Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing much was done about it. At least not until the members of the Warren Commission became outraged by the prejudicial newspaper coverage, on a nation-wide scale, of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused as the assassin of President Kennedy. By December of 1964, the American Bar Association (ABA) had organized a special committee to do something about...
...after all: he was shanghaied. Furthermore, nobody really wants him: neither the Russians, who accepted him only as a useful political pawn, nor the English, who jobbed him for much the same reason. Hillier also finds that nobody wants him either. He was sent to Russia so that an assassin, hired by his own intelligence agency, could erase a mind already too full of dangerous secrets...
...total exoneration of Oswald thus fails the test of logic, but that is only half the story. Another, even more pervasive, theory has arisen, holding that there was at least one other assassin. This theory rests on the premises that 1) there may have been a shot fired from in front of the limousine, and 2) such crucial evidence as the autopsy report on Kennedy was altered to conceal the second killer...
...finger-length"-a conclusion that, if true, meant it could not have gone through and hit Connally. This report is the basis for the belief that after Jan. 13 the autopsy report was changed for some devious reason, most likely to rule out the existence of a second assassin. The facts, however, are much simpler: FBI reports are dated when they are submitted, not when the information is gathered. Two FBI agents present at the autopsy in November had overheard and recorded the doctors' puzzled comments about the neck wound during the surgical examination; the clarifying Dallas call...
...lawyers felt rushed, that there were intense deadline pressures and that every loose-end lead was not neatly tied up. The commission might have prevented some of the current criticism if it had appointed a kind of devil's advocate to challenge evidence aggressively on behalf of the assassin. Many of the complaints against it, of course, concern the inevitable flaws that accompany any juridical proceeding: contradictions, loopholes, gaps of fact and, especially in the case of such a shattering episode as an assassination, some confusion and forgetfulness on the part of shocked witnesses...