Was My Father The Why Jfk Got Shot Analysis
The article “Was My Father the Reason JFK Got Shot?” explain how Sophie Yarborough became curious of her father’s political career. She decided to do a bunch of research of find out information herself.
Sophie always heard of the bullet that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally; however, it wasn’t until a few years ago that she realized that it killed her father dreams too.
Her father was Don Yarborough. He was a lawyer who ran for governor of Texas three different times. He wanted to end poverty and racism. He had confidence, courage, energy, and ambition to believe that he could. He thought that if everything fell into place that he could even become president. He was the first white southern politician to voice support for the civil-rights bill. In 1962, with the help of labor unions, blacks, and hispanics, he won 49% of the vote. Many people wanted him to run again in 1964 when Kennedy showed up in Dallas to help the warfare. When Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot and killed Kennedy, it changed his destiny. Chains of events happened that pushed him out of politics and convinced him that …show more content…
She was a sophomore in Cambridge high school. Her history teacher was obsessed with JFK. Her teacher stopped class one day to ask if she was one of the “Texas Yarboroughs” and she answered yes. Her teacher then teased her saying that he was the reason why Kennedy got shot. She knew that it was a joke but it did possibility horrify her. She followed her mother into journalism but she never thought she would research her father’s role in the Kennedy assassination until after he died in 2009. She read many different books and things on the internet to find what she could find out about her father. Her father shared a last name with Senator Ralph Yarborough, who was a liberal legend and a prominent figure in the Kennedy tableau. They were not related; however, they were close political allies and
Sophie always heard of the bullet that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally; however, it wasn’t until a few years ago that she realized that it killed her father dreams too.
Her father was Don Yarborough. He was a lawyer who ran for governor of Texas three different times. He wanted to end poverty and racism. He had confidence, courage, energy, and ambition to believe that he could. He thought that if everything fell into place that he could even become president. He was the first white southern politician to voice support for the civil-rights bill. In 1962, with the help of labor unions, blacks, and hispanics, he won 49% of the vote. Many people wanted him to run again in 1964 when Kennedy showed up in Dallas to help the warfare. When Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot and killed Kennedy, it changed his destiny. Chains of events happened that pushed him out of politics and convinced him that …show more content…
She was a sophomore in Cambridge high school. Her history teacher was obsessed with JFK. Her teacher stopped class one day to ask if she was one of the “Texas Yarboroughs” and she answered yes. Her teacher then teased her saying that he was the reason why Kennedy got shot. She knew that it was a joke but it did possibility horrify her. She followed her mother into journalism but she never thought she would research her father’s role in the Kennedy assassination until after he died in 2009. She read many different books and things on the internet to find what she could find out about her father. Her father shared a last name with Senator Ralph Yarborough, who was a liberal legend and a prominent figure in the Kennedy tableau. They were not related; however, they were close political allies and