In the play, there were many characters that portray the characteristic of the assassinators and the presidents. My favorite character was Balladeer/ Oswald. He is my favorite character because out of all the assassination attempt on the president, Oswald was the most qualifying person. Balladeer/ Oswald. Was an ex-marine was had some experience with handling fire arm. In addition, aside from having special skill to end a person’s life, his character was not as boring as all the others. Furthermore, the person who was playing Balladeer/Oswald character in the play has a good voice for singing. Plus, during the play, Balladeer character was in modern day uniform. Adding to that, I believe the reason I chose Oswald character as my favorite is
However Castro found out about the plot, apparently through one of the Mafia bosses who was a Cuban sympathizer, Carlos Trafficante, and redirected it back at Kennedy. Another one of the mafia bosses also wanted to get back at Kennedy. Kennedy had won the presidential election with the mafia's help, and still his brother Robert, Attorney General at the time, was publicly prosecuting these same bosses as an effort to put down organized crime. It is believed that Trafficante redirected the Cuban exiles to accompany Oswald in Dallas. The third is the amount of government cover-ups that arose from the assassination. One year earlier Kennedy had made a secret pack with Russia that he would not interfere with the Cuban government. But Kennedy broke this pack by plotting to assassinate Castro. It was believed that if Castro was assassinated then Russia would have retaliated with nuclear weapons. Therefore Kennedy had to be eliminated so that this would not have happened. His death virtually eliminated the threat of Soviet retaliation against the U.S. for his plot to remove Castro using Mafia resources. The murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby plays into this theory that the government was somehow involved. Why would Jack Ruby kill Oswald? I believe that Ruby killed Oswald so that he would not leak to the public that the assassination was a conspiracy. How would the American people take it? Our president was killed by our own
One of the many reasons was that he wanted the bubble top to the motorcade off so the crowd could see him, and Oswald the assion could see him. This was a risky chance. If the bubble top was on, the bullet would go through, but at least it slowed the power of the deadly bullet. Oswald was also on the sixth floor of a book depository. He was looking down at the president so when he shot, it hit his skull. Or the
Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother, Robert, goes to see his mother, Marguerite Oswald, but he slowly realizes that she is crazy, and will never believe that her son killed JFK. Robert is confronted about his future, and how people would treat the brother of the most hated man in America at the time, but he refuses to change his name or leave the Dallas area. The third group is the FBI, where agent James Hosty received a death threat from Lee Harvey Oswald days before the assassination. After an argument with his boss, he agrees to burn the files that detail his investigation of Oswald, destroying the evidence of the FBI’s mistake. The fourth group is the Parkland hospital staff, which has to rush to give President Kennedy emergency treatment in the beginning of the movie. The doctors and nurses are shocked, because they don’t learn that Kennedy was shot until he arrives, and have no time to prepare. Despite their best efforts, they can’t save JFK or Lee Harvey Oswald, who was treated there after Jack Ruby shot him while he was in police custody. Jackie Kennedy is shown briefly grieving for her husband, but she was not involved in any of the movie’s major
As we all know, Oswald was the man who supposedly shot and killed JFK, the 35th president of the united states. But what if I told you that Oswald could have been in a larger conspiracy, and that is what we are going to talk about.
November 24, just two days after the assassination of the president, Oswald was being transferred out of the Dallas police station where he had been interrogated. Oswald was shot and killed on live television by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner with links to local organized crime bosses. Based on his curious recent history and political affiliations, Oswald was a believable assassin in the eyes of the American public, and his death at the hands of Ruby seemed to bring closure to the astonishing case (“Alternative”).
Swanson also greatly depicts the murderer, Lee Harvey Oswald and his precise plan for killing the president. The killing occurred during the President’s motorcade through downtown Dallas, as it lead straight to Oswald’s work. “President Kennedy did not like it when his bodyguards rode on the car because he thought it made him look less approachable to the people (page 95).” Sitting in the car was Jackie to his left, the driver, and the Texas governor in the front. Oswald shot two bullets before successfully slicing through JFK’s hair, making a hole in his scalp, perforating his skull. The book continues telling the events of actions taken after his murder, including Jackie’s distress, the funeral, and his burying.
trigger. Oswald was just an easy mark to pin the crime on, he was set up, most likely by the CIA
In the book, Killing Lincoln, author Bill O’Reilly portrayed John Wilkes Booth as an obsessed assassin who recruited various conspirators. He described the events leading to President Lincoln’s murder and the hunt to capture Booth and his cohorts. Killing Lincoln is comprehensible to anyone as young as a middle schooler, although it would be best suited for an older reader with an interest in history and politics. Killing Lincoln could also be appealing to those intrigued by conspiracy plots and criminal motives. O’Reilly constructed an action packed thriller of patriotism and war to keep the reader engaged.
The character in the movie that I chose is the actor John Matthews the guy that John Wilkes Booth gave the confession letter to. The role that John Mathews had in the story was burning the letter. The letter was immensely important. He had valuable information that could have been used to save lincoln.
After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, there were a lot of conspiracies regarding the mastermind behind the assassination. President Kennedy was assassinated due to him seeking a way out of the Cold war and starting negotiations with Soviet Union. Charlene Fitsimmons, a friend of JFK was told by an agent named Gary Underhill that he was killed by CIA and that Oswald was a CIA agent. He was helped and was set up by CIA to go for it. According to Gary, there were clear evidences of how they made their way through and he couldn’t believe that they got away with it but they did.
Two days after the JFK assassination, the official suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot dead by Jack Ruby, a Dallas strip club owner. Oswald’s famous remark that “I’m just a patsy” (Warren Commission Hearings, vol.20, p.366) inevitably led to suspicions that his murder was a convenient execution.
John Wilkes Booth, the murderer of Lincoln, had many reasons for his actions. This is very important to people because there still might be some unknown factors for why John Wilkes Booth slaughtered Lincoln. Booth thought that assassinating Lincoln was a good idea, but it really only turned him into a hated and despised
The authors Dugard & Reilly make the point that 8 percent of Americans actually have this belief that Lee Harvey Oswald is the man that had something to do with the death of Abraham Lincoln. However, the authors in this book want the reader to know that is considered to be one explanation for "Killing Kennedy," which happens to be the current book written by authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. They clearly wanted to turn a presidential murder into a human awareness story. This type of intense dramatic is selling like hot cakes for a good reason. The authors made sure that Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot was effective. The authors that wrote this book wanted to make sure that they came across as obvious and clear, not being loaded with an overload of pesky footnotes. However, what they do for the reader is favor facts and the more mathematical the better it is for the readers because they are thorough about everything. The authors in the book want the readers to know as much details as possible. The author's account of the killing of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas talks about his private life and other gory details that have never been talked about in any other book that was written about John F Kennedy. With that said, this paper will give the author's review about what they want the readers to know.
On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald committed a crime that would go down in every history book in the United States. The assassination of our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is one of the most notorious, tragic events in U.S. history to date.
Regarding informational processing roles, monitoring role was hold by JFK as he indirectly scanned for information (i.e. in the reality, the U-2 spy plane pilots were the ones who do the dangerous photo-taking mission) about the existence of Cuban Missiles and about how to remove those Missiles out of Cuba, including the investigation on Alexander Fomin’s background that he delegated to Kenny and FBI’s Walter Sheridan. To disseminate the information, JFK trusted Kenny to pass his message to the subordinates (e.g. JFK told Kenny to tell the Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, the truth about the crisis issue). In addition to monitor and disseminator roles, the movie also showed how Robert McNamara, The USA Secretary of Defence, act as JFK’s spokesperson in Pentagon, making sure that no action was taken without JFK’s approval. Adlai Stevenson also got his share as a spokesperson as he represented and spoke for USA in the United Nation (UN). Personally, I think Adlai is the coolest character in this movie since he was the one who propose the idea of political negotiation (i.e. trading American’s missiles in Turkey with Soviet’s missiles in Cuba) which what in the end became the final solution of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I also love the part of the movie where he gave his counter-argument to Soviet’s Zorin at the UN Security Council meeting.