weave pinhead suit with cuff bottom trousers and a Dior blue tie. Note; when President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 he was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat. I know so much because worked for this company for years.
Amazing how “they” didn’t allow proper forensic examination of both the car and his body. They needed to cleaned up to prevent revealing what actually happened
i knew there would be a nut out there
Who are “they”? The truth is there is no day. Forensic science than wasn’t like today either. People just wanted believe stuff as the truth is too straightforward or dull for them to accept. Same as moon landings, 911 etc.
Because it was friendly fire, that’s the answer
It was planned by the democrats so they could insert LBJ in as president because KFK was following DeWitt Enshower policy's of only sending advisor's into Vietnam and the democrats wanted a war to make millions on the black market.
lol Keep being distracted, ya loony.
Wow, JD! Your memorial video elicited strong emotions as I recalled that day and the weekend through the funeral on Monday. I was in 6th grade. 2 other famous men died on 11/22/1963 - not as dramatically, or tragically, but perhaps significantly - C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Thanks for another important piece of history!
Oh dang! Didn’t realize that.
JFKs driver was a local man who emigrated to the US. I often wonder how he felt in the years after this historic tragic event.
The drivers name was Bill Greer, he was the oldest member of the Secret Service at the time.
I'm from Boston Mass. Proper. I was a 12-year-old sitting in a 6th/7th grade class in one of the many Parochial Schools in the City. The shock on the Nun's face as another Nun whispered the news. She composed herself as an uncanny mood settled over the Class. "President Kennedy has been Shot." Hardly a word was said but the "Energy" within the room was felt in my bones as all just stared at the Teacher. It was so indescribable as many looked around and repeated in a whisper - "President Kennedy has been Shot." Various "Oh, my God." 'Sighs'. A few Girls began to 'Cry'. Utter Shock. I am sitting there Numb. Tragic.
One of my uncles was all of 19 years old and was in an armored unit stationed at the Fulda Gap, Germany when this happened. He and the members of his unit were convinced the Soviets were about to hit them. The shock of the event plus the rumors that were flying were, in his words, scary yet motivating. I have been to the book depository and the area from which Oswald is said to have shot Kennedy from did provide a great sniper’s nest. However, I have very hard time believing Oswald acted as the only shooter.
Many people still believe the Mafia did it.
The "Mob" did not murder JFK and then subsequently cover it up for decades by destroying Government records...
and the "Mob" did not select the Warren Commission either.
The Mob doesn't have control of the media narrative to spin the LIE for 60 years!
*The United States of Israel MURDERED JFK*
I was in the 1st grade in Ft Worth Texas. The principal called an assembly in the auditorium for the whole school grades 1 - 6. She told us about the president and we were sent home. I walked home to find my mother crying in front of the TV. Will never forget.
Was wondering if you would do a JFK piece today. I still remember where I was and what the afternoon & evening looked like around my household. School had been let out early because of the event and us kids, along with our mom were gathered around the TV, watching live news, when our dad came in from work. He had no idea what had happened earlier. He had served with the OSS during the war and was a very calm, rational man with little to no temper. When he saw & heard what happened, he threw down whatever he was carrying, stormed back outdoors exclaiming "My God, the bastards actually did it". He never shared what he meant with that statement. Looking back, that was my first red pill moment. Thanks JD.
You owe it to the president, the people, your dad , and yourself, to investigate this crime. Damn , that's proof enough for me.
I was almost 5 years old when this occurred. We were living at Mount Tamborine in Queensland, Australia. My late Dad was a member of the Australian Army and posted to the Land Warfare Centre at Canungra. I remember the Australian Army went on war footing. One of two occasions this being the first and the second was when our Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in the surf at Cheviot Beach, Victoria in 1967.
I recall my mother being very upset when President Kennedy was assassinated. We thought Dad was off to war. It was a sad time indeed.
The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy For the Devil" contains the lyrics "I shouted out who killed the Kennedy's" in it's finished version. The song went through a lot of development, originally it was an acoustic Bob Dylan like folk song with the lyrics "I shouted out who killed John Kennedy." As the song evolved, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, and the lyrics were updated.
I grew up in Salt Lake City and a couple of months before his tragic death he visited there. My mom, two sisters and I went to see him. His car pulled up across the street directly in front of me. I clearly remember his hair blowing in the breeze and his beautiful smile. Then we made a mad dash to the tabernacle to see him speak. The place where I sat had a direct unobstructed line of view to the podium and him. I will always treasure these memories.
I was three years old at the time of JFK's assassination. One of my earliest memmories was watching the television in my grandma's house and asked her, what she was watching. She told me it was the funeral for the President. He was shot in Dallas, TX.
Forward some 59 years later, a couple friends and I journeyed to the Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH last October. It took a day and a half to see everything (there are 19 acres floor space) , including THE Air Force One, which ferried JFK's body back to DC. I can't recomend this museum enough! Great video on this auspicious day.
I've seen the limousine at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. I never really gave thought about the blood. Pretty interesting that some of the upholstery ended up in private hands.
Yeah. Doesn't seem like something like that would happen today.
Not only that...but a Secret Service Agent kept a copy of the autopsy photos for himself!...Eventually, those copies made it into a couple of books concerning the murder. so much for "security" in those days!
JD. I now live in montana , born in the BRONX NY my dad was a big shot in construction in the late tos and ups he was in charge of 36 buildings in the world's fair in New York. From 64 to 65 give or take. He was in charge of the Texas pavilion to make a long story short he met Connally during the build Connally liked what he was doing ,asked my dad what can he do for him. My dad asked him to send 3 cowboy hats one for my dad one for me and my brother. Well. About a month after they met a box came to our house in long island NY. With 3 hats in it . I still have mine it don't fit anymore but I'll never get rid of it... I hope you read this THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA......
Wow!
The actual car is in the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. Very surreal to stand next to it.
Definitely want to visit that at some point.
In addition, the chair Lincoln was sitting in at Ford’s Theater when he was assassinated is there, too, and also the Rosa Parks bus.@@TheHistoryUnderground
Wow. Very interesting. Puts one at awe seeing the blood stained on the leather like that. A very important piece of American history for sure
Carrie Fisher's brother has a box exactly like this, with blood as well. Very cool!
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You are the only one today that I have seen that has posted anything about this. 59 years ago today. I was watching it on TV in black and white as it happened. Good job for posting and recognizing this sir!
Thanks. And yeah, seems like things have been pretty quiet for the anniversary.
Formal limousines, which the presidential car Kennedy was riding in basically was, typically had/have jump seats that fold into the partition behind the driver. You pointed those out as if they were unusual. They were standard.
Crazy. What doesn't the Gettysburg museum not have. A phenomenal and divers collection.
Ha! It's wild.
I guess the most famous “relic” from that infamous day is the 1961 Lincoln. After it was rebuilt, it was sent back to the White House motor pool. I believe it was returned in the spring of 1964. The Lincoln continued to be used until the mid 70’s, after which it was sent back to Ford. It was quite a few years before it went on permanent, public display at The Henry Ford. I recall the press leading up to the limousines unveiling. The museum has a nice display of presidential limousines, beginning with the Lincoln Ronald Regan used the day he was shot at the Washington Hilton. After that attempt, this Lincoln was returned to Ford to be rebuilt as well. Sheet metal and trim from a 1979 Lincoln Town Car were used to restore the car. That’s why this Lincoln appears much different from the day of the Regan shooting. Some people are confused by the dramatic difference in the look of the car since it was restored in the early 80’s, but looks like a 79 model. During the 80’s, Lincolns and Cadillacs were used by president Regan until the day of the Bush inauguration. On Inauguration Day, a new Town Car limousine was introduced for Bush’s use. I believe that is the last time a Lincoln was used by the President. One of the things I found interesting, is when you stand beside the Kennedy Lincoln, the passenger window is rolled down. You can count the sheets of glass in the bullet proof window. I believe there are 4 or 5 panes of glass which make it at least an inch thick. The many times I’ve seen this car, nobody speaks as they approach or view the limousine.
Fascinating and touching as always
Thank you!
Was 4 years old at a Sears and Roebuck with my mom. The store was empty except for the television section. Everybody in the store was there.Next thing I remember I was in our, a Ford Galaxie 500, trying to calm my mother down as she cried uncontrollably. The day Nov 22nd 1963. The country has never been the same since.
Oh man.
Wow
These swatches of the "blood stained" leather come up for sale once in awhile. Too soon? possibly, but in a museum it has a place I believe. I have a hair of JFK, cut the year he died. Thank for not showing the head shot - very respectful of you. It is out there if someone wishes to view it.
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I too noticed that he stopped the video at that point as well. This video was done very respectfully.
I was in the 2nd grade and I remember all the teachers crying. At lunchtime in the cafeteria you could hear a pin drop where on any other day, it was bedlam.
For some reason, this item freaks me out...As a casual student of the assassination, I know that the Secret Service, while the car was parked at Parkland Hospital, made a lame attempt to clean off the interior of the car, throwing a bucket of water into the interior...this was very bad behavior, as clearly the vehicle was a main piece of evidence, and should never have been touched up, without being examined very closely!...and this rep of Ford, keeping a stained section of the upholstery, seems to be a sort of creep!. I have never heard of this strange story, and have been reading about what happened to the car, where it was shipped to be refurbished, etc. This vehicle was actually used by LBJ, and then by Nixon....one would think that they would not be using the infamous Death Car--but they did!..I wonder if a DNA sample of that blood stain would reveal anything new, regarding the mediocre health of JFK.
These episodes have been both moving and entertaining. Planning a visit to the GMOH at this moment. I am not sure how to absorb it all.
Definitely a lot to see there.
Even though I wasn't around yet, hardly a day goes by I don't think of the events of Friday, November 22nd, 1963. Over the years, beginning at around age 13, I began studying and researching this tragic day in American history. Thank you for sharing this video.
Another fantastic video JD! Thanks for all of your hard work 🌞
Such interesting yet morbid curiosity. Every time I see the video footage of the assassination, I always think, if only the car didn't turn left on to Elm street. Within a minute of turning, history changed.
Finally I’ve stumbled across a rational explanation for what has been claimed to be a Mandela effect. Back in the day I read a lot of books about conspiracies, and viewed the Zapruder film pre-internet days. After all of that, I recall the vehicle as a four-person capacity limo. And was a little shocked 25 years after studying it, that the limo "is now" a six-seater! Did history change while our memory stayed the same? Not on this one.
It's the fold-down jump seats that put this to rest with a down-to-earth explanation. Sometimes the seats were up and in use, and there we have a six-seater limo. But other times, those seats were folded down -- completely out of sight. And there's the four-seater that we recall.
I recalled a four seater. It had a driver, with Governor Connelly seated next to the driver. And then the president and first lady behind them in a four-seat limo. It had been 25 years since I’d read the last book and viewed the Zapruder footage.
And I remember the photo of the limo at the hospital, with the bouquet of flowers in the bloodied interior. It looks like a four-seater. I’ve looked at several videos on RUclips about the “JFK Mandela Effect,” and honestly I was shaking my head and wondering if…. maybe there’s something to this one?
The hosts of the videos cited a museum somewhere that has a recreation of the limo, which is a four-seater. So many people’s memories, including mine, was that it was a four-seater, with no Mrs. Connelly, and no secret service agent to the right of the driver, just the governor. The Mandela theory is that our memories _are_ correct. The theory is that somehow history changed just enough to where something caused the vehicle to be six seats instead of four. Yet somehow hundreds of thousands, including me, still recall it being a four-seater.
And there _was/is_ a decent amount of pictures of a four-seater and existing recreations of a four-seater.
Am I a little bummed it didn't have a science fiction-like time travel/alternate timeline event? Well, yeah, a little - that’s pretty exciting stuff! But the middle seats were fold-down. Not nearly as exciting as alternate timelines and time travel, still, mystery solved. In my mind, anyway.
Anyway, thanks for a nicely and tastefully done video - interesting and educational. Thanks again, I’ve liked and subscribed.
If you haven’t heard of the Mandela effect or want to know more just search for it here on RUclips. There are hundreds of them. (For example, I sure don’t recall C-3PO from Star wars having one silver leg!)
That’s a amazing piece to have. It was a sad day in History. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Thank you for watching.
I was in the 1st grade. My Dad was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska in the Army. We lived on base, so I attended the elementary school on base there. My teacher was called out into the hall and stayed for a little bit and when she came back in was sobbing. She asked us if we knew who the President of the United States was, and we all said YES Ma'am. Well, she continued, someone has shot him, and he has gone to heaven. We all started crying.
I SO REMEMBER that.
I was in sixth grade when JFK was assassinated. What a terrible day for Americans .
I would be curious if the owner would allow a swab be taken of the blood to know for certain...
I doubt they would.
At 7.58 on the still picture, can anyone else see the shaded figure on the top right side? Why when everyone is running away does it look like the figure is walking slowly in a different direction?
I was 12 at the time and remember that day very well. What I can't get anyone to explain to this day was the head shot. Ok Oswald got off the first 2 shots then came the head shot. I've had plenty of experience with weapons and have visited the Dallas Book Depository and stood on the spot Kennedy was shot. My question is if Oswald did make the head shot why was Kennedys skull fragments and brain matter spattered all over the trunk lid? You can see Jackie climbing onto the trunk lid trying to gather the pieces up. If Oswald's shot came from behind wouldn't Kennedys brain matter be scattered over the front of the limo and onto the dash? It just doesn't make sense. I still say the head shot came from a forward position.
Nothing does. More than shooter, and Oswald was NOT.one of them, he was just as he stated. A PATSY!
You ve just proved ,how gullible many people can be. Most of us realize the truth now , but what can we do?
I would love to see you do an interview with Clint Hill.
I was born in April of "62" and I remember my show, lunch with Casey, being interrupted. My Mom was upset and crying when they announced what happened. I didn't completely understand at the time what was going on, I just knew it was something bad. It felt like the world got a whole lot scarier after that.
Been a Kennedy fan since 1988. I hope one day to visit the JFK Presidential Library and Arlington National Cemetery. When I was in college, I took a journalism class and wrote a story about the assassination.
Got a few other videos on this channel where we visit the grave.
I worked at Hess and my friends dad was head of engineering, my friend came home from school one day and noticed the garage door was partially open, a car that was to long was inside. It was the Kennedy car. They kept it there to hide from the media. Before transporting it to the factory. .l worked on the Reagan presidential car while I was there. Great job.
Wow!
Curios? The upholstery cited at the opening of that wooden case, which was stated as the upholstery that was in the limousine in Dallas -- AND had Kennedy's blood on it was two tone -- further backed up by photos (and what appeared to be both Kennedy (in Dallas) and LBJ (in front of the Portico of the Whitehouse -- in Washington D.C. As well, the 'seaming' on that seat had the sides, upper (and presumably the bottom -- of the seatback) in the darkest leather (the right-side swatch as presented by you in the case) and was NOT segmented -- in the slightest. The lighter color leather (as was represented by the encasement -- and on the lower left-hand side, an insert -- if you will, was segmented in a square pattern. At 4:37 in your video,, in the famous picture of the back seat of the limo (the one that Kennedy's wife climbed in order to retrieve (as some would say), a part of John Kennedy's head, and was subsequently climbed over that trunk by SS Agent: Clint Hill) at Parkland Memorial Hospitals' Emergency Room entrance -- the one with the bouquet of flowers (scattered) that Mrs. Kennedy appeared to have held or was 'stashed', CLEARLY shows that there was only one tone (Dark Blue or Black) (meaning that the light blue upholstery is now BROUGHT INTO QUESTION -- and that that seat had upholstery seams that ran vertically the full height of the seatback. As they say... 'Sumpin' ain't right...' Also, the car WAS painted either dark blue or black -- NOT the light blue or light metal color that existed all around the door handle in the picture at 4:37 -- in the video submission. So, that makes me wonder if this car was a duplicate -- or is this: 'Barbara Streisand'? Methinks that someone is 'yankin' yer chain'?
The Auto Museum in Roscoe IL has the same exact leather sample with JFK's bloodstain... They also have the Secret service car that was following ditrectly behind JFKs limo, they also have JFK's coffin flag, and they also have the ambulance that took Oswald to the Hospital. The museum is the Historic Auto Attractions, Roscoe, Illinois.
A somber reminder of a tragic event in our history.
Wow this museum just keeps giving. What a great place
I saw the limo in the Ford museum in Michigan many years ago. Was sobering to see it.
Any marksman, worth his weight, knows either Oswald didn’t do this alone or didn’t do it at all.
I watched The President's funeral on TV with my mother; I remember vividly the riderless horse with the boots in the stirrups backwards.
Sad.
For a great book on this tragic event look for: "Who really killed JFK, The case against LBJ " by Clint Hill. ( Hill was secret service agent for Jackie Kennedy)
Never heard about this book...is it new? I know that Mr. Hill, who is very elderly now, married a nice-looking woman who had helped him write his first book...She is like 40 years younger than Mr. Hill...I feel she married him in order to write more books about his situation with the Kennedy clan. Nice work, if you can get it! Mr. Hill gave a very recent interview, and he was using an oxygen device...I think his life is near the end.
I need to go out to Erik Dorr and see his museum.
I was 3 years old. My grandpa was watching tv when they interrupted the program with the report. I remember seeing it over and over again. Remember that day like it was yesterday.
I was 3 also, but I don’t remember anything about that day.
Rest in peace Mr President. Maybe one day the real truth will finally be told
It has been told...do better research.
@@curbozerboomer1773 right
The limo should have been taken out of service immediately without alterations. The car would be a priceless attraction for any museum.
The Lincoln Continental stretch limousine also had a very powerful engine and retractable running boards for Secret Service agents---which were not used because they could have been lethal to spectators if they got too close to the car. There is a color photograph taken in bright light of the back seat where President Kennedy's body had lain and it is truly horrific. I'm sure it was taken by the Secret Service before the limo was torn apart and searched.
Thank you Eric for bringing this to us..we did have 3 people bleeding though so the "blood" part (lacking DNA) would be conjecture..LBJ approved work on the car on December 12th..20 days after JFK was killed in it...rushed to chop up that car..plenty of time for a complete forensic analysis??right?? THAT tells you all you need to know
Nobody chopped up the car. Stop lying.
@@johncooper7663 approved by the whitehouse on december 12...FIRST thing taken out???seats..do you get paid to troll ??
@@PeterOkeefe54 you don't know much about this topic. The limo was thoroughly examined before it was refurbished.
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@@PeterOkeefe54 no thanks. It's well presented garbage. You were gullible enough to fall for it and get in a undenfendable position based on speculation and lies.
My position and arguments are based on the testimony of the people that were there or involved. And the forensics.
What's your endgame? Who do you have shooting and where from?
“Executive Action”. - Burt Lancaster, 1973. A Must Watch!
I’m like most of the commenters here, I was 9 years old in the 4th grade classroom. Remember the teacher coming in to tell us kids. Remember much of the discussions and the following several days of TV coverage , the funeral, Oswald, Ruby.
I’m 70 now. And occasionally watch and reread the details and videos.
Love seeing things about JFK
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JD - Just a note that there are several places around the country that have obtained small sections of the blood stained upholstery of the Kennedy Lincoln. The most impressive display of Kennedy artifacts can be found in Northern Illinois at the Historic Auto Attractions museum. I know the owner personally and he would love to give you a private tour of the facility. In fact, he just obtained an exact replica of the Kennedy limo as it existed on November 22, 1963. The car has quite a history of it’s own. Of course, the actual car is at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Let me know if your interested. I would be honored to set it up.
What a sad day for America. I was about 10 yrs old and remember it well. The first president in my life that I really remember.
They did t “rip” the seats out. They are removable just like todays seats. They “replaced@ them and carpet, etc.
9:16 These are known as “jump seats”. The backwards opening doors at the rear compartment are called “suicide doors”. The Secret Service Cadillac following Kennedy’s car wound up in private hands in Ohio. My dad’s job was to host VIPs when they came to his college. He would rent that car to pick up the dignitaries from the airport. One of the guys he picked up was a not-well-known Congressman named Jerry Ford. Years later, President Ford refused to ride in the Kennedy car, though the govt still had it. I wonder if he knew he was riding in the chase car??
If you have not yet JD, check out The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. highly recommended experience to learn about the case and JFK. They have some very cool artifacts.
On my list.
Fascinating!!! Thank You.
That limousine was built brand new without a tiny spec of armor protection in it of any kind whatsoever. My father was a hand picked top Ford executive over the entire executive leasing car program for all of Ford’s space and military top secret government technology research division Aeronutronic Systems Incorporated’s executives headquartered where he operated from in Newport Beach, California, and with operations as large situation in major cities in key locations across the world which he was equally head of the executive lease car program for in each of those facilities. When I was around eight years of age months before the assassination he told me about Von Ferguson. He didn’t know him personally, but he told me what Ferguson’s unique responsibilities were as regards that specific ‘61 Lincoln Continental.
I was younger than I was now I remember that my mother crying so much for the j f k 😢❤❤❤❤is so sad god bless them all
I was 12 years old when Kennedy was assassinated. I was young but I could feel the trauma to the entire nation inflicted by that event. John Kennedy was certainly a flawed individual but his election symbolized a sense of transition to a new and optimistic future. Much of that sense died with him as his successor seems rooted in old politics and was soon overcome by the division’s created by the Vietnam War. The truth was that Lyndon Johnson probably had a more progressive agenda regarding civil rights, structural poverty and education than Kennedy.
I have to admit I’m ambivalent about this sort of artifact. I guess it makes history more tangible but it’s a little macabre thinking about the guy who decides to section the bloody seat into convenient sellable squares thinking hey this will be worth a whack of money.
LBJ was a rather cold-blooded fellow. And anyone who knows the history of his association with, and selection as JFK's running mate, knows there was no affection between them. In fact they disliked each other, intensely on Johnson's side. Kennedy treated Johnson with disdain, and shut him out of most important councils.
It was just a calculated political jointer, intended to pick up southern states, and have Johnson work his political expertise with the Senate.
Johnson certainly didn't suffer any emotional pangs sitting on the seat where his political antagonist had bit the dust. Probably rather satisfying as a matter of fact.
I was at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village shortly after the JFK Limo was put on display in 1977/78. I was on a grade school field trip and it was the middle of the week and there wasn't a big group of people attending that day because it was not the "Tourist Season" time of year as School was still going on and people usually didn't visit these places until summer vacation time or weekends so we had our run of the place and back then security was very lax as it was the late 70s. I was able to walk up to the JFK Limo and opened the passenger side rear door (It was a suicide type door with the hinge at the rear of the door) and sat in the car where JFK was sitting when he was shot. I was with several class mates and one of them went and told the teacher I was in the car and by the time my teacher got there I was out and behind the barrier that surrounded the Limo. I was questioned and scolded but was able to go on to another great mischievous stunt as we went to see the Logan County Courthouse where Abe Lincoln practiced law before becoming President which had been shipped to Greenfield Village and set up as a Lincohn collection by Henry Ford and the Famous "Ford Theatre Rocking Chair" in which Lincoln was shot in by Booth was on display there (it is now still on site but in another area of the Museum and protected by Plexi Glass on all sides) and I didn't take the dare to sit in it but I did cross the barrier and ran my hand across the top which was discolored from the blood stains and I was told to get behind the barrier and behave or I would have to spend the remaining time of the trip sitting on the Bus waiting for our hour trip back to Flint. I was lucky to experience those 2 amazing artifacts up close and personal and there is hundreds of other super cool displays in that museum which I highly recommend you to take a few days and experience everything they have to show. There is a locomotive that is the largest ever built that you can climb into and it's breath taking. Take time to add that to your bucket list as it's a very historical place to visit that you won't be disappointed in. I was lucky enough to be a little kid and get away with something that I'm sure you would be arrested for in this day and age but I can say I touched the items that were connected to 2 of our Greatest Presidents that were Assassinated while sitting in both of those items. It is very rare to come across a collection of such historical important articles but the late Great Henry Ford collected and displayed so much American history and saved it for future generations to see.
Remembering seeing Oswald getting shot on November 24, 1963. Seeing the jail in 1998 ,Parkland Hospital 1998,Tippet shooting 1998 Movie House 1998. Further Baylor University. Quiet a lot to see regarding JFK assassination as well as the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza , Peter Russo
II Remember this, I was 14teen years old when the anounce this on the school speaker , ..that Thanksgiving was the most saddest Thanksgiving as I watch the Funeral procession...
Watch the video about the Assassination of JFK and the 9-11 event produced by John Connally's son. The video explains what actually transpired that day. The assassination was orchestrated by 15 plus politicians and wealthy individuals. They met the night before and planned the entire assassination. It explains in detail how there were 7 assassins who were paid to kill JFK. The six planted all around the corner, but the kill shot came from the sewer about 50 feet in front of the car. That's why his head went backwards when hit. It is an eye opening video and explains everything. 🇺🇲🙏🇺🇲🙏🇺🇲
I was 5 years old and I remember that day very well
Having armor plating on an open top car seems a bit short sighted.
I will never forget this day for as long as I live, I remember the hurt we all felt as the news broke that JFK had died, living in South Florida when JFK flew into Palm Beach we would see him drive by our home and he would always wave to my Brother & I, to me he was a hero.
Hi JD and Erik. Got a question, at 4:39 is that the same car that JFK was shot in? The seat arrangement looks different, it looks more like a standard Lincoln. Years from now Americans will look back at the current administration and say "it was some of the most tragic and dark days in American History." Thanks for your hard work and posting another piece of American History.
That was the interior of Johnson’s limo. I was showing random pics from the day and should have made a note of it. I’ll make a note in the description.
I can remember this. I was 3 yrs old and my grandmother cried. Yes: I loved jackie❤❤
My Man always having something very interesting an Historical ❤️
You should see the Lincoln Kennedy was in. It's at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn.
On my list.
@@TheHistoryUnderground well you're in the area I would also check out the Dawson Great Lakes museum on Belle Isle Detroit.
What a great piece of history , but also great only because of that awful day.. and i am still really undecided about what really happened that day .
I was 4 yrs old when this happened I remember my mother screaming and crying in front of the TV when the news interupted
I was 5. Never heard of it. My parents kept me and my brother and sister shielded from it. I was still in kindergarten.
I knew they tried to clean the seat while the car was in Parklands parking lot, I didn't know they didn't succeed....
Pretty interesting story.
It was such a lame attempt...but remember, the Secret Service was in deep shock! They had utterly failed to protect the President, and were very upset, nervous, and anxious to get the hell out of Dallas.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Yeah, I agree. There was probably a healthy dose of trying to ward off any resemblance of disrespect mixed into that atmosphere as well. They had to get back to the airport at some point, and what if Mrs. Kennedy wanted to ride in the limo again? no matter how small a chance, she can't be sitting in her husbands pool of blood. You're right about everyone being in shock, and in those situations many things you do on the spur of the moment may not later make much sense.
What about the testimony of the Foreman from Ford motors ! who said who said he changed the windshield with the bullet hole in the front of it coming through it 100% fact
I was almost one year old when JFK was killed. I had a little rubber baby doll named John John. Today, I saw one of his convertible automobiles that was a beautiful blue color in Arkansas at the museum on Peite Jean Mountain. That was a sad day and it's still sad.