This conclusion is supported by the evidence that he was in possession of the Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle from which the shots were fired, he carried this rifle into the Depository Building the morning of the assassination, at the time of the event he was at the window from where the shots were fired, shortly after the assassination Oswald's rifle was found partially hidden between some cartons on the sixth floor and the improvised paper bag in which he bought the rifle to the building was found near to the window.2 Eyewitnesses such as Howard Leslie Brennan who was 120 feet from the...

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. Small's...

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The JFK Assassination: A Conspiracy or Tragedy? Forty years ago, President John F. Kennedy was shot and assassinated in broad daylight while on a trip to Dallas, devastating the nation and shocking the world. His accused killer was caught but was killed soon after. At least four ...

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John Adams once said, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people," so despite the fact that our nation's constitution establishes freedom from religion and thusly a government that cannot declare a national religion, religious Christian morality will always play into American politics regardless of the sect or branch of Christianity in power at that time (Romney). ... Throughout history, there have been many times that religion has been in quest...

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It also said that the government could use "fiscal policy, it power of taxing and spending, to stimulate the economy"(Schulman 36)... (9) In order to prove himself worthy of presidential office, LBJ pushed two landmark pieces of legislation in the 1950's. ...

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The Kennedy White House Administration played a tremendous role in the integration of The University of Mississippi and the Cuban Missile Crisis that happened between September 28, 1962 and October 28, 1962. In September 1962, James Meredith, an African American man, tried enrolling at the University of Mississippi. Mayhem immediately arose on the Ole Miss campus, with uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. As th...

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