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JFK motorcade

Page history last edited by Andrew Alder 2 years, 11 months ago

a page on the JFK shooting

 

A work in progress... watch this space

 

This page is to document the positions of  Secret Service personnel in the Presidential limo and elsewhere in the motorcade of Friday, November 22, 1963. 

 

Vehicles are listed in their order in the procession. The numerous police motorcycles are omitted.

 

  1. Cars before the Lead Car
  2. Lead Car
  3. The Presidential limo
  4. The Secret Service backup car
  5. Following cars
    1. Vice Presidential car
    2. Vice Presidential Secret Service Follow-up Car
    3. Remaining following cars
  6. See also

 

Cars before the Lead Car

  • Advance car
  • Pilot car 

None appear to have carried Secret Service agents

 

Lead Car

Driver: Dallas Police Chief Curry

Passenger seat: SA Winston George Lawson

Left rear seat:  DC Sherriff Decker

Right rear seat: SA Forrest V. Sorrels 

 

The Presidential limo

Driver: SA William R. "Bill" Greer

Passenger seat: SA Roy H. Kellerman, in charge of the whole Secret Service detail

Left jumpseat: Mrs Connally

Right jumpseat: Governor Connally

Left rear seat: 1st Lady "Jackie" Kennedy

Right rear seat: President Kennedy

 

The Secret Service backup car

aka "Queen Mary", an eight-seat 1955 Cadillac but only six seats were occupied, with four other agents on the running boards

Driver: SA Samuel A. "Sam" Kinney

Passenger seat: SA Emory P. Roberts, in charge of the vehicle

Left midrow seat: P Kenneth "Ken" O'Donnell, Presidential staff

Right midrow seat: David F. Powers, Presidential staff

Left rear seat: SA George W. Hickey Jr.

Right rear seat: SA Glen A Bennet

Left Running board front: SA Clinton L. "Clint" Hill 

Left running board rear: SA William "Tim" McIntyre

Right running board front: SA John D. "Jack" Ready

Right running board rear: SA Paul E. Landis 

 

Following cars

 

Vice Presidential car

carried five persons, only one of whom was a Secret Service agent

Passenger seat: SA Rufus Wayne Youngblood

 

Vice Presidential Secret Service Follow-up Car

carried five persons including three Secret Service agents

Driver: Dallas Police

Middle front seat: Vice presidential staffer

Right hand front passenger seat: SA Jerry D. Kivett

Left hand rear seat: SA Warren W. "Woody" Taylor

Right hand rear seat: SA Thomas Leary "Lem" Johns, in charge of the vehicle 

 

Remaining following cars

contained no agents. 

  • Mayor's car 
  • Press car 
  • Camera car #1
  • Camera car #2
  • Camera car #3
  • Congressman's car #1
  • Congressman's car #2
  • Congressman's car #3
  • VIP car
  • White House Press bus #1
  • Local Press Pool car
  • White House Press bus #2
  • Extra car #1 (in case of breakdown, unknown driver only aboard)
  • Western Union car
  • White House Signal Corps car - two army personnel aboard only
  • Extra car #2, driver only as per #1
  • Official Party Bus, driver plus 14 staffers
  • Rear police car, two police officers only aboard    

 

See also

 

 

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