Recasting History: Lee Harvey Oswald on Trial

Recasting History: Lee Harvey Oswald on TrialKeith PruittWords of Wisdom Educational Consultingwww.woweducationalconsulting.com

Lets Start with a Brain GymMake as many words as you can in 1 minute from the following word

Historicity

What is the basic difference between fiction and nonfiction?HOW YOU TELL THE STORY

The Kennedy AssassinationOn November 22, 1963, while on a campaign swing through Texas, the president was shot dead by a twenty-four-year-old ex-marine drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedys death was the isolated act of a single individual, the commission concluded. --America Interpreted by Woods and Gatewood, p. 957-959Then, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot down as his presidential motorcade moved through Dallas, Texas. Police quickly arrested Lee Harvey Oswald as the alleged assassin. Oswald had ties to the Marcello crime family, had once lived in the Soviet Union, and had a bizarre set of political affiliations, especially with groups interested in Cuba. Oswald declared his innocence, but he was never brought to trial. Instead, Oswald himself was killed, while in the custody of the Dallas police, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner who also had links to powerful crime figures. --Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People by Murrin, Johnson, McPherson, Gerstle, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, p. 990Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, an act that shocked and saddened the entire world. The American Profile by Borden and Graham, p. 364

This is a work of fictionBut so is much of this

The Zapruder Film

Who?What?When?Where?How?What if?

What if he was just a patsy?

The conclusion of the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations determined that there was ever reason to believe that John F. Kennedy died as the result of a conspiracy and that there was reason to believe there was more than one shooter.

But what they nor anyone else has ever done is prove conclusively that Lee Harvey Oswald ever fired a shot at the President.

It was here that I was haunted by the statement of Oswald

Im just a patsy!

What if he was a patsy?He never received a trial.Why are there still over 50,000 documents about Oswald being withheld from the public?

Then I saw this!

Curry plants just enough seeds of doubt to make a researcher want to dig further.

No one was closer to the investigation in Dallas than Curry.

Building on primary source materials we began to fill in the what if blanks.

Beers picture of snipers nest in TSBD

Warren Commission Exhibit

Studebaker Picture of Snipers Nest

Another Studebaker Picture from crime scene

What we created is an historical fiction book that has perhaps more truth than the Warren Report.

An excerpt from chapter 9 page 68

The Lesson for Students

History as exploration instead of singular interpretationPrimary SourceQuestioningCloser ReadingDrawing Conclusions based on facts

Thank You

Keith PruittWords of WisdomEducational Consulting

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