Re: On this day in history
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Hi Guys,
On this day 22nd of November 1963 President John F Kennedy is assassinated.
JFKs Ford Lincoln Continental was leased from the Ford Motor Company for $500 dollars a year.
His car as not bullet proof and the clear plastic bubble roof they had for the car on rainy days was also not bullet proof.
Go forward to when Lyndon b Johnson came to Australia in 1966 using the same car that JFK had used.
It was now bulletproof and had a bulletproof roof and repainted . There were Vietnam War protests on and there was bags of red and green paint thrown at the Presidential limousine.
They couldnt remove the paint so the Presidential Limousine was taken to the Broadmeadows Ford factory and repainted.
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