The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, took place in a radically different era. The adoption of radio in the 1920s and television in the 1950s created a nationwide audience for news. Word of the shooting in Dallas spread within minutes over both broadcast media. People not only heard about the tragedy in their homes or workplaces, but the development of affordable portable radio receivers meant that people in cars or in other outdoor areas could also listen to the latest bulletins. The broadcast audiences then verbally spread the news to other people directly or via telephone.
Three similarities.
1) Both films and books tell a story.
2) Both films and books have a meaning or Moral.
3) Both books and films start with a person with an idea.
<span>I found the excerpt you are referring to. In her story "Games at Twilight", these 3 sentences - All this time no one had remembered Ravi. Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean. - suggest that the children had completely forgotten about Ravi. The sentences obviously stated that the children didn't remember about Ravi. </span>
Medger Evers was assassinated because of the racism that existed during his time. He was an African American civil rights activist, and many people thought that what he stood up for was wrong. His life was always in danger and constant threat due to the Klu Klux Klan and other people who discriminated against him and his beliefs.