Summary Of Marta Randall's A Warm, Clear Day Dallas

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Whilst reading “A Warm, Clear Day Dallas” the general mood of each paragraph seemed to be sinister or angry, and i think that was Marta Randall’s goal. To quote the text “Just a day earlier the city had been covered with hate posters and leaflets denouncing the president.” (Par 2) Kennedy was forced to do some unpleasant things to avoid war, especially war with nuclear weapons and the people thought he just did this out of cowardness gaining more and more hate each day and with each action the people did not like. Kennedy also did not follow the constitution of the country to an exact fine detail, earning himself more hatred from his own people. “ John F. Kennedy has been president for a little more than a thousand days, and in that time he

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