Bullet hole in windshield on JFK's Limo

[Mitch Todd]

Rob I found this particularly interesting Thanks

Henry Wade and Chief Curry give the following advice: "Do not release the body until the missile is taken into custody."  This comment has given researchers much dilemma over the years, as they are not sure what "missile" they could be talking about as the CE-399 bullet is NOT found until 1:45 p.m. How did Wade and Curry know a bullet would be found?

Have you considered that they were thinking about a bullet that they at the time assumed was still in JFK's body?

[Mitch Todd]

Get the limo back in service??? Tight budget? HA!

They *did* get the limo back in service. It was sent back to Hess and Eisenhardt around Christmas '63 to be refurbished and considerably up-armored.

[Doug Easterly]

Could the hole or crack emanated from a rock or stone thrown up by the motorcycle escort in front of the limo on Stemmons and to the hospital. I read somewhere where one of the front escort patrolmen said they traversed some gravel around a RR crossing and he thought he might wipe out as he was going really fast for it.

[Mike Orr]

Of course these witnesses will said to have been mistaken about the hole in the windshield as well as the Parkland staff being wrong about the back of JFK's head being blown out . But , someone like Humes & Ford will be given the Green light to move wounds on JFK to try to match their Lone (LHO) Nut Theory and of course , the CE-399 debacle . The Drs. at Parkland were made to look like they couldn't tell an entry wound from an exit wound .  Who told Humes and Ford they could do what they did ?

[Jake Maxwell]

Mr. George Whitaker, Sr., a senior manager at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan, told attorney (and professor of criminal justice) Doug Weldon in August of 1993, in a tape recorded conversation, that after reporting to work on Monday, November 25th , he discovered the JFK limousine -- a unique, one of a kind item that he unequivocally identified -- in the Rouge Plant's B building, with the interior stripped out and in the process of being replaced, and with the windshield removed. He was then contacted by one of the Vice Presidents of the division for which he worked, and directed to report to the glass plant lab, immediately , After knocking on the locked door(which he found most unusual), he was let in by two of his subordinates and discovered that they were in possession of the windshield that had been removed from the JFK limousine. They had been told to use it as a template, and to make a new windshield identical to it in shape -- and to then get the new windshield back to the B building for installation in the Presidential limousine that was quickly being rebuilt. Whitaker told Weldon ( quoting from the audiotape of the 1993 interview): "And the windshield had a bullet hole in it, coming from the outside through...it was a good , clean bullet hole, right straight through, from the front. And you can tell, when the bullet hits the windshield, like when you hit a rock or something, what happens> The back chips out and the front may just have a pinhole in it...this had a clean round hole in the front and fragmentation coming out the back." Whitaker told Weldon that he eventually became superintendent of his division and was placed in charge of five plant divisions. He also told Weldon that the original windshield, with the bullet hole in it, had been broken up and scrapped---as ordered ---after the new windshield had been made. After George Whitakers death in 2001, his family released his written testament to Nigel Turner, who with their permission revealed Mr. Whitaker's name , as well as the text of his "memo for history," in episode 7 of " The Men Who Killed Kennedy ", " The Smoking Guns "

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/06/douglas-p-horne-/photographic-evidence-of-bullet-hole-in-jfk-limousine

This testimony... along with the "hurry it up" replace and repair of Kennedy's limo... which in any other investigation would be considered tampering of evidence... seems to confirm a conspiracy from among the highest officials of government...

[Royell Storing]

Could the hole or crack emanated from a rock or stone thrown up by the motorcycle escort in front of the limo on Stemmons and to the hospital. I read somewhere where one of the front escort patrolmen said they traversed some gravel around a RR crossing and he thought he might wipe out as he was going really fast for it.

       I thought the Altgens photo of the JFK Limo approaching the Triple Underpass displayed damage to the windshield being present at that time?

[Matt Grantham]

       I thought the Altgens photo of the JFK Limo approaching the Triple Underpass displayed damage to the windshield being present at that time?

Apparently Doug is not up on that

[Jake Maxwell]

They did preserve it. It was replaced on the 26th and now sits in the National Archives.

How does someone gain access to the National Archives to examine the windshield?
When was it last examined? I think examination of the windshield would clear up a lot of the discussion. There is testimony that there was an actual hole, and that the shattered glass was on the inside, suggesting a bullet from the outside, indicating a shooter from the front...