JFK Kennedy Hearse at Barrett-Jackson Auction

[@barberdoug6930]

Definitely A piece of history. I remember that terrible day very well. America was forever changed.

[@RETROTV1394]

This car should be in the museum next to The Kennedy Death car in The Henry Ford museum. In Dearborn Michigan

[@believeinyourself7511]

This should be in a museum.

[@doug9066]

I agree as I thought the same.

[@marcoaguilarjr506]

yes, but for the right price.

[@MrMisanthrope1RBjr]

then here is an oppurtuinity for a museum to buy it,

[@Fhita1962]

Agreed, a bit morbid, who would want this anyway?

[@jeffneis553]

This car should be in the museum in Michigan with the Lincoln X100 that is there.

[@robinluck2922]

The Henry Ford Museum...

[@Alex108103]

I really don't think they should've auctioned this. They should've put it in a museum or something.

[@hdofu]

well your opinion doesn't talk as loudly as currency to the person who owned it. But if you're passionate, offer some numbers to the new owner... than donate it to a museum.

[@OnTheHighWatch]

I believe it has made it into a museum.

[@overheadcam32]

Hdofu Fox douche

[@nathanhiggins1545]

Most cars in museums are donated by personal owners. This will end up in one

[@doug9066]

Exactly what I thought too, be put into a museum & not sold for money.

[@bigwrestlingfan3365]

Should be in the Henry Ford museum with the limousine.

[@mahmoodabdurahman2189]

This looks like a superior duplex, ambulance, hearse combo. It has jump,seats. Various limo and hearse builders used this chassis from the late 50s. A real iconic clown car as well. Lol.

[@seanhoward8025]

Miller-Meteor. On the rear quarters.

[@boboziomek924]

The hearse was left inside the airport gates and the funeral home had trouble getting it back. They also had trouble getting paid for the casket used to transport JFK from Dallas.

[@douglewis5701]

Prove it

[@boboziomek924]

Doug Lewis don’t have to. Check your facts.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Do a search on the VIN. Forget the plates. The VIN will tell you for sure if this is the JFK car.

[@rockettcustoms6266]

Of course it is, it's Barrett-Jackson. They're not going to sell a car without provenance.

@@rockettcustoms6266 They have before.

[@celticlofts]

The VIN number is on the title.

[@jonrajsl291]

@@rockettcustoms6266 REALLY? LETS REHASH THE " PONTIAC NAVY AMBULANCE" ..... THEY HAD NO PROOF, IT WAS DEBUNKED... ORIGINAL WAS CRUSHED, THEY TRIED TO PASS PHONY PAPERWORK..... JALOPNIK SOLVED IT....

[@acousticshadow4032]

Agree, George. Thought the license plate as provenance was pretty hokey; especially since they're made in prison.

[@yamahonkawazuki]

i used to work about a half mile from this place. when the auction was running, you could nearly hear it word for word.

[@johntapp9670]

General Motors should have a museum for this hearse. It should be put up for viewing as was the Lincoln SS100-X car. This should not be in private hands.

[@2ndshiftaudio300]

I know this car. A family in Alvarado Texas owned it before it was sold. I seen it in their shop. I bought a 59 Caddy Hearse from them. They got many Hearses from cars to horse drawn buggies.

[@danielladd10]

You sitll got any contacts with them? Looking to buy a hearse...

[@2ndshiftaudio300]

I haven't been there in years. I don't know if they are still there or not. I have a 1968 Superior Caddy. But it's a rat rod. I have been offered 50,000.00. But, I won't ever sell it.

[@danielladd10]

+2ndshiftaudio aksý

[@danielladd10]

+2ndshiftaudio akay

[@josephforest7605]

Kennedy was killed in 63 and this hearse is a 64 , so this car was no more than 2 months old at the time .

[@cudaus1]

That's my thought Joseph. The conversion company must have got this very early in the 64 model run, or it makes no sense.

[@josephforest7605]

@@cudaus1 Look at all the press cars , I am guessing that the press cars were rentals ( Hertz) another guess of mine .The press cars are all 1964 models and nice Chev SS convertible , Comet convertible , 4dr Mercury Monterey etc.

[@williamlauth279]

He was killed in a Lincoln!

[@WilmerCook]

Isn't it wounderful to see these extremely rich people buying cars. Thats the way it getting to be your eather rich or your lower lower lower middle class driving Kia Soul like me.😢

[@mr.f1387]

Some advice -- learn to communicate; don't whine; work harder. (Read books and take a writing class).

[@acousticshadow4032]

Wilmer, am driving a 1997 Lexus ES300. We must do Taco Bell sometime!

[@judithmeriwether5584]

It’s definitely a museum piece

[@johjoh978]

its just a car.

[@rscamarolover]

Beautiful caddie that needs to be put in a museum as the last person said,I'd rather see her being driven to shows

[@jaygreenway25]

license plate doesn't prove it Vin does

[@justinmartyr4420]

Vintage IDIOT!!!!

[@erica-lillycrider1088]

JUSTIN Martyr he said the Vin Number not the licence plate and the word "vintage" dumb fuck

[@douglewis5701]

Yes it can dumbass

[@jimcrump2659]

@@justinmartyr4420 VIN -Vehicle identification number

[@ScottParker-vi6pd]

From the videos I saw on the internet,the hearse that arrived at love field was a Pontiac Catalina or Bonneville style Vehicle.

[@stevefraser9886]

The pontiac hearse was used at the arrival back in Washington, when JFKs casket was removed from the plane.

[@ernielaw]

@@stevefraser9886 Wonder if that Bonneville hearse got saved too.

[@wileecoyote5749]

**UPDATE** Nov 21 2024 car sold at auction again for $56 Million

[@peterdelapena2880]

Kinda messed up to auction this

[@jtr789310]

Ambulance never left Andrews Air Force Base JFK body was flown by helicopter to the Navy Hospital. I witness the landing at the Navy Hospital in Bethesda November 22 1963.

[@mikes2082]

This is Parkland Hospital to the Dallas airfield

[@dobbydobbs3609]

I wouln't buy shit at B-J. They get 10% from buyer AND seller. They made 16 k on this alone. They ruined the classic car prices with their overpriced garbage.

[@nobodyhere4860]

Yes sir! Since your comment it's just gotten worse!

[@jonrajsl291]

YOUR MATH IS OFF... 10 PERCENT TWICE EQUALS 32 GRAND, NOT 16 GRAND....

[@Tim1963-u6n]

That is crazy but true, l wouldn't only not buy anything there also wouldn't sell there

[@samhain8220]

It belongs in a museum

[@Thomass7586]

It was a Sad day and we're all, Still waiting for the Truth 56 years later.

[@billmurray4063]

“Still waiting...for 56 years”; maybe that should tell you something. You’ve been given the truth but refuse to believe it, why? You have stated you have not been provided with any alternative evidence in 56 years yet there is ample evidence from multiple independent sources that does tell you “the Truth”. Keep waiting along with the rest of the conspiracy nuts.

[@doug9066]

Thomas S I agree, this was 4 years before I was born & I've researched years later which this mystery in my opinion has facilitated me.

[@hobart7897]

this will last forever in a private collection. 160k is nothing to pay for this. in 5 years it will surpass 200k in value.

[@daniellatimer1876]

I've seen the Lincoln at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. I've seen Air Force One at Wright Patterson Air Force Base that was used by John F. Kennedy.

[@BishopKing.308]

If I had the money I would have bought it always wanted me a hearse.

[@ignatiusjk]

Could you imagine what the actual Kennedy limo would go for.It would be in the millions.

[@dustyflair]

we the people own it.

[@jimcrump2659]

That vehicle (which BTW was used until the Carter administration) can be seen at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan.

[@danbasta3677]

I have read that it was sitting in a New England junkyard, ready to be scrapped/crushed. Saw pictures of it to. As to weather it was true or not of what was read and saw, is anybody's guess.?

[@jeffmackenzie9105]

The license plate doesn’t mean a thing. Check the serial number with MVA and the funeral home.

[@cellpat7392]

Brand spanking new 1964 hearse, no doubt just purchased back in late 1963. Such a strange and accidental collectible. RIP JFK.

[@cherylklein6806]

Most hearse during that time were also used as ambulances, thus the jump seat on the side.

[@johncasciello4123]

No one noticed a STYLING FEATURE on this CADDY: the RED TAILLIGHT that lights up RED is aligned with the FIN but down below and integral with the BUMPER is a DOUBLE OVER/UNDER CLEAR FROSTED LENS but when you pump the break and I think at night when you put on the orange front signals but leave headlamps off that CLEAR LENS lights up RED but a bit dimmer so when you hit brakes it BRIGHTENS UP!!! And as it gets darker outside and you tap on headlamps the CLEAR LENS again is probably lit up RED!!!!! But then the ORANGE SIGNALS GO OFF in the front!! By the 1970s the ORANGE SIGNALS and HEADLAMPS stayed on together!!!so when you signled for a turn a BRIGHTER BULB BLINKED!!!!! By the 1990s car makers/trucks have thier FRONT HEADLIGHTS BLAZING in daytime (a waste of power) because of all the LAWSUITS as the soon to be MONEYMAKERS say:I did not see that car coming at me in DAYTIME$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!

[@senorpepper3405]

Are you okay?

[@lablaine1981]

Had a fascination w/ cornering lamps last 60+ yrs,1st I remember?? Was a 1962 Buick,then Ford , Chrysler add cornering lamps...then 3rd taillight in 1984 cars,now LED radically changed lighting in all cars, Trks...my 1982 Ford t bird had really long on,off effect lamps,amazing that headlamps so ineffective till data showed,then my 1984 Pontiac ste had fog lamps,not driving lamps,nice shade of 🟡 yellow,

[@vassa1972]

its really sad what happened to him eventhough i wasn't born yet

[@doug9066]

Same here, I wasn't born until 1967 & looking back 4 years earlier (1963) it is aad.

[@danbasta3677]

Well thought out plan to eliminate him. This is why its known as the conspiracy that won't go away. We all know who cooked up this plot, this cou dea ta, and who got away with it as every detail was specifically, scientifically worked out in every fine way to protect those guilty of all this plot, this conspiracy that won't go away that still haunts this country's past along with its present day circumstances.

[@jamiemiles366]

They ought to put it right beside the limo... that would be totally cool

[@danbasta3677]

They were Pontiac ambulances at that time.

[@clydeferguson519]

It was NOT an M&M, it was a Miller Meteor Classic Duplex combination coach. I owned one similar to this one in Nevada Silver and mine had airline style drapes instead of the swag type in this coach.

[@willyboy6126]

Sales/auctions like these, really sicken me. Pure greed! Seems a person can not have dignity, even in death...just heightens and preys upon their notoriety or tragedy. All the vast majority of the sellers and auction companies care about, is the almighty dollar . Do they care about the families affected by this great American tragedy...or how they feel with stories like this? I don't think so. This is all so tacky and morbid. I wish that John F. Kennedy and his Brother, Robert, are left to rest in peace, but unfortunately, they can not...plus, there is too much controversy in their assassinations...I would not want to own a hearse, no matter who was transported in it. If I had a gazillion dollars, I'd have it junked. Same for JFK's death limo...and to think they had that refurbished and it was used by Johnson and a few Presidents after JFK, well up into the 1970's....so disgusting, especially fat ass Johnson! Maybe he proudly sat in it, because it was like a trophy to him and others. Automobiles like these, should never be put on display...and it is clearly fodder for ghouls and vultures alike! :(

[@califdad4]

+William Krzemien the Limo was used up to the 1980's, it had been completely redone and updated with a hard roof and armoured, and you couldn't even recognize it from the Kennedy days. Looked like a completely different car. By the way the US Gov, didn't own that car in 1963, it was leased from Ford, for a very small amount of money,

[@rarevhsuploads4995]

The Lincoln was retired in 1977 & was only a back up car during the 1970s.

[@califdad4]

I looked it up, couldn't remember the date, it was retired in 1978, and since Ford Motor Company owned it, it went to their museum

[@willyboy6126]

califdad4 Thanxxx for all the info...interesting! :)

[@willyboy6126]

Rare VHS uploads Thanxxx buddy! :)

[@robertlanning433]

I hope this Cadillac ends up at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan next to the 1961 Lincoln Kennedy was assinated in.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Appropriate , this car was less than 9 weeks old when it arrived at Parkland Hospital .

[@carmellabe]

Elvis hearse would have had a higher bid but unfortunately it caught fire and burnt to the ground.

[@MrMisanthrope1RBjr]

any museum can bid on the car if they want it,

[@energyasylum997]

The Ghost Busters car!! I would have kept it forever! IMO.

[@mrt9781]

I’ll save you time it sold for $160,000

[@richardwrynn824]

There was an article in the Boston globe about the JFK ambulance and how it was crushed in the mid 1980's

[@tonybeard3121]

???why does that caddy have lincoln emblems on the side by the back side glass

[@dfygoh3215]

why would anyone pay $160000 for a creepy Hearse

[@douglewis5701]

For the historical significance of the vehicle you idiot

[@dfygoh3215]

@@douglewis5701 okay burger butt

[@joeblow7034]

because their stupid

[@chardelraconner2166]

"Enterprise > Hertz" © PS! Thank You Mrs. Jacqulyn

[@cosmosolis]

Eventually we all go for one last ride!

[@joshteshek1155]

It kinda looks like the ghostbusters ecto 1

[@acousticshadow4032]

$160K is a steal. My guess was $500,000.

[@javamann1000]

President Kennedy, or Officer Tippit?

[@willyboy6126]

+javamann1000 I wonder that too!

[@brianernst4253]

Why no mention of how many miles on the car

[@garryharriman7349]

Who really knows whoes body was in the back of that vehicle?

[@doug9066]

This is true too.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

Yeah, maybe Jackie Kennedy had a mannequin put in there just minutes after he died to drive to Love Field instead. Jackass.

[@paulsteezo1772]

Another USA CONSPIRACY

[@leefisher.styrenemarine5566]

It says it's a 64 Cadillac hearse and he died in 63 it's a possibility that that it was delivered to the Hearst company in 63 but they would still probably I don't know that something's not right

[@rockettcustoms6266]

The new models came out between September to November numbnuts.

[@itzamia]

As I type this the date is 8/12/2021 If you stroll down to any of your local dealerships that sell new cars they have 2022 stickers on the new cars. This has been like this for many years now.

[@BillyT531]

Surprised it didn't bring more money.

[@joshgeracitano8040]

This scares me

[@jhodges3131]

where is Elvis' hearse??

[@stevekelley7738]

Yeahhhh.... and where is Abe Lincoln's hearse ?

[@twotonecharlie]

agree should be at a museum.

[@moparfreak1969]

I'd buy it and turn it into a ghostbuster's replica. Lol

[@michaeldiehl2458]

Is this the official one used for him ?

[@extman29]

That's cheap. This very hearse bid to more than $400,000 in Texas at an auction I attended in 2006. Look it up. Wheels and Keels. The seller refused the bid. I was near the block and could not believe it.

[@jbrooks9567]

Bring back Ruffles Cajun Spice potato chips 1986-1990

[@rickprusak9326]

The limousine that Kennedy was killed 8n, is on display at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Mi. WHY isn't this car on display there also? This vehicle is a valuable piece of American history. If not at the Henry Ford Museum, it should be at the Smithsonian.

[@larrysproul9424]

The Henry Ford museum also has the Rosa Parks bus . You can sit in the bus . Yes the hearse that carried Kennedy should be there . But it was gone from public view for many years .

[@jerrygreen3818]

Kennedy's body is still in back.

[@Scottiepoo5612onYouTube]

Interestingly enough.......the Cadillac hearse has a Lincoln Continental emblem on the side??..HMMMMMMM....I think not.

[@REEPERMAN666]

Scottiepoo5612 The emblem on the side is M&M, Miller Meteor. The company in Piqua, Ohio who built the car. I own 4 that were built there.

[@HaroldBoisvert]

Just just seeing gives you chills

[@LCx829]

That is a cool car. Put a body in the back and cruise the sunset strip.

[@truthweallknow]

You know his body wasn't even in that Hurst

[@grimrides]

That fake Pontiac Ambulance ruined it for this. This was the real deal.

[@anthonyangeli256]

Where is this vehicle now

[@dennismorgan3589]

Poor taste to have this car at auction shame on the seller!

[@lookingthroughice7843]

I'd give $50,000 if he was in the coffin in the back. I'd give $100,000 if he drove the car with his future coffin in the back.

[@TheCream14]

Body not included . . .

[@freighthauler7642]

Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field is 2.5 miles. So what if it was used to transport President Kennedys dead body from the hospital to Air Force One. It was a 2.5 Mike trip, that doesn't make it museum worthy. That's like saying that one of his broken shoe laces is museum worthy.

[@cudaus1]

Good point.

[@moonwalker2-v5q]

The federal reserve should park this in front of their bank in Israel.

[@JOHNBRANSKI100]

THE AIRPORT VIDEO SHOWED A 63' PONTIAC.

[@califdad4]

+john branski I think that Pontiac was in Washington DC, not in Texas. The account I read has that white Hearse bringing Kennedy's body to Air Force One

[@Justhings332]

So that’s where my casket went…

[@gman0724]

now watch them turn it into an ecto 1

[@jdale1259]

Give me a break. Everyone knows JFK's body was never in a hearse in Dallas. Ambulance only.

[@rareblues78daddy]

You're wrong, and now everyone know you're a goddamned moron.

[@markparker4842]

J Dale it was in a hurse in Dallas where the first casket was bought they had to break off the handles to get it in air force 1 the secret service agents kicked the owner out of his own hearse and drove it to love field and they had the Dallas funeral home bring its most expensive casket cost 6 to 8 thousand a fortune in 1963 then took over 20 years to get the government to pay for it

[@terryduncan5718]

JFKs body was transported from Parkland to Love Field in a Caddy hearst owned by O'Neill Mortuary

[@joe549549]

@@markparker4842 The first casket had a sale price of $3995 (equivalent of $32,904 today) and the government paid the Dallas funeral home director Vernon O'Neal $3160 for it in 1965. In 1966 it was declared surplus and ordered to be destroyed. It was then picked up by the Air Force and sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. medium.com/@Anthony_Bergen/burial-at-sea-the-odyssey-of-jfk-s-original-casket-8c458b758c64

[@rockettcustoms6266]

Wrong, fucknuts.

[@Tim1963-u6n]

I'm sure the plate is proof

[@MatthewSemones]

JFK Kennedy... didn't he work for the department of redundancy department?

[@jefferywilson1840]

Rich idiots will pay millions for anything.I agree this car belongs in a musem

[@ed9492]

Too bad the death car isn't for sale, fully restored to November 1963 condition. That would be worth having.

[@kohlguy8656]

The price is right . 160.000 USD is not to expenced .

[@jllmmjj]

i wouldnt sell it id donate it to the smithsonian

[@oracleofottawa]

+John L (Jllmmjj) Donation for a $160,000 tax deduction. Awesome estate planning....

[@justinmartyr4420]

John / LIAR ASS FUK!!!

[@fredhayes737]

John L. This is so sad for our country. What were they thinking. A president. Was. Killed by person or persons. Unknown. No you make a joke. Out this for money. You will feel the raft of my god for this not funny. 🙏🇺🇸

[@HiHaven8]

That license plate doesn't prove anything. Pretty sure it could be replicated.

[@vijayantgovender2045]

That car is a 1964 and JFK was killed in 1963 please explain how is that possible ??????

[@willsco76]

+Vijayant Govender - The 1964 model year began in late summer early fall in 1963. Therefore, he was killed in November 1963 and transported in a 1964 Cadillac

[@vijayantgovender2045]

+William Scott thank you very much for explaining

[@hdofu]

it's a common practice in the automobile industry to introduce a the following model year before the end of the current year

[@Kenny-re8ko]

started making them in the fall of '63, then a few months at the coach makers, this car would have been brand spankin' new in Nov '63...

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Look at the JFK parade in Dallas , many of the rental cars used by the press were brand new 1964 models .They came out in early September .

[@tharris2665]

0:28 1964??

[@CoreyBetland79]

Brand new cars usually are called the upcoming year. So in November 1963...ah forget it

[@davidholloway3653]

$ 160,000 is nothing ridiculous , the auctions and China ruined price for cars .

[@nathandodge665]

The license plate doesn't prove anything

[@bobdown6981]

If this is a 64 model, then how did it transport Kennedy in 63?

[@dlc54]

See explanation below.

[@paddyoak1]

Because next years model comes out around September.

[@clydeferguson519]

The 64 cars were released in or around October 63, production starting in July, after the retooling is complete.

[@davidrandall7436]

Because. The. 64. Models. Was. Out. In. Late. 63. That when. The new. Models. Come. Out. End of. The old year

[@benignasiak3465]

Interesting all that money just because a dead body was in it wtf

[@antwun.l.barbary3231]

Yes

[@jerbear57]

Funny, the footage of the event shows a Pontiac Ambulance to Love field, not a white Cadillac Hearse....I trust the integrity of Barrett Jackson, but what gives here?

[@Kenny-re8ko]

There was a Pontiac hearse in Washington...

[@geraldphipps8785]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpbPY5-kpduMa7s

[@howieduin915]

The Pontiac hearse transported JFK from the airport to Bethesda naval hosp. in DC. Or so the official version goes. In reality, the casket in that hearse was empty. JFK was already at Bethesda.

[@bohemialite6371]

Greed has taken over museums are something of the past now

[@1VVSA]

Has seas at back

[@fantasmablanca1107]

CADILLAC ONLY MADE LESS THAN 2500 HEARSES IN 1964.

[@bretstephan2403]

fantasma blanca Cadillac never made hearses or ambulances. they sold an extended wheelbase unfinished chassis to body builders who custom made the body aft of the front seats.

[@rockettcustoms6266]

Cadillac never made a single hearse, ambulance or limo. This is probably an S&S.

[@7775Kevin]

It’s probably been turned into an Ghostbusters Ecto-1 by now.

[@andrewmacdonald4833]

Looks like the start of a wrestling contest...seriously grotesque...

[@Carlos-r5n2b]

Funeral home was asking for a check before JFK was in the ground. Asked for middle of the road casket was brought the Elvis special 20k model 900lb they were paid and of course a new sign home that took care of JFK Bobby wanted to strangle the guy. True story of funeral home greed my grandmother had a limo the works for my grandfather in 1977 it was normal visitation fee, chapel fee, like 12k a lot of money in 77 like the price of 3 new Chevy's

[@AdirondackNY]

Auctions are biblical, they auctioned off Jesus's garments so why not this.