September blog: JFK assassination - new information
Wednesday 20 September 2023
Site update
We are continuing to update our site - making the layout of our pages clearer and more attractive. Also adding more content and activities at the same time.
This month we have worked on Paper 3: Asia. Topic 14:
Student Access
With the term well underway now, don't forget that you can give your students access to the History Inthinking site as part of your subscription. This will allow you to:
- Give students direct access to some - but not all - pages on the site.
- Create various types of tasks for your classes or for individual students.
- Give online feedback, monitor student progress, and view grades in the online grade book.
Details on how to set this up is on the left-hand side of the home page under the heading Student Access.
Low Cartoon revisited
As history teachers we are sure you will appreciate this cartoon from last week's London Evening Standard. It is by Christian Adams and based on the cartoonist David Low's famous Rendezvous cartoon of September 1939 - also published in the Evening Standard!
History in the news
Another revelation for those of you still fascinated by one of the most scrutinised events in US history - the JFK assassination. And, according to the CNN article, there are still hidden secrets...
Ex-Secret Service agent reveals new JFK assassination detail (BBC News)
Ex-Secret Service agent Paul Landis reveals a new detail some say upends the "single bullet theory".
Why we're still learning new things about the JFK assassination | CNN Politics (CNN)
It's hard to believe there's a new eyewitness account from a Secret Service agent who was right there at the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
This recent article from the international think tank Chatham House is an interesting and timely reminder of the Greenham Common women who led a major protest movement against the nuclear weapons which were to be stored at Greenham Common in the UK, and against nuclear weapons in general. This was during the very tense time of the early 1980s - the era of the Second Cold War.
Greenham’s effectiveness was due to collective responsibility. We learnt from each other and survivors of domestic violence, war, nuclear use, testing and colonialism. Working closely with amazing women from the Pacific, the Native American Western Shoshone tribe, American test-ban activists and former Soviet countries, we went beyond Greenham to end nuclear testing programmes and get more disarmament treaties.
It was a proud moment when Setsuko Thurlow from Hiroshima, an atomic bomb survivor and Greenham Woman, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and everyone who had contributed to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.