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11 x 17", poster

11 x 17, poster

11 x 17", poster

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The tenth anniverary of President John F. Kennedy's death has sparked a renewed interest in the controversia1 circumstances surrounding that event.

John F. Kennedy has long enjoyed one of the most favored images in the public mind among recent American Presidents. Much of this can be attributed to personal qualities and the tragic nature of his abortive Presidency. For the better part of a…

Normally if one were to talk about an event in the past, I would shrug my shoulders and answer with an 'I don't remember.' What is it that makes the death of John F. Kennedy stand out as if it had happened yesterday?

Comparing my feelings on the assassination of John F. Kennedy when the event occurred to my attitude toward the tragedy now, I come to the realization that in some repects youth is an extravagance of time.

A fourteen-year old high school freshman hardly expects to have anything unusual or disruptive occur at an ultra-conservative school such as Port1and Sr. High School in Portland, Connecticut. Each day is similar to every other day; the only thing…

The Presidency of John Kennedy is no more than a dream to me. Most of what I remember about him is very blurred and probably comes from books and old magazines which I read in great volume after he died. I was unaware of him during his…

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CLIO, the muse of history, is published by the Sigma Eta
Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (the International History Honor Society), in cooperation with the Western Connecticut State College History Club. This issue of CLIO was financed by Student…

The Library of Congress is divided into two buildings: the Main Building and the Annex. The Main Building contains books and the Annex stores newspapers and periodicals. As for location, the buildings are behind the Capital with the Main Building…

Archival research is a solitary but satisfying experience, The very nature of the work demands a painstaking exambation of documents. Everyone working at an archive pursues his individual topic with the persistence of a physical scientist who spends…

I have discovered that the process of trying to gain admission to law school can indeed be a very disheartening one. Through lack of information easily available to the students, many interested in law school do not meet certain deadlines or perhaps…

In the spring of 1973 four of us worked together on a single historical enquiry -- Who began the Korean War? Most Americans have assumed that the North Koreans attacked the South without warning, but a few historians have suggested that the South…

The novice interviewer will find such a project challenging and frightening, but also bearing the potential of considerable rewards. Many students ignore interviewing as a research tool because the logistics problems appear, at first glance, to be…