{"id":15252,"date":"2012-11-07T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:54:57","slug":"franklin-roosevelt-was-the-first-u-s-presidents-to-start-using-an-armored-vehicle-for-transportation-al-capones-cadillac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/franklin-roosevelt-was-the-first-u-s-presidents-to-start-using-an-armored-vehicle-for-transportation-al-capones-cadillac\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Roosevelt Was the First U.S Presidents to Start Using an Armored Vehicle For Transportation, Al Capone&#8217;s Cadillac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?attachment_id=15253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15253\" title=\"TIFO Quick Fact- Franklin Roosevelt Armored Car Fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Franklin-Roosevelt-Armored-Car-Fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Franklin-Roosevelt-Armored-Car-Fact.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Franklin-Roosevelt-Armored-Car-Fact-340x383.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Text Version:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFranklin Roosevelt was the first President to have an armored car. \u00a0But why he would need one, and where he got it,\u00a0might surprise you. \u00a0In 1941, the secret service found themselves in a bit of a jam. \u00a0The Japanese had just\u00a0bombed Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt needed a ride to address both houses of congress. \u00a0Normally, they would&#8217;ve just driven him in his 1939, V12 Convertible. However the attack on Pearl Harbor had the secret\u00a0service nervous that an attack may be made on the President. \u00a0So driving a non armored car was out of the question. They had roughly 24 hours, to come up with an armored vehicle to transport the President and thanks to congress,\u00a0they had a spending limitation of only $750 (which amounts to roughly $10,500 in today&#8217;s terms). \u00a0Thankfully,\u00a0a secret service agent named Mike Reilly, remembered seeing an armored 1928, 341A Cadillac Town Sedan at the Treasury\u00a0Department&#8217;s impound lot. \u00a0It was none other than Al Capone&#8217;s Cadillac that had been seized for tax evasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to have an armored car. \u00a0But why he would need one, and where he got it,\u00a0might surprise you. \u00a0In 1941, the secret service found themselves in a bit of a jam. \u00a0The Japanese had just\u00a0bombed Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt needed a ride to address both houses of congress. \u00a0Normally, they would&#8217;ve [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[3039,3038,3032,1112,2711,756],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-armored-transport-of-us-president-fact","tag-franklin-roosevelt-fact","tag-fun-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-random-facts","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15255,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions\/15255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}