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You Gotta See This...Part II

Well, my mom wanted to give her opinion on the 80's TV shows, so here goes it.

Top 5 80's TV shows

1. Family Ties

2. Wonder Years

3. Cheers

4. Mork and Mindy

5. Alf

You Gotta See This

When I asked my dad who the top five athletes were in the 1970s, he said, in no specific order

Nolan Ryan

Joe Greene

Muhammad Ali

Terry Bradshaw

and finally, his personal favorite, Roberto Clemente.

Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated

Pictured above is Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination. But before we go into details on the picture, lets give credit to who took the picture. Robert H. Jackson was awarded the Pulitzer prize for this photograph. However, this wasn't Jackson's first encounter with an Oswald case. He also took a picture of the sixth floor of the Texas school book depository just seconds after the final shot, but by this time Oswald had already left his position. Prior to this photo, Oswald was found as the assassin of John F. Kennedy. I decided to look up some of the interesting looking people in this photo. The one getting shot (Lee Harvey Oswald) was just about to be taken to jail, when he was shot by Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby frequently carried a gun wherever he went, and impersonated a NBC news reporter to get a chance to kill Oswald. At the time he said he killed Oswald "to spare Jacqueline Kennedy the ordeal of appearing at Oswald's trial". We found out later that statement was bull, it was actually a spur of the moment deal. He was presented the opportunity and took it. The man to the left of Lee Harvey Oswald, is detective Leavelle. After the incident, he took some time to share his thoughts on the murder. He believes that if he wouldn't have been murdered he would have easily been convicted and sent to jail if not worse. Although I wasn't able to find out the name of the guy on the far right (believe me, I went through about 10 pages of google and got nothing) I like how in spite of all that is happening, he still needs makes sure to hold his cigarette while Oswald gets shot. I found that amusing.