The key answer of exercise 7
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - History mysteries for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
Work in pairs. You are each going to read about something from history that is still hotly debated. Make notes on the main facts and the things still attracting debate.
Answer
JFK text
Main facts
- JFK – US President in Jan 1961
- Space Race, Berlin Wall, US-USSR tensions, Cuban missile crisis
- health problems and extra-marital affairs
- assassinated 22 Nov 1963 – open-topped car – Dallas, Texas
- Lee Harvey Oswald arrested – US Marine – had defected to USSR
- Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
- Ruby died 1967
- inquiry – both killers acted alone
- later inquiries challenged findings – suggested 2 gunmen
Things attracting debate:
- Soviets / KGB did it – Krushchev ordered it
- Mafia did it
- Cubans did it – logical
- Lyndon Johnson did it – ambition – CIA helped
Stonehenge text
Main facts
- 150 upright stones in Wiltshire – 9 metres high and over 20 tons – smaller stones from 150 miles away in Wales
- erected over 100s of years; 30 million man hours
Things attracting debate
- Who? Aubrey claimed Druids
- 1950s – carbon dating – 1,000 years before Celts – three tribes built it
- How? Stones rolled on tree trunks or stones – ice glaciers – aliens – magic
- What for? Astronomers – calendar to track sun and moon – built on site for sun worship – bones found so ancient burial ground for high-ranking people