That's what George Whitaker, Sr. said.
SIX witnesses said there was a hole.
Not sure Whitaker stated there were two windshields.
"(4) 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.
When Doug Weldon interviewed Whitaker in August of 1993, his witness insisted on anonymity. Weldon reported on the story without releasing Whitaker?s name in his excellent and comprehensive article titled: ?The Kennedy Limousine: Dallas 1963,? which was published in Jim Fetzer?s anthology Murder in Dealey Plaza, in 2000. After Weldon interviewed Whitaker in August of 1993, Mr. Whitaker subsequently ? on November 22, 1993 (the 30th anniversary of President Kennedy?s assassination) ? wrote down all he could remember about the events he witnessed involving the Presidential limousine and its windshield. After George Whitaker?s 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.?
In ?The Smoking Guns,? the text of Whitaker?s memo can be read on the screen employing freeze frame technology with the DVD of the episode. It said, in part: ?When
arrived at the lab the door was locked. I was let in. There were 2 glass engineers there. They had a car windshield that had a bullet hole in it. The hole was about 4 or 6 inches to the right of the rear view mirror [as viewed from the front]. The impact had come from the front of the windshield. (If you have spent 40 years in the glass [illegible] you know which way the impack [sic] was from.?
He saw the limo with the windshield removed but he did not stated seeing one in Rouge Plant?s B building. First time he saw windshield was at the Glass Lab. What is interesting here is that he was requested to make new windshield using JFK limo windshield template. Were the windshields produced in this Ford company and is the new windshield different, bullet proof maybe? Why would he use old windshield as a template while there were templates and tools for ongoing production?
