Thursday, February 2, 2012
Kennedy Hearse Sells On The auction Block By Larry Koon
The White Hearse, used to transfer President John F, Kennedy's body. following his Assassination in Dallas, has sold once again , this time around for $160.000 plus a $16.000 buyer's premium.
The man who purchased it ,according to the Auction House I talked to on the phone, plans to include it in his collection of about 400 other cars he own's.
The Hearse was sold in January ,through the Barrett Jackson Auction Company of Scottsdale. Arizona., The 1964 Cadilac Hearse carried Kennedy's body as welll as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Air force One at Dallas Love Field , for the flight back to Washington on November 22. 1963,
The Hearse had been on display at a Funeral Home Convention in Dallas in 1965, After the Convention, A Funeral Home in Dallas,bought the Hearse , It was that Funeral Home that was called upon to transport the President's body.
In the late 1960s , The Hearse was bought by a Texas man who owned several Funeral Homes in Dallas, Fort Worth,He kept it in a private collection for more than four decades. before selling it to the person who eventually put it up for auction,
The man that bought the Hearse.plans to turn his car collection into a Museum, Other cars in his collection include a 1965 Rolls Royce custom made for John Lennon, A Taxi ,used in the tv show "Seinfield" .and a Jeep that Frank Sinatra, used on his ranch,
Many of the older folks around Wood County .W,va ,today can remember specifically seeing the Hearse on live television in 1963 , leaving the Hospital. and driving very, very, slowly, to Air Force One and loading the casket on Air Forcev One, It was a dramatic time in many of our lives. including mine,
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