The Assassination Of Martin Luther King Jr.

Each decade has it’s own defining events. The 1960s had the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the 1950s had the first people to ever reach the top of Mount Everest, and the 1940s had the infamous World War Two. But no decade in the twentieth century, other than the 1930s, has had one sole event define its entirety. This event was the Great Depression. Beginning in 1929, the Great Depression was present in every aspect of society from the richest CEO to the poorest pauper. Although the Great Depression dampened the American mood, it created a desire for security and stability in the United States while ultimately uniting the country politically through aspirations of reformation, economically through expanding Social Darwinism,

The United States would not be the same today if Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated on the unfortunate night of April 14, 1865. His killer, John Wilkes Booth, had a strong resent for the Union that subsequently caused a dramatic shift in history. This hatred was caused by many factors, such as his background and where he grew up, his lust for power and fame, and his mental illness. John Wilkes Booth, a master assassinator and conspirator, hoped to strengthen the confederacy by killing Abraham Lincoln. However, this murder created an even stronger opposition to the South than ever before.

On April 14, 1865 at twelve o’ clock midnight John Wilkes Booth lay in his bed at the National Hotel. Three days earlier he had attended a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. The civil war had commenced just two days earlier and the crowd was jubilant. When Lincoln concluded his speech with the the acknowledgment of black suffrage, Booth became incensed and declared that “Now by God, I’ll put him through, that will be the last speech he makes”. Booth was a staunch Confederate sympathizer and he had previously plotted a kidnapping involving the president in exchange for POWS between the northern and southern states. With that plan failed, he became desperate in figuring a way to put the power back in the Confederacy. Along with three other conspirators Booth realized exactly what needed to be done and that night at Ford’s Theatre, while a performance of the play “Our American Cousin” was appearing, Booth slipped into the Presidential Box seats where Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd were seated and shot him. Booth jumped onto the stage below and fled the scene among the chaos. As Lincoln lay dying a young surgeon named Charles Leale and other doctors in the audience tended to Lincoln and decided that traveling to the White house was out of the question, so carrying him out of the theatre on a stretcher, Lincoln was taken to the Petersen Boarding House

A year before his assassination, he spoke here at the Oxford Union talking on his experiences facing racism in America. At this moment, I learned how his views changed after splitting from his leader, Elijah Muhammad from only wanting to create a unity within the Nation of Islam, to willingly work with anybody to help tear down racism. Happy Birthday to one of the important visionaries of all time, the honorable Malcolm X.

About two or three years ago, I joined a couple of my friends from high school to have dinner with our old American history teacher. This is a man we respected as exemplary of good character, an intelligent man who had provoked us those years ago to think critically in new ways about the issues that have shaped our country and the debates that formed our American structures and institutions. The conversation that night, however, felt strangely alien to me despite how predictable it should have been, knowing that I would be reengaging with a conservative evangelical frame of thinking that I had spent years learning to leave behind. My old teacher talked about how when he looks around at the American political climate – the sorts of

The unrest of the 1960s reached a boiling point in 1968, a year that can be considered the most turbulent year in American history. The tumultuous events that took place in 1968 effectively transformed the face of the nation in every aspect; economically, socially, and politically. Failed military tactics, assassinations, and violent civil rights movements were the defining characteristics of 1968. Despite the few good things that came out of that year, much of 1968 was dedicated to rebuilding the country, tragedy after tragedy. The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, involvement in the Vietnam War, and escalating civil rights movements are a few of the quintessential events that contributed to

November 22, 1963 (Jennings), a day that changed American history, and a day that’s events still haunt the nation of freedom and liberty. Whether it be Jacqueline Kennedy’s pained cries or the hoodless limousine, a piece of this day in history lies in every American’s mind. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States of America (Bugliosi 11), to this day has several conspiracies, some disproved, and some still left for American people to ponder upon. Despite the plentiful amount of these questionable conspiracies, it is written in the Warren Commission that the monster behind the murder of the beloved leader of America was, in fact, one lone man by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. The belief that Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is strongly exhibited by the aim of the shots fired, the evidence detectives found at the crime scene, and Oswald’s previous attempts and successes involving murder.

President John F. Kennedy was mercilessly assassinated leaving the nation with just one question: “Was it a conspiracy, or was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone?” Investigation has not yet been able to shed light on the subject; however, resilient views are being expressed about which theory is accurate. The public has argued about whether or not political figures worked with Oswald to eliminate Kennedy. It is hard to believe that anyone would attempt to murder an individual of such high importance without assistance of those close to the target; therefore, a popular opinion is that the CIA and Secret Service were involved. This, however, is not the only conspiracy theory in regards to the assassination. Although many people have a strong opinion that Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy, it can be shown that the assassination was most likely a conspiracy.

“JFK Blown Away, What Else Do I Have to Say?”- Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

The death of John F. Kennedy has excite the interest of millions over the U.S for quite a long time. In 1976, the U.S Senate requested another examination concerning the death of John F. Kennedy he was killed in 1963 during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Individuals who had been included in the first examination were requested to put forward an expressions. The FBI and the CIA were influenced to discharge a greater amount of their evidence on Oswald. New lines of examination were opened and individuals who had not given confirmation were requested to tell what they know. The most critical proof were the photos and the sound recordings that the individuals had at the motorcade. The HSCA finished their examination in 1979 and they at long last went to a descrete decision that Lee Harvey Oswald shot three shots at Kennedy, one of the shots had killed Kennedy. The fourth shot was discharged from the “grassy knoll”. They reasoned that Kennedy was killed as an after effect of a wrong doing. There was a lot of reasons the HSCA resulted in these present circumstances choice, yet it was imperative that individuals knew why the case had re-opened over after 10 years.

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The President was making his rounds across the country, beginning to get ready for the next election season. Around 12:30, Kennedy was shot while riding in a convertible next to his wife. Hours later, he was pronounced dead, Lyndon B. Johnson was now sworn in, and Lee Harvey Oswald was in custody as the shooter. Two days later Oswald was shot at point blank range before he could be transferred and put through a proper trial (November). This is what was reported and seen, expect no one knew for sure Oswald’s motivation or if it was even him, which led to conspiracy theories being made up. The most believed one is that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was behind

It was, and still remains, one of the most controversial cases in American history. There are plenty of conspiracy theories, philosophies, and thoughts on what happened that fateful day, but one-question remains; who really killed President Kennedy?

On November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas one single event transpired one of the most contentious mysterious of our time, sparking an endless amount of criticism and conspiracy theories. Who truly killed President John F. Kennedy? The facts of the most famous assassination of an United States President in history are clear. The assassination happened on a routine visit to Dallas, Texas on the Presidential campaign trail. At 12:30pm shots are fired and President John F. Kennedy is mortally wounded. President John F. Kennedy is rushed to nearby Parkland Hospital. At 1:00pm President John F. Kennedy is pronounced dead. Approximately 1:15pm, 45minutes after the assassination, John F. Kennedy’s suspected killer Lee Harvey Oswald murders a police officer before being arrested in a movie theatre at 2:15pm. President John F. Kennedy is flown to Washington DC for the autopsy. Vice President Lyndon Johnson take the oath of office onboard Air Force 1. Two days later, Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby shoots and kills Lee Harvey Oswald in an underground parking lot. November 25, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington cemetery. (http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/us/john-f-kennedy-assassination-fast-facts/) That’s where the accepted facts of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy end, and the mystery begins.

The American Dream: success, happiness, riches, stability; all of these went out the window after the stock market crash in 1929. As we’ve all read about in history books and listened to the monotonous lectures in high school, America was a place of promise and full of revolutionary new ideas. Men were investing, women were working, and kids could play in the streets with a twinkle in their eye. Arthur Miller was the prodigal son of hard-working American immigrants who struggled through the depression. Married three times, once to the famous Marilyn Monroe, Miller was a critic at heart; chasing the American Dream in the 1940’s until the sole wore out of his shoes. "Because America has been bigger on promises than any other country, she

In the year 1865 on April 14, five days after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, one of America 's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, was shot and killed by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Specifically, John Wilkes Booth was an American play actor and a big sympathiser for the Confederacy. Booth was well known for his hatred towards the President and his crazy ideas and motives, which lead to the killing of Lincoln. Many conspiracies and theories today believed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was handled by John Wilkes alone, but other conspiracies believed that he did work with other conspirators.