Posted on 11/21/2013 9:16:52 PM PST by smokingfrog
On that fateful day 50 years ago in Dallas, the future of the United States was thought to be at stake.
Heightened security measures surrounded a newly sworn-in president, who was whisked from Texas aboard Air Force One, shadowed by Secret Service agents and the widow of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
In the ensuing weeks, the Warren Commission was established and a sullied Secret Service pondered how to better protect the 36th president of the United States while still allowing him the mobility to leave the White House.
Transporting the president would never be the same.
According to experts in presidential transportation, “The Quick Fix” as it came to be known, involved swapping the convertible parade car that Kennedy rode in at Dallas to limos made of titanium, anti-ballistic materials and bulletproof glass.
“The top was fixed to the car now and included 1,500-pound roof-mounted bulletproof glass, which unto itself cost $125,000,” wrote Michael L. Bromley and Tom Mazza in their 2002 book, “Stretching It: The Story of the Limousine,” published by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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Again, what are you talking about?
I think you’re responding to the wrong person, as I never suggested any of that.
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