Was My Father The Why Jfk Got Shot Analysis
The article “Was My Father the Reason JFK Got Shot?” explain how Sophie Yarborough became curious of her father’s political career. She decided to do a bunch of research of find out information herself.
Sophie always heard of the bullet that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally; however, it wasn’t until a few years ago that she realized that it killed her father dreams too.
Her father was Don Yarborough. He was a lawyer who ran for governor of Texas three different times. He wanted to end poverty and racism. He had confidence, courage, energy, and ambition to believe that he could. He thought that if everything fell into place that he could even become president. He was the first white southern politician to voice support for the civil-rights bill. In 1962, with the help of labor unions, blacks, and hispanics, he won 49% of the vote. Many people wanted him to run again in 1964 when Kennedy showed up in Dallas to help the warfare. When Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot and killed Kennedy, it changed his destiny. Chains of events happened that pushed him out of politics and convinced him that …show more content…
he could make a better difference in the science field. The nation’s tragedy gave his daughter a devoted and inspiring father.
She(his daughter) was born in 1967, a year before her father’s final run for office, so she never got to see him on the campaign trail. He was a natural politician. Since he was a natural, he exuded warmth to every cab driver, waiter, and cashier that he met. He was a great storyteller about his life in politics. He ran for governor three different times and lost. After failing to end poverty and racism as a politician, his passion became science which he believed could help more people than politics. He always dreamed big. They moved as a family to Cambridge, Mass., where her father befriended Harvard scientists raising money for their research and he helped launch a biotech company. Every once and awhile he would say that he could still run for president if he wanted to, but he never did.
First time connecting her father to Kennedy’s assassination.
She was a sophomore in Cambridge high school. Her history teacher was obsessed with JFK. Her teacher stopped class one day to ask if she was one of the “Texas Yarboroughs” and she answered yes. Her teacher then teased her saying that he was the reason why Kennedy got shot. She knew that it was a joke but it did possibility horrify her. She followed her mother into journalism but she never thought she would research her father’s role in the Kennedy assassination until after he died in 2009. She read many different books and things on the internet to find what she could find out about her father. Her father shared a last name with Senator Ralph Yarborough, who was a liberal legend and a prominent figure in the Kennedy tableau. They were not related; however, they were close political allies and
friends.
Connally, a johnson protege hoped to use his white house connections to get her father out of the run in return for his help in planning JFK’s tour to Texas according to James Reston JR. Connally asked about Kennedy’s aides. The LBJ offered her dad an offer. Her father felt confident that he could win a poll the day that Kennedy arrived because he refused the deal.
The assassination changed everything. It didn’t just kill the president, it made a martyr out of the Connally. Connally who had been wounded while riding with the nation’s fallen hero. Everyone was shocked by her father filing to run. After Connally was shot and Kennedy was killed there was nothing but the assassination in the newspaper. The assassination squashed the liberal rebellion in Texas for decades. Reston wrote that after Connally won in 1964 “there was talk of Oswald’s gift to Connally of a ‘silver bullet.’ “
With the assassinations in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr sent a demoralizing message to politicians: “you could reach great heights in the pursuit of your ideals as kennedy did and then a bullet could end everything. Her father’s politics had become dangerous. Her father said many of times that he could have won in 1962 if it was him in the car with Kennedy.
Her father sat out in the elections in 1966. He always wanted to see Europe so in 1966 he moved their family to Tours, France. And then to Denia which is a tiny spanish town on the Mediterranean where he could study spanish and her mother could write. It was during this time when he shifted his focus to science instead of politics.He was urged by his supporters and was pulled by his dreams that he didn’t truly give up. He returned to Texas to run for the final time in 1968. By this time, his momentum and his passion for politics were gone. He lost the last time as Lone Star liberalism.
There are many different things that deal with JFK, but her father is not the one to blame. Her father wanted to help change the world for the better, so he set out to do just that. He may not have won the electrons that he tried for, but he did make an impact. There were many people around that became impacted of her father for standing up for his beliefs and trying to make a difference and to better our country.
Sophie always heard of the bullet that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally; however, it wasn’t until a few years ago that she realized that it killed her father dreams too.
Her father was Don Yarborough. He was a lawyer who ran for governor of Texas three different times. He wanted to end poverty and racism. He had confidence, courage, energy, and ambition to believe that he could. He thought that if everything fell into place that he could even become president. He was the first white southern politician to voice support for the civil-rights bill. In 1962, with the help of labor unions, blacks, and hispanics, he won 49% of the vote. Many people wanted him to run again in 1964 when Kennedy showed up in Dallas to help the warfare. When Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot and killed Kennedy, it changed his destiny. Chains of events happened that pushed him out of politics and convinced him that …show more content…
he could make a better difference in the science field. The nation’s tragedy gave his daughter a devoted and inspiring father.
She(his daughter) was born in 1967, a year before her father’s final run for office, so she never got to see him on the campaign trail. He was a natural politician. Since he was a natural, he exuded warmth to every cab driver, waiter, and cashier that he met. He was a great storyteller about his life in politics. He ran for governor three different times and lost. After failing to end poverty and racism as a politician, his passion became science which he believed could help more people than politics. He always dreamed big. They moved as a family to Cambridge, Mass., where her father befriended Harvard scientists raising money for their research and he helped launch a biotech company. Every once and awhile he would say that he could still run for president if he wanted to, but he never did.
First time connecting her father to Kennedy’s assassination.
She was a sophomore in Cambridge high school. Her history teacher was obsessed with JFK. Her teacher stopped class one day to ask if she was one of the “Texas Yarboroughs” and she answered yes. Her teacher then teased her saying that he was the reason why Kennedy got shot. She knew that it was a joke but it did possibility horrify her. She followed her mother into journalism but she never thought she would research her father’s role in the Kennedy assassination until after he died in 2009. She read many different books and things on the internet to find what she could find out about her father. Her father shared a last name with Senator Ralph Yarborough, who was a liberal legend and a prominent figure in the Kennedy tableau. They were not related; however, they were close political allies and
friends.
Connally, a johnson protege hoped to use his white house connections to get her father out of the run in return for his help in planning JFK’s tour to Texas according to James Reston JR. Connally asked about Kennedy’s aides. The LBJ offered her dad an offer. Her father felt confident that he could win a poll the day that Kennedy arrived because he refused the deal.
The assassination changed everything. It didn’t just kill the president, it made a martyr out of the Connally. Connally who had been wounded while riding with the nation’s fallen hero. Everyone was shocked by her father filing to run. After Connally was shot and Kennedy was killed there was nothing but the assassination in the newspaper. The assassination squashed the liberal rebellion in Texas for decades. Reston wrote that after Connally won in 1964 “there was talk of Oswald’s gift to Connally of a ‘silver bullet.’ “
With the assassinations in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr sent a demoralizing message to politicians: “you could reach great heights in the pursuit of your ideals as kennedy did and then a bullet could end everything. Her father’s politics had become dangerous. Her father said many of times that he could have won in 1962 if it was him in the car with Kennedy.
Her father sat out in the elections in 1966. He always wanted to see Europe so in 1966 he moved their family to Tours, France. And then to Denia which is a tiny spanish town on the Mediterranean where he could study spanish and her mother could write. It was during this time when he shifted his focus to science instead of politics.He was urged by his supporters and was pulled by his dreams that he didn’t truly give up. He returned to Texas to run for the final time in 1968. By this time, his momentum and his passion for politics were gone. He lost the last time as Lone Star liberalism.
There are many different things that deal with JFK, but her father is not the one to blame. Her father wanted to help change the world for the better, so he set out to do just that. He may not have won the electrons that he tried for, but he did make an impact. There were many people around that became impacted of her father for standing up for his beliefs and trying to make a difference and to better our country.