Ford Lecture Series: The Last Days of Henry Ford

The California Automobile Museum welcomes automotive historian and award-winning author Henry Dominguez for three fascinating presentations exploring the people, personalities, and design decisions that shaped the Ford Motor Company.

Drawing upon more than fifty years of research and interviews with members of the Ford family, designers, executives, and employees, Dominguez takes audiences beyond the familiar legends to reveal the human stories behind one of America’s most influential automobile companies.

In the third lecture of this series, get an intimate and revealing look at the final chapter in the life of an American industrial giant.

Henry Ford changed the world, but the final months of his life remain among the least understood periods in his remarkable story.

In this compelling presentation, historian and author Henry Dominguez reconstructs Ford’s last eighteen months—his declining health, his return to the presidency of the Ford Motor Company, the tensions within his family, and the extraordinary events surrounding…