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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...
There was a scene where Joan Fontaine was supposed to faint at a coroner's inquest, and I wanted to get the effect, but nobody could lick it. From 1939, I tried again several times. And it wasn't until Vertigo, when we had to have it that it was solved with a combination of a zoom lens and a dolly-back. When I asked the trick department how much it would cost, they said it would cost $50,000.00 for the one shot, because they'd have to take a rig above the staircase to take the camera...
...books stand out for their provocative attacks. Inquest, by Edward Jay Epstein, is a slight (151 pages) text that began as Epstein's master's thesis in government at Cornell University; it accuses the commission, of hurrying through the investigation in slipshod fashion, because it wanted to establish a "version of the truth" that would "reassure the nation and protect the national interest." Rush to Judgment, now a bestseller, is by New York Attorney Mark Lane, who was retained as counsel for a time by Oswald's mother. Lane's book consists of a minutely detailed...
Despite the thoroughness of the 26-volume Warren Commission report, many people in the world prefer to ignore rational explanations when the irrational can be made to seem so much more melodramatic. Edward Jay Epstein's book will certainly help feed the grimly suspicious. Inquest is the enlargement of a master's thesis that he wrote at Cornell. It has much thesis, but little that is masterly...
This and countless other examples of superficial scholarship scarcely make Inquest the compelling work that Epstein's publishers claim...