Life on the Prairie

Tayler

 

Dark clouds of war hang over Tayler’s head.

A misfired missile fills our hearts with dread.

Any part of the world could be the place

Where all lives are destroyed without a trace.

 Non-violence is the vow of Civil Rights.

Marchers and protesters join in the fight.

Bloodshed and assassinations abound.

The key to winning in Viet Nam can’t be found.

 Kind and friendly Tayler fights her way

Facing her uncertain future every day.

Defending friends and ideas is key.

Forging a path to life’s victory is she.

 

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Tayler

by Collette

This is the last time I will be writing to you. My friends and I went to the movies today and saw a film about the end of the world caused by the Cold War. Mother was angry when she found out we had gone to this movie instead of the showing of Snow White. She’s right; we should not have gone. I am afraid I will have a nightmare about it tonight.

We talk about the Cold War in social studies class, but I just don’t get it. How can a war be cold? Isn’t it supposed to be hot because of all the fighting and bombing that causes fires? I will have to count sheep tonight so I don’t think about the movie. Grandma says that works for her when she can’t sleep.

 

 

 

Study Hard

I was in grade school when the Russians successfully launched Sputnik. Not all of the families in my small school had a television or subscribed to a newspaper. Probably one or two of the households didn’t even listen to the radio news. My teacher, though, deemed the occasion worthy of telling the entire school. She told us in the future schools would place an emphasis on math and science classes; America needed to catch up with the Russians.

Never did I dream I would someday watch an American walk on the moon on a grainy, black and white television screen. We had caught up with the Russians.

John F. Kennedy Assassination

John F. Kennedy Assassination

                                                       by Collette
     
The 35^th President of the United States, John F. Kenney, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963. He died at 12:30 p.m. (CST) after shots were fired on his motorcade in Dallas, Texas, near Dealey Plaza. Texas Governor John Connally was also injured in the shooting. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President on Air Force One during the flight bringing the President’s body back to Washington.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at a Texas movie theater shortly after the shooting. He shot and killed Officer J.D. Tippit who accosted him on the way to the theater. As Oswald was being moved to a more secure area by sheriff’s officers, Jack Ruby, a local night club owner, shot and killed the assassin. Ruby later died in jail from cancer and never faced a trial.

Following a ten month investigation by the Warren Commission, it was found Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter. Mysterious deaths of witnesses and the making of the movie JFK by Oliver Stone have led many Americans to believe there was a conspiracy to have Kennedy killed. A poll conducted in 2013 showed 60% of Americans believe a conspiracy took place. This assassination was the first of many during the 1970’s and1980’s including the following: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcom X, and John Lennon.

These sites might be helpful for more information.

 

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy
www.archives.gov/research/jfk
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories