The magic bullet Specter may have been right all along

It sometimes seems as if Sen. Ar- that means Lee Harvey Oswald len Specter has two opinions on couldn't have acted alone, as the every subject. But for nearly 30 Warren Commission concluded. years. Specter has single-mindedly "One of the grossest lies ever foist- stuck to his guns on the "single- ed on the American people," Kevin bullet theory," of which he is the Costner's character calls the theory author. in the recent film JFK. Our own As a junior counsel on the Warren columnist, Steve Lopez, said he dem- Commission investigating the Nov. onstrated the magic bullet's path to 22, 1963 assassination of President his sans this way: "I got a running John F. Kennedy, Specter devised the start and dived through the hack of a notion that a single bullet ripped car, emerged out a side window, hov- through Kennedy's back as he rode ered, entered another car, and in the presidential limousine landed in the driver's seat un- through Dallas, exited, struck Texas scathed." Gov. John Connally in the shoulder Specter may have the last laugh, as he rode in the seat in front, shat- bitter though it may be. An impres- tered his fifth right rib, exited, sive new book, Case Closed by lawyer struck Connally in the wrist, exited, Gerald Posner, supports him. Posner and struck the governor in his left commissioned a firm that specializes thigh, breaking the skin. in computerized reconstructions for Now that's a lot of damage for a use in litigation to conduct elaborate single bullet to wreak, and so it's tests. It confirmed the theory. "For come to be known as the "magic those seeking the truth about the bullet." Conspiracy buffs say multi- assassination, the facts ... are incon- ple bullets did all that damage, and trovertible," writes Posner.