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CARS
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FAMILY CLOTHES
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ASSASSINATION
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KENNEDY ARTIFACTS
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OSWALD-RUBY
1963 Lincoln Covertible
Used to give the feel of that day in Dallas. This is not the actual car nor a replica.
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1962 Ford Ambulance Used to Transport Oswald to Parkland Hospital
Nov. 24--President Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was fatally shot as the police started to move him from the city jail to the county jail. The assailant, Jack Rubenstein, known as Jack Ruby, lunged from a cluster of newsmen observing the transfer of Oswald from the jail to an armored truck. Oswald was transported to Parkland Hospital, the same hospital that Kennedy was taken to just two days earlier.
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1962 Checker Marathon Dallas Taxicab - Oswald's Getaway Car
This is a 1962 Checker Marathon Dallas taxicab known as Oswalds getaway car. Only minutes after Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy from the sixth floor of the book depository building he casually walked out the front door, hailed down this taxi cab serial #36 and had the driver William Wayne Whaley drive him back to his rooming house. Whaley tried to make conversation with Oswald. "What the hell you think happened out there? he recalled asking Oswald as an opener. Oswald didn't answer him back. He asked to be dropped off two blocks past his rooming house. The fare was $0.95 he gave him a dollar and said keep the change.
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CARS
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FAMILY CLOTHES
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ASSASSINATION
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KENNEDY ARTIFACTS
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OSWALD-RUBY
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