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...doubters -- concerned with the substance of the report rather than the emotional relief it provided -- persisted. Articles and books challenging the Commission's findings sprang up everywhere. A few of them, notably Edward Jay Epstein's Inquest and Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, raised serious doubts about not only the facts of the assassination, but also the procedures and pressures under which the Commission operated...
Written largely to dispel doubt, the Report and the accompanying 26 volumes of raw 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...
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...
...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...
...discouraging foreign -particularly U.S.-investment in France, three American firms are also participating. The wholly owned French subsidiary of Collins Tuttle & Co. of New York, a leading developer of high-rise commercial structures, is managing the financing of the $100 million tower. The Chicago architectural firm of A. Epstein and Sons, and Diesel Construction Co. of New York-a primary contractor in the Pan Am Building-are acting as consultants...