PPT-The Lincoln Assassination:

Facts Fiction and Frankly Craziness Class 2 Dramatis personae Jim Dunphy dunphyjjaolcom 1 Intro In this class we will look at 20 people involved in the Lincoln Assassination both before the event and their eventual fates . A tiny clipping from a new spaper mailed without comme nt from a secret band of terrorists in Zagreb capital of Croatia to their comrades in Belgrade was the torch which set the world afire with war in 1914 That bit of paper wrecked old proud e L/O – To explain the significance of MLK’s death to the Civil Rights Movement. Political Assassinations of the 1960s. During the 1960s, several important US political figures were . assassinated. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Shot on April 15, 1865. 16. th. President. 1861-1865. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Why did Booth kill Lincoln?. How Europe Went to War in 1914 . Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg. Last images before the assassination. Sarajevo City Hall, 28 June 1914. The assassination: an artist’s impression. 16th President of The United States of America. «Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.» . Family and . childhood. :. Early . United States of America, President. School of Hard Knocks. Washington, D.C., U.S.. Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary Todd Lincoln. Andrew Johnson. Sorry we couldn’t make it tonight Abe, enjoy the play!. April 15 at 3:44 pm. More Than a President. By Barb Baumann. 2009. Childhood Jobs in Kentucky. While Abraham Lincoln was at Sinking Springs, Kentucky, he was so young that he was unable to help with household chores. . Beginning of the Postwar Era. Grant Takes Command. After Grant is given control in 1864, he vowed to end the war within a year. 3 Major . offensives. Grant. - started in the north with 118,000 men- few months later half of these were casualties- . Noel M. Cassidy C. Patrick N. Anna L.. Overview. Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through . Dealey. Plaza in downtown Dallas, . Objective. Explain the events of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the African-American racism struggle, and the various inventions and big business of the late 19. th. and early 20. th. century. Guided Note Questions. Stone Lisek. John Fitzgerald Kennedy . Born: May 29, 1917, Brookline, . MA. Significance: United States President from 1960-1963. Assassinated November 22 1963 in Dallas Texas. By Lee Harvey Oswald . John Wilkes . Booth. Born on May 10, 1838 in Maryland; the 9th of 10 children.. He . was a racist and Southern sympathizer during the Civil War. . He hated Abraham . Lincoln, . who represented everything Booth was against.. US History. Ms. Gibson. What would the nation need to focus on after the Civil War?. After four years of bloody, bitter fighting the Union won the Civil . War. The nation now . had to be put back . together (aka Reconstruction). The Lincoln Assassination: Facts, Fiction and Frankly Craziness Class 1: Assassination 101 Jim Dunphy dunphyjj@aol.com 1 Intro You might think you know what happened on 10 th Street NW in DC on April 14, 1865, but…….