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    “Challenger” Ever had a day already planned out and then something happens that throws everything array? On the evening of January twenty-eighth in 1986, President Ronald Reagan's main goal of the speech was to mourn and remember the lives lost. Ronald Reagan delivered the speech because he was the President and also because he was fit to present this speech to the public because he's not personally invested in the lives that were lost or the failed mission but he still can understand the…

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    ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Ashley Dickerson January 23, 2016 A Brief History of the Drug War. (n.d.). Retrieved January 31, 2016 from http://www.drugpolicy.org/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-history-drug-war The creator of this article is the Drug Policy Alliance, a nationally renowned organization dedicated to promoting ethical drug policy. The Drug Policy Alliance is a diverse coalition of groups and individuals devoted to changing the landscape of the War on Drugs in the United…

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    Jesse Ventura as most of us know him today was born in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the USA. The date he came into this world was July 15th, 1951. The original name he went by when he was born was James George Janos. His career expands many different backgrounds and origins. He attended elementary and high school. He graduated in the year of 1969 from Roosevelt High School in 1969. Shortly after graduation, he took upon himself to join the United States Navy. When Ventura was in the…

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    of the United States of America. This boy's name was Ronald Reagan, or as his parents would lovingly call him, Dutch. He was born to Edward and Nelle Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan's parents were shoe salesmen and throughout his childhood they were somewhat gypsies. They moved from city to city all over the great state of Illinois looking for work. Finally, when Ronald was in high school, they settled down in Dixon. Here, Reagan took many roles in school plays, and played on many of…

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    In Margaret Thatcher's eulogy in honor of our former United States president Ronald Reagan, Thatcher describes to us that he is a great president, a great man, and a great American. Thatcher is very respectful throughout her eulogy and shows us a side to this that we would have probably never would have guessed. Thatcher calls Rageon by the name of “Ronnie”, in line 23 letting us know that she was very close to him. When Thatcher uses the word choice ‘Ronnie”, it shows how credible and…

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    Facts: Ardith McPherson was appointed a deputy in the Constable’s office of Harris County, Texas, on January 12, 1981. Her duties were only clerical. On March 30, 1981, McPherson discussed with her boyfriend, and fellow employee, a report about an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. She made the remark “If they go for him again, I hope they get him”. Her remark was reported to Constable Rankin, who fired McPherson, even though she told him she did not mean anything by it.…

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    Oswald These are reasons and facts on my understanding that Oswald was not the lone assassin, how he was part of a larger conspiracy, and how he was not completely innocent. According to The JFK Assassination, “The FBI told a man to keep quiet about one man, and the other with a gun.” I do not think that Oswald was the lone assassin because in the text a man saw two men, one a railroad worker, and one that looked like a person in a police outfit, and the FBI told that man who…

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    The assassination of John F. Kennedy was November 22, 1963. He was in a parade in Dallas, TexasX. He was there to get support for Democratic Party before the 1964 election. He was riding in a car that had three rows of seats and was a convertible. His wife, Jackie Kennedy, was sitting right next to him. John F. Kennedy was shot at three times. The first one missed and the second one hit his neck and the third one finally hit him in the head. Also the second shot hit the guy in front of…

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    malicious plot, Malcolm Wallace, and Lee Harvey Oswald had been puppets, that could be manipulated. Lyndon Baines Johnson, with the assistance of Lee Harvey Oswald, and Malcolm Wallace had Kennedy assassinated. The year previous to John F. Kennedy's assassination the United States, lent Oswald, a former marine 435.71 in traveling expenses to return to the u.s. Oswald was the only “shooter”, At the time of the shooting Oswald was the only one in the book depository without…

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination November 22, 1963 is a day carved into many Americans memory. This day will never be forgotten by most American citizens. This was the day John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was assassinated. JFK’s assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald and he acted alone in this assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald was one man with a grudge and a gun. It is reported that Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository (Ziegler). The shot that fatally…

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