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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn th eMilitary channel...Kennedy's Secret Service Detail talking . Very interesting
How horrible to live through that.
I can't imagine what a nightmare that was for them.
I wonder where the car is now?
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regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)I wonder where the car is now?
...it's on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)the car was in service a few years after that.
I would not have wanted to use that car.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)That's just spooky.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)Let me find what I read...
Following the assassination of President Kennedy, the 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible became the most famous car in the world. In the weeks after the assassination the car was impounded for evidence. Over the years the car was modified several times, including re-armouring of the rear passenger compartment. It remained in use as a presidential parade car until the mid seventies. It was used occasionally by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter. It was permanently retired in 1977 and is now on public display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_happened_to_car_Kennedy_was_assassinated_in#ixzz20kTGGTwG
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Wow. I had no idea..........
But isn't it common now for the incoming President or his staff to pick a Lincoln, Cadillac or Chrysler to use as a limo thru-out their time in office? And when they leave office, doesn't the Presidet/former President and his Secret Service detail take his limo with him?
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)makes me tear up as well
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I would like to ask them why they stood down. And why LBJ had almost ALL the SS guys in his car. But I guess that's in a 9/11 category. 
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)that he was not going to make it through, they had to protect the "next" president
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)was fatal
they saw the brain matter and knew what it was even tho they had never seen anything like it before. I can not imagine having to live with that kind of visual for the rest of my life.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)And what do you mean "how horrible to live through that?" It seems to me that the horror would be in not living through it - there is no horror in surviving, the horror is in being killed.
No, it was no nightmare for the Secrete Service, a horrible case of failure, but not a nightmare. And it was not horrible to live through it, it was an embarrassment to have let it happen and for the world to see the gross ineptitude that allowed it to happen.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and I don't know about you, but that vivid moment would be a nightmare for me to picture daily
god you are insipid
