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2. Here are two reports about the arrests of Oswald and Ponzi. Complete the reports with the words below.
John F. Kennedy was shot as his car drove past the Texas Book Depository. Not long after the shooting, a policeman, J.D.Tippit, stopped a man on the street. The man shot the policeman and ran away. Later, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for murdering Tippit. Then a gun belonging to Oswald was found in the Texas Book Depository, and Oswald was arrested again – this time for killing the president.
The well-known businessman Charles Ponzi was arrested in Boston today. Police went to the office of Ponzi’s business, the Securities Exchange Company, which has been taking thousands of dollars a day from excited investors, and took him away for questioning. After the arrest a number of investors said that they refused to believe that Ponzi had done anything wrong. ‘He paid me exactly what he promised,’ said one, ‘so I invested it all again. He will take care of us, I’m sure.’
I was a kindergarten kid, when there was the JFK assassination. My parents were surprised at that news from TV. But I didn't understand the meaning of news at all. There were a lot of theories, in the reason for the assassination. I don't think this event was solved.
Taka,
ReplyDeleteAre there any similar mysteries such as JFK's assassination in Japan?
Has there been anything similar to the Ponzi case here recently?
Could you give me a few details (I don't read the local papers)
Jim
JFK’s assassination-
ReplyDeleteNo, there aren’t. I know an assassination recently in Japan as follows. - Iccho Ito who was mayor of Nagasaki-city was killed by a member of a right-wing organization. Mr. Ito made a speech in International Court of Justice in the Hague on November 7, 1995, and was famous as the person who had emphasized the use of the nuclear weapon as the violation of the law of nations. The reason for the assassination was the criminal's resenting unjustly. His car was damaged because of a hole at the construction site. This wasn’t a mystery. I don’t think that it is good to pass their insistence by violence.
Ponzi case -
In the case recently in Japan, ‘Enten’ of Nami chairmen's L&G is. ‘Enten’ is a new currency that he thought about. He said, "’Enten’ saves the human race from the world recession". There were some shops that can use ‘Enten’ in Japan.
He collected 100 billion yen. He hasn’t been arrested yet though he received a compulsory investigation, and L&G went bankrupt. L&G failed because the number of members didn’t increase infinitely, too.
Taka,
ReplyDeleteI read about the Mayor's assassination at the time, but I didn't know his background.
The death that I felt deprived us of a truly great figure was Steve Biko's in South Africa. The film "Cry Freedom" was loosely based on his story.
Enten ran off with a hundred billion yen? Wow! That is what I call enterprising - if you are going to do something, do it big!
Jim