Photos #1 & #2: Look carefully, and you'll see the back window of the Presidential Limo's "bubble top" is surrounded with a vinyl cover --
making an accurate shot from the rear difficult,
if not impossible...the "bubble top" is well-covered overhead, as well....this is what Bill Moyers did NOT want!
if not impossible...the "bubble top" is well-covered overhead, as well....this is what Bill Moyers did NOT want!
PHOTO #2:.... Kennedy's limo had a totally 'clear' bubble top such as in this photo ...and jfk CAN BE SEEN RIDING IN THIS LIMO WITH ITS CLEAR BUBBLE TOP. However, THE 'BUBBLE TOP' WAS COVERED WITH A DARK VINYL FABRIC ON NOV. 22 --SEE PHOTO #1-- AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL, EFFECTIVELY HIDING A VIEW OF THE CAR'S INTERIOR --AND MAKING IT HARD TO SEE THE FRONT ENTRY HOLE IN THE WINDSHIELD FROM THE REAR! THAT WINDSHIELD WAS QUICKLY REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH A 'NEW' WINDSHIELD THAT HAD JUST A CRACK IN IT! SEE STORY, BELOW.
AN OUTRIGHT LIE IS STILL BEING BROADCAST BY THE MEDIA --THAT KENNEDY ORDERED THE BUBBLE-TOP -- WHICH COULD HAVE SAVED THE PRESIDENT --OFF HIS CAR ON THAT DIRE NOVEMBER MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1963, IN DALLAS.
BUT NOW THE JFK ASSASSINATION FORUM HAS POSTED SOME IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT KENNEDY'S LIMO --AND WHO REALLY ORDERED THE 'BUBBLE TOP' OFF--LBJ AID BILL MOYERS! --MOYERS IS STILL ALIVE --AND POWERFUL. HIS WAS ONE OF THE LOUD VOICES DEMANDING THAT 'THE LOVE AFFAIR,' ';'THE GUILTY MEN' AND 'THE SMOKING GUNS' HAD TO BE BANNED--OR ELSE HE'D SUE THE HISTORY CHANNEL!-- READ HERE HOW MOYERS ORDERED THE 'G-D BUBBLE TOP' TO BE REMOVED FROM KENNEDY'S LIMO!
March 21, 2011, 01:15:34 PM JFK ASSASSINATION FORUM POSTS
"The oft repeated statements that security was stripped and reduced at JFK's orders because he didn't want SS agents or motorcycles blocking the view of the crowd and that he also requested the removal of the "bubble top" for the same reasons are patently false as researcher Vince Palamara has documented. Palamara "has stated that the usual array of motorcycles was four abreast of the limousine, with one placed at each fender; on many occasions there were twelve to eighteen motorcycles near the limousine. He also maintained that Gerald Behn, the head of the White House Detail, and Floyd Boring (second in command) both assured him that JFK never vetoed or modified any Secret Service protection and that any claims to the contrary were incorrect."
"The "bubble-top" had been removed from the presidential limousine at Love Field, as requested by Bill Moyers, LBJ's long-time past and future aide." "Moyers had been on the phone to Ms. Harris, informing her that the President did not want the bubble top. He told Harris to "get that God-damned bubble off unless it's pouring rain." "Moyers was not JFK's assistant . . . he was of course, actually one of Lyndon Johnson's longtime assistants." This is all documented in Phillip F. Nelson's "LBJ - The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination". Nelson goes on to state that "such gratuitous profanity by an ordained Baptist minister (Moyers) is a little odd in the context of this situation, considering that it had been raining all morning. It begs the question of whether Moyers was the real initiator of the request, or whether he was simply passing on a demand from his boss, LBJ, known to be habitually profane and strident in practically all situations (a general exception existed whenever cameras were near, of course, in which case a broad smile replaced his scornful gaze. All things considered, it can be assumed that Moyers was merely mouthing words originally screamed by Lyndon B. Johnson, in comparable stridency."
"...The term "bubble-top" became widely used to describe the removable top apparently because it was made mostly of plastic, even though the connotation of the term was that the top resembled a bubble. In fact, the top was much more than a clear "bubble" over a big convertible; it was a very formal design with a vinyl covering, which transformed the convertible into a limousine with a very small rear window. As such, it would make it nearly impossible for a sniper to see the occupants clearly enough to aim at any of them from above."
"The first photograph, Exhibit CE 345 of the Warren Report, shows the actual top that was carried in the car's trunk; the second shows it installed shortly after it arrived at Parkland Hospital... the black vinyl covering would obviously have made it impossible for anyone to have a reasonably clear shot at JFK."
(all quotes are from Phillip F. Nelson’s “LBJ – The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination” (pub. 2010) )
(all quotes are from Phillip F. Nelson’s “LBJ – The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination” (pub. 2010) )
(when installed) except for that narrow window at the back ... the bubble top with the
vinyl cover [was] added at Parkland Hospital... I have seen a picture of all of the parts of
the bubble top including the vinyl cover laid out on the ground to show how all of the
pieces go together."
"... In case one wonders why they would add the bubble top with vinyl
cover at Parkland, after Kennedy had already been shot and the limousine would no
longer be in use, I would conjecture that it was added to reduce the view of the interior of
the car from witnesses hanging around outside the entrance to the hospital where the
limousine was parked initially. At that point the interior of the car would still have blood
stains and the bullet hole through the front windshield (from front to back according to a
number of witnesses) as well as the indentation in the chrome that is believed to be the
result of a bullet from behind. This installation of the vinyl covered bubble top would help
to reduce the number of witnesses who could see the bullet hole in the windshield. One
of the witnessess who did manage to see the hole in the windshield was remarking upon
it when a SS agent overheard her and got in the car and immediately drove it out of sight
of those other witnesses hanging around outside the hospital."
"Several days after the car was returned to the White House garage and cleaned up [on]
orders from LBJ, (thus destroying evidence) the car was shipped off to the Ford Motor
Company's Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan where glass technicians removed the
windshield with the bullet hole in it and used that windshield as a template to make a new
windshield which was then installed to replace the one with the bullet hole. The
supervisor at the plant witnessed the original windshield and stated that "the windshield
had a bullet hole in it, Coming from the outside through." He further stated that "it was a
good clean bullet hole, right straight through from the front. And you can tell, when the
bullet hits the windshield, like when you hit a rock or something, what happens? The
back chips out and the front may just have a pinhole in it . . . this had a clean round hole
in the front and was fragmented in the back." When asked what happened to the original
windshield, the supervisor stated, "We scrapped it, we broke it up and scrapped it." That
supervisor's name was George Whitaker, Sr. and he passed away in 2001. He also
stated that he saw the limousine and the original windshield in the shop on Monday
morning November 25th, 1963. Other witnesses who saw the windshield at the Parkland
Hospital and describe seeing a through and through bullet hole in the windshield include
"Richard Dudman, Stavis Ellis, H. R. Freeman, and Dr. Evalea Galnges." "Secret Service
agent Charles Taylor told the truth too., in 1963 in his written report -- before the
pressure got to him and he recanted in his HSCA affidavit." Subsequently a crack was
added to the new windshield to further muddy the waters and cause confusion and
cast doubt about the statements of those who had seen an actual hole through the
original windshield." All quotes are from Douglas P. Horne's five volume work, "Inside the
Assassination Records Review Board" (pub 2010) (pgs 1439 - 1445).
