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    Analysis of Lincoln

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    President Abraham Lincoln.  As president‚ Lincoln employed his powers wisely in attempting to abolish the monstrous injustice it represented that Lincoln condemned and the toxic that was presumably drowning America’s success‚ slavery‚ through powerful legislature.  Although Lincoln generated countless important legislations and speeches which influenced the abolition of slavery substantially‚ the passage of the 13th Amendment‚ which abolished slavery‚ was most significant to Lincoln and it seemed like

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    JFK Assassination

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    the Kennedy assassination‚  but with competition from the Internet and social media‚ it will unlikely that television will ever hold a nation’s attention  again the way it did the week of the assassination. JFK’s assassination impacted politics in a huge way that it continues to affect America today.  The events that took place in November 1963 greatly evolved national security.  The Secret Service was established in 1865‚ but it wasn’t until after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination that the

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    have you ever wondered the difference between a murder and an assassination? Well i’ll tell you an assassination is the act of killing someone‚a murder is a the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Like the assassination of JFK his assassination was unjust because he was the youngest men to reach the white house via the electoral college‚his ability to demonstrate that a Roman Catholic could win to be the president of the united states.However‚some believed he was the worst

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    Abraham Lincoln

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    1809 – April 15‚ 1865) was the 16th President of the United States‚ serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional‚ military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union‚ while ending slavery‚ and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier‚ Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer‚ an Illinois state legislator‚ and a one-term member

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    Jfk Assassination

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    Course Project CRMJ 430: Crime Scene Investigation JFK Assassination 1 JFK Assassination: Introduction November 22‚ 1963 is considered one of the darkest days in the history of the United States. Dealey Plaza in Dallas‚ Texas was the setting for one of the most horrific moments ever captured on video‚ in what has become one of the most controversial topics in US history. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy has raised many theories about what exactly happened that day in the fall

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    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms‚ it will be because we destroyed ourselves” (Lincoln). Lincoln believed in equality for all‚ and was willing to die for his beliefs. On April 14‚ 1865‚ John Wilkes Booth‚ a Confederate sympathizer‚ shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford ’s Theatre in Washington‚ D.C. The assassination of the 16th president may have seemed like a simple process‚ but Booth spent a prolonged amount

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    There are still many conspiracies about the JFK Assassination‚ but the two conspiracies that stand out are that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and the CIA. LHO was an American born on October 18th 1939 in New Orleans. Most Americans believe Oswald is the person behind the assassination of JFK. He believed in communism‚ he was a disturbed person and he had a violent mindset. There have been many arguments about who was actually behind the assassination. The Warren Report clearly states Oswald fired

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    This theory is that Jackie Kennedy (JFK’s wife) killed JFK herself. Which I don’t see how people would believe this since one the assassination was in public with hundreds of people watching. The Man with the black umbrella is another theory that is pretty weird. On a bright and sunny day‚ a man wearing a rain coat and is holding an umbrella is standing almost right where the shots were

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    Kennedy‚ the thirtieth President of the United States was assassinated on November 22‚ 1963. He was shot as his motorcade drove through Dallas‚ Texas‚ by Lee Harvey Oswald. Even though some people may believe that this killing was justified‚ the assassination of JFK is unjustified because there are many conspiracy theories and the police investigation was not thorough or documented correctly. First‚ there were many conspiracy theories. Many people believed that Lee Harvey Oswald had help with this job

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    Lincoln and Kennedy Abraham Lincoln and JFK were two very different men. Lincoln was known as "honest Abe"‚ where Kennedy had his scandals. Both presidents had different views and presidential styles. Even their looks were completely opposite. Aside from their differences‚ however‚ Lincoln and Kennedy have some eerie similarities and many involving the men’s assassinations. To start of with‚ there are many numerical coincidences dealing with dates and names. Lincoln was first elected to congress

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