Monday- Watched Video. Tuesday- Went over extra credit ppt, and over whats on the test. Wednesday- Over notes. Thursday did test. Friday- watched video.
JFK Assassination- The day before he was on his way to Texas, because he didn’t had lost support. He was shot while traveling in a presidential motorcade. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was acting alone. Kennedy’s assassination was the 4th successful assassination of a US president. Just before Oswald was put on trial, he was killed by Jack Ruby. People were claiming that it wasn’t Oswald that killed, JFK and made up their own conspiracies as to what happened.
Watergate Scandal- June 17, 1972 several people arrested stealing from the DNC Office in the Watergate Buildings. They did it to get information from the democrats’ election, know what kind of things would get said. Wiretapped equipment. Took pictures of the notes. Richard Nixon did it. Security guard saw a tape on the door, and 5 men were arrested. 1972 election, 4 of the 5 burglars had CIA connections. November 7, 1972 Nixon was re-elected. Documents were stolen. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were the ones that blew up the Watergate. Got information from an anonymous source. Reporters that uncovered the scandal. FBI agent gave inside information to Woodward and Bernstein named “deep throat” admitted to being the insider on May 31, 2005. He told them to look for the money. Richard Nixon resigned
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