The car wasn't cleaned *enough*. It could have not been touched at
all, or it may have started and not finished. But the evidence is
quite extensive that it was the cleaning of the limo that the bucket
was for:
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1) "The Way We Were-1963: The Year Kennedy Was Shot" by Robert MacNeil
(1988, Carrol & Graf), p. 197: "The president's car was there
[Parkland Hospital], still at the point where it had pulled up, and
they had taken the president out into that emergency entrance...I
remember that the Secret Service men were then STARTING TO MOP UP THE
BACK SEAT OF THE BIG LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT WAS PUT IN, and a few
minutes later they started putting the fabric top on it. And when I
went over to look at it a little closer, one of the agents waved me
aside and said, 'You can't look.' Later, of course, it seemed ironic
that this wall of protection went up when it of course could do no
good...";
2) 21 H 226---Parkland Hospital Orderly Joe L. Richards: asked to get
a bucket of water; he complied;
3) 21 H 217---Nurse Shirley Randall: was asked if she "would get
someone to come and wash the blood out of the car." She said that she
would, but was so nervous and excited she forgot about it;
4) "Time" Magazine, 11/29/63, p. 24---reporter Hugh Sidey: "A guard
was set up around the Lincoln as Secret Service men got a pail of
water and tried to wash the blood from the car.";
5) ABC, 11/22/63---reporter Don Gardner: "Outside the hospital, blood
had to be wiped from the limousine";
6) "New York Times", 11/23/63, p. 2---reporter Tom Wicker: "...the
police were guarding the Presidential car closely. A bucket of water
stood by the car, suggesting that the back seat had been scrubbed
out.";
7) "The Day Kennedy Was Shot" by Jim Bishop, p. 352 [1992 edition]:
"...the Secret Service detail was sorry that hospital orderlies had
sponged it [the limousine] out.";
8) "The Death of a President" by William Manchester, p. 180n [1988
edition]: "An inaccurate [?] story reported that they washed out the
back seat with a bucket of water. Actually, this was contemplated.";
9) 18 H 731-732---SS Agent Sam Kinney; 18 H 763-764---SS Agent George
Hickey: the two agents who put on the bubbletop---with the assistance
of a DPD motorcycle officer---at Parkland: they are pictured in the
infamous photos/films of the bucket beside the limousine: "JFK
Assassination File" by DPD Chief Jesse Curry, p. 36 (see also p. 34:
same photo, different angle in UPI's "Four Days", p. 25); Texas News
newsreel ("Kennedy In Texas" video); WFAA/ ABC video 11/22/63; Cooper/
Sturges film; for the bucket still photo:
http://www.primenet.com/~pamelam/jfk.html [inc. photo of rear seat of
limo at White House Garage 11/22/63]
http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/jfkpix/hospthp.jpg
Vince Palamara :-)
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Obviously, Vince went a little to far with some of these - some aren't
nearly as valuable evidence as others, but the evidence CLEARLY shows
the intent of the S.S. immediately after the assassination.
I agree that if it was started, it didn't succeed - but it's hard to
tell what is no longer there...
P.S. When Chickenshit first saw this information, he suggested that
the S.S. was concerned with flies...