Analyze the political cartoon.

PositionCARTOON ANALYSIS - Brief article

(1) This cartoon ran in the evening edition of the Chicago Sun-Times on November 22, 1963--just hours after John F. Kennedy died. How did the cartoonist depict the nation's grief?

(2) Why do you think the cartoonist linked Kennedy to Abraham Lincoln? What, if any, parallels do you see between the two presidents?

(3) What challenges did the cartoonist face in drawing a cartoon about the assassination? How was the subject matter...

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