Yes, I'm glad you pointed that out. Spector was an attorney working with the Warren Commission which investigated and issued the official report on the assassination of JFK.
His "magic bullet" (i.e., single bullet) theory was adopted by the commission and became the federal government's position for many years, enabling the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as a lone assassin.
In retrospect, this was probably false, and perhaps deliberately so. A later congressional committee reinvestigated the JFK assassination and, IIRC, stated that, more than likely, there were at least three shots fired and least a second gunman involved.
Nonetheless, Spector's notoriety in his capacity with the Warren Commission helped to launch his political career.
Without the “magic bullet” the Warren commission would have been forced to conclude a conspiracy, and inevitably traced it to Cuba, that would have forced Congress to recognize it as an Act of War. US Declares war on Cuba, Soviet Union bound by treaty and common goals to enter on the side of Cuba, etc.
I’ll go with a “magic bullet” and an embargo of Cuba to this very day over global nuclear war.
Just the musings of an old tired FReeper, YMMV...
Ping to # 203.
Arlen Specter (left) was the "author" of the "magic bullet."
Yes, I'm glad you pointed that out. Spector was an attorney working with the Warren Commission which investigated and issued the official report on the assassination of JFK.
His "magic bullet" (i.e., single bullet) theory was adopted by the commission and became the federal government's position for many years, enabling the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as a lone assassin.
In retrospect, this was probably false, and perhaps deliberately so.
A later congressional committee reinvestigated the JFK assassination and, IIRC, stated that, more than likely, there were at least three shots fired and least a second gunman involved.
Nonetheless, Spector's notoriety in his capacity with the Warren Commission helped to launch his political career.
Thanks, justiceseeker93.
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The “magic bullet” never made any sense, but getting to the bottom of what happened is *not* what commissions of that kind are there to do. :’)
Unfortunate this mans theory was adopted. You never knew what the truth was with him.
Arlen Specter was Ira Einhorn’s attorney.
Ira Einhorn was the 60’s era radical, communist, terrorist murderer who killed his coed girlfriend, and mummified her in a closet.
Yep. THAT Ira Einhorn.