Conspiracy? You Decide A Role Playing Learning Tool For High School Teachers

Role playing simulation learning tool

Each Conspiracy is designed to be interactive and include the entire classroom

At the end of each experience- please contact Michael Cunningham and schedule a joint Conspiracy Conference mcunningham@del-valle.k12.tx.us

Each Conspiracy will consists of people or roles for your students to play

The student(s) will research the role they are playing and report on what they have learned

Each student will present a PPT or Video to demonstrate what the person they playing believes to be true.

The teacher will direct a final conference and all students present to the class.

After this classroom activity schedule an International conference and present to another school half way across the earth. See what other people think after they view the same material or study from the same point of view.

Instructions:

You divide your class into two groups. One group will be on one side and one group on the other.

Then you divide each member of the group and give them a role to report to the group about.

Each member will develop their own PPT or video to back up their character

Then the group forms their opinion and writes up their case from the evidence

The classroom then becomes a Moot Court. One team of two against another team of two students

The class and teacher decides on which side did better

Then this same process is done with an international school to see how you think compared to these other schools.

1963 Witnesses Against the Lone Gun Man

Jean Hill (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., a woman who told of seeing a Grassy
Knoll shooter, of seeing Jack Ruby in Dealey Plaza, and of being waylaid and intimidated by phony "Secret Service agents" in the minutes following the assassination.
Roger Craig (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who testified to seeing Oswald flee the scene in a Rambler station wagon with an accomplice, to seeing a Mauser recovered in the sixth floor of the Depository, and to have witnessed a confrontation in Dallas Policy headquarters that implicated Ruth Paine in the assassination.
Beverly Oliver (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claims to have seen Oswald and Ruby together in the Carousel Club, and to have photographed the assassination in Dealey Plaza (with the FBI confiscating the film).
Ed Hoffman (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claimed to have seen a Grassy Knoll shooter.
Charles Crenshaw (Links to an external site.)Links to an external s..., doctor at Parkland Hospital, who claimed that President Johnson called while Lee Oswald was being treated and demanded that a confession be extracted.
Robert Morrow (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claims to have been a CIA agent, and to have supplied weapons for the shooters in Dealey Plaza.
John Elrod (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claimed to have shared a cell in the Dallas jail with Lee Oswald.
James Files (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claims to have been the Grassy Knoll shooter in Dealey Plaza.
Gordon Novel (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claimed to be a CIA agent, first worked with the Garrison investigation and then turned into a Garrison suspect.
Norman Similas (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., a photographer who claimed to have gotten a picture of the Sniper's Nest at the time of the assassination that showed two figures in the window.
Judyth Vary Baker (Links to an external site.)Links to an external ..., a fellow employee of Oswald's at the Reily Coffee Company in the summer of 1963, claims to have been Oswald girlfriend, and involved with him in a secret bioweapons project that intended to kill Castro but ended up killing Kennedy.
Richard Case Nagell (Links to an external site.)Links to an externa..., who claimed to have worked for the CIA and the KGB, and to have had "foreknowledge" of the JFK assassination.
Robert Knudsen (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Navy photographer who claimed to have photographed Kennedy's autopsy.
Tosh Plumlee (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., claims to have been part of a CIA "abort team" sent to Dallas to stop the assassination.
Tom Tilson (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claims to have seen a man with a gun (presumably a Grassy Knoll shooter) scramble down the slope behind the Knoll in the minutes following the assassination.
Madeleine Brown (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., who claimed to have been LBJ's lover, and to have attended a very suspicious party on the eve of the assassination.
Gordon Arnold (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. claimed to have been on the Grassy Knoll during the shooting, to have heard a shot whiz past his left ear, and to have been confronted by a man who confiscated his camera.
Marita Lorenz (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. who told of a "caravan" of cars driving assassins from Miami to Dallas on the eve of the assassination.
Antonio Veciana (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. was a Cuban exile who claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald with one "Maurice Bishop" a few weeks before the assassination. "Bishop" was supposedly CIA officer David Atlee Phillips.
Marty Underwood (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., the fellow in charge of Lyndon Johnson's international security arrangements, who told all kind of tall tales, including some repeated in Gus Russo's book Live by the Sword
Lee Harvey Oswald