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The idea was to photograph a hundred gun owners, in their homes, and do a gallery show. I figured this would take about two years. But very soon after I started, it became evident that my ambitions were too low. My mailbox flooded with letters from people I didn’t know wanting to participate — I realized that I could probably photograph a hundred people in two months, but it wasn’t a number of people that was important, it was their stories — a cowboy in Texas, a survivalist in Montana, a deer hunter in Pennsylvania, a sheriff in Georgia, a soldier in Idaho…. What I really needed, I realized, was to get moving, to drive across the country and find America somewhere between here and there.

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The white Cadillac hearse earned its place in American history for a somber three-mile drive from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Dallas Love Field the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963.

Inside, a bronze coffin carried the body of President John F. Kennedy, his widow within arm’s reach, his personal physician and a Secret Service agent nearby. Another Secret Service agent took the wheel.

The trip took 10 minutes, 10 minutes of an extraordinary and tragic afternoon.

The hearse, the first to roll off the assembly line for Cadillac’s 1964 model year, remained in use for a few more years before being sold to a private owner in 1968.

But in May, it will be back in the public view, up for auction at a sale of rare and classic cars in suburban Houston.

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First off, I want to thank everyone for their two cents, it means a lot to me, even the comical responses.  Heck, I even had one reader email that post to a lawyer and he forwarded the response back to me.  I’m lucky to have some really great readers.

Now that a few days have past, I’m not quite as emotional so I can think a little more rationally.  Reminds me of something I learned in premarital counseling – respond don’t react. 

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