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OXFORD, MISS.--Bullet holes still mar the tall Ionic columns in front of the Lyceum building at Ole Miss. The six white pillars have been repainted since the 1962 riot, but many of the scars are still plainly visible...
This theory -- developed by junior staff counsel Arlen Specter -- speculated that the first bullet fired by Oswald passed through Kennedy's neck, then hit Governor Connally's back and exited through his chest, damaging his right wrist and left thigh successively. Epstein discloses that three Commission members -- Senators Russell and Cooper and Representative Boggs -- disbelieved Specter's hypothesis from the outset. But the Report papered over this difference of opinion with the assertion that the single-bullet theory "is not necessary to any essential findings...
Eight-millimeter film of the assassination taken by Abraham Zapruder indicated that Kennedy and Connally received their wounds in a space of time too short to allow Oswald's gun to be fired twice. Thus the single bullet theory is in fact critical to the whole version of events propounded in the Warren Report. If Kennedy and Connally were struck by separate bullets, either there was a second sniper or the Commission's chronological reconstruction of the assassination was inaccurate...
Another unresolved controversy developed with regard to medical evidence. The doctors who performed an autopsy on the President's body said they found proof that a bullet had passed through it. Yet their report conflicted with the statements of FBI agents who were also present...
...Commission termed its case for a single assassin "persuasive" when it was not. And its unsubstantiated confidence in both the single-bullet theory and the single-assassin theory will foster doubt and encourage fanciful alternatives for years to come. The Warren Report's failure has done incalculable damage to the prestige and credibility of the American governmental process -- particularly abroad, where skepticism over the assassination is rampant...