American History Vs Jfk Essay

There are similarities and differences in how the authors of “American History” and “TV Coverage of JFK’s Death Forged Mediums’ Role” use Kennedy’s assassination in their writing. While the short story & the news article had some similarities in how the authors used Kennedy’s assassination, both had different effects on readers, and both writers had different purposes for their writing.
There are similarities in the “TV coverage of JFK’s Death” and “American History”. The Similarities in these two stories are that they both involve JFK dying. Also the two stories include how this affected the people and the way TV is today. They also are similar because they show how his death changed the world. An example of why they are related by JFK’s Death are here “She sat in front of the TV holding a white handkerchief to her face.” This shows how people were affected from the death of the president. The example from the TV coverage is “But the JFK assassination coverage changed our expectations of the news and, by extension,the pace of our lives.” …show more content…
Some differences are that the TV coverage is more truthful because it's coming from adults and actually what happened also it is more based on the facts of what happened. The American History is more opinionated because it's coming from a little girl's thoughts and she is not very concerned about JFK’s Death. Another Difference is that TV coverage is a news article and American history is a short story. An example that she was not very concerned with JFK’s death is shown here “Though I wanted to feel the right thing about President Kennedy’s death, I could not fight the feeling of elation that stirred in my chest.”. An example that the TV coverage is more factual is shown here” 90 percent of homes with TVs watched the JFK assassination coverage that weekend; A. C. Nielsen 1 said the average home tuned in for 31.6