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...Sort of Lost." Another intriguing, if coincidental, aspect of the case is the similarity in background and character between Speck and Lee Harvey Oswald, President Kennedy's assassin. Like Oswald, Speck was brought up largely by his mother (his father died when the boy was six). Born in Kirkwood, Ill., on Dec. 6, 1941, Speck, like Oswald, moved to Dallas as a small boy. Speck's mother, like Oswald's, remarried and clung grimly to the lower-middle-class fringe of poverty...
Moreover, he says, the commission acted hastily, even slovenly, in deciding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin. "There is a strong case that Oswald could not have acted alone," he charges. "Quite clearly, a serious discussion of this problem would in itself have undermined the dominant purpose of the commission, namely, the settling of doubts and suspicions . . . In establishing its version of the truth, the Warren Commission acted to reassure the nation and protect the national interest...
...Connally must have been hit by a second bullet, since Oswald could not have fired twice in the 1.8 seconds that elapsed between the time Kennedy was hit and Connally fell. Therefore, says Epstein, if the same bullet did not strike both men, there had to be a second assassin. He cites two unpublished FBI reports that seem to cast doubt on the single-bullet theory. Those reports said that the first bullet did not pass through Kennedy's body at all. But Epstein ignores the fact that the FBI has long since acknowledged that it was in error...
...according to Historian Wecter, "envisages his era as a crisis, a drama of good versus evil, and himself as the man of destiny. In a sense, he must be a hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed, and the assassin's bullet cut it short before it was completed. But he, too, was a hero to himself. Visibly and with eloquence, he embodied the hope of a new start. His looks and his style, the glamour of his wife and his clan permanently enshrined him as the most romantic...
...groping for when he died might have helped the Negro cause. If he was a demagogue ("I have cherished my demagogue role") and a fanatic Black Muslim Minister was a zombic then."), he was surprisingly open-minded, idealistic, and deeply committed to bettering lot of the Negro American. His assassin may have killed the fanatic, he also killed the promise of a new kind of dynamic Negro leadership