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...quick review: In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only three shots were fired - all from behind the President, all from the Texas School Book Depository, all from the bolt-action rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald. End of story. (Beginning of conspiracy-theory industry.) In 1979, an investigation conducted by Congress's House Assassinations Committee disagreed - a fourth shot, which missed, had been fired from behind a white picket fence on that grassy knoll. In 1982, however, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences insisted the fourth shot was random background noise, probably static...
...Puffy and Jennifer? The people at Philip Morris: Are they REALLY making a difference? Does Elian belong with his father in Cuba or with the Miami relatives? In retrospect, was Ginger Spice's behavior inevitable? Do you think we ought to admit Red China to the United Nations? Did Oswald act alone? Why do you think Nixon didn't burn the tapes? Was Ronald Reagan a moron or a visionary? Do earth tones really signify the Alpha male? Why, exactly? Did Roosevelt know in advance about Pearl Harbor? You think those Sacco and Vanzetti guys got what they deserved...
...crusading Chicago civil rights attorney who helped Nathan Leopold, accused with Richard Loeb of young Bobby Franks' murder in 1924's "Crime of the Century," win parole in 1958; defended Henry Miller's explicit novel Tropic of Cancer against censorship; and overturned the murder conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...owner Loyd Jowers' claim that he set up the shooting and ex-FBI agent Donald Wilson's claim that he found a scrap of paper in Ray's getaway car with the phone number of a Dallas nightclub once owned by Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...Fourteen years later, Ford would get a Sunday call from Lyndon Johnson, beating down Ford's protests and ultimately persuading him to serve on the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination. He would fly to Dallas to interview Jack Ruby, the killer of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "He was crazy" is Ford's terse summation of Ruby. Ford is the only surviving member of the commission...