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...average Commission member, Epstein, states, attended about 45 per cent of the meetings, and many of the well-known private lawyers who supposedly assisted the Commission kept up their regular practices and left most of the investigative work to a few less prominent members of the staff, particularly lawyer Arlen Spectre...
...Epstein challenged the Commission's conclusion that Oswald had had no accomplices since Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally were wounded within, at most, two seconds of each other, according to films of the assassination...
According to Epstein, Spectre developed the theory that one shot had wounded both men, but under pressure to complete his work he limited his independent investigation to interviews with 28 medical personnel at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas...
...Epstein states that some members of the Commission never were convinced that one bullet had wounded both...
Under pressure to complete the Report well in advance of the upcoming 1965 Presidential election, however, the Commission finally agreed unanimously to a statement that the evidence was "very persuasive...to indicate that the same bullet that pierced the President's throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds," Epstein says...