";s:4:"text";s:4504:"The president was dead and I was just old enough to understand. That’s true at least for now, but perhaps not forever.Despite science repeatedly confirming the Warren Commission’s single-bullet theory, Americans continue to see it—and its author, Arlen Specter—as part of a dark coverup.The controversy abated somewhat, but re-erupted in the mid-1970’s when it was revealed that the CIA had tried to kill Castro and this and other facts had been withheld from the Warren Commission. That modern science has repeatedly affirmed their findings does little to abate the continuing doubt. But he was at or near the center of so much for so long, other contributions and controversies surmounted this one in the retrospectives on his life. From his home in Gladwyne, via Cisco Webex, Philadelphia lawyer, Shanin Specter weighed in on the waiver that all attendees were required to sign before being allowed to enter the Bok Center in Tulsa for tonight's Trump Rally. In 1978, Congressman Robert Edgar, then a member of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, asked my father to help him. I remember Bob Edgar sitting in the den of my parents’ house in Philadelphia, plaintively noting that he’d been the minister at the church a block away, but politely accepting me as poor 20-year-old substitute.My father and I would joke that the Single Bullet Theory would be in the lead paragraph of his obituary. Attorney Shanin Specter has obtained more than 200 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, including jury verdicts of $153 million against a major automaker and $109 million against a western Pennsylvania power company. Most went on to remarkably successful careers reflective of their selection as the best and the brightest to take on the awful task of determining who killed the president. Public opinion polling revealed that about two percent of the electorate was consistently opposed to him based principally—and perhaps exclusively—because of his role in this controversy. Specter considered his father's triumphs the embodiment of the American dream, a fulfillment that friends say drove him to a career in public life. So there was some context for me when my father left for Washington several weeks later as a 33-year-old assistant counsel on the Warren Commission staff.Almost no one knows—or cares—that the young men who staffed that investigation worked honestly and hard. My father volunteered me instead, knowing that I had been debating this issue in college. Defensively, I read the Warren Report and its critics.I’ve long believed that for a large swath of America a conspiracy is the inescapable conclusion. That’s true at least for now, but perhaps not forever.Despite science repeatedly confirming the Warren Commission’s single-bullet theory, Americans continue to see it—and its author, Arlen Specter—as part of a dark coverup.The controversy abated somewhat, but re-erupted in the mid-1970’s when it was revealed that the CIA had tried to kill Castro and this and other facts had been withheld from the Warren Commission.
Shanin Specter Eulogy Remarks by Shanin Specter, at the funeral of his father, Senator Arlen Specter October 16, 2012 If my father were standing here he would take off his watch, place it on the lectern and say he's doing so to give you the false impression he would be paying attention to the time. Specter won two verdicts inWhite v. Ford â for $153 million and $52 million â and continued to litigate the case to a settlement. Shanin Specter is a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Kline & Specter, P.C. Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest child of Lillie (née Shanin) and Harry Specter, who grew up in the Bachkuryne village of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. I remember Bob Edgar sitting in the den of my parents’ house in Philadelphia, plaintively noting that he’d been the minister at the church a block away, but politely accepting me as poor 20-year-old substitute.My father and I would joke that the Single Bullet Theory would be in the lead paragraph of his obituary.
My father and I would joke that the Single Bullet Theory would be in the lead paragraph of his obituary. Having read tens of thousands of polling respondents say why they were for or against Arlen Specter over 30 years, I don’t recall anyone saying anything good about his work on the Warren Commission. Specter appeared with Michael Smerconish on CNN this morning.