Known locally in Cumbria as “Birdy”. Daily Mirror Monday 14.05.12 .Quote that “he shot his twin brother David and the family solicitor. His rampage only came to an end when he took his own life at a Lake District beauty spot but not before going on a shooting spree that injured 24 people and killing a further 12. Richard Edwards The Telegraphs crime correspondent 9:ooam BST 05 June 2010 Writes; The devastating speed of Derrick Birds killing spree was laid bare yesterday as detectives published the first definition breakdown of what they described as his “45-mile rampage”. 2.
One shot entered his upper back, penetrated his neck, and exited his throat. (9) Lee Harvey Oswald was captured less than two hours after the assassination for allegedly killing a police officer, later that evening he was charged with the murder of President Kennedy and Mr. Tippit the police officer. (6) Oswald's case never made it to trial because two days later, while being transferred to Dallas County Jail, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. The official investigation was established by President Johnson on November 29th 1963, exactly one week after the assassination.
King attended a segregated public school in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen and received his B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College; a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. In June 1953 Martin married Coretta Scott and had four kids. In 1954 King became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. During this time Rosa Parks was arrested for failure to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus.
Brown James Brown was born in Barnswell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933 and he died on December 25, 2007. His parents were Susie Brown and Joseph James Gardner (who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him). Although Brown was to be named after his father Joseph, his first and middle names were mistakenly reversed on his birth certificate. He therefore became James Joseph Brown, Jr. As a young child, Brown was called Junior. When he later lived with his aunt and cousin, he was called Little Junior since his cousin's nickname was also Junior.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Both his father and grandfather were ministers. He was so bright that he skipped two grades. Inspired by his father he became a minister. Martin Luther King is one of the most known activists around the civil rights movement.
The Involvement of Lee Harvey Oswald in the JFK Assassination John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy was known to some Americans as one of the greatest president by far to serve office with that much attention you are bound to have some enemies throughout the world. On 26 November, 1963 Kennedy was assassinated while riding in his presidential Limousine in Dallas, Texas (Carter). Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested just forty minuets after Kennedy’s assassination for the murder of a police officer (Whalen). The Warren commission Report, an 889 page final report of the president’s assassination, reported that Lee Harvey Oswald was the one and only gunman. (“Warren”).
Martin Luther King Jr born January 15, 1929-1968 in Atlanta, Georgia led the civil rights movement in the United States. He was murdered by a single bullet as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, just outside his room. His death led to race riots across America that cost dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of properties and caused damages worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Martin local church was very much a part of his life as both his father and grandfather had been Baptist preachers. They themselves were involved in the civil rights movement.
While attending a racial integration march organized by his father in Washington, Guevara witnessed his father’s assassination; he was only fifteen at the time. After an investigation by the Washington State police, the murderer was found to be a member of on Arian Political group who advocated white supremacy; the murderer served a year in a county jail and was set free. With the death of Guevara’s father the racial integration movement slowly died off. Later in life Guevara attended The New School University in Manhattan New York, there, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Criminal Justice, and Philosophy; afterwards he continued his studies and received his masters in Sociology and African and Latino studies. With his studies completed, Guevara moved to Venezuela and headed the liberation revolution that overthrew all the political governments of Latin America.
He was born in 1929 in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. His father was minister at the Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta. When he was a teenager, lets say at the age 15, he was enrolled or graduated at Moore House College. He also graduated from there in the year 1948, and, like his father soon became a minister. In the year 1953 while he doing graduate work at a Boston graduate school, Martin Luther King Jr. married Corretta Scott.
Martin Luther King Jr. - A Positive Role Model I chose to speak about Martin Luther King Jr. and the differences he made in our lives. I have so much respect for this man; he is the man whose influences and contributions have helped shaped society into what we see today. Although his story is a tragedy, it has its good points. On January 15, 1929, one of America's greatest role models was born in his parents’ home in Atlanta, Ga. Although martin had a white friend growing up in the neighbor hood where he grew up, both he and his friend had to attend segregated schools, drink from separate fountains, use separate restrooms, and even eat at different counters in restaurants.