TOW #10: Written Text: Kennedy Conspiracy

With the Kennedy Assassination anniversary only a few days ago, there were definitely many documentaries on TV about the possible conspiracy theories about JFK, therefore I decided to analyze a written text regarding the assassination for this week’s TOW. This CBS article has no author, however after reading the text it is obvious that the persona of the speaker is somewhat of a reporter since they tie many reports of the conspiracy theories together into one essay about a possible conspiracy of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Also, the article consists of reports from the last 50 years; thus, the purpose of the essay is to discuss possible conspiracy theories of the assassination because the government report that was given decades ago of the assassination of JFK is believed to be a lie by a large population of America.

In order to appeal to the logical reasoning of the audience, or logos, the author of this text compiles many different theories of the assassination. With a variety of sources that consist of everything between a book on JFK’s life to a computer animator who recreated the scenery of the assassination, it is obvious that this text truly a plethora of different ideas merged into one text, where the audience now has the option to read every theory and then compare them to ultimately pick one in which they believe could have happened.  Also, the parallel structure of the article enhances the text because each paragraph is its own conspiracy theory, therefore at the end of the text not only will the audience be introduced to many different theories, but the idea that the report given by the government is most likely a cover up.

I believe that this article definitely achieves its purpose of making the reader at least acknowledge that there could possibly be a conspiracy because with the inclusion of other sources it definitely enhances the text. While there are many quotations fro other related sources, the text maintains its own analysis and also statistics that make it different from every JFK article.