Who would want JFK dead?

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The USA in the Twentieth-Century Why was JFK assassinated? History Key Stage 3 C20th World
Task Who would want JFK dead?
Outcomes Objectives Objectives To ascertain which groups might have wished JFK dead. To understand the reasons for this. Outcomes Follow the link for JFK Civil Rights (click on the title in the centre of the screen in Presentation mode) and complete 3 bullet-points for each box. Read the information box on the JFK The Mafia slide then write 5 bullet-points of reasons why the Mafia might want to kill JFK. Independently research Kennedys involvement with Cuba, focusing on the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Write 5 bullet-points on each of these issues. Answer the questions on the final slide. Put all the paragraph answers from Step 4 together to forma structured essay answering Who would want JFK dead? Write an Introduction to the essay.
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Who would want JFK dead?
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• Racial Discrimination
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• Discrimination on buses
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JFK Civil Rights

• Discrimination in Voting
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• Discrimination in Housing
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• Discrimination in Education
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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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JFK The Mafia
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JFK Cuba
Independent Student Research Task get four
bullet-points for each

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Answer the following, in structured paragraphs
Source Dale Banham Ian Dawson, King John A
Depth Study in Medieval Monarchy for Key Stage 3
(This Is History), Hodder Murray, (2000)

• What people might have hated Kennedy for his work
  on Civil Rights, and why?
• Which of the alleged Mafia links do you think is
  the most likely to have led to the killing?
  Explain why you think this.
• How is Lee Harvey Oswald linked to Cuba?
• Which of the three suspects do you think is the
  most likely to have been behind the assassination
  of President Kennedy?