Citiations

Gregory, Paul. "Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Nov. 2013. Web. May 2017.

"Interview: Robert Oswald." PBS. Public Broadcasting Service, n.d. Web.  May 2017.

Lambert, Bruce. "Jim Garrison, 70, Theorist on Kennedy Death, Dies." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Oct. 1992. Web. May 2017.

"Summary of Findings." National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Web.  May 2017.

US history Research Essay

JFK is a film that sets out to explain one man's quest to find out the truth over the assassination of the former president John F. Kennedy. While Glory is a film about an all black regiment in the Civil war being lead by Col.Robert Shaw. These two films may seem unrelated but in actuality they are a bit more connected than most realize. While JFK itself is a bit of an interesting movie because most of Jim Garrison's claims have and might not ever be proven. 

JFK and Glory are two films that in regards to the production of the film itself are similar due to the fact that while both based on a written work, JFK being based on a novel by Jim Garrison along with another by Jim Mars and Glory being based upon the letters of Shaw. They both are criticized as well by historians glory is more of a historical fiction movie with real people but some characters are still made up along with certain scenes the filmmakers decided to throw in that never happened. JFK is similar in that certain scenes are made up for the film such as Jim Garrison's big speech at the end while it was a mix match of different speeches he had told over the course of his long crusade he never said that entire speech in court. The two films are more Hollywood than historical but for the most part stay true to the historical side of things. 

JFK itself is a bit of a hard movie to correctly say if it is historical accurate or not due to the fact that Jim Garrison's argument was according to the New York Times dismissed by public officials and experts but at the same time The Warren Commission's also was full of inaccuracy's itself. So while the film being based upon real people according to Wikipedia and IMDB every major person in the film is real. While two people having slight changes to them one being the gay prisoner "Willie O'keefe" who was not a real person but based on 4 testimonials from 4 different people (Perry Russo, David Logan, Raymond Broshears and William morris.). The other character having an even smaller change and that being their name, Jack Martin the old man at the racetrack's real name was Edward Suggs but he went by Jack Martin. Every other major character is based upon a real person and the cast looks strikingly similar to the person they are portraying. 

Personally I would have to say for now that the movie is split down the middle in terms of it's historical accuracy due to the fact that most of this info is classified and won't be released any time soon regarding the JFK assassination. Even reading primary and secondary sources there is a confusing grey area that they find themselves in. On Archives.org reading the house committee of assassinations report from the 1970's is still a bit confusing due to the fact they state that the CIA, FBI, Secret service, Cuban Government, and Soviet Government were not involved with the assassination but at the same time saying the secret service did not provide adequate protection for Kennedy and that the Department of justice did not do a good job with leading the Warren Commission's investigation of the assassination in 1964. This is further jumbled that in the film and reported upon by the New York Times that this is basically Garrison's whole argument that the anti-Castro extremists in the CIA were in on the plan to kill JFK. The Reasons being that they did not want Kennedy to ease tensions with Russia or Cuba along with retreating troops out of Vietnam. In the movie this point is also shown by the character Mr.X who is based on L.Fletcher Prouty a man who worked for Kennedy in the 1960's but the problem with him is that some of the claims in the movie have been debunked by archive.org and other websites as well.   

Even Lee Harvey Oswald himself is in a confusing grey area, on PBS.org in an interview with his brother Robert he states that Lee acted to kill the president alone because it was a result of all his past failures, and plans yet he also says his brother was pretty smart for the marines, and even after leaving marines he got accepted into a school in Switzerland. Doesn't really seem like that much of a failure to me. An article written by Paul Gregory for the New York Times again disproves Robert's Claim of the failures by stating that Oswald was a bit of a local celebrity in Russia but then states when he came back to the US he was very jealous, controlling of his wife, refused to let her learn English. So even people that knew Oswald can't decide if he was really a nutcase acting on his own due to failures in his life or a guy who was set up by others.  

                            

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1: Artifact 1:  Only footage of the killing of JFK. Known as Zapruder film.      

Important because it's the only footage of JFK's killing and is a key point not only in just the film but in real life as well.

Artifact 2:  Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald from Life.

This Photo is useful because many people thought it was not a real image or edited in some way due to the way Lee Harvey is standing it was not debunked until 201

Artifact 3: Footage of Lee Harvey Oswald's killing by Jack Ruby

Important because Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the only people able to shed a light on the case but was gunned down by Jack Ruby.

Artifact 4: The Warren Commission report.

Important because this was the government mandated report on the JFK assassination but many people have proved it's flaws including Mr.Garrison.

Artifact 5: Footage of the Robert Kennedy killing

Important because right before Jim Garrison is set to go to trial against Clay Shaw, Robert Kennedy is assassinated this is a big realization for Jim Garrison that solving the JFK assassination is now more important than ever.   

Artifact 6: House committee on Assassinations.

Important because the case was reopened in the 1970's so even though it takes place after the movie it is still vastly different than the Warren Commission report and can help shine a light better on what happened.

Artifact 7: Address book of Jack Ruby's from when he shot Lee Oswald

Important because the book has names, and numbers of many people who Jack Ruby knew and could help tie up the connection that Jack Ruby was a mafia foot solider.

Artifact 8: Interview with Marina Oswald
Important because she was Lee's wife and this interview can help get some insight on Lee himself.

Dinner Menu

Menu: 

 

I incorporated food that was popular in the 1960's such as Fruit Gelatin, Beef Bourguignon, Chicken a la king, and  Tapioca pudding. Everything else on the menu is food from New Orleans since most of the movie takes place in New Orleans since Jim Garrison lives and works there.    

Beignets

Chicken A la King

 

Beef Bourguignon

Dinner Invitation

Dinner Invitation  

Guest list.

1: Oliver Stone (Director) 

2: Paul Gregory (Author of New york times article, knew the Oswald personally when they lived in Texas) 

3: Jim Marrs (Historian, Author of "Crossfire", 2nd book that movie is based on, former Journalist.) 

4: Jim Garrison (Historian, New Orleans DA, opened up the JFK case, Author of "On the Trail of Assassins") 

5: Lee Harvey Oswald. (Killer of JFK) 

6: Bryan Bender (Author of Bobby Kennedy article, Boston Globe) 

7: L.Fletcher Prouty. (chief of special operations during Kennedy administration, Letters from himself to Garrison were found) 

8: David Ferrie. (One of Garrison's key witness's died a week after public learned of Garrison's investigation was reportedly very close to Lee Harvey Oswald.) 

WW1 propaganda posters

WW1 propaganda posters. 

1. Propaganda is a tool used by governments to get people to feel a certain way about something. 

2: Propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. Link to dictionary.com

4a: I see right away the big red cross that is in the corner of the picture. My eye is drawn to the lady and child since they are bright compared to the drab and gray background. The background is dark with I'm assuming the 4 horsemen or something similar in the background maybe the 3 on horseback represent the axis powers during WW1. While the lady and child are brightly colored and are shown with the lady having her hand out. 

   5a: The artist was trying to show off a sense of dread with this image but also hopeful with the woman and child.

6a: The target audience was women. 

 4b: I see right away the lady in white with the diploma. That is what I'm drawn too, I also notice that the door says opportunity on it. I'm drawn mostly to the lady though which was the author's intention. 

5b: The message this ad is trying to show is that becoming a nurse will give you a bright (all white clothing) future along with opportunity's as well.  

6b: The ideal target for this ad is young women. 

 4c: I see right away the lady working as an operator. My eyes are drawn to the troops in the background of the picture because I noticed the horse and the gray hats worn by the troops. 

5c: The artist was hoping people would feel a sense of helping out with the war effort since they were some females helping over there at the time and they wanted people to feel the need to join the YWCA and help out. 

6c:  I believe the target audience is men because they want them to help out the women who are over there helping out because if they have to then the men should too. 

7:   It depends what the subject matter is and what the intention is. Rallying citizens around during war time is good but like making an campaign against like a group of people isn't good.

8:  The government needed to keep American's interested in the war because while at first it was just a European conflict they eventually were going to be in it. 

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

Reflective Piece

The perspective that the film shows is that the effects of imperialism last for a long time especially on the native people. Eddie's family at the start has to move into the graveyard even though they are native Hawaiians simply because they have been pushed aside by the hotels, and other buildings built by the US. It even shows in the surf competitions at the start, The Duke Kahama surfing competition only featured White Californians and not a single native Hawaiian even though the birthplace of surfing is Hawaii. It also is demonstrated in the beaches, native Hawaiian's aren't even allowed on some of the beaches at the start of the film or they would get weird looks from tourists if they were on those beaches. 

A photo from the first Duke Kahanamoku competition, even though being one of the most famous Hawaiians not even the Duke could get them to invite some natives to the event.

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

1. I know to analyze a political cartoon, you have to look at the people drawn in it to recognize them along with reading the text if there is some as well. 

 

2. http://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Political-Cartoons This was the guide I used, I learned from it that you should also look at the labels in the cartoons as well. I already knew most of what to look for.
 

3. I'm going to use what the guide said which was to look for symbols, irony, and analogies. http://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Political-Cartoons

 

Cartoon on Spanish American War

Cartoon on Philippine conflict

Cartoon on American Imperialism 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Cartoon on American Spanish War) I noticed the labels that they use, they show the Spanish as savages shown by the belt he is wearing that says Spain, another label they use is the tombstone which says "Maine Sailors murdered by Spain". Which makes sense since the Maine was the battleship that exploded that started the Spanish American war and since Remember the Maine was a battle cry of the American public as well. Another Symbol is the Spaniard stepping on the flag's at his feet to show that Spain is trampling on the US or in other words threatening their way of life.

(Cartoon on Philippine conflict) I noticed the labels they use for the comic, the boot and pant leg are the Americans as shown by the stripes to represent uncle Sam. The hat has the words agunilado who was the leader at the time who the US saw as a small rebel group, which is also why he is tiny in this comic along with the fact the US is showing themselves as a Super Power by being so much bigger. The island represents the Philippines. 

 

(Cartoon on American Imperialism) Each child has a label on it representing a country that the US has control over now. It shows them as rowdy toddlers who the US shown as the old man aka Uncle Sam represents the parent who has to raise them and get them ready for independence or at least become good colonies in my opinion. 

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1. Outlawed Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and sex. Also banned segregated public places as well. So racist behavior became illegal after this law. 

2: I think these behaviors are still taking place today, some people are just taught these racist behaviors as children and it's hard to break that mold for them. It might not be happening as obliviously as we think but it is happening on one level or another.

3: I guess some kind of classes or program for people who discriminate that would break these racist feelings for them. I'm not a 100% sure how that would work but some kind of program I feel like would be the best solution to break down people's feeling discriminatory feelings.

  The movie was really good, I had never heard about the Birmingham stuff before with the march and church stuff so it was interesting to learn about that. I'm excited for the field trip as well since I've never been to the museum or the church as well and I think it'll be interesting to learn more about it and get to see where all this stuff went down as well. 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/1964-civil-rights-act.htm

April 21st 1914 The Indianapolis News

This Article was very interesting, it was pretty much a public service announcement by the new State Fire Marshall telling people how many fires their had been in factories and stores since he had taken over as the Marshall 8 months ago. There were 330 factory fires and 421 store fires. He gave some tips as well such as installing sprinklers in the factory to help to quell the fires before they start. Along with Chimney's needing to be tall enough to prevent live sparks from falling on the wooden roofs. They also stated that one of the most common of these causes of fires was spontaneous combustion and the solution for that was good housekeeping. 

July 23rd 1913 The Decatur times

This article talked about a fire in a New York City factory that killed 50 people in Binghampton New york, they said the cause of the fire was a cigarette someone had lit. Only 2 people made it out without being injured, while 125 were in the factory at the time of the fire; 30 were injured and the rest were unaccounted for.  

Progressive Homework

1. Progress is rapid changes in an industry or society that puts it on another level or makes things better. 
2. The time period is 1890-1920, It was known as this because a lot of problems were eliminated due to urbanization. Women's Suffrage movement, Philanthropy matured, and political corruption was exposed.
3. A lot involved purification of government, a focus on family, and modernization. 
4.   1. uphold moral values and promote greater efficiency of government and business. 2. control big business. 3. promote fairness. 4. protect social welfare.  

Future Research

1. People were predicting pretty good things such as flying cars, ready cooked meals, and communicating through video chat. Some things were bad such as overpopulation in Boston which had predicted Boston's population to be 5 million people alone in the city. Another Prediction from "Ladies home Journal" said that wild animals would no longer exist and that people must walk 10 miles whenever they need to and if they can't then they will be considered a weakling. 
2. Some things are a wish list and some are warnings, more are wish list though. I'd say 75% wish list items and 25% warning. 
3. The 10 mile walking was bizarre and is kinda funny since Obesity is still an issue. Store Purchases getting to the person by a set of tubes and being delivered is not too far off in a way since you can order groceries and other things through your phone and they'll bring it to you. One of the one's that was right was that we would communicate through video chatting which we already do through things like Skype. 
4. People seem to be focused on a better world with a heavier reliance on Technology as a whole, which they weren't too far off on that. 

I see a world with Holographic phones, Another big war sometime in the future where the population will be reduced.                      

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/ladies-home-journal-publishes-28-predictions.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-boston-globe-of-1900-imagines-the-year-2000-97021464/

http://www.upworthy.com/11-ridiculous-future-predictions-from-the-1900-worlds-fair-and-3-that-came-true

  

Sources citited

Bibliography: 

Ellis Island starter info from History.com   
I used this for a bulk overview of my info along with an overview of Ellis Island.

History.com/ 9 unknown facts about Ellis Island  
I also used this for some fun facts to throw into the essay and also to include some more points into the essay such as the Annie Moore info. 

New York Tribune 8/28/04
I used to this source to better understand how Ellis Island became more stylistically and similar to "The Great White City"  

The Day Book Chicago Ill. 1/03/13
I used this source to talk about a funny story of an example of an Immigrant who had been detained at Ellis Island and sent back to Europe. 

Pittsburgh Dispatch. 4/17/92    
I used this source to showcase that many cities were happy about getting Immigrants such as Pittsburgh. 

Immigration and CitizenShip overview
I used this source as a big overview of Immigration and Citizenship during this time, I also got pictures from here. 
Immigration law Timeline.
I used this source to help me find what the citizenship process was like during this time since there was no Citizenship test. 

Immigration Additonal Timeline 
I used this source to also help me find what the Citizenship process was like.  

US History Research Project: Immigration and Ellis Island.

    While the times may change some things stay the same, just as Immigration is a prevalent issue today it was an emerging topic 100 plus years ago. While now it seems like most immigrants come from Mexico back in the late 1800's and early 1900's people were coming from all over the world, Big masses of Irish, German, Chinese, and many more places around the world flooded to the US to chase what they considered the American dream. The American dream many sought was a stable job, a roof over their head, and a better life for their future generations and as History.com stated close to 40% of current U.S. citizens family's started at Ellis Island.  It was a time of hope, despair, and many changes not just for the immigrants but for the whole Country.

    Ellis Island opened up in 1892 officially as what we know the famous island for; being the immigrants first stop on their journey to the US. Previously the island had been used to hang criminals on as History.com told me. The first immigrants to come through Ellis Island were a group of children a young 15 year old girl named Annie Moore and her two younger brothers, once they arrived they were taken in, asked where they were headed, cleared all the tests,  and met their parents who had already been living in the US and had been waiting on the other side so they could take them to their new life. This kick-started a rapid migration of people to the U.S. that has never been duplicated or will be ever again.

    Ellis Island ran as an immigration center for over 60 years, later it become a detention center during the first and second world war and eventually closed down to become a tourist attraction; as well as the fact that the U.S. immigration policy has drastically changed since the late 1800's and early 1900's. The Island did serve it's purpose though and eventually went from one island to adding 2 more on to help with the large number of immigrants arriving, in 1907 alone over 1 million immigrants arrived and passed through Ellis Island. Not all hopefuls that arrived to the Island passed though and some ended up being held in dentition centers on the island until they could send them back on a ferry to wherever they had come from. One such case I found was in the Chicago Day Book from 1913 the former dictator/president of Venezuela tried to make it to the US so he could amass a fleet of ships to take Venezuela back under his control, luckily the US found out before he arrived and detained him before any harm could be done but he did manage to first strip himself naked at the Island and refused to comply with the official searching for weapons. He was promptly sent back to Europe pretty soon after.          

    Today for Immigrants the process is a long and hard one as they must get put on a waiting list that in some cases can take up to 8 years or more and then they have to take the citizenship test and hope they pass it as well. The process was a bit different back then (as history.com put it) though once making it through the Island  passing the medical exams which were refereed to as 6 second checkup's by the Island doctors and later on puzzles and memory tests to see if they were smart enough; As the U.S. put a ban on immigrants with mental disabilities and other aliments of the same nature. All Immigrants had to do at first was wait 5 years as flowhistory.org put it, originally in the early 1800's Jefferson made it 15 but eventually loosened it to 5 for all racially white immigrants through 1861-1890 this is all they had to do. 

    After 1890 though the ways of becoming a citizen got a little bit more modern in some aspects. In 1882 a tax was put on an all immigrants which required them to pay a 50 cent tax once they were cleared and good to come into to the US. The late 1800's also saw restrictions on who could come in tighten up as prostitutes, and criminals were banned from entering in 1875. It wasn't until 1907 that once again the restrictions needed to be tighter now people with physical or mental disabilities   were banned from entering along with children without adults. In 1903 an official exclusion act was passed which denied anarchists, political extremists, beggars, and epileptics entry into the country as infoplease.com put in it's immigration legislation timeline. How they planned to spot these people were hoping to be altered early like in the former president of Peru's case or their was also a brief 20ish question interview after you arrived and passed the medical exam. 

  

It wasn't all bad for the immigrants though, many cities welcomed them to stay there such as the case of the Pittsburgh Dispatch which proudly stated that Pittsburgh was one of the immigrant capitals of the world. The immigrants also helped urbanize American a lot sooner than if we hadn't had immigrants, Medicine got better, Doctors got smarter and learned about new diseases. Immigrants helped with buildings such as Skyscrapers as now with an influx of more people arriving work that might have not been the most desirable was now getting done which allowed the country to get new technology and also become the melting pot we know it as today through their being new cultures, new food, and new ideas in the country as well.    

  

An illustration of Ellis Island

A politcal cartoon of  Uncle Sam's new Thanksgiving dinner featuring immigrant groups now.

Another image of Immigrants arriving and waiting in lines.

A map of each ethnic group and where they lived in this area of Chicago.

Bibliography: 

Ellis Island starter info from History.com   
I used this for a bulk overview of my info along with an overview of Ellis Island.

History.com/ 9 unknown facts about Ellis Island  
I also used this for some fun facts to throw into the essay and also to include some more points into the essay such as the Annie Moore info. 

New York Tribune 8/28/04
I used to this source to better understand how Ellis Island became more stylistically and similar to "The Great White City"  

The Day Book Chicago Ill. 1/03/13
I used this source to talk about a funny story of an example of an Immigrant who had been detained at Ellis Island and sent back to Europe. 

Pittsburgh Dispatch. 4/17/92    
I used this source to showcase that many cities were happy about getting Immigrants such as Pittsburgh. 

Immigration and CitizenShip overview
I used this source as a big overview of Immigration and Citizenship during this time, I also got pictures from here. 
Immigration law Timeline.
I used this source to help me find what the citizenship process was like during this time since there was no Citizenship test. 

Immigration Additonal Timeline 
I used this source to also help me find what the Citizenship process was like.