Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn about American History. Next, we tour the president ial vehicles collection at the Henry Ford Museum until dearborn, michigan. Transportation curator, matt anderson, shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter, and reagan. And the and we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. And were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines, which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is a 1902 broem carriage that was used by president theodore roosevelt. By the time of roosevelts administration, its a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough for all of the reputation he has as a real forwardlooking prog
I do, kari, and wet roads. The snow possibly up here in mt. Hamilton. We had an earlier spinout which cleared at thornton for northbound 880. North 101 for about ten minutes all lanes blocked by a crash here. And now only one lane blocked and theyre still slowing. A possible wrongway driver. Im going to check with chp to see if there are any updates. Well doublecheck. Be careful out there. Back to you. Breaking news out of contra costa county, a chaotic scene overnight. Two people were killed after a car crashed near a home in bay point. It happened off port chicago. Pete suratos is live there now with the aftermath and what led up to this. You heard from the homeowner who heard the crash . Reporter thats right, marcus, we did hear from the homeowner who says the crash came fairly close to his home knocking down a tree. You can see in this area this is where that crash happened. The tree they knocked over almost came close to the home. According to chp were told that a camaro and the d
Here at the henry ford. We are inside the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, just outside our driving america exhibit where we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. Were actually standing in front of series of president ial limousines telling the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Behind me is a 1902 clarj used by theodore roosevelt. By the time of his administration its a common occurrence of cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, for all of the reputation he has is a forward looking progressive. They thought there was a formality appropriate to the dig any to the office and he had a progressive and man of the people image he wanted to protect and automobiles were thought of as play things for the wealthy. It wouldnt do him good riding around in a car. He used a broem moving around washington, d. C. Vehicles like this were fairly common in larger cities. We have a vision in our heads by so many wester
And people were always astounded to think that this car was put back into service after the assassination. Would you assume either that it was destroyed or perhaps locked away in a warehouse somewhere. But the simple fact is, the president needed to have a vehicle. President johnson at that point, and there simply wasnt time go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. The most expeditious thing to do was to rebuild this car. That said, they thoroughly rebuilt it, stripped the car down to its bear frame and put tight tainium plating under the doors, there was a special filter put into the trunk there so that if there was a gas attack it would filter and take out harmful gas to protect the president. And of course there was this large wrap around rear wind screen which at the time was the largest piece of bullet proof glass that had ever been made the. These cars from this tricky dual mission, they have to protect the president but then make him as visible as possible
Anderson shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter and reagan. And the Lincoln Continental that john f. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated. My name is matt anderson. Im curator of transportation here at the henry ford. We are inside the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, just outside our driving america exhibit where we look at the history of the automobile in the United States. Were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is carriage used by president roosevelt. The automobile is a force of the United States starting in the 1890s but by the time of roosevelts administration, it is a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough, for all of the reputation he has, is a real forwardlooking progressive, never cared much for automobiles. He wanted to remain in horsedr