Diagram the following argument.?

Question

Thirty years after President John Kennedy's assassination, it's no easier to accept the idea that a loser like Lee Harvey Oswald committed the crime of hte century all by himself with a $12.78 mail-order rifle and a $7.17 scope. Yet even though two-thousand-plus books and films about the episode have been made, there is not credible evidence to contradict the Warren Commission finding that "the shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald" and that "Oswald acted alone."
After all these years, it's time to accept the conclusion. The nation pays a heavy price for the chronic doubts and mistrust. Confidence in the government has declined. Participation in the voting process has steadily slid downward. The national appetite for wild theories encourages peddlers to persist. Evil is never easy to accept. In the case of JFK, the sooner we let it go, the better.

Answer 1

Why, it doesn't seem to be a well-organized or well-constructed argument to me! The claim is not clearly stated early in the argument, rather it is stated later.

The so-called ramifications are a major case of false correlations. It is very hard to buy that the decline in trust of government, voter participation problems, and chronic doubts and mistrusts are all directly caused by the conspiracy theories!

Also, the inclusion of the word, "loser" casts doubt in the mind of intelligent readers who know a little about argumentation protocol and ettiquette. An ad-hominem attack, even if that attack is against someone who is not your opponent or main target in the argument, is still an ad-hominem attack.

The justifications do not justify anything. I'm not clear on what the warrants for this argument would be, and the claim is never explicitly stated, and it even seems, there are multiple claims vying to be the top.

Is the claim that we should let go of the JFK mystery? Is the claim that the mystery has cast doubt and caused problems with mistrust, government trust, and voter apathy?

I don't know why your teacher assigned you this argument to anaylize!

If the assignment was to write your own argument, and analyize it, then I'd start over again with a clear claim/thesis statement, and try rewriting your argument from there!

Answer 2

Yes there have been many studies but there were files missing from the government found by other administrative authorities, thus many other studies have proved he could not have acted alone from the entry of the other bullets which were not found to determine. But the angle of the shots from where Oswald was posted could not have been fired by him. I think that the decline of belief in our government has come from the fact we dont have the whole truth. We are the government and we should know who was behind this dastardly deed, the truth is very important for some of these people are still alive and have passed on the power to others to continue with the deceiving of the public. If we dont find the truth on many matters of cover-ups we will lose our wonderful country to the bullies. Many records have been burned shredded and sealed. These records are ours and we have the right to open them and read. Politic means to clean government, a Statesman is to represent his people of his state, there is a big difference, like police means to clean, not protect. so we need to some change, and change is good for the norm needs to reach a new standard of understanding. Normal, should mean the truthful balance of people not the fads or lies, that people think up for their motives of control, and lead us into a fantasy only to awaken to dreadful nightmare. The truth always wills out. What you do in the dark always comes out in the light.

Answer 3

The doubt has been created to cover the lapse of security agencies.

Answer 4

The past is past. Most of the people involved are dead or near dead. So, you're right, time to let it go.