Bullet hole in windshield on JFK's Limo

[Patrick Jackson]

Check this 1961 Lincoln Continental bullet hole.

Same should be visible on JFK limo but it is not, right?

[Royell Storing]

Check this 1961 Lincoln Continental bullet hole.

Same should be visible on JFK limo but it is not, right?

        And how do we Know with that is a "Bullet" hole ?? A Tent Pole would fit into that gaping hole.

[Mitch Todd]

     Just curious, but if we are seeing the windshield as it sits INSIDE the wooden crate, Exactly what are we seeing through the windshield/underneath the windshield? It is difficult to differentiate between where the crack(s) stretching out from the epicenter end and whatever that is beneath the windshield begins. This is why NARA is known for storing and sometimes misplacing items such as the Ark Of The Covenant.

It looks like they put sheets of white museum board behind the windshield in that photo. I suspect that was done to make the damage stand out in the photo.

[Patrick Jackson]

        And how do we Know with that is a "Bullet" hole ?? A Tent Pole would fit into that gaping hole.

Person selling this Lincoln says it is a bullet hole. It does not prove anything of course. This must be very old hole where the glass chips fell off over the long period the time widening the hole to almost the whole inch.
In any case, seem that before we prove if there was a hole or not, we must connect all the photos and prove it is the same windshield.

[Mitch Todd]

Check this 1961 Lincoln Continental bullet hole.

Same should be visible on JFK limo but it is not, right?

Are you sure its a bullet hole? at doesn't look like a bullet hole. A bullet hole in auto safety glass looks like one of these:

[Patrick Jackson]

It looks like they put sheets of white museum board behind the windshield in that photo. I suspect that was done to make the damage stand out in the photo.

True. Photographer needed white background so placed sheets of white paper or similar behind the glass or it is the part of original wraping. If there was no white paper behind, background would be wood making the cracks invisible. Apart from narrow impact area crack all other occured when the windshield was removed from the body frame.

[Patrick Jackson]

Are you sure its a bullet hole? at doesn't look like a bullet hole. A bullet hole in auto safety glass looks like one of these:

I cannot be sure, can only believe what the seller says:
https://www.classiccarsseller.com/2015/05/03/1961-lincoln-continental-blackred/

Check other photos where you can see white circle around the hole, same as your photo. The photo I have published was made where there was no Sun so it is not visible.

You can find many photos of gun holes in three layer windshield and almost none of them coresponds to what we see on JFK making me to strongly conclude there is no hole in it.

[Jerry Freeman]

Back to the window in question....

JFK Secret Service Agent Joe Paolella, who passed away in 2017, admits that he saw a bullet hole in the windshield of President Kennedy?s bloody limousine the night of the assassination AND that Gerald Blaine omitted this from his book The Kennedy Detail

Medical observer at Parkland.....