Answer — Exercise 7

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