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The history of the popemobile

For ages, popes road on the shoulders of the faithful. But after an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, everything changed. The popemobile was created to protect the pope from any harm with its heavy armor and glass cover. Pope Francis calls it, “a glass sardine can." Bill Plante reports from Washington.
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