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Arlen Specter Biography and Timeline

Follow Arlen Specter through 13 dated historical records for United States of America.

Arlen Specter, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1963

Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The Magic Bullet theory is contributed to the Warren Commission by Arlen Specter posits that a single bullet, "Warren Commission Exhibit 399", caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally

Exhibit 399

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Posits that a single bullet, known as "Warren Commission Exhibit 399" (also known as "CE399"), caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Posits that a single bullet, known as "Warren Commission Exhibit 399" (also known as "CE399"), caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. A one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through Kennedys neck and Connallys chest wrist and embedded itself in the Governors thigh

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The Magic Bullet theory is contributed to the Warren Commission by Arlen Specter posits that a single bullet, "Warren Commission Exhibit 399", caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally.

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The bullet that is supposed to have done all the damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination.

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The bullet that is supposed to have done all this damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination.

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The bullet traversed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone.

Texas School Book Depository

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

A one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through Kennedys neck and Connallys chest wrist and embedded itself in the Governors thigh

1964

Single-Bullet Analysis

Counsel · Washington · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

As assistant counsel, helps develop the single-bullet analysis used in the Warren Commission's explanation of the non-fatal wounds to Kennedy and Connally.

1976

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

A one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through Kennedys neck and Connallys chest wrist and embedded itself in the Governors thigh

1978

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The 1978 House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations agreed with the Single-Bullet Theory but differed on the time frame

1979

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred

Magic Bullet

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred

Records, sources and methodology

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