The Real Reason JFK Had Two Caskets

Was there a practical reason for President Kennedy having two caskets? Or was the government trying to cover something up about his assassination? The real reason may not be what you expected.

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Voiceover by: Tim Bensch

[GrungeHQ]

Do you think there was an different reason for the two caskets?

[wrinthiak]

The fact that Jackie Kennedy didn't lose her whole mind after that trauma is a miracle.

[stephanieparker]

Didn't look like LBJ was sorrowful at all.

[deloreslandeis]

I always though LBJ hated JFK and had a part of the assassination

[mindfulskills]

Two Naval corpsmen who were on duty in the autopsy room at Bethesda when JFK's body arrived testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976 that the body came in a black shipping casket whose lid covered the top and side and was held in place by two screws. This casket was NEITHER the one purchased in Dallas NOR the one that JFK was ultimately buried in at Arlington. This testimony fueled many assassination theories, because it suggests that there was some kind of shell game going on with the body. For more information read David Lifton's "Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy" (1986).

[MikeGrieco-ly]

The casket being loaded onto Air Force one at luv field was empty, the casket containing Kennedy was loaded onto Air Force 2, while Lyndon Johnson was being sworn in, even though the constitution clearly states that once a president is pronounced dead, the vice president automatically becomes president, Lyndon Johnson also changed the motorcade route 4 days before so they would have to travel through Dealey Plaza.

[randomx]

Annoys me when someone narrates a major moment in history and has done 20 minutes of research at best. "It isn`t who killed Kennedy...It`s who had/has the power to cover it up?"

[jasonmcalister]

I know or I guess heard how most funeral homes work if someone offered them 100k they definitely sold it!

[michaellicko]

They also damaged the first casket getting it on the plane. One of the handles was broken off.

[kennethclark-qmvo]

60 years later it is time to release all files and photo's IMHO Democrats be damned

[vilaharrison]

I remember watching this on black and white TV in my school class room in Iowa.

[rickcimino]

According to Clint Hill and Paul Landis (in multiple books) the handles had to be broken off of the casket in order to get it into the airplane. So, were there three caskets? I mean, how could they "return" a casket with broken off handles? I am not a conspiracy theorist....I'm just trying to figure this out.

[mitcha]

body arrived at Bethesda in a plain military dhipping casket

[doonewatts]

I wonder if the funeral home contacted 'somebody' in government or FBI ensuring it got more than £100k for the casket to be returned to Washington

[billyv]

Yes, and this video completely misses it. As is pointed out in the documentary "JFK: What the Doctors Say", the guys who brought in Kennedy's casket when it arrived at The Bethesda Naval Hospital say it was a plain pine box with the President's body. Half an hour later, a beautiful casket arrives in the ambulance in which Mrs. Kennedy and LBJ were riding. But it was actually empty.

[chriswright]

The First casket was too big to fit on the plane. When JFK was dead secret service went out and bought the biggest and heaviest . Secret service agents didn't know the width of the loading doors underneath the plane.

[davidwilliams]

Been known Jackie when seeing her dead husband she quickly said that's not Jack. 1 autopsy photo I saw didn t look like JFK

[limeyosu]

this is not what I heard in another documentary which make more sense the first casket was too wide to get in the plane so the handles were broken off by secret service agents. So it needed replacing as it was damaged beyond repair.

[david-spliso]

The same casket is a bit of a red herring. The real issue is that it wasn't the same head wound that all of the Parkland Hospital witnesses reported. The large avulsed hole at the rear of his skull had 'disappeared' upon the autopsy inspection at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

[jeffeverett]

Jackie purportedly told a ss agent on board air force one after looking inside the casket that it wasn't her husband. He replied she wasn't cognizant at the time due to tranquiler. The president after arriving at Bethesda had an incision made on his right front forehead tapering down to his temple area. The doctors at parkland said this incision wasn't visible in Dallas.