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JFK – the aftermath of the assassination
Using Primary and Secondary Sources
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• Primary sources are original materials. That is, the creator has personal experience with the subject. They are from the time period being studied.
• Secondary sources are created after the event. They discuss, re-use, re-tell information that has been found in primary sources. The creator does not have personal experience with the event but has talked to/read about/listened to people who do.
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Primary Source: Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as President after Kennedy has died. Jacqueline is to his right. 22nd November 1963 – On board Air
Force One
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• What do you observe from this photograph?
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Primary Source: Photograph published in Lifetime taken on 22 November. What does this show about the reaction to Kennedy’s
death?
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Public reaction in US to JFK’s death
• Many felt the loss personally.• People were shocked.• People had difficulty accepting Lyndon
Johnson as the new President.
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Primary Source: PEOPLE IN NEW YORK REACT TO THE ASSASSINATION (Broadcast)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qysmz-d-Y
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Secondary Source: Mad Men depiction (television show)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXOJaz_S8ms
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What we learn:
• From the primary source we learn that…• This is a reliable source because…/This is an
unreliable source because…• This is a useful source because…
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• From the secondary source we learn…• This is a reliable source when used in
conjunction with…• This is a useful source because…
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Lee Harvey Oswald (information from Retrospective 11)
• The Dallas Police Department arrested and then released several suspects.
• 1.50pm, 80 minutes after the assassination, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald in a cinema.
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The Case
• Oswald worked in the Texas School Book Depository, people reported that shots had ben fired from there.
• They found a rifle and spent bullets on the sixth floor.• On Nov 22 he carried a long parcel to work.• A work colleague said he saw Oswald sitting on the 6th
floor, 35 minites before the assassination. • Dismissed from the Marine Corps for being “undesirable”.• Sources suggested he spoke Russian, lived in the Soviet
Union (Russia) for 3 years and attempted to gain Soviet Citizenship.
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• Sources also said that he had tried to murder US General Edwin Walker and was a committed supporter of Fidel Castro (Cuban leader).
• Police believed he had killed policeman JD Tippit, an hour before his arrest.
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No Trial
• There was never a trial.• 24 November 1963 police were transporting
Oswald to the County Jail. They were in a basement car park when Jack Ruby, a Dallas Night club owner, came forward and shot Oswald in the stomach.
• Oswald died in surgery.• He was buried on 25 November 1963, the same
day as JFK.