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...lawman, Philadelphia's District Attorney Arlen Specter was almost to Blackstone born. He has officially been a law enforcement officer since the age of three, when the sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kans., deputized him during a visit and won young Specter fleeting fame in Ripley's Believe It or Not. In 1964, as one of the youngest (he was then 34) investigators with the Warren Commission, Specter developed the report's cental "single-bullet" theory of the Kennedy assassination. Then, back in Philadelphia, Specter shifted political allegiance from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican, won handily...
This theory -- developed by junior staff counsel Arlen Specter -- speculated that the first bullet fired by Oswald passed through Kennedy's neck, then hit Governor Connally's back and exited through his chest, damaging his right wrist and left thigh successively. Epstein discloses that three Commission members -- Senators Russell and Cooper and Representative Boggs -- disbelieved Specter's hypothesis from the outset. But the Report papered over this difference of opinion with the assertion that the single-bullet theory "is not necessary to any essential findings...
...evidence. From the start, the Warren Report pointed out that its single-bullet thesis was "not necessary to any essential findings of the commission." The critics have disagreed, contending that the thesis is the cornerstone on which the commission based its single-assassin conclusion. On the contrary, reasons Arlen Specter. Though the Zapruder film was a key to the commission's confusion about the timing of shots, Specter points out that the film is two-dimensional, and it is impossible to know-"precisely"-when Kennedy was first hit. The President, too, may have had a delayed reaction, and since...
...average Commission member, Epstein, states, attended about 45 per cent of the meetings, and many of the well-known private lawyers who supposedly assisted the Commission kept up their regular practices and left most of the investigative work to a few less prominent members of the staff, particularly lawyer Arlen Spectre...
...responsible conservatives" and "progressives" (a term he prefers over "moderate"), he has also taken the now mandatory slap at the "radical fringe." In the fall he campaigned in New Jersey for the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Wayne Dumont, who lost, and in Philadelphia for the Republican nominee for district attorney, Arlen Specter...