Volume 27, Number 12 · July 17, 1980
The Case That Will Not Rest
By Andrew Hacker
Conspiracy
by Anthony Summers
McGraw-Hill, 640 pp., $17.95
The question of who killed Kennedy puts off a lot of people. It is easy to see why. For one thing, cranks and eccentrics have dominated much of the debate, so it is hard to know which theories ought to be taken seriously. What, for example, should one make of the notion that there may have been 'two Oswalds' wandering around for a while? This brings up a second problem. Even more than with Watergate, the assassination demands familiarity with an endless round of details. How many grains should a bullet lose if it passes through two bodies? How long would it take to walk from Oswald's room on North Beckley to the side of the Tippit staying over on East Tenth? Or who was the 'Leon'who visited Sylvia Odio's apartment two months before Kennedy's murder? If someone even passably expert gets going on such subjects, everyone else's eyes glaze over.
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