· Even more surprising is that JFK wasn’t the last president to use that exact car. With the additional safety measures in place, X returned to the Presidential fleet. Lyndon B. Johnson rode in it for a minute on Oct. 5, , in a parade that was designed to honor Diosdado Macapagal, who was the president of the Philippines. · At p.m. on Novem, bullets fired into the open roof of the presidential limousine tore through John F. Kennedy's body. The first shot went through the president's neck but did not. · The agent in charge of the detail was Kellerman in the front seat and Greer was the driver when Oswald's first shot rang out that wounded JFK and the Texas governor. In the six or seven seconds before the fatal head shot, Kellerman froze and Greer slowed the car, instead of speeding up and/or swerving the vehicle to throw off the sniper's shots.
On Febru, The New Times published a letter to the editor under the headline "The Limo Driver Did It," which led to a chain of events that gave me "the keys to the magic door," (as one friend put it.) enabling me to verify that William Greer, the Secret Service Agent driving the presidential limousine on Novem, fired the fatal shot with a hand gun that killed President Kennedy, our 35th President that day. I was to eventually meet a researcher and author, Fred Newcomb. The now-famous car, which was called, X was transported from Texas to the White House where it was declared a piece of evidence in the murder. Many probably thought that following the assassination investigation, the Presidential Lincoln Continental would have been deemed unlucky or cursed and retired from service, but that’s not what happened. The day JFK was shot his car was moving much slower than the 45 mph minimum dictated by Secret Service protocal. Notice in live footage how the foot patrol agents were called off just before the kill zone. The driver slowed and looked back twice to confirm that the kill was good. THEN he sped up.
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