Henry Ford is my hero. He is the founder of Ford Motor Company. Is he your hero too?
Henry Ford is my hero. He is the founder of Ford Motor Company. Is he your hero too?
Added (1). @Flower: He was one hell of a man.
Love the cars
Hate the man
Newspaper: This Day in Jewish History 1927: Henry Ford Says Sorry for anti-Semitic Spew
Jewish publisher's libel suit led the auto manufacturing mogul and publisher to apologize for anti-Semitic articles in his newspaper. This was too much for the headstrong Sapiro, and he decided to sue the business titan for libel. He sought a reward of $1 million, a large sum at the time and one that made for splashy headlines.
After more than two years of preliminary legal procedures, the Sapiro suit came to trial in Detroit in March 1927. Leading Ford's defense was James A. Reed, a serving US senator from Missouri. The climax of the trial was to be the appearance on the witness stand of none other than Henry Ford himself, who had been subpoenaed by Sapiro. The night before his scheduled testimony, Ford was in a mysterious automobile accident, in which his car was supposedly pushed off the road and into a gulley by a Studebaker. After being rushed to Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit, he turned out to be only mildly bruised, but as his attending doctor told a reporter, it was the "shock of the mishap" that mattered.
Ford's appearance on the stand was thus delayed, and in the meantime his lawyers began grilling Sapiro on the stand. It was at this stage that the Ford defense team alleged that Sapiro's attorneys had tried to buy off a juror. The juror had spoken to a reporter, and the accusations made big headlines. The judge declared a mistrial.
A new trial was announced for September. Before it could commence, however, Ford's people secretly made contact with Louis Marshall, a prominent Jewish attorney and one of the founders of the American Jewish Committee. Marshall had long been troubled by Ford's public anti-Semitism, and he challenged him publicly on it, with little success. Now, however, Ford asked Marshall to draw up a letter of apology and explanation for him to sign. In it Ford was to ask for forgiveness for having published the "Protocols," which he acknowledged, "have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries."
Liked the man but not his cars that much. I'm a Chevy guy myself
Yes - certainly is.
I also like Benjamin H. Freedman and Gilad Atzmon.
Yes, he said "The business of America is business"
He was a racist and the cars are a pile of crab. I had a ford escort!@#$% … Then i had a Pickup ranger!@#$% … Nope no more…
- Would Henry Ford be sad about the state of his great company today? Ford automobiles are for the destitute among us, the poverty stricken, and are frequently given away on television. They are truly welfare on wheels. Henry was a great, rich man. What would he say to-day?
- Which American car company offers the best bang for your buck in terms of power? Chevy, dodge or ford? And specifically which car and model is it? I'm talking about the most power for the least money
- What would i have to do to work for ford motor company? Like what classes should i take that will help me work for ford. Like test drive vehicles or design some of there cars. Anything basically
- What car company do you show your loyalty to? We all have things we love in life, one of them could be cars, growing up around them I grown a grand respect for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Especially Chrysler. But this is a question to all car lovers or car family's out there, which car company to you respect the most?