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Pictured above is the limousine in which President John F Kennedy was fatally shot during a presidential visit to Dallas, Texas.
Unusually, the car was kept in service for several years after President Kennedy’s death, but even more unusually, once it was retired to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, visitors reported all kinds of spooky happenings.
Many report the feeling of a supernatural presence around the car, and there have been many rumours about a man in grey standing around the vehicle.
Sceptics have labelled the grey man as a simple shadow or trick of the light – but the sightings of him increase around November. Kennedy was shot on November 22nd.
Is this a coincidence, or is the President’s soul attached to his limousine – by choice or otherwise?
.... (This June 1961 photo provided by the Ford Motor Co. shows President. John F. Kennedy's Lincoln Continental limousine.(Uncredited / AP)
On Nov. 22, Dallas will again be remembered as the place where John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963. Our images of him that day are forever locked with his limousine: A modified 1961 Lincoln Continental four-door convertible.
Its low-slung, angular lines and rear-hinged “suicide” doors were a bold design that personified Kennedy’s fresh appeal. The press later dubbed the vehicle the “death car.”
The Lincoln was leased, but received six-figure upgrades from the White House.
The car was fashioned from a stock 1961 Lincoln Continental four-door convertible — retail price $7,347 — that had rolled off the assembly line at parent company Ford’s plant in Wixom, Mich.
The White House leased it from Ford for a token $500 a year and sent it off for $200,000 in modifications by elite custom coachbuilder Hess and Eisenhardt in Cincinnati, Ohio. (The firm’s other high-profile clients included the Queen of England.) In the process, the car gained Secret Service codenames — SS-100-X and X-100 — and the grille of a 1962 model, so it appeared right up-to-date.
Ref: President Kennedy’s Lincoln Limousine
