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I found Conner's film very intriguing, not only because of the way the Kennedy assassination was presented mainly by audio, but also the footage at the very end with the bull. This video reminded me of how my Dad told me that he heard about the Kennedy assassination by listening to the radio in his car. I imagine that many people received this news the same way and they probably constructed their own image of the shooting in their head, which is the point I think Conner was trying to make with his film. The ending with the bull was very intriguing, and I my own personal interpretation of this was that this was possibly supposed to be symbolic of the conspiracy to kill JFK. Much like a bull is used as spectacle in a bullfight and is then sacrificed, I saw this as being similar to Kennedy's presidency and assassination; how he was used as a public figure head for leading the US into the Vietnam war and the whole Cuban fiasco, only to be executed when he was no longer needed, or even considered a threat.

Andy Warhol

Warhol's most prominent work began in the 60's when he began making paintings of famous American pop culture products. He was often criticized for this by being called a "capitalist artist", but Warhol wanted to make his work accessible to all types of people. He was also very interested in the recontextualization of the medium itself. He would paint banal and simple things to comment on art itself and the society that inhabited these items and his use of oxidation paintings were canvases prepared with copper paint that were then soaked with urine. He was also famous for making his art extremely mechanized so that he rarely even had his hand in mass producing it.