List of Topics for the Final Exam
This list is intended as a rough guide to help you study. Remember that material from the first half of the class will make up about one quarter of the final. The emphasis on facts versus understanding and reasoning will be similar to that (a) in class and (b) on the midterm. Some material that I asked you to read but that we covered only minimally in class will appear on the exam.
Reactions to the Warren Report
Alfredda
Scobey
Gaeton
Fonzi
Dwight
Macdonald (plus bio
sketch)
Testimony to the Warren Commission
Johnny
Calvin Brewer
Julia
Postal
Butch
Burroughs
Lee
Bowers
The HSCA
The
Question that Keeps Coming Back (Burnett)
The
Warren Commission Was Right (Belin)
Blakey's
Intro to the Bantam Edition of the Report
The
Report's Major Conclusions (Cornwell)
Conspiracy Theories
The two articles in Esquire I
II
The
article in Texas Monthly
Essays on Critical Thinking
The
major logical postulates of this course
The
right way and the wrong way to use evidence
The
types of evidence most available in the JFK assassination
List of
strong evidence in the JFK assassination
The
brown paper bag and witness evidence
Whose
predictions have come true?
The
power of the physical framework
The
minimum physical evidence must all be genuine (plus challenges)
Logical
reasoning versus legal reasoning
Misc. topics
The
SBT (pristine bullet, etc.)
Images
in the Zapruder film
How
a high-speed bullet damages an organ
The NAA evidence for two groups of bullet fragments
Rex
Bradford's presentation
