WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR HISTORY 1301
Dallas, 1963 (BOOK)
By Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
After reading Dallas, 1963 , answer the following questions:
1. How would you describe Dallas, Texas in the 1960s?
2. Why did the Dallas leadership fear communism, civil rights, and particularly John F. Kennedy?
3. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr.'s view of society conflict with the views of the leadership in Dallas?
4. Why would Holocaust survivors fear the direction that Dallas was taking with regards to the Civil Rights movement?
5. Why were so many cooks attracted to Dallas?
6. Why did John F. Kennedy tell his wife they were heading into "nut country"when coming to Dallas?
7. How surprised are you that what conservatives said about President Kennedy is the same asthe comments today about President Obama?
8. Did Dallas kill John F. Kennedy?