Thurgood and Cecilia had two sons: Thomas Jr. and John. Thurgood's biggest milestone came in 1961 when President John F. ... Thurgood was walking past the police station, when he heard some of the police officers shouting obscene words at a black prisoner. Thurgood heard one of the police officers tell the black prisoner if he didn't shut up, he would talk himself into a death sentence. Thurgood ran home and told his father what he had heard. ...

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At 12:30pm, while making a routine appearance in Dallas, Texas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while riding down Elm street in his open limousine. ... Many witnesses were noted saying that they heard shots coming from the grassy knoll, but the Warren Commission still came to the conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin. ...

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The assassination of John F. ... (Summers, 63) The Warren commission also chose to disregard over fifty witnesses who said they heard shots come from the grassy knoll, others who saw suspicious men hanging around in the rail yard behind the grassy knoll, as well as witnesses who saw smoke from behind the fence. ...

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JFK: Lone Assassin or Conspiracy? Facts Leading To Conspiracy: - Betty Palmer, a prostitute who was experiencing an overdose, tells doctors that a male Cuban client of hers told her that he and colleagues were going to kill the president. - Superimposed pictures of Oswald were put on the street 8 hours after the president's death. Why would somebody superimpose pictures if he were guilty of the assassination? ...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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