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4. These sentences are not true. Correct them.
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Text 2
1. Translate these words and word-combinations:
painful
alleged
connection
assassination
recorded
shudder
frond-to-back
motion
sworn
statements
bullet hole
wound
incinerate
framing
diligent
2. Read and translate the text:
But are there common citizens who believe it?
I have painful and personal connections to the June 1968 assassination of John Kennedy's brother Robert. I have recorded those connections for all to see at. Having known several of the great RFK researchers like Jonn Christian, Bill Turner, Jim Di Eugenio and Lisa Pease, as well as the brother of RFK's alleged assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and Sirhan's lawyer, Robert Teeter, I still shudder inside when I think of the fact that it was absolutely proved that more than one gun was fired on the evening of June 5, 1968. The proof of that is as irrefutable as JFK's front-to-back motion. It consisted of photographs and sworn statements by eyewitnesses, LAPD and FBI personnel that there were bullet holes all over the place, many more than could be explained by Sirhan's eight-shot. 22 revolver. Wounds in the various victims accounted for at least six shots alone.
3. Answer the following questions:
a) When was gun fired?
b) What was happened when the primary investigative agency couldn’t make the number of bullet holes?
c) What will scream 9/11 physical evidence advocates?
4. These sentences are not true. Correct them.
a) These proof of that isn’t as irrefutable as JFK’s front-to-back motion.
b) Wounds in the various victims accounted for at least eight shots alone.
c) County Coroner didn’t stand by his analysis of powder burns on REK’s head.
5. Complete the following sentences:
a) Having known several of the great…
b) It consisted of…
c) County Coroner Thomas…
6. Give English equivalents for:
восхитительно
конспирация
Всемирный Торговый центр
повредить
следственный отдел
первоначальное расследование
измеримо
изменение системы
опытный учёный
вещественное доказательство
тень
отверстие от пули
стрелять
Text 3
1. Translate these words and word-combinations:
foray
government corruption
mysterious
circumstances
shot
allegedly
suicide
chord
beneath
crestfallen
horribly offended
rage
cite
overwhelming
2. Read and translate the text:
In 1993 and 1994, I had my last foray into the activist world where I sought to oppose government corruption by using physical evidence. I became involved with a group of families (eventually reaching 109) of members of the US military who had committed " suicide" or died under mysterious circumstances. They came to call themselves " Until We Have Answers". Some victims had been shot in the back. Some shot with two different weapons. Some had allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves with chords from pay telephones. Some were beaten. Others had been killed by bullets that could not possibly have been fired from guns they were holding. The medical reports from the Pentagon were beneath the level of a third grader trying to explain what had happened to his homework. The families were crestfallen, horribly offended, and full of rage.
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I sponsored an Indiana conference for some of those families. Notes were compared, strategies reviewed. New approaches were made to Congress. In the end, more than fifty members of the House and Senate signed a resolution tied to the appropriations bill calling for the Pentagon to reopen the cases. What happened? During summer recess, the DoD did reopen the cases and, in a matter of weeks, closed them all again with the exact same findings. When a new Congress arrived on Capitol Hill to read the " new" investigations, the deaths were " old business". All told, some of the families had spent as many as ten years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to achieve zero results. I still weep when I think of the hope I brought to some of those families that the undeniable physical evidence would secure them justice.
I could cite a half dozen more cases where the physical evidence was overwhelming and achieved nothing. But if the point is not made now it will never be made.
3. Answer the following questions:
a) Had some victims been shot in the back?
b) The author sponsored an Indiana conference for some of the families, didn’t he?
c) What had happened when a new Congress arrived on Capitol Hill to read the investigations?
4. These sentences are not true. Correct them.
a) In 1996 the author had the last foray into the activist world.
b) The author became involved with a group of soldiers of members of members of the UK military.
c) The author sponsored conference for some of the families.
5. Complete the following sentences:
a) Some victims had allegedly…
b) The families were…
c) More than fifty members…
6. Give English equivalents for:
набег
выступать против
таинственный
обстоятельства
жертва
аккорд
пуля
герб
получить результат
нулевой
надеяться
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