Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence now served to engender uncertainty and skepticism. Epstein demonstrated that the Commission had worked hastily, arbitrarily dismissed testimony that contradicted its overriding conclusion, and given only reluctant and far from unanimous approval to a dubious theory that later proved fundamental in the case against Oswald as the lone assassin...
Amateur Sherlocks. Recently, Pollster Lou Harris found that no less than 54% of all Americans now think the commission left "a lot of unanswered questions about who killed Kennedy." A sizable number of people are so concerned that they have in effect turned the quest for the "real assassin" into an evangelistic vocation. Self-appointed investigators are at work throughout the nation, hoping to trip over some bypassed pebble of evidence that will crack the case wide open. They pore endlessly over the 10,400,000 words contained in the commission's report and 26-volume collection of testimony...
...Richard Popkin, who believe that one (or more) plotter was skulking around Dallas, pretending to be Oswald in order to implicate him in the crime. There is the "Manchurian Candidate Theory," which was supported by CIA men at one point: that Oswald had been brainwashed to become an assassin during his three-year self-exile in Russia...
...Connally said added an iota of new 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...
...cattle car that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth, the Israeli secret service, he is assigned to liquidate two former Nazis who are developing atomic rockets for the Egyptians. It is soon apparent that Rothberg is retelling the history of the Diaspora in this century. Not only has Nissim experienced the full horror of Hitlerism...