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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,446 posts) Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:06 PM Oct 2021

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1962 photo of JFK with Ivory Coast President Houphouet-Boigny at National Airport DC:

May look like it, but no, that is not the Batmobile in far background of this 1962 photo of JFK with Ivory Coast President Houphouet-Boigny at National Airport DC:

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1962 photo of JFK with Ivory Coast President Houphouet-Boigny at National Airport DC: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 OP

I shudder to think how long normal operations were suspended PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #1

It makes me queasy to see JFK in an open car like that Walleye Oct 2021 #2

I think it's the same car as was in Dallas. roamer65 Oct 2021 #3

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,857 posts)

1. I shudder to think how long normal operations were suspended

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:11 PM

Oct 2021

for this.

I used to work at National Airport, 1969-1979. At the beginning, it was one of the top ten busiest airports in the country.

Walleye

(31,022 posts)

2. It makes me queasy to see JFK in an open car like that

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Oct 21, 2021, 10:01 PM

Oct 2021

roamer65

(36,745 posts)

3. I think it's the same car as was in Dallas.

Reply to Walleye (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 21, 2021, 10:25 PM

Oct 2021

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