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...decision to accept the hypothesis was by no means unanimous, and there ensued what has since been described in Author Edward Jay Epstein's book Inquest as the "battle of the adjectives." Some commissioners wanted to say that "compelling'-' evidence supported the single-bullet thesis; others thought "credible" evidence was strong enough, and a compromise was reached with the word "persuasive...
...testimony of a primary witness to the shooting-Governor Connally himself. From the start, he insisted that he did not feel any impact until an instant after he heard a shot, presumably the one that struck Kennedy first, and thus could not have been wounded by the same bullet. The commission decided that he was mistaken; that he had experienced a delayed reaction to his wounds. The Governor said no more about it publicly until early this month, when LIFE prevailed upon him to review the Zapruder films to see if he might have been wrong. The commission had merely...
...refuses to join the dispute over it. "History is bigger than any individual's feelings," he explains. "I don't want to discuss any other facets of the controversy except my wounds as related to the first shot that hit the President. They talk about the one-bullet or the two-bullet theory, but as far as I'm concerned there is no 'theory.' There is my absolute knowledge, and Nellie's [Mrs. Connally] too, that one bullet caused the President's first wound, and that an entirely separate shot struck...
...course, nothing 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...
...made believers out of all but his severest critics by utterly demolishing the man who was supposed to be his toughest challenger: Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams. Granted, Williams, at 33, was nearly ten years older than Clay, and he was not exactly intact; in 1964, a .357 magnum bullet from a Texas state trooper's pistol had ripped through his stomach, costing him a kidney. But at 6 ft. 2 in. and 210 Ibs., he was still a genuine tough guy - with a record of 51 knockouts and 65 victories in 71 pro fights. "Williams has the essential...