Bullet hole in windshield on JFK's Limo

[Jake Maxwell]

They did preserve it. It was replaced on the 26th and now sits in the National Archives.

How does someone gain access to the National Archives to examine the windshield?
When was it last examined? I think examination of the windshield would clear up a lot of the discussion. There is testimony that there was an actual hole, and that the shattered glass was on the inside, suggesting a bullet from the outside, indicating a shooter from the front...

[Steve Howsley]

How does someone gain access to the National Archives to examine the windshield?
When was it last examined? I think examination of the windshield would clear up a lot of the discussion. There is testimony that there was an actual hole, and that the shattered glass was on the inside, suggesting a bullet from the outside, indicating a shooter from the front...

7Why would yo want to examine it? If it is as described wouldn't you then claim it's not the original? That's how it works isn't it?

[Jake Maxwell]

7Why would yo want to examine it? If it is as described wouldn't you then claim it's not the original? That's how it works isn't it?

I think you've got the wrong fellow here...
Investigators want to examine the evidence to see if it matches with testimony given...

[Mitch Todd]

       I thought the Altgens photo of the JFK Limo approaching the Triple Underpass displayed damage to the windshield being present at that time?

Some people claim that, but if you look closely at a good copy of the photo, the "spiral nebula" Fetzer, et al, presume to be a hole stops abruptly at the edge of the rear-view mirror. That is, the mirror is between the "nebula" and the camera, and must therefore be ahead of it. That couldn't be true if the "nebula" was on or in the windshield.

[Bill Chapman]

How does someone gain access to the National Archives to examine the windshield?
When was it last examined? I think examination of the windshield would clear up a lot of the discussion. There is testimony that there was an actual hole, and that the shattered glass was on the inside, suggesting a bullet from the outside, indicating a shooter from the front...

Last time I looked, one has to get permission from the Kennedy family representative
School groups get in, maybe tour groups as well.

Meanwhile:

NARA FAQ
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/faqs

JFK Limo Windshield removal
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/305143

[Bill Chapman]

7Why would yo want to examine it? If it is as described wouldn't you then claim it's not the original? That's how it works isn't it?

Somone claimed there was a hole clean through the windshield, the diameter of a pencil.
Naturally some folks want to see for themselves. I don't know if that claim was ever debunked or not.

Here's some NARA photos of the windshield
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/305143

[John Mytton]

Some people claim that, but if you look closely at a good copy of the photo, the "spiral nebula" Fetzer, et al, presume to be a hole stops abruptly at the edge of the rear-view mirror. That is, the mirror is between the "nebula" and the camera, and must therefore be ahead of it. That couldn't be true if the "nebula" was on or in the windshield.

 

Altgens 6. Here is a random image I found which points out some lens flare and highlights their "spiral nebula".



In the following gif we see Altgens 7 on a 22nd Nov newspaper and when compared to the official photo which was taken a few hour after midnight, we see crack in the same position and the start of the same radiating cracks which line up.



JohnM