Rushmore

If I could put four people on Mt. Rushmore, I would pick Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, Robert Oppenheimer, and Eisenhower.



The reason I picked Martin Luther King Jr. is because I beilieve he was the sole leader of the african-americans movement toward freedom. I also picked him because he was a leader with great ethics. He alway protested non-violently. And all of his protests were peaceful. My final reason for picking him was because he was a great Christian philosipher. Some of his work was fantastic. He had such great insight to the christian world. It was a shame his life was ended to soon.



The next person I picked was Jackie Robinson. I picked Jackie Robinson because he was the man to desegregate America's pastime, and pretty much all other sports. He was more than just a baseball player, and he showed that to the fans as well as America. I think Jackie Robinson deserves to be on this.


The third person I picked was Robert Oppenheimer. I picked him because I feel he is somewhat of an unsung hero. He practically won us World War II. When he invented the atomic bomb, it gave the United States power over the rest of the world, something we still partially have today. This invention also fueled Ike's presidency.


The final person I chose was Dwight Eisenhower. I think Eisenhower should be up their because he was a president that won. He won a war, won two elections, and won the adoration of the people. He did a lot, and played his cards right with the hidden hand policy. I really respect Ike as a good president, and I feel that he made a lot of right decisions. He was really well suited for the situation given to him in Korea, and won.

Important eyewitnesses of the JFK assassination

One of the many eyewitnesses I found interesting was Gordon Arnold. Gordon was off duty from the military, so he decided to take his camera and film the president. When he took his camera to the grassy knoll, a man in the "secret service" told him he could not be their for "security reasons". After the shootings another secret service officer, or the same one, says to give him his camera tape. That seems extremely suspicious to me. However, when he went on the Dallas Morning News and was interviewed on what happened in Dealey Plaza, a man named Ralf Yarbourough, said he saw Gordon, ""Immediately on the firing of the first shot I saw the man you interviewed throw himself onto the ground. He was down within a second of the time the shot was fired" Am I the only one who finds that strange that within a second he was down. I understand he was in the military, but that is insanely percise reaction time.

Was Kennedy Shot by only three bullets?

In an ABC video, Dale Meyers gives his take on the "single bullet theory". In this video he states that Lee Oswalt was the only killer of President John F. Kennedy. He generates a computer graphics analyzation of the Zapruder film. In this you can see the assassination from more than just one angle. He then provides strong evidence that their could be only one shooter. Lee Harvey Oswalt. They show a computer graphic of the shooting on how as soon as John F. Kennedy gets shot, Connaly made a reaction to the shot. They then were able to show that from the spot of where Kennedy was shot, they drew a line from Kennedy's shoulder to the window of the school book depository to the exact window where Lee Harvey Oswalt was shot.

After watching this film, I thought that Dale Meyers had a legitamite point on the shooting. I think he backed his hypothesis up with some strong details in his computer animation. I am currently undecided on the assassination. Meyers shows strong evidence, but I find it hard to believe that one single bullet could take that many "unexpected turns" and still end up in perfect condition. However, it is also hard to belive that their was a conspiracy, due to the majority of witnesses that claimed only three shots were heard. Plus, the guy who got "chipped by a bullet" I think that might have not been by Oswalt. Was he really shot by accident? Or was it intended? There are many diffrent questions surrounding the Kennedy assassination. There might be a day where we find out the truth, but for now the case is covered in a veil of mystery.