Jack Ruby

On November 22, 1963 horrific news shocked the nation: President John F. Kennedy had been shot. However, the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald just an hour later settled some nerves, and more so, he was murdered by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner just two days later. The newly sworn in President, Lyndon B. Johnson, issued the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone in murdering the President, however, the majority of Americans today do not believe that finding.…

The Kennedy Assassination November 22, 1963. This should just be a random date in history but instead it now has such a huge meaning to every American. This is the day that President John F. Kennedy was viciously shot, and killed. President Kennedy was riding through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas starting his campaign when he was all of a sudden shot and later died.(“Death Of The President”, 2016) This campaign that President Kennedy was just beginning was a campaign of re election, and this…

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. The majority of the world called him President John F. Kennedy or President J.F.K. John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States of America ("Life of John F. Kennedy.") President Kennedy is argued to be the youngest presidents elected to office. Theodore Roosevelt was 42 years old when he was president; however he was the youngest person to assume office after William McKinley was assassinated. Therefore…

The Southern Railroad freight train that was transporting these eight boys at the time was also being used as transportation for Victoria Price, Ruby Bates, and their men. Hoboing was a common pastime in the Depression year of 1931. And for these boys, riding trains was an adventure that was taking them to a place to find jobs. Soon after the train crossed the Alabama border, a white man walked…

In 1963, the president of the United States, was brutally murdered by being shot while in a motorcade driving down Elm Street in Dallas, Texas as he was campaigning to be re-elected. The FBI say that Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. Marine, fired off 3 shots at the car in which the president was riding in the back of with his wife, the Governor of Texas, John Connally and his wife also. As the vehicle with the Kennedys and Connallys drove past the Texas School Book Depository building, Oswald…

Uncle Ronnie, who would rap with him. Ronnie committed suicide in 1991, which really devastated Eminem. He got a passion in rapping at the age of fourteen. He joined Mike Ruby in rapping. They called themselves “Manix” and M&M”, which later became Eminem. He competed in rap competitions at Osborne High School. He rapped with “New Jacks”, later moving…

There are many theories on how John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, but which one is true? John Kennedy was not the best president the United States had but he had goals to make the country better. He was forty-three when he was elected, he was the youngest president to be elected. On May 25,1961, he addressed congress saying “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”…

that followed, through unsubstantial evidence, Lee Harvey Oswald would be convicted for this heinous crime, however, before he could have a chance to prove his innocence in a fair and just trial , he was shot and killed by a Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. After 52 years, conspiracist are reluctant to believe in the unsubstantial evidence provided by the Warren Commission that Oswald was the sole murderer of JFK, leading to the creation of…

METHODOLOGY Several scholars from the mental health sector have called upon media practitioners to educate themselves on the issue of representations of mental illness, and to work towards reducing the stigma that surrounds it (Nairn & Coverdale, 2011; Oostdyk, 2005; Diefenbach & West, 2007; Pirkis et al., 2006; Goodwin, 2014). Using an interpretivist ontology to guide my research, the creative artefact is Hysterical, a practice-based television pilot featuring three women, who all live with…

John F. Kennedy’s assassination is the topic of multiple conspiracy theories based on who actually killed the 35th president of the United States, although Lee Harvey is subjected to being the killer. A documentary on the assassination reveals new evidence that Oswald was the lone-gunman. He killed Kennedy in Dallas with his twenty-one dollar, mail-order rifle and that there was no evidence of conspiracy, foreign, or domestic. But why didn't Oswald's first bullet hit Kennedy? Max Holland set out…