The many pulled the gun case out and started walking towards the grassy knoll just up the hill. ... These are just a few of the reports that have been given describing how people saw what appeared to be other people involved in the shooting. ... After the shooting, the rifle was found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository and was assumed to be Oswald's gun. ... One week before the shooting, a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's drove Oswald to the Book Depository. ... The day of the shooting, a brown paper bag was said to have been found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository. ...

• Word Count: 2140
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great to take the risk in this case- [p.6]. ... RFK admits that once the quarantine started President Kennedy had no control over the course of events [p.49]. ... That decision shows how high the stakes were during the Cold War and how the decisions by innately fallible humans can affect the course of history. ... It al...

• Word Count: 2306
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This book does not try to make a political statement by addressing the issues surrounding America's involvement in Vietnam. ... Once the foundation had been laid, the book jumped quickly into the story of the battle. Here are a few examples of the most memorable short stories told in the book. ... To properly understand how America's involvement in Vietnam came about one must look back into history a long ways. ... It has been suggested using declassified documents that General Taylor and General Harkin deliberately misled the President with falsified reports about U.S. military prog...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School