Henry Ford stroke?

Question

Did Henry Ford suffer a stroke while watching a film on Nazi concentration camps?. I saw it on a movie called Ford: The man and the machine.

Answer 1

Ford suffered an initial stroke in 1938, he died in 1947 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 83 in Fair Lane, his Dearborn estate, and is buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.

Answer 2

Yes, according to the book, "The American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich," by Max Wallace, St. Martin's Griffin, 2003, (paperback) pg. 358:

" Each person had their own unique reaction to the stories coming out of / Germany immediately after the war ended but none perhaps as ironic-some would say fitting-as Henry Ford's. In the spring of 1946, the American government released a public information film called "Death Stations" documenting the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by U.S. troops a year earlier. In May, Henry Ford and a number of his colleagues attended a private showing of the film at the auditorium of the Ford Rouge River plant, a few days before the documentary was to be released to the American public.

Most of the assembled Ford executives sat rapt as the first gruesome images of the Majdanek concentration camp flickered on the screen. They reeled in horror at the graphic footage, which included stark images of a crematorium, Gestapo torture chambers and a warehouse filled with the victims' belongings. When the lights went on an hour later, the company executives rose, shaken, only to find Henry Ford slumped over in his seat, barely conscious. Sitting there witnessing the full scale of Nazi atrocities for the first time, the old man had suffered a massive stroke, from which he would never fully recover."

So according to this book, Ford did suffer his final stroke while watching the U.S. Government documentary on the concentration camps.

Answer 3

He had his initial stoke in 1938. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1947.
He was anti-Semitic, but I've never heard of his having a stroke while watching a film on Nazi concentration camps. It sounds a little too much like irony or poetic justice for real life.

Answer 4

I don't know. but Jack Daniels died from a broken toe. He kicked a safe in his office,broke his big toe,and somehow developed gangreen.

Answer 5

i think he did