The Real Reason JFK Had Two Caskets 

Probably to make the first casket wouldn’t be a shrine

It was a PG society then. Today, we are an R rated society where the first casket would be used for immoral greed of the few with the many being insulted by it. The only thing we take with us to the grave is our personality and the legend we build during our lifetimes. I believe the JFK Family did what was best for the personality and legend of JFK to survive forever.

Yes! The family wanted a wood casket and btw the government nor the Kennedy family never paid the O'Neal Funeral Home for the bronze casket in Dallas.

The bronze casket never had Kennedy's body in it. If you watch the video from the doctor who performed the autopsy he said Kennedy was in a plain wooden casket not the bronze casket

Not only were two caskets sent to Bethesda...two BODIES were sent too according to written accounts of witnesses.

That’s because she wasn’t there . Judy garland confessed..

⁠@@elizajayne2888wait like Jackie Kennedy wasn’t in the motorcade car? Like are you saying it was Judy Garland in the car? Sorry for all the questions, just curious

@@elizajayne2888like are you saying Judy Garland put on make up and acted as Jackie for the speech with LBJ after the assassination as a way for the hitman to control the narrative with an actress, Judy Garland, playing Jackie Kennedy as their puppet? You didn’t say much on it and now I’m searching Google to try and find out where this rabbit hole is

@@elizajayne2888 I don't believe this for a second

It’s c.t like u that give other c.t a bad name

huh you noticed that too.....seriously you would think he'd show something.... I was 4 at the time

@@rextrek I never trusted LBJ -- very creepy.

Not at all

HE WASNT 💯!!!

He wasn’t. He hated the Kennedys, especially Robert.

The SS hijacked the limo and the corpus. The Warren commission provided the disinformation. The media was partly complicit. Govt. Coverup.

I've always agreed. LBJ was involved in the plot to kill JFK. I will always believe this. Johnson wanted to be President anyway possible! I never liked Johnson as President either.

I would think so too.

Motive. Means Opportunity Who had the power to cover it up? ONLY 1 man, and one man ONLY satisfied ALL four criteria. And it sure as hell wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald.

He was only told about it the night before at the party.

I seen a video here on YT a short while back of his brother RFK in a recorded phone call with Johnson and he was blatantly out right accusing him of having his brother killed sometime before his own assassination... and there was also another one that was showing the possiblity of Bush Sr being involved in the incident as well and the reason being was it said that for some unknown reason that he had no recollection or account for his whereabouts for a few hours around the time of the incident not to mention that at the time he was CIA and was known for being a top notch marksman with a gun., and not to mention that if you are in the CIA and part of your job is the protection of the president especially when he is out touring a city just like the secret service and everyone else there that day was doing their job and they where they were and what they were doing,,oswold was in the school book depository and someone else was said to be up on the grassy knoll behind the fence near the RR tracks not to mention that they said that they have a photo of the area and in it you can see a small pull of white smoke and cigarette buts and then there's the whole magical bullet theory... not to mention that the bushes are said to be members of the skull and crossbones secret society saw that one as well, .. the reason I seen them is because I like conspiracy theory stuff and I never really trusted the whole narrative that they have given to the public about Kennedy's assassination especially with Oswald being the lone shooter and then being shot dead right after by Ruby the only reason why you would kill someone in a situation like that would be to silence them for a reason so that they can't talk... and it's been said that Jonathan didn't really like Kennedy for some strange reason......

The doctors who performed the autopsy state the body was received in a casket with no mention. of a 'shipping casket'. Obviously, if they had opened something other than the casket seen by millions on live TV, they would have said so. They confirm the body was wrapped in a sheet, not in a body bag. It seems to me that they would know what they opened. Commander Hume's testimony to the Warren Commission: "The Pesident's body was received in our morgue in a closed casket. We opened the casket, Dr. Boswell and I, and the President’s body was unclothed in the casket, was wrapped in a sheet labeled by the Parkland Hospital"

@mindfulskills, Having read "Best Evidence" I'd say yes you're right. Which causes me to question the purpose of this video. Is this deliberate misdirection?? Or was there actually three caskets?

I believe officer tippits grave is empty, or a John doe.

@@jeffeverett274 Yeah after decades of research that would be my theory too. Tippit used to get kidded for looking like JFK. Reading the exhaustively researched book "Best Evidence" it would appear that two bodies in two separate caskets showed up at Bethesda. Interviewing the witnesses some said they saw the body arrive at a back door in a plain grey shipping casket while others saw it arrive in the expensive ornate casket purchased in Dallas. Go figure...?? Then there's the alleged comment by Jackie saying "That's not my husband." I'd put money down it was actually Tippit.

have you seen "Everything is a rich mans trick from JFK to 911" documentary

This is true. She saw his head blown out right side. This other person in coffin was a police officer J. D. Tippet and veteran on the same day assinated because he looked similar to jfk. 10th street and Patton Ave. Another patsy.

Your a detective for sure..🌟🦊

Officials wanted to do an autopsy in Dallas. The Secret Service refused to allow it threatened the officials.

Only if you believe..

And in a body bag.

very insightful comment. but why was the casket in af1 empty, and the casket in af2 with jfk's corpse? ive read of some interesting bizzare stories on why. all a cover up.

Sometimes a rose is just a rose and things are simpler then thought.

​@jimpark09 Insightful comment? Maybe for conspiracy theroists who can not prove any of their wild claims.

@@jdm1039 Tell me why, in an FBI memo dated November 24, 1963 and marked Top Secret, did J Edgar Hoover state that the public must be led to believe that LHO acted alone. How could the FBI possibly know that with certainty within just 2 days? Hoover states, “The thing I am concerned about is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.” Hoover never thought this memo would be brought to light. And it wasn’t until 2017.

Some say JFK'S casket and body was thrown into the sea. They used officer Tippett's body to show wounds in the Warren report, as they showed a full intact brain and the Doctor who performed the autopsy stated the pictures shown, were not the pics he took. He swore on that. LbJ, Hoover and Dulles all conspired together with the big 4 oil men, and certain mafia did the cleanup and threats to and of witnesses and participants.

There were 3 caskets but when he got to the morgue at Bethesda he was in a standard aluminum shipping casket from what I read. It was what was used for Veterans coming home and most anyone flying to their final home by A/C. Why he was switched between his A/C and the morgue makes me go huh?

yep........ and just imagine, Lee Oswald did all that damage with his trusty $20. rifle.

The first casket wasn't returned. It was dropped into the ocean. The second casket was buried in Arlington.

​@@dab.You evidently didn't understand the question.

@@paulbunch5657 The question was "how could they "return" a casket with broken off handles?" The answer is, they didn't. What don't you understand?

He asked "were there three caskets "?

​@@paulbunch5657 There were two questions. The question I answered is quoted above. Surely that's obvious?

The future looked so bright in those days. Everything turned so dark and horrible after his murder.

I remember as a child, believe I was in the 2nd grade the principle came on the intercom & told us the President had been shot, I watched ALL the news about it, the horse drawn carriage, little John walking out there VERY SAD TIME

The secret service had to break handles of the casket to get it to fit through the door onto the plane , you ain’t going to have the president of the United States buried in a casket damaged with no handles . The government are obviously going to have a new casket for the funeral , the only controversy was the fact JFK’s body was removed from the casket on the plane and put in the lower deck luggage area , then had surgery to the head to make it look like shots from the back , when the plane arrived in Washington the plane stopped on the lead upto the docking bay , this is where the body was removed from the plane and put into another casket , the plane then moved forward again to the docking bay and the empty casket was taken of the plane and put into the waiting Ambulance . The casket with the body of the president was then taken to the naval hospital it arrived upto half an hour before the Empty original casket arrived . this was the controversy regarding the caskets , not what is said in this video . All this evidence comes from Mr Lifton check it out it’s been out in tinternet land for a decade.

I believe you are correct sir....... about one thing for certain. The caskets that were purchased in funeral homes, first in Dallas and then in the DC area don't explain the shell game that went on the day of the assassination when shortly after the body arrived at Love Field it was transferred into a body bag and a plain standard shipping casket. The original casket was evidently empty for the entire flight from Dallas to Bethesda. The whole operation was carefully managed once the Secret Service very forcibly removed the President's body from Parkland by government/military officials. A lot of these disturbing details are no longer just wacky rumors. A very ugly chapter in US history.

They didn’t do much to protect him either 🤔🤫

That is not quite correct. The casket handles were taken off so that it could fit in the space left by removing a row of seats on Air Force 1. The same bronze ceremonial casket was unloaded at Andrews Air Force base and accompanied by an honor guard to Bethesda mortuary. Unknown to the honor guard and Mrs Kennedy the bronze ceremonial casket was empty for the journey.

.@@johnbellingham9067 I've thought that as well. However, weren't the conspirators taking an awful chance that Mrs. Kennedy would not lift the casket lid during the plane ride to see its empty contents? Or was the casket lid locked or simply too heavy to lift?

@@amosburke511 Without a doubt a doctor or nurse on air force one would have offered Mrs Kennedy some form of sedation for the flight. She had been up early that day and must have been exhausted and stressed. Plan B would have been to reveal the switch to Mrs Kennedy if forced to do so, with the genuine reason that the Dallas Coroner Earl Rose may have found some legal reason to have JFK's autopsy carried out in Dallas and demanded the return of the Bronze Ceremonial casket. If JFK's body had already departed on Air Force 2 the Dallas lawmen would have been left fuming with an empty Bronze ceremonial casket.

@@johnbellingham9067 Jackie was present when the body was put in the casket at Parkland. She placed her wedding ring inside. She accompanied the casket all the way from Parkland to Love Field. How could it be empty?

They never do like the same.

More conspiracy nutjob garbage 🗑 🙄

It was officer Tippett. Shot 30 mins after JFK. Everyone called him Jack bc of his resemblance to JFK.

@@briansullivan5908 exactly.

Total myth. Internet and tabloid lie.

Correct. The two casket story in this absurd video is probably a smoke screen to distract from the real two casket mystery which is as you described in your comment. Many shenanigans going on through the night of Nov 22, 1963. And, of course, he was buried in a third casket obtained in DC. This is all news to lots of people, even though the story has been out there for over 40 years. A little accurate news coverage by the media would resolve this, but that is not going to happen.

Your summation is exactly correct. I read Lifton's book when it came out and couldn't believe he got interviews with the Paul O'Connor and Dennis David.

It was the openly anti-JFK Dr Jenkins who said to Lifton and Pat Valentino: Did the Kennedys ever pay for that casket?" Lifton said: "Yes, there is a receipt." (They took Jenkins to lunch for the interview.)

Jr. went down near Cape Cod. According to this video, the casket is near Delaware/Maryland.

@@rickcimino5483 but the Kennedy family took him way out to sea and buried him there. In that deep trench at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean.

Well, the first casket wasn’t buried at sea until 1966, so -- where did they keep JFK`s body all that time?

yea we probably won't combine you

@@bradleon1926 spell check can’t keep up. Ugh.

JFKs body was most probably moved into the aluminum shipping casket during LBJs swearing in ceremony. The shipping casket was then moved onto Air Force 2 before both planes took off from Love Field Dallas. With more than 2 hours flying time to Andrews Air Force base there was plenty of time to remove the bloody hospital sheets wrapped around JFKs body and replace them with a body bag. There was also the medical facilities and time for the best Dallas mortician John Liggett to modify the head wound and remove remaining brain matter and bullet fragments to a metal container. The metal container already contained pieces of skull and brain matter which Mrs Kennedy had instinctively and bravely retrieved from 6ft behind on the limousine trunk and handed to Dr Jenkins in Parkland Hospital. John Liggett received a phone call that afternoon and disappeared from his home for a couple of days with no explanation to his wife. He also acquired a lot of money soon after, was divorced and began a wild lifestyle. He was shot trying to escape from police custody !

You nailed it right on the head. Liggett was the best of the best...add his wifes account of the day of the assassination and on is something I think is true...so true in fact that she lived in fear of what she and her family knew for a long time. I am with you 100% on this one...The men who killed Kennedy documentary covers her interview very well I think.

Considering the CIA was more than likely involved in the assassination..just like they have been involved in other catastrophes in the US…

@@johnbellingham9067 thanks mate, looks like I have a new person to research re. Liggett. Any good resources I could look at ?

@@TimChadwick-nu3du John Liggett was one of the many amazing characters around JFKs assassination. You couldn't make up such a person. Google far and wide in newspaper reports , death notices and JFK books.

it WAS interesting but the fact that they didn't or couldn't use the original Dallas casket turns out to be a very minor issue. The big issue is that the president ended up in a plain shipping casket which was necessary because they needed to "prep" the body for the farce of an autopsy that was going to be needed to prove that there was no conspiracy (that only 3 shots were fired)

I’m with you on this. Why two caskets leaving Dallas to dc?

@@henriettalowe4689 Only one casket left Dallas, accompanied all the way from Parkland to DC by Jackie Kennedy. The same casket which was opened by Hume and Boswell at Bethesda, in which they found Kennedy's body wrapped in sheets labeled Parkland Hospital. There's a lot of nonsense written about a shipping casket, which was delivered to Bethesda but which did not contain JFK's body.

yep this video is idiotic. I agree with you. He leaves Texas in a fancy coffin and arrives at Bethesda in a shipping coffin. That's what we talk about, not what he's buried in. Who cares how many coffins there where in total.

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the best explanation I have seen is that the transfer to the shipping casket would take just a few minutes and that occurred while LBJ was being sworn into office. That was the only time the original casket was not within eyeshot of all the interested parties present. The swearing in was an unnecessary formality that LBJ insisted on........ evidently for good reason.

@@garyhamalainen1651 Thanks

Spot on, this video is bull, the guy is just someone else trying to muddy the waters, and make it all a CONSPIRACY as they like to call everything. Problem is, we now know it was a Conspiracy FACT

Doesn't necessarily mean there was a cover up. It could have simply been evasive action to make sure the body got to where it was supposed go. The night of the assassination, no one in the government or elsewhere knew what we were dealing with - was it the Soviets? The Cubans? Was it domestic right wingers? Was it an inside government job? Was the crime over or where there other targets yet to be hit? No one knew. So, it is reasonable that steps were take to ensure the body (the evidence) of this dastardly crime got to where it needed to go. Now you don't have to believe that - but it is reasonable. And it is another explanation for why the body was placed in the shipping casket (other than cover up) - if it was in fact placed in a shipping casket b/c there is debate about that too. People often forget that Kennedy friends and loyalist including his personal physician were present in the room while the autopsy was being performed. So, if there was a caver-up involving the autopsy, those Kennedy loyalist would have had to be in on it. Highly doubtful.

@@kenb3552 If there was a valid reason for the aluminium shipping casket why not reveal when and where JFK's body was loaded into it and by whom ? There is evidence from several Bethesda morgue assistants that JFK's body was unloaded from the aluminium shipping casket and then later reloaded into the Bronze ceremonial casket for the body to again be unloaded in front of the honor guard and the formal autopsy begin at 8pm. Actual custody of JFK's body was with the secret service agents (possibly Greer and Kellerman). The secret service agents loyalty switched from JFK to LBJ from 1pm in Dallas when JFK was declared dead. Mrs Kennedy tried to stay with the Bronze ceremonial casket from when it left Parkland Hospital in Dallas until it was delivered to the autopsy in Bethesda Naval hospital. She did not have access to the Bronze Casket for at least two time periods. The first was during LBJ's swearing in ceremony in Airforce 1 at Love Field Dallas, where LBJ invited her to witness his swearing in and the second was on arrival at Bethesda where she went up to some private rooms to change and rest. The second period was when JFK's body was re loaded from a morgue table into the Bronze ceremonial casket. In the period between unloading from the aluminium shipping casket and reloading to the Bronze casket photographs and x-rays were taken. I have formed the conclusion that JFK's body was transferred to the aluminium shipping casket during the swearing in ceremony and flown to Andrews airforce base on Airforce 2. I remember seeing a video news report stating this but cannot find the report now. At some time JFK's body was taken out of the hospital sheets it was wrapped in at Parkland and placed in the body bag which was unloaded from the Bronze ceremonial casket at Bethesda morgue. Mrs Kennedy, the Honor Guard and people like Richard Lipsey were deceived into thinking JFK's body was in the Bronze casket all along. Ask yourself why? The answer is pretty obvious. At some point JFK's head wound was altered and all remaining brain matter removed including bullet fragments making it impossible for Drs Humes and Boswell (who had never done a single bullet wound autopsy in their medical careers) to accurately determine the direction of the head wound and the type of ammunition used. The brain remnants were placed in a metal container and this has gone missing unaccounted for. Dr Finck the third pathologist arrived later to the autopsy. He had some gunshot wound experience. The autopsy was a sham. The Parkland doctors were not consulted until the next day. They still cannot agree with the photographs taken in Bethesda. The brain remnants were never properly sectioned and examined for direction of the bullet.

@@kenb3552 Not highly doubtful if those loyalists had been convinced that they were doing it for national security reasons. That could have been the ruse they used to cover it up from everyone.

@@user-it2nk5gf4c If if if. I guess one can always say - "yah, but if. . . ." Is there anything - even a shred of evidence - to support such a notion???

The Secret Service broke the casket handles off in order to fit it into the plane. They also had to cut part of a section of metal inside the plane to get the casket through the door and into position in the back of the plane.

I agree, nothing but lies & BS.

You said it! ✔

Bullshit

@@jetcat132 The Warren Commission's report is bullshit. People who still believe the Warren Commission's report after 60 years and mountains of evidence to the contrary have to be the most gullible people on the planet.

They were burying the empty casket itself at sea.

You don't bury a casket at sea. That is bullshit. No point in it. Burials at sea do not include a casket, they drop the body overboard. No reason to bury a casket, empty or otherwise. This is another lie. Something stated to keep people satisfied.

@babskaz74 yes it is

Tippet looked nothing like Kennedy - and his body never left the morgue in Dallas until he was waked and buried. Tippet had an open casket wake and private funeral.

Me too -

Did she go with the casket in a casket package

My question also?

It was returned then confiscated and dropped in the ocean. That’s how I heard it

@@briansullivan5908I didn't hear anything about it being confiscated. I don't know of any reason it would have been.

@@DesignsbyDonBrown to dump it in the ocean

@@briansullivan5908 That's not a legitimate or legal reason to confiscate something.