Specter got a lot of criticism when he was on the Warren Commission from people who knew and know better, but the fact is a single bullet DID hit JFK and wounded Governor Connally. It had to do with the trajectory of the bullet and the fact it mostly went through soft tissue before stopping and flattening the bullet. It didn't disintegrate, and therefore the conspiracy nutters and con men claimed it was a "magic bullet." It wasn't because it wasn't "pristine." This wound was not fatal to JFK; the final gunshot by Oswald killed JFK when it hit him in the head. That horrendous shot was seen throughout the entire world thanks to the Zapruder film. Anyway, there is no serious disputing of the "long gunman theory," actually fact, except through con men out to make a buck at the expense of truth.
This clip from a great YouTube channel on JFK is from the original CBS live coverage of the JFK assassination. It shows Connally's doctor explaining how Connally was hit, which was from the back. This was obviously the "magic bullet" that did it, for only two of the three shots fired from Oswald's mail order rifle hit their intended targets:
Anyway, back to Arlen Specter. The low point of his career was undoubtedly the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. He treated her like dirt in his attempt to protect the completely unqualified Clarence Thomas. He truly was a shit as shown here in this brief clip:
Hill, of course, told the truth. There was never anything in it for her to bash Thomas.
From the obituary:
A political moderate, Specter was swept into the Senate in the Reagan landslide of 1980.
He took credit for helping to defeat President Clinton’s national health care plan — the complexities of which he highlighted in a gigantic chart that hung on his office wall for years afterward — and helped lead the investigation into Gulf War syndrome. Following the Iran-Contra scandal, he pushed legislation that created the inspectors general of the CIA.
As a senior member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, Specter pushed for increased funding for stem-cell research, breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, and supported several labor-backed initiatives in a GOP-led Congress. He also doggedly sought federal funds for local projects in his home state.
The former Democrat was not shy about bucking fellow Republicans.
In 1995, he launched a presidential bid, denouncing religious conservatives as the “fringe” that plays too large a role in setting the party’s agenda. Specter, who was Jewish, bowed out before the first primary because of lackluster fundraising.
When he realized a few years ago he wouldn't win re-election as a Republican, he switched back to being a Democrat, but it didn't help him.
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