Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...folded the ballot, and dropped it into a box. Caravans of sound trucks rolled through smaller towns, and Radio Viet Nam belted out songs with lyrics like, "If we want to win the war, we must go to vote." As campaign lyrics go, it was remarkably close to the truth...
...ironic, for never before has the investigation of a historic event been launched so promptly for the expressed purpose of dispelling uncertainty. One week after the murder, President Johnson appointed an august group of seven men, headed by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, to "satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered." The Warren Commission had an unlimited budget and access to all the investigative talents and tools of the Federal Government. With the help of a full-time staff of 26-mostly legal experts-it published a lucid, tightly written 888-page report...
...armful of books that place the commission's painstaking detective work under a savage crossfire of criticism. All of the authors manage to suggest that the commission members and their staff might have been guilty of anything from incompetence to a grotesque plot to conceal the truth...
...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 recital of what he might...
...doubt about Oswald's guilt. But the commission was not trying Oswald in a court of law. It was neither bound by rigid rules of evidence nor, since Oswald was dead, restricted to the judicial pursuit of getting a final verdict. The commission sought only to get the truth, and in so doing borrowed from both the techniques of the trial lawyer's adversary system (crossexamination and critical interrogation) and the historian's approach (applying logic, intuition and intellect to reach deductions from a mass of often uncorrelated facts). In this milieu, the critics' claims...