SAM 26000 was in service from 1962 to 1998 , serving Presidents Kennedy to Clinton . On 22 November 1963 , SAM 26000 carried President Kennedy to Dallas , Texas , where it served as the backdrop as the Kennedys greeted well-wishers at Dallas 's Love Field . Later that afternoon , Kennedy was assassinated , and Vice President Lyndon Johnson assumed the office of President and took the oath of office aboard SAM 26000 . On Johnson 's orders , the plane carried Kennedy 's body back to Washington . A decade later , SAM 26000 took Johnson 's body home to Texas after his state funeral in Washington
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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