The late Sen. Arlen Specter will be best remembered for his razor-sharp legal mind, his outspoken support of Roe vs. Wade, his battle with cancer, his latter-day party flipping and his–now sadly outdated–“centrist” ways. But for some of us, he will always be the ambitious young assistant counsel who played the ultimate partisan for the consensus-mandated Warren Commission.
Given that four bullets would have proven more than one shooter in Dallas, Specter stepped up to propose the “magic bullet” theory that postulated that both President John F. Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connolly were hit by the same, circuitously-routed bullet. The one that was still in near-pristine shape–after causing eight wounds–when “discovered” on a gurney at Parkland Memorial Hospital.