Process Paper
Topic Choice:
Our topic is the assassination of President Kennedy. We choose our topic because we were really interested in the assassination and wanted to learn more about the whole story. We have never learned about this topic in class and were interested in learning farther into it.
Research:
First we started by looking into encyclopedias and books around the library to get a broad idea of what our topic was about. We gathered all the information we could from the library resources and checked out a few books to read. After we went to the computer resources and used the databases to find primary sources. Our group did not face any difficulties other than not being able to find many primary sources. To face our problems, we typed different searches into the search box in hopes of finding more primary sources and were successful. The most important and helpful source that we found was “Warren Commission Report” because it went in great depths of the day of the assassination. The article included great information about the witnesses, the shooter, Kennedy, the passengers. Also gave us information how things were then changed to in the future protect our presidents for the same event happening again. Narrowing down from our broad topic of the assassination, we have decided to focus on the protection change in history. The research we found was astonishing. There use to be such little protection on such an important man in history. We are also researching before Kennedy what the protection was like and the change over time. Our research got even easier from here. There are numerous articles on protection and the change. One article in particular was “In the President's Secret Service” it compares the protection of Kennedy to Obama today. Also the article by Jim Lehrer who has an interview with a newspaper reporter from that time of the assassination.
Category Choice:
We chose to do a website because we are wordy people. We figured that we would be able to be creative and use the most amount of words. We would be able to find pictures and the most helpful, videos, to help portray our ideas. We are excited to see what we can put together and learn more about technology!
Connection to Theme:
The John F Kennedy assassination is a changing point in history because it changed our view of protecting our president. We have improved the protection and continue to. The assassination was a changing point in history because from that incident, security on the president has increased dramatically. The Secret Service men have such high importance jobs, to protect our President.
Word Count: 432
Topic Choice:
Our topic is the assassination of President Kennedy. We choose our topic because we were really interested in the assassination and wanted to learn more about the whole story. We have never learned about this topic in class and were interested in learning farther into it.
Research:
First we started by looking into encyclopedias and books around the library to get a broad idea of what our topic was about. We gathered all the information we could from the library resources and checked out a few books to read. After we went to the computer resources and used the databases to find primary sources. Our group did not face any difficulties other than not being able to find many primary sources. To face our problems, we typed different searches into the search box in hopes of finding more primary sources and were successful. The most important and helpful source that we found was “Warren Commission Report” because it went in great depths of the day of the assassination. The article included great information about the witnesses, the shooter, Kennedy, the passengers. Also gave us information how things were then changed to in the future protect our presidents for the same event happening again. Narrowing down from our broad topic of the assassination, we have decided to focus on the protection change in history. The research we found was astonishing. There use to be such little protection on such an important man in history. We are also researching before Kennedy what the protection was like and the change over time. Our research got even easier from here. There are numerous articles on protection and the change. One article in particular was “In the President's Secret Service” it compares the protection of Kennedy to Obama today. Also the article by Jim Lehrer who has an interview with a newspaper reporter from that time of the assassination.
Category Choice:
We chose to do a website because we are wordy people. We figured that we would be able to be creative and use the most amount of words. We would be able to find pictures and the most helpful, videos, to help portray our ideas. We are excited to see what we can put together and learn more about technology!
Connection to Theme:
The John F Kennedy assassination is a changing point in history because it changed our view of protecting our president. We have improved the protection and continue to. The assassination was a changing point in history because from that incident, security on the president has increased dramatically. The Secret Service men have such high importance jobs, to protect our President.
Word Count: 432