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Arlen Specter was born in Wichita , Kansas , on 12th February, Specter then attended Yale University Law School before being admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in Specter was appointed assistant district attorney of Philadelphia in Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy he was appointed as assistant counsel to the Warren Report.

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Specter was the man closely associated with the single-bullet theory. This was the belief that one of the bullets fired that day hit both Kennedy and John Connally. The first supposedly hit President Kennedy in the back but did not penetrate too deeply. The second, which hit Governor John Connally in the back, exited his chest, punctured his wrist and wound up in his thigh.

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The third shot hit Kennedy in the head. Specter discovered that "the wounding of President Kennedy by a first shot in the back followed by the wounding of Governor Connally about 1. Specter solved the problem by arguing that one bullet had caused all the non-fatal wounds to both JFK and Connally Specter's theory remains the keystone on which the edifice of Oswald's sole guilt rests.

For if one bullet did not cause all of Kennedy's and Connally's wounds, the only explanation of their injuries is that they were caused by two gunmen and some kind of conspiracy. Gerald McKnight , explained in his book, Breach of Trust : "The career assigned to this single bullet was little short of fabulous. According to the report, CE hit JFK in the back of the neck, then passed through the neck without striking any hard object and emerged at the front of his throat.

It then entered Connally in the back of the right armpit and slid along his fifth rib, demolishing four inches of the rib before it exited the chest below the right nipple.