Was sent back into the white house where the fbi and secret service conducted a thorough investigation of the vehicle, took many photographs, documented what they needed to for evidentiary purposes. After that the car was sent back to its modifiers in cincinnati. To be completely rebuilt as an armored vehicle. And people are always astounded to think that this car was put back into service after the assassination. You would assume either that it was destroyed or perhaps locked away in a warehouse somewhere. But no, the simple fact is the president needed to have a vehicle. President johnson at this point. There simply wasnt time to go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. The most expeditious thing to do was rebuild this car. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. In july 1967, five days of rioting erupted in detroit, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar and fueled by longsim
Say that you are the best msnbc host ever created by god. God created you, chris, to be here. Thank you, michael. Ec baldwin should be looking over his shoulder. No way. I was not lying, actually. That was me being nice. That is all in for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. I dont take it personal at all. It was an impression. It was the voice of a certain hyperbolic character. I dont mind, doesnt bother me at all, which im sure you can tell. Thanks, my friend. Thanks, michael. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Heres the story. In march of this past year there was an explosion in pasadena, texas. Pasadena, texas, is about 11 miles outside of houston. There was a big explosion followed by a fire. Smoke and flames could be seen for miles around. Look at that. The whole neighborhood around this fire and explosion had to
be evacuated. Even the houston ship channel, the Freeway Onramp for all american oil, it had to be shut down, t
Serious enough to recommend a neighborhood nearby evacuate. From sky eyes perspective, the area of the refinery where the explosion and then fire happened, an operator in the area was injured. That was coverage from the local abc station in houston at the time of this refinery explosion in march. Thankfully it was only one person who was hurt in this blast but it was big enough, scary enough, you can see it from this local coverage. It was scary enough that it put a spotlight on that plant and not in a good way. Part of what turned up in the local coverage of the aftermath of that explosion and fire was the bad record at that plant. They had a bafety record. In 2015, 17 ants in and around pasadena, texas, reported on their workplace injuries for the year, almost a third of all the workplace injuries for that year came from that one plant. Out of 17 plants who were reporting. After that explosion and that fire in march, the Houston Chronicle further dug in. They found that on the day th
Local abc station in houston at the time of this refinery explosion in march. Thankfully it was only one person who was hurt in this blast but it was big enough, scary enough, you can see it from this local coverage. It was scary enough that it put a spotlight on that plant and not in a good way. Part of what turned up in the local coverage of the aftermath of that explosion and fire was the bad record at that plant. They had a bad safety record. In 2015, 17 plants in and around pasadena, texas, reported on their workplace injuries for the year, almost a third of all the workplace injuries for that year came from that one plant. Out of 17 plants who were reporting. After that explosion and that fire in march, the Houston Chronicle further dug in. They found that on the day that explosion happened, that plant was not legally operating. It was its permit to operate under the Clean Air Act expired. They were running the plant anyway on the day the plant blew up. All of that bad press, all