Mr Marcus McGowan MSc PgDip BA (Hons)

This Business Education Learning Blog is aimed primarily at Higher Business Management students/teachers and ICT students/teachers.

The aim of this blog is to provide you with interesting articles, news, trivia as well as resources or links to materials which will help in your course of study.

I am a Teacher of Business Education and I have written for Education Scotland and BBC Bitesize.

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Showing posts with label JFK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JFK. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 December 2012

The 60s - a turbulent decade for American Politics

This isn’t directed at Business, but was something that grew out of my own interest in that most turbulent of decades, the 1960s. In particular, I have read many biographies on the Kennedys, Nixon, LBJ, and books on Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of JFK, and Dr Martin Luther King jnr and the Civil Rights movement.

So I slogged away and created this presentation about US history. I hope you find it interesting and it stimulates you to go find out more about an incredible yet traumatic period of modern history.


Wednesday, 23 November 2011

President John F. Kennedy

This is not Business related, but something that some people and especially young school students find interesting.

Yesterday, some 48 years ago on November 22nd, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.

There have been many TV programmes an documentaries on recently, including a moving one on the men of the secret service detail who failed that day in Dallas.

The murder of JFK is one of those horrible but fascinating things that as a wee boy I used to wonder about. Last year I went to Dallas and visited the very place where the killing took place. I had watched the movie, JFK and saw many programmes, but none actually depict just how close the Texas School Book Depository actually is to Elm Street (hence Nightmare on Elm street), meaning that even a half decent shot with a rifle could hardly miss the target. A trained marine like Oswald would obviously be a decent shot.

The building is now a museum dedicated to the life of President Kennedy.

On a business note, horror novelist Stephen King has released a time travel novel called 11/22/63 about a man's attempt to change the course of history on the fateful day. I am actually reading the book just now, but I do wonder whether it really is in good taste to dangle such wish fulfilment and fantasy in front of such a tragic event.

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