Word: hearsay
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...Hersh is also willing to put testimony, hearsay and speculation into close proximity to one another, then declare that they add up to fact. So Hersh says Joe Kennedy clandestinely poured $2 million into the West Virginia primary that clinched the Democratic nomination for his son. The entire Democratic outlay for the national campaign in 1960 has been estimated at around $10 million. But while Hersh tells a number of stories about money being handed around--all of them interesting, some of them plausible--he never explains how he arrived at that whopping figure. Charles Peters, editor in chief...
...Fortier testified that while McVeigh told him in detail about the plot to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, he never once heard Nichols talk about it. He only knew of Nichols involvement because of (hearsay) statements by McVeigh...
...Adam's murder to a nurse before he died in September 1996. But confidentiality rules prevent the nurse from confirming the allegation. Toole's niece told a detective her uncle confided that he had killed Adam, and felt bad about it. That is little consolation for John Walsh. Hearsay is not closure...
...drive on April 16, Nichols said that the talk turned to the future. "You will see something big in the future," Nichols said McVeigh told him. "What are you going to do? Rob a bank?" Nichols asked. "Oh, no," McVeigh replied. "I got something in the works." (Rules on hearsay kept these statements out of McVeigh's trial...
...book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper delivers a turgid blend of proved fact, hearsay and wild speculation. He claims that Ray was merely a fall guy in an intricate plot woven by U.S. Army intelligence units in which dozens, maybe even hundreds, of Mafia dons, government agents, white racists and small-time crooks were involved. He writes that he pieced together evidence of this vast conspiracy during a courageous 18-year investigation that ranged over several continents. But some of his most unsettling charges were lifted straight out of newspaper stories, then...