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Arlen Specter (1930–2012) was a junior assistant counsel on the Warren Commission, assigned to Area I (Basic Facts of the Assassination). He is primarily known as the author of the single-bullet conclusion — the finding that one bullet, later designated Warren Commission Exhibit 399, caused President Kennedy's non-fatal wounds and all of Governor John Connally's wounds. Specter conducted the bulk of the Commission's autopsy-related depositions and drafted Chapter III of the Warren Report. He later served five terms as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1981–2011). Critics of the Warren Commission have long contested the single-bullet conclusion on trajectory, timing, and bullet-condition grounds; Specter defended the finding in subsequent books and interviews throughout his life.
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Sworn in as junior assistant counsel, assigned to Area I (Basic Facts of the Assassination) under senior counsel Francis W. H. Adams.
Conducts Warren Commission depositions of Drs. Humes, Boswell, and Finck regarding the November 22, 1963 autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Chief Justice Warren delivers the Commission's 888-page final report to President Johnson. The report is released publicly September 27, 1964. Chapter III, authored by assistant counsel Arlen Specter, presents the single-bullet conclusion.
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“CIA · From: DIRECTOR , CI · To: JEFFREY H. SMITH · JFK-M-16 : F4 : 2000.02.08.14:15:11:577035 : · Release: In Part”
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Chapter Specter drafted; presents the single-bullet conclusion and the motorcade shot-sequence analysis.
Acoustic and ballistic re-examination that contested portions of the single-bullet conclusion.
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Memoir defending Warren Commission methodology and the single-bullet conclusion.
Former Warren Commission counsel and five-term U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania dies in Philadelphia.
“CIA · From: STANLEY M. MOSKOWITZ · To: THE HONORABLE JOHN CONYERS, JR. · JFK-M-21 : F2 : 20030804-974579 : UNIT INDEX · Release: Redact”
“CIA · From: CHIEF, KUDOVE · To: CHIEFS OF ALL STATIONS · JFK-RH12 : F216 : 1998.12.17.15:43:16:250104 : CORRECTED TO 52 PAGES VICE 51. · Release: Redact”
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“CIA · JFK-RH19 : F02 : 1998.12.22.14:07:05:576108 : NOT BELIEVED RELEVANT. (NBR) · Release: Redact”
“ARRB · JFK-M-19 : F16 : 2000.02.16.10:41:49:700044 : UNIT INDEX · Release: Redact”