Advanced now-discredited 'single-bullet' theory on JFK assassination.
In the 1960s, Specter came to national prominence as the young assistant lawyer with the Warren Commission who created the "single bullet theory" to argue Lee Harvey Oswald was a "lone nut" solely responsible for assassinating President John F. Kennedy with a World War II Italian-made bolt-action rifle with a telescopic sight that was not properly mounted.
The central premise of Specter's much-criticized theory was that the first shot fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository had wounded both Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Without Specter's theory, the Warren Commission would have been forced to conclude that a conspiracy was behind the murder of JFK.
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