McGuinn used his 360/12... on The Byrds’ very first single, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ recorded at Columbia studios in Hollywood in January 1965....

“That guitar was unfortunately stolen while we were performing at a college in New York,” he remembers, “and I think I borrowed a fireglo 360 12-string [with ‘old-style’ body] until I could replace it with another rounded mapleglo...in 1966.”

The Rickenbacker Book [1994], Bacon & Day, page 44
From an interview conducted with McGuinn in March 1994 (p. 96).

RICKENBACKER: Pioneer of the Electric Guitar,
Naoki Ogane, Rittor Music-Japan [1995], p. 124
From an interview conducted with McGuinn during his
1993 Japan tour.  Special thanks to Tuck Hersey
for the Japanese-to-English translation.

I’d love to have my old guitars back, but what can I do?

-- Roger McGuinn
The Guitar Magazine [UK], June 1997, pp. 40-41

Two weeks ago Roger McGuinn's first Rickenbacker 12 string surfaced.... and is currently available for sale.

-- Scott Jennings, Route 66 Guitars
Saturday, September 12, 1998

 

Doesn't work like that after 32 years. Roger is aware of the instrument, and has asked not to be involved.

-- Scott Jennings, Route 66 Guitars
Sunday, September 13, 1998

... That is not how the law works. McGuinn has been notified of the current owner of the instrument, and he knows that he has no legal claim to it. He told John Hall he had no interest in getting it back ....

-- Scott Jennings, Route 66 Guitars
Sunday, September 13, 1998

Actually, I have. He says has no particular motivation to get this guitar back. He went on and told me that he places no particular value upon his guitars other than as tools for making music. I suggested an analogy of a carpenter who keeps a hammer in his tool box, and if it is lost along the way, it's a cost of doing business. He agreed that is his thinking and I certainly can understand that.

-- John Hall, CEO Rickenbacker Int'l. Corp.
Wednesday, September 30, 1998