Today's trip to the Henry Ford Museum

"You May Already be a Wiener!"


The "Weinermobile". This was right at the main entrance to the Museum. It was a long time before I got that stupid "my bologna has a first name..." song out of my head...



This is Edgar Allen Poe's portable writing desk. A first generation "lap-top".



This is the Montgomery (AL), city bus that Rosa Parks was riding on when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.



George Washington slept here. Quite literally. This is Washington's camp cot from his military days. The whole thing folds neatly into a wooden box, seen there at the head of the cot.



The limousine that John F. Kennedy was riding in, in Dallas, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot him.



The chair, from Ford's Theater, that Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when John Wilkes Booth shot him.



Abraham Lincoln delivering his "Gettysburg Address". History teaches us that Lincoln wrote the "Gettysburg Address" on the back of an envelope. But here we can quite plainly see that he wrote it on a scroll.



And this is Lincoln writing his "Gettysburg Address". We know this is the real Lincoln, because he has "Abraham Lincoln" right there on the bottom of his shoe.

The Museum authenticates everything...