JFK LIMO REMADE FOR NEW MOVIE

JFK LIMO REMADE FOR 

"PARKLAND"

According to a story in yesterday's USA TODAY, the new movie "Parkland"* will feature a recreation of the car in which President John F. Kennedy was riding when he was shot in Dallas, Texas 50 years ago this November.

*Parkland refers to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas where JFK and Governor John B. Connally were taken for medical care after being shot during their motorcade through the city.

The film is produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman for Playtone Productions.  It will focus on events leading up to the assassination as well as the people who were immediately impacted by the event.

Bryan Alexander quotes director Peter Landesman as saying...

"There's a whole movie to be made of us getting the Presidential limousine."

The original JFK car, dubbed SS100X by the United States Secret Service, is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

If it had been available for use in the movie, the limo would not even come close to its original appearance.

President Lyndon B. Johnson had the vehicle complete redone after the assassination.  

The car was converted into a completely closed, bullet-proof limousine and the exterior color was changed from "Kennedy Blue" to the standard black.

                  SS100X
     Henry Ford Museum
      Dearborn, Michigan
     Photo by Alvintrusty

Bryan Alexander writes that Landesman was looking "for as much authenticity as possible" in making this movie. 

Landesman shot scenes in Dealey Plaza and scenes in a hospital in Austin (no longer in operation) "which was a dead-ringer for Parkland Hospital."

But, according to Mr. Landesman, as far as the Presidential limousine...

"We had that made from scratch.  It was a kind of Lincoln that was never made before or since."

The director, Alexander tells us, "admits the car is not ready for close scrutiny,"  but, nonetheless, "it did just fine."

"Parkland" is scheduled to be featured at the TORONTO and VENICE international film festivals.

SOURCES

"JFK's Lincoln Continental Limo remade for movie," by Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, July 29, 2013, www.usatoday.com/

"Peter Landesman to Direct JFK Drama for Tom Hanks, Playtone," by Lucas Shaw, The Wrap, www.thewrap.com/

SPECIAL AGENT BOB FRAZIER EXAMINED JFK'S LIMO

July 9, 2013

SPECIAL AGENT BOB FRAZIER EXAMINED JFK'S LIMO

Knoxville, Tennessee (JFKASSASSINATION) Today we continue our look at "Enemy of the Truth:  Myths, Forensics, & the Kennedy Assassination" by Sherry P. Fiester.

                     www.sherryfiester.com

The book, published by JFK Lancer Productions & Publications, Inc. of Southlake, Texas,  includes a Foreward by Jim Marrs, & is available at www.amazon.com & www.jfklancer.com.

Today we continue our look at Sherry Fiester's final chapter in "Enemy of the Truth" titled THE WITNESSES and discuss Robert Frazier's* role in the crime scene investigation.

*Special Agent Robert Frazier conducted a search of JFK's limo, SS100X^, in the White House garage shortly after the assassination.  He testified in the 1969 Clay Shaw trial.

^SS100X is a 1961 Lincoln modified by Hess and Eisenhardt of Cincinnati, Ohio at a cost of $200,000.  It was originally painted midnight blue and included several different tops as well as an hydraulically-lifted rear sea.

                            SS100X
                Henry Ford Museum
                 Dearborn, Michigan
          Photo by Alvintrusty (2012)

Sherry tells us that Frazier's testimony gives insight into the blood volume.  Sherry quotes SA Robert Frazier as follows...

"We found blood and tissue all over the outside areas of the vehicle from the hood ornament, over the complete area of the hood, on the outside of the windshield, also on the inside surface of the windshield, and all over the entire exterior portion of the car...."

Sherry goes on to say that in his testimony, Mr. Frazier also said there were "considerable quantities...on the trunk lid area."

She wanted to know what Mr. Frazier meant by "considerable quantities," so she talked with him by telephone in January 2002 and asked...

"Was more blood found on the hood as opposed to the blood found on the trunk?"

Robert Frazier answered...

"You mean 8000 stains versus 10,000 stains?"

Sherry is certain that Mr. Frazier was angered by her question.

After a moment of silence, Frazier continued....

"The headshot came from the rear.  If there was more blood on the rear of the limo, it  was because it flowed out of his head as they drove down the road."

Sherry says she did not wish to belabor the point with Mr. Frazier but added...

"We both knew the President's head was in Jackie's lap on the drive to Parkland and his explanation was impossible."

JFKASSASSINATION NOTE

Our next posting will be on the last witness covered in Sherry's book and therefore will complete our review and discussion of "Enemy of the Truth."

The last witness is Beverly Oliver Massegee, a.k.a. 'The Babushka Lady."