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The Presidential Limousine
Was Crucial Crime Scene
Evidence

If you’ve ever seen an actual police crime scene—or even watched television in the past twenty years—then you know that preservation of the crime scene is 101 at its most basic level. Everybody knows that.

Make no mistake about it: the open Lincoln limousine was the crime scene of the assassination of the President of the United States.

So let’s take a little look at how they preserved that crucial crime scene. Did they wrap police tape around it so that everybody saw “Police Crime Scene Do Not Enter” and nobody touched the thing? Did they make any serious effort to maintain the integrity of that crime scene?

Nope. They didn’t do any of those things that they clearly should have.

What did they do? Get a load of this:

JFK’s limo was quickly shipped off to Detroit for a rapid make-over.

That’s right. President Johnson & Co. had the crime scene immediately shipped away. Isn’t that great? Does that tell you anything about the authenticity of the government’s actual efforts to determine who killed our President? Maybe I should add or the lack thereof.

Believe it or not, that’s what they actually did. What dummy doesn’t know that a crime scene is not to be turned over or touched until the forensic team and detectives have gone over it? Here you have the very murder site as the car. How is it that wasn’t even looked at? And no one questioned that and said, “Excuse me, we need to preserve that evidence”? That’s Homicide 101. Again, how many standard procedures get violated, and it goes back to what Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty said: “When you look for a conspiracy, look for the violation of Standard Operating Procedures.” Well, there’s a real beauty for ya.

President Kennedy’s assassination was on a Friday afternoon in Texas. By Monday morning before work hours—and probably much earlier—the President’s limousine was already in Detroit sitting at the Ford plant and was already in the process of being destroyed and refurbished. In other words, the evidence was gone.

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 25, 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.³²⁰

So when it came to preserving the most obvious evidence in the whole case, it was Goodbye and Goodnight. And that was damn well intentional.

³²⁰ Douglas P. Horne, referencing Doug Weldon, “Photographic Evidence of Bullet Hole in JFK Limousine Windshield ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’,” June 4, 2012: lewrockwell.com/orig13/horne-d2.1.1.html