Episode 205 The Secret Service Question Part 16 The Limousine Part 3

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Johnson, Murder, Dallas, Documentary, History, Government, Cia, Kennedy, Oswald, Ruby, Assassination, Mafia, Fbi, Coup D'etat, Society & Culture, President, Jfk

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Episode 205 is the sixteenth in a series covering the Secret Service and possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode is part 3 of a multi part mini-series covering the presidential limousine. In today's episode, we read verbatim the three key memos that, along with the White House garage logs, represent the key written documents to explore regarding the limousine's chain of custody in the aftermath o...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK and The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. I'll be able to be. The President Sometimes you have to back up the tape right from the very beginning.
0:49.0	So let's start by giving a little bit of the background on the limousine itself.
0:55.5	If you can believe it,
1:01.6	work actually began on the presidential limousine the day before Kennedy's inauguration.
1:08.6	It was a new kind of car. Up to that point, Kennedy was using a hand-me-down, a limousine that had been previously used by both Truman and Eisenhower.
1:12.9	The old car was a 10-year-old car that was built in 1950.
1:18.9	Well, we were ushering in the 1960s, and this new version of a presidential limousine
1:24.7	was to be built upon none other than the slick-looking 1961
1:29.3	Lincoln Continental convertible. I remember that car vividly as friends of my parents had two of them,
1:37.8	his and hers, actually. They lived rather modestly, except for those two cars. In order to carry three rows of passenger seats, that car body was to be stretched.
1:50.4	It took four years to plan it, and it was the culmination of discussions between the Secret Service, the Ford Motor Company, and Hess and Eisenhardt.
2:00.8	At the time, Hess was one of the oldest and most well-respected custom car body producers
2:05.8	in the United States.
2:08.5	And as we rambled into the age of technology, this car had lots of it.
2:14.7	There were various roof combinations.
2:16.8	There was a hydraulically controlled rear seat,
2:19.9	a seat that could go up or down some 10 inches. It had a rail inside of the car, one that the
2:25.6	president could hold on to so that he could stand up and wave to the crowd while he was inside
2:31.0	the car during the course of a parade.
2:42.9	And for the driver, well, the driver had a special throttle that would allow the limousine to maintain what was defined as parade speed,
2:50.8	generally a speed of 10 to 12 miles an hour, what the Secret Service would define as a speed that was fast enough "'to reduce the risk of someone shooting accurately at the President,
2:55.0	"'or approaching the vehicle and yet not so fast that Secret Servicemen couldn't jog beside it
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