Fourth Reich Archaeology - The Warren Commission Decided 8: Specter's Spectre (Side A)

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

This week marks the return of our series within a series, The Warren Commission Decided.  Continuing our exploration into the Commission’s staff, in this episode we focus on the man behind the “single-bullet theory”--Arlen Specter.  You see, it was Specter, then a young attorney with less than a decade’s worth of experience, who first posited that a single bullet caused multiple wounds to both JFK and Texas Governor John Connally, which of course is the key element in defending the conclusion that there was just one lone gunman, and thus no conspiracy involved in the assassination. We start off by doing some exposition on Specter’s life both before and after his work on the Commission. “Know them by their deeds,” they say, so we begin with a dig into Specter’s work after the Commission, when Specter enjoyed a long and influential career as the U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania, where he became a respected figure on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and was involved in numerous high-profile confirmations and investigations, including the failed confirmation of Robert Bork and the successful confirmation of Clarence Thomas. He was also a lifelong friend of Israel. We then turn back the clock to follow Specter’s early years, and cover his time at UPenn as an undergrad, and his time in the Air Force ROTC and later the Office of Special Investigations. But fear not listener, the majority of this episode (one of our longest yet) focuses squarely on Specter’s work on the Commission, and his claim to fame: the infamous single bullet theory.  We examine how Specter built out the case against Oswald as any crooked prosecutor might, fitting the evidence into his theory, and not the other way around. Drawing from a vast array of prime source audio material, we hear from several of the players themselves: eyewitnesses, doctors, ballistics experts, and pathologists. They all have one thing in common: their lived experiences and expert analyses run contrary to Specter’s theory. We systematically dismantle the theory by reference to some of the best evidence, including evidence of Specter’s self-interested, abusive relationship with the truth.This one is another two-parter, with Side A available this week and Side B to be released next week. If you can’t wait until next week, sign up on our Patreon here and get the full three hour mega-episode TODAY!

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We found no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic, the Warren Commission of science. I'll never apologize for the United States of America, ever, I don't care what the fact are. In 1945, we began to require information, which showed that there were two wars kind of. His job, he said, was to protect the Western way of life. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders the more easy victims of a big lie than a small one. For example, we're the CIA.

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are learning alongside all of you as we do the research, as we dig deeper than we ever have before. And today's episode will hopefully be a prime example of that. Because we're getting into some real stuff now. Today's episode will also be an example of one of those perks that we toss to the Patreon subscribers whenever we have the opportunity. So we're covering Arlen Spector today, and it's a lot to cover because not only do we do a deep dive on the man himself, his modus operandi, his career of malfevalesia. as an American centrist, but we also go real deep on his most impactful legacy, namely the single

bullet theory. So if you're subscribed to our Patreon, you can hear the entire two and a half hour deep, deep dive on Arlen Specter in one piece. However, if you're listening on our free feed, we'll take you in this first part right up to laying out the single bullet theory and you're going to have to wait for our systematic dismantling thereof. Nevertheless, we're enthused that you're listening and we're confident that you'll enjoy. By way of recap, we've got our lawyer hats strapped firmly to our heads, and we've begun to lay the groundwork for a description and an excavation into how this type of fact-finding investigation actually functions when it is carried out by members of the legal profession, like ourselves.

so last time we talked a little bit about the general operational structure of the commission it paralleled in many respects the standard law firm hierarchical pyramidal structure that we so frequently see whether it's in an actual law firm in private practice or even in the non-profit or in the government sectors and we zoomed in on the general counsel to the Warren Commission, namely Nebraska native J. Lee Rankin. Rankin was so ubiquitous in the commission's work that we gave him the nickname as the eighth commissioner.

This was the guy who handled kind of the oversight of the commission's organization, the logistics, the administration of the commission's work, making decisions about who would take on which assignments, intermediating between the commission and the various other government investigative agencies that were feeding information to the commission. and, of course, the two prime agencies the commission relied on in order of importance were the FBI first that had done so many of the witness interviews, so much of the fact-finding, the ballistics tests, etc., etc., and to a lesser extent, the CIA, which provided information on the likes of Oswald, time in the Soviet Union, in any espionage carried out on Oswald.

However, for both agencies, we dug into the fact, and it was a fact that Lee Rankin learned the hard way, that as much or more information was obscured from the commission's view, as was shared and so we ended the episode covering at length the real 180 degree turn that rankin took around the time of the house select committee on assassinations in the late 70s and by that time rankin had satisfied himself that he personally and the commission institutionally had been misled, lied to, and not dealt with in an honest way by the federal government. So today, we are going to take a little issue with Lee Rankin's do-eyed, innocent view of the commission's work in the first instance.

You recall that, as Rankingt tells the story, the commission did the best they could, and any blind spots in their investigation were caused not by the commission, not by its members and not by its staff, but rather by these government agencies who dealt dishonestly with the facts. That's true to an extent, but it's also true that the commission was no mere victim. Indeed, the commission itself had some extremely rotten apples on its staff. The tactics of some of these staffers certainly pass the threshold of unethical behavior, and they even likely cross the threshold into obstruction of justice and the commission of other federal crimes. Today's episode focuses on the rottenest apple of the whole bushel.

That's right, listener. Today, we are talking about Arlen Specter. And without any further ado, let's get digging. I shouted out who killed the Kennedys, and after all, it was you and me. So if you meet me Have some curtsy Have some sympathy

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I think we ought to Commence our excavation Of Arlen Specter and his work on the Warren Commission through the lens of hindsight. Here we are in the year 2025, and we have the benefit of knowing everything that Spector did in his public-facing career subsequent to his work as counsel to the Warren Commission. Remember last time we said that many of the staff attorneys, not to mention the likes of Commissioner Gerald Ford, who later became president,

but many of the underlings as well put the Warren Commission at the top of their resume, and it really took their careers, places that they may otherwise not have gone. And setting aside Gerald Ford, Spector is probably the guy who saw the greatest benefit from his work on the Warren Commission, having become the longest-serving senator in Pennsylvania history. He served a total of 30 years in the United States Senate from 1981 until 2011, and in fact, he wasn't quite a senator for life, but he only lived another year after he left office. And his Senate career reflects the same type of opportunism and really an ability to sway with the political wins that he showed on the Warren Commission. He started out as a Democrat, then he ran as a Republican, stayed in the Republican Party for many years.

later he switched back to the Democratic Party after the Tea Party movement set its sights on him as being too moderate and so you know he's a Pennsylvania centrist the same sort of gormless Gallum that today's Pennsylvania centrist Shrek, a.k. A.K. John Fetterman, embodies. And, you know, on Fourth Reich archaeology, we know enough to know that an American centrist is little more than an American fascist. That's the case for John Fetterman, and that was the case for Arlen Specter. Our running theory is if everyone loves the guy, that guy knows some shit about everyone. He's down with, down with everyone.

And that's a scary thought. Yeah, just look at the other people that have a similar broad base of respect among Senate colleagues. It's guys like Joe Biden. It's guys like John McKen. pain, you know? Exactly. Criminals, in other words.

Our man, Jerry Ford, right? Oh, yeah. But you mentioned Federman, so I got to just put this on the record. Federman's one of these guys that convinced the world that it's okay to wear a hoodie and gym shorts to work every day. That's like his look, like Zelensky too, or it's like they're just somehow conned their way into just wearing comfortable ass clothes around people who are wearing. in suits but back to spectre so spectre was a long-time senator and a long-time vocal member of the powerful

senate judiciary committee so for those that don't know the judiciary committee is the it's the body within the senate that basically takes charge on federal judicial appointments right so In the United States, a federal judge is appointed by the president, but can only get confirmed by the Senate. So the Senate holds the power to basically say yes or no to any federal judge, that includes from the district court level all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States. And Spector was on the Senate Judiciary Committee for a very long time, and we'll see in a minute, he was on there with a lot of familiar faces. But I think the best way to sort of cover his

time on the Senate Judiciary Committee is to do it, you know, focusing on two major confirmations, two, I would say, landmark moments in the Judiciary Committee's life in the 20th century. The first is in 1987. And it's the appointment. of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Of course, Bork never gets confirmed by the Senate, and I'll tell you why. So for the folks who don't know, I guess the best way to tell you who Robert Bork is is to dial the clock back to Watergate. So where it's October 20th, 1973, Richard Nixon is the president of the United States.

Watergate has sort of broken loose. the scandal is gaining traction. The Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor by the name of Archibald Cox. Mm-hmm. Yep. Through subpoenas and investigation, it becomes discovered that the White House is basically wired and bugged, and the president is recording everything all the time. And so Cox subpoenas, the now-famous Watergate tapes.

Nixon doesn't like it So he calls up the AG At the time and says Hey you got to fire Archibald Cox The AG says no Absolutely not And resigns And then Nixon calls the deputy AG

And says Hey this Archibald Cox guy You got to fire him This is all happening like in a matter of hours On a Saturday night and and the deputy is like no man you i'm not going to do that that's like he's this fucking fascism uh and nixon is like well then you should resign so then he resigns then the third guy up is called that's robert bork and nixon says

bork you got to fire archibald cox and bork says sure no problem So that's our starting point of Bork And why it's important is that when Reagan So now we're fast forward back to the 80s Reagan is appointing his Justice of the Supreme Court I think it's after Justice Powell's seat is vacant And Arlen Specter had promised Reagan Whoever you pick

I will Make sure that the Senate will back and will confirm Reagan picks Bork and Arlen Specter doesn't like that because Bork is essentially you know the most backward thinking guy at the time right he thought that abortions were you know abhorrent and affirmative action was like terror you know like a terror to society and all this dastardly shit not to mention he's the guy that fired our Ropold Cox. And so despite Spector's sort of promise to Reagan, he takes a stand.

And through a series of, you know, hearings, confirmation hearings with the Senate, he basically destroys Bork and his buddies on the committee join in. and wouldn't you know it his buddies at the time on that committee we're talking about people like joe biden we're talking about people like ted kennedy so arline specter is hanging out with these guys sort of taking the liberal progressive view and rejecting Robert bork Robert bork never makes it onto the supreme court which is like pretty rare for an individual to get up to the point of confirmation and not get confirmed, right? Like, and I think at the time it was like major news.

It was so major that in the lexicon of American jurisprudence, the name for a judicial nominee getting rat fucked or getting slapped down in the confirmation process is now known. as getting borked. And so I tell this story because it shows that Arlen Specter is going to do what Arlen Specter thinks is right. Notwithstanding his promise to Ronald Reagan, he would not confirm a guy like Robert Bork. Well, I'll put an asterisk on right there. To Arlen Spector, what is right is what is most expedient in the long game of Arbor.

Martin Spector's political career. So he saw greater payoff in the long run to do what he did with respect to Bork than to rubber stamp the confirmation. And it's true. Like you just said, it gained him all kinds of cred as a reasonable person, as a centrist, as a centrist, a moderate, all of which in his mind was ammunition for a future presidential run, because Spector did have his sights on the White House. Even back then, he ran for the Republican nomination, albeit unsuccessfully. Incredibly, his campaign manager was Roger fucking Stone. And I think all of this conduct, and we'll cover a couple more episodes as well, but all of this is, from his point of view, steps on the path to the highest office in the world.

Yeah, absolutely. Arlen Spector, you could think of him as basically pure ego enveloped in a fleshy vessel. He's just, and this brings up the next sort of confirmation hearing that is critical in his career, flash forward to the early 1990s. I think we're now in 1991. You have Clarence Thomas, who was not long serving on the D.C. Circuit court. Before that, he was, I think, at the EEOC. but Clarence Thomas is being, he's on the short list and actually gets appointed by President Bush to the Supreme Court. Wouldn't you know it, Spector is still on the Senate Judiciary Committee?

And Spector, a vocal supporter of affirmative action, had some questions about Clarence Thomas and his views on that matter. And this, I think, is a, it's a great story about Spector. It's also a great story about Clarence Thomas, because Arlen Spector calls Clarence Thomas in for an interview in his office. And there's this, you know, a long day of questions. And at the time, Spector was concerned on a critical opinion in Clarence Thomas's court in the D.C. Circuit.

and Spector, I guess, through his intel, had figured out that Clarence Thomas was about to enter an opinion, or had entered an opinion that was basically against affirmative action. And so he sits Clarence Thomas down and he started questioning on him and he just asked him, you know, flat out, like, are you going to enter this order that is essentially going to, thwart back affirmative action in the DC circuit and Clarence Thomas says no and Specter is sold on the guy basically after that. It's like okay well he told me he told me he is not going to it's not going to do that so earmarked that for a second

now at the same time I think everybody who's listening should know if not there was a story that was coming out in the news about one of Clarence Thomas's staff while he was at the EEOC by the name of Anita Hill who had made credible allegations of some pretty creepy stuff that Clarence Thomas was doing essentially, you know, sex-based harassment, degrading comments about, of a sexual nature.

His conversations were very vivid. He spoke about acts. that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes. He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts. On several occasions, Thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess. been dead set on Clarence Thomas, the Judiciary Committee needed someone to step up and cross-examine

her. And they knew that Spector would be the right guy for the job. And to stroke his ego, they basically said, look, Arlen, if you don't do it, we're going to get someone, we're going to hire a private firm. We're going to hire someone privately to come here and do it, basically saying, like, you know, you're the only guy that can do it. And so he did. And so, you know, that is a famous sort of cross-examination,

which essentially, you know, discredits Anita Hill and lays the path for Clarence Thomas to be confirmed by the Senate. And he is confirmed, and he becomes a Supreme Court justice. You testified this morning that the most embarrassing question involved. This is not too bad. Women's large breasts, that's the word we use all the time. You testified, you drew an inference that Judge Thomas might want you to look at pornographic films, but you told the FBI specifically that he never asked you to watch the films. Is that correct? The fact is, flatly, he never asked you to look at pornographic movies with him.

Quote, this is not too bad, I can read it. Thomas, like to discuss specific sex acts and frequency of sex, close quote. You said you took it to mean Judge Thomas wanted to have sex with you, but in fact he never did ask you to have sex, correct? No, he did not ask me to have sex. He did continually pressure me to go out with him continually, and he would not accept my explanation as one as being valid. So that when you said you took it to mean we ought to have sex, that that was an inference. A mere allegation. Senator, I would suggest to you that for me,

these are more than mere allegations. These are the truth to me. These comments are the truth to me. I'm not questioning your statement when I use the word allegation. I know about sexual harassment and discrimination against women, and I think I have some sensitivity on it. Now, remember, Clarence Thomas told Arlen Spector that the opinion that he,

had written on affirmative action, that wasn't going to be an order. And it wasn't until Clarence Thomas gets on the Supreme Court. I think it's the first day. This is like early, early Clarence Thomas lore we're talking about here. He gets confirmed to the Supreme Court and then for like a matter of one hour or two hours steps down back to the D.C. Circuit, enters this anti-affirmative action opinion, and returns to a Supreme Court seat. Essentially, this act allowing him to facially say that he never lied to Arlen Specter, but in reality, I mean, he knew full well what he was going to do, and he bamboozled him. And that wouldn't be the last time Clarence Thomas bamboozled not only Congress, but the American people. Yeah, and you said it's an anecdote that has a lot to say about Thomas and about Spector,

and I'd like to just peel back one more slimy onion layer of rotten filth on the whole story as well, because it also says a lot about the recently departed President Joe Biden, who at the time was the chairman. of the Judiciary Committee, who wanted to play ball with the Bush administration and get Thomas confirmed, but who did not want to be the one to destroy Thomas's enemies in the process, right? It looks bad if a Democrat greases the skids so blatantly for a republic. Republican Supreme Court nominee to achieve confirmation. So what did Joe Biden do early in the process?

He went to his friend, Arlen Specter, and he told Arlen Specter, look, Anita Hill is lying, and you're the guy who's going to show the world that she's lying. It is appropriate to ask Professor Hill, anything any member wishes to ask her to plumb the depths of her credibility. And we're going to play some clips of the highlights here. Yeah. But the way in which Spector puts on his prosecutor hat and burns Anita Hill. You will see some, when you take a look at the transcript and what we'll develop this afternoon, a very light-out demolition of her credibility. Is so shameful.

It's so disgusting. His badgering and bullying this woman. You are not now drawing a conclusion that Judge Thomas sexually harassed you. Yes, I am drawing that conclusion. That is my... Well, then I don't understand. Pardon me? That I don't understand.

How reliable is your testimony in October of 1991 on events that occurred eight, ten years ago? How sure can you expect this committee to be on the accuracy of your statements? I guess one really does have to understand something about the nature of sexual harassment. It is very difficult for people to come forward. for people to come forward with these things. That Ms. Hill's fantasies about sexual interest in her were an indication of the fact that she was having a problem being rejected by men she was attracted to.

The reason why we're going to all this length about Spector's Senate career is because the skills that he had perfected by the time he gets there are skills that he had practiced. and developed during his service on the Warren Commission. And those skills are dipped and soaked in misogyny, in disregard for the truth. Ego. In ego, absolutely.

And an ability to sort of extort or leverage relationships. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. And to see where the power is and to serve that, center of power in the furtherance of the ego so that we are just like prosecutor specter might have done here we are playing prosecutor dick and don from the southern district of the underground fourth rike bunker here and we are prosecuting this man by establishing a modus operandi, a pattern of behavior.

I think that her credibility has been demolished. And I'd like to mention one more, if you'll indulge me, listener, and Dick. And that is Spector's work on the Senate Appropriations Committee, subcommittee on foreign operations, right? long-time listeners of the podcast will know that appropriations is a big buzzword in the United States Congress. It means those who control the purse strings. It's a very powerful committee, both in the House and the Senate. Remember that Jerry Ford got himself a plumb spot on House appropriations and the subcommittee on intelligence, which really set him on the path to the White

House in his own right. Well, Arlen Spector was also in appropriations, and in that capacity, he really became kind of a diplomat freelancer. He was not part of the executive branch. He was not under the auspices of the State Department, but nevertheless, he traveled the world and he had a special interest in the Middle East. He had a very narrow interest in Israel. Spector was a big-time Zionist, a big-time friend of Israel, and he was traveling around talking to leaders, You know, he was talking to Yasser Arafat. He is widely credited as having helped the stalemate between Syria and Israel that proceeded in the wake of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and allowed for Israel's increased domination in the region to proceed unabated. by any threat of retaliation from Syria that had existed prior to that time.

First trip to Israel was way back in 1964, and I have been to Damascus many times, and I have met many times previously with President Assad, as well as other leaders in the area. My conclusions are that both sides want peace. Prime Minister Netanyahu, I will confirm, since it's been on the paper, it did ask me to take a message to President Assad. I will not tell you what the message was, but I will confirm since it's already been on the press that I was asked to take a message, and it's up to Prime Minister Netanyahu if he wants to make any further disclosures on the matter.

He's also credited with more than doubling the amount of annual U.S. aid to Israel in 1993 after the first Gulf War and after you may recall Saddam Hussein through a few missiles all the way to Israel and retaliation for its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1991. And in 1993, after the dust had settled on the first Gulf War, Arlenzstan, specter came to the Senate and he said that Israel is unable to defend itself and that the U.S. is going to have to pony up and sponsor Israel's self-defense in perpetuity. So at his urging, at that time, U.S. aid increased from just about $1.2 billion to $3 billion, which then became the floor and has since obviously expanded exponentially, but that date and time when Israel

kind of emerges out of the pack of nations, head and shoulders above the rest, as the special military attack dog of the U.S. Empire, that too was largely driven by the advocacy of Arlen Specter. and his Middle East imperialist shenanigans continued unabated into the era of the global war on terror. He was a vocal supporter of the Patriot Act, supported the war in Iraq in 2003, signed on to warrantless wiretapping, and all the rest of your bog standard post-9-11 U.S. imperial war-mongering policies. If we want to give Arlen Specter a little bit of credit for doing the occasional good thing, we might point out that he broke ranks with his Republican colleagues to support the nuclear test ban treaty.

And Romneycare, aka Obamacare, he, was friendly enough to the very notion that he was kicked out of the Republican Party there about in 2009 and again this is just part of his role and his self-mythology as the eminently reasonable the centrist the moderate and all that fits into the package, the same package, as the guy who would take away all civil liberties and invade countries with a blank check on the flimsyest of fabricated evidence. So that's really what it means to be an American moderate. And that's what it really means to be Arlen Spector. You're voting in favor of affirmative action and also the Patriot Act.

Basically what it means. Yeah. Kind of a predecessor to Obama in some ways. He and Obama approach politics in the same way. Spector coming at it from starting out on the Republican side, Obama starting out on the Democrat side, but they are very similar. Same with Biden. Yeah. It's sort of a blueprint, right? Mm-hmm. A form style. But so all of this to say that Arlen Specter had a long and storied career as a senator in the U.S. Congress, and we think it would be folly

to pretend that this mainstream political career was unconnected to his Warren Commission service. Indeed, Arlen Spector, I would say, probably more than any other staff member, he really rose to the top during the Warren Commission, right? He really made a name for himself as the point man on the... the medical evidence, and his ability to sort of get everyone around this idea, which has come to be known as the single bullet theory. And in doing so, he establishes chops as a deep state warrior. You can run on for a long time.

Run on for a long time. Run on for a long time. Soon or later, God, I cut you down. Soon or later, got to cut you down. Go tell that long-tong-tong-tong liar. Go and tell that midnight rider. Tell the rambler, the gambler, the backfighter. Tell them that God's going to cut them down.

Tell them that God's going to cut them down. Yeah. I mean, we said many of the men, the staff members had a launch in their career after the Warren Commission and none so much as Arlen Spector. And that's because maybe it's not mainstream, but at least in our circles, it's pretty well known that Arlen Spector is the author of the single bullet theory. No other staffer on the Warren Commission made such a decisive contribution. And we are going to get to that. But Dick, I wonder if you will join me first in turning the clock all the way back, all the way

back to Arlen Spector's origin story to see how he got like this. Arlen Spector was born to Jewish immigrant parents in the very goyish city of Wichita, Kansas in 1930. He was born in Wichita, but interestingly, he was raised in the very small town of Russell, Kansas, the same exact town that Bob Dole was from and in fact their families knew each other and Bob Dole's family was like the rich family in the town and I only mention that because ironically in 1996 of course Bob Dole would prevail as the presidential candidate for the Republicans handily defeating Arlen Specter, who actually suspended his campaign before the first primary votes were cast. But just a little twist of fate there to throw into the stew.

So grows up in Kansas, but moves to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania for undergrad. So Spector joins the Air Force ROTC while at the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, and then enlists into the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and is there from 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War. But he apparently remains stateside this whole time, and there isn't really a lot of information about what he did for the Office of Special Investigations. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., the OSI has part of the Inspector General's organization

under the control of the OSI director. Its area of operations includes the entire world, with 41 district offices, 10090 detachments, and 31 resident agencies. In all, the Office of Special Investigations maintains over 260 operating locations. By direction, the OSI is a centralized, worldwide fact-finding agency designed

designed to provide a fast, coordinated service to Air Force commanders no matter where they are. Now remember, the aerial bombing that happened during the Korean War, it was so devastating to cities and towns in North Korea that it essentially wiped out nearly 85% of the permanent building structures in the country. So he was no doubt schooled in the dehumanization. and brutalization of America's enemies at a very young age at the dawn of the Cold War. And what I think is really interesting about is OSI service is the counterintelligence investigations and, you know, the mole hunting and such. The details and specifics of how the OSI carries out its counterintelligence mission

is virtually all classified information. However, in general, this mission has two. main objectives. First, to provide Air Force commanders with a counterintelligence investigative service. Second, to collect, analyze, and disseminate information pertaining to espionage, sabotage, and subversive activities which may affect or be of interest to Air Force commanders. During the Korean War, he was involved with the CIA in debriefing and neutralizing all of the U.S. airmen who confessed to U.S. war crimes to the North Koreans and the Chinese while in captivity. Yeah, I think we can't say for sure that Spector himself was involved in that work stream of the OSI.

And indeed, the timing doesn't perfectly line up. So it's hard to say what role, if any, specter himself had but that was his unit right the osi of the air force gained fame by being the actual source of the first piece of intel the purported first piece of intel that the north koreans were invading south korea and there were a lot of mold that had been planted in the U.S. and the Allied troops, which the OSI's mission was to root those moles out and to prevent the sharing of military intelligence to the U.S. enemies.

And then later on, of course, this is stuff that the psychologist and researcher, Jeffrey Kay has written extensively about, but during the Korean War, a lot of U.S. airmen confessed to war crimes, such as the use of chemical and biological weapons over Korea. I noticed the first time that four of the wing bombs, the second time two of the wing bombs, had no fuses, therefore they couldn't be ordinary bombs. The germ bonds that we dropped on January 4th and the 11th corresponded exactly to one of those mentioned by Mr. Ashford just two weeks previously.

Also in discussions with the other pilots and navigators in the room where I live, I found that several of them had also been given special missions and that the briefing officer had told them that these duds were in fact germ bombs. and the United States alleged that all of these confessions were forced by Chinese brainwashing, right? This is the whole origin of the Manchurian candidate myth that it's impossible that these U.S. soldiers would speak out against the U.S. war effort. They must have been brainwashed by the devious Chinese to lie about American crimes. I must ask you to forgive their somewhat lackadaisical manners, but I have conditioned them, or brainwashed them, which I understand is the new American word. I am sure you've all heard the old wives tale that no hypnotized subject may be forced to do that which is repellent to his moral,

nature whatever that may be nonsense of course and that is the project where the air force osi joined forces with the CIA with army intelligence in creating that counter narrative and it was in that respect at the forefront of counterintelligence at a time when all of the now infamous programs like M.K. Ultra, Project Artichoke, Project Bluebird, all these mind control, brainwashing, covert U.S. projects got their start. And so it bears mentioning that Arlen Spectre Corrector's Korean wartime military service, which preceded his entry into the legal profession, was right there at that intersection point. Right on, but I do want to get to his legal profession and the start of his legal career.

After the war, our boy Arlen Spector attended an institution that is so near and dear, to our hearts here at Fourth Reich Archaeology. That's right. Yale Law School. Bula Bula. Arlen graduates in 1956 and goes into

practice in Philadelphia. It's in Philadelphia that he catches the attention of then Attorney General Robert Kennedy because at the time Spector is prosecuting

the members of the Teamsters in Philly in connection with Jimmy Hoffa's mob rackets. Now, according to Spector's 2000 book, Passion for Truth, from finding JFK's single bullet to questioning Anita Hill and impeaching Clinton. Fuck that book title. That should have been the, that should have just been our recap on him. Yeah, just the book title. It should be passion for bullshit if you ask me. Passion for bootlicking.

Oh, yeah. Okay, so according to Spector, RFK asked him in 1963 to come work for him directly in the DOJ on the prosecution of Hoffa, but Spector declined that offer. Yeah, he said he didn't want to relocate to Washington. he wanted to continue to be the bigger fish in the smaller pond rather than just another face in the crowd on this massive team that was working on the Hoffa case. My thing is that Spector could have just made that up

because by that point RFK was dead. Like LBJ. Like this poor Bobby Kennedy, like after he dies, people are just making shit up about him. Totally. Although in this case... there may be a grain of truth. And the reason why is because, according to Spector, present in his meeting with Bobby Kennedy

was another Yale law classmate of his, a guy who was working for Bobby Kennedy at the time, a fellow by the name of Howard Willans. And fast forward a few months, Jack gets capped, and Howard Willens picks up the phone to make another invitation to Arlen Specter. This time, of course, is to the Warren Commission. Apparently, this was New Year's Eve, 1963. and Spector partying the night away with some of his Philadelphia lawyer buddies tells them about his offer and they all tell him that he would be absolutely insane not to accept it. At least this is Spector's version of events.

And of course he does. It's also been widely reported that behind the same, scenes of Willans' call to Spector was a recommendation from none other than Commissioner Gerald R. Ford, Jr., another Yale Law alum. And I've not seen the actual basis for that claim that Jerry Ford was the first one to recommend Spector, but it has been repeated in mainstream. media publications over the years many different times. And so kind of assume that there's some grain of truth to it. And even if there's not, the fact that the mainstream media, talking here, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, they've all said that Jerry Ford recommended

Spector to the commission, the fact alone that they choose. to endorse that narrative speaks for itself. So at just 33 years old, Spector was a pretty young guy. He only had like seven years of experience as a lawyer. And, you know, he knew his way around, but he was pretty green to be taken on the epic level of responsibility he ultimately had on the commission and the report. He started out his time on the Warren Commission.

He was technically an assistant counsel, but what do titles really mean anyways? Ah, Don? You know, the commission at the time, what they would say is we don't really go with titles. We don't really have titles here. No, kidding, of course. So an assistant council in these sort of organization. It's basically your junior lawyer. That's the person who is often paired up with a more senior lawyer.

For Arlen Specter, it was Frank Adams. And the duo will go off and do whatever projects, assignments, or deliverables that they have to do. Now, in the case of Arlen Spector, his senior lawyer, Frank Adams, was basically a flake. he attended just a few meetings and then was you know not around uh whenever i'm on a case team and i'm in a situation like this i like to call that kind of lawyer casper the friendly ghost because they're like you know they're on paper they're there and then it's like happy to join the meetings but never really formally doing anything so nevertheless literally all of the work for, you know, their area of expertise, right, the projects and deliverables

and what they needed to work on, all of that work fell on to Young Specter. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. I mean, it is kind of hard to see a guiding hand of Providence behind all of this stuff and not just chalk it up to chance because it's like, what an incredible coincidence that Arlen Spector gets paired with this guy, at least according to Spector's book, he's one of these playboy type of lawyers who loves the nightlife, he loves to Boogie, and he does not love to investigate the assassination of JFK. And so the only reason why he was not formally dismissed or fired from the commission, according to Spector, was that at the time it was thought it would bring negative publicity, it would cast negative attention on the commission.

And so basically, Arlen Spector throughout his time working on the commission, frequently would write memoranda, signed Frank Adams. You know, they kept up the facade, they kept up the appearance that they were a two-man team, that they were doing the work in the same fashion that the rest of the commission lawyers were doing their work, but it was not the same. The expertise of Frank Adams did not come to bear

whatsoever on the work that Spector did. And that work was of the utmost importance to the ultimate work of the commission as a whole. This was what was known as area one of the investigation, namely the ballistics evidence and the medical evidence that would tell the story of what happened to JFK in the motorcade. And that really begs the question as well of the oversight on the commission. And there is a little bit more, we'll have to say over the course of the rest of our discussion here, but think about it this way. I mean, Earl Warren knows that Frank Adams has fucked off. Jay Lee Rankin knows that Frank Adams has pieced the fuck out, right? Everybody knows. Alan Dulles also

knows. And rather than try to find a replacement, rather than try to get somebody with more expertise in that, critical role of the commission all of these higher-ups way up the food chain from Arlen Spector's point of view as a 33-year-old junior Philadelphia lawyer all these higher-ups are making a conscious decision to entrust the work to the hands of the 33-year-old Arlen Specter. And that, I think, is a good fact to bear in mind as we set the stage for the eternal and immutable contribution that Spector eventually makes to the Warren Commission. And that, as you previewed Dick, is of course the single bullet theory, a.k.a. The Magic Bullet.

So you want to give an overview of why the Magic Bullet is so important, Dick? Yes. Okay. So it's incredibly important to listen closely and think about what I'm about to say. because the Warren reports conclusion that Oswald was the lone shooter hinges entirely on the proposition that only three bullets were fired in total, only three shots were fired in total on November 22nd, 1963. So it's undisputed that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have fired more than three shots. Well, let's put it this way. It's undisputed that no one could have fired more than three shots in the amount of time that elapsed between the first shot that was fired that day

and the fatal headshot, the shot that killed John F. Kennedy. So there's, of course, like, the three shell casings that were found in the so-called sniper's nest on the six-floor Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. On that flaw, we found the three empty shells that had been fired, and one shell that had not been fired. Other words, there were four shells, four shells apparently. And he had fired three, but didn't fire the fourth one. He then threw the gun aside, came down, and at the entrance of the building, he was stopped by a police officer, and some worked for some manager in the billing, told the police officer, well, he's all right, he works, say he can, he can hold him, so they let him go. That's how he got out.

You know, looking back and looking at the footage, there is no dispute that, with the timing, that there could only have been three shots. Right, yeah, the clock is kind of set by the frames of the Supruder film. And both the FBI and the Warren Commission concede or assume that it would not have been possible for a single shooter using a bolt action manlicker Carcano rifle, like the one that allegedly belonged to Oswald and was allegedly found in the sixth floor, could have fired more than three shots. that is out of the question. Nobody pretends otherwise. And we also have tested the fact that you could fire those three shots were fired within three seconds. There's been some stories going around the papers and so forth. That must have been more than one man,

but because no one man could fire those shots from the time that they were fired. We've just proved that by the actual test that we've made. All is this to say, the universe that we are doing. discussing today right now, three shots, three bullets. That is it. Of those three, it's also undisputed that one of them, which was the fatal headshot that hit JFK, blew his skull out onto his limousine and poor Jackie, that shot only hit JFK. So that shot only hit JFK. So that shot only hit JFK skull and though there is a dispute about whether that came from the front or the back there's no dispute that that bullet only hit JFK and it only hit him in the head so now we're left with two shots right

two bullets left it is also now undisputed that one of those bullets missed the car entirely and it hit the pavement and through a ricochet of pavement wounded a bystander by the name of James Tag. So there were three shots. We know that one hit Kennedy and only Kennedy in the head. The other one missed the car entirely and hit the pavement and that piece of pavement ricocheted and hit a bystander. Now, you know, the pavement ricochet and the injury on James Tague. It wasn't immediately known to the authorities. In fact, Hoover was apparently unaware of Tague when they told LBJ on November 29th that two bullets hit Kennedy and one hit Connolly. How many shots were fired? Three. Any of them fired at me? I know. All three at the president,

and we have them. Two of the shots fired at the president were splendid. But, They had characteristics on them so that our ballistic expert was able to prove that they were fired by this gun. The third shot, which hit the president, he was hit for the first and the third. The second shot hit the governor. The third shot is a complete bullet. That wasn't shattered. And that rolled out of the president's head. I tore a large part of the president's head off.

And in trying to massage his heart at the hospital, on the way to the hospital, they apparently loosened that and it fell on to the stretcher and we recovered that and we have that when the fact of this miss shot enters the record what that does

is it leaves just one more shot one more bullet what's now infamously referred to as the magic bullet this one bullet needed to account for all seven of the

other wounds recorded in the presidential limo that day. I'll also note that Warren Commission Council Norman Radlick, who was the assistant to J. Lee Rankin, he put it this way. Quote, To say that they, this is J.F. K. and Connolly, were hit by separate bullets, is synonymous with saying there were two assassins. In short, the single bullet theory is the sine qua non of the lone gunman conclusion.

If you have one shooter only, then you need the magic bullet. And if the magic bullet does not work. If it's wrong, then you cannot have just one shooter, period. End of discussion. I'm 80 with a bullet. Got my finger on the trigger. I'm going to bullet. A single bullet now has to account for the remaining seven moons in Kennedy and Conley.

But rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, the Warren Commission chose to endorse the theory put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Specter. I may be an holy, but I'm a good at you. I'll last forever, and I'll be good to you. The magic bullet enters the president's back, headed downward at an angle of 17 degrees. It then moves upward in order to leave Kennedy's body from the front of his neck. of his neck, wound number two, where it waits 1.6 seconds, presumably in mid-air, where

it turns right, then left, right, then left, and continues into Connolly's body at the rear of his right armpit, wound number three. The bullet then heads downward at an angle of 27 degrees, shattering Conley's fifth rib and exiting from the right side of his chest. number four. Until I'm in your heart, I ain't never going to stop. Never, never, baby. The bullet then turns right and re-enters Connolly's body at his right wrist,

shattering the radius bone. The bullet then exits Conley's wrist, wound number six, makes a dramatic U-turn and buries itself in the Connolly's left thigh. We gotta smash double-headed if we only stay together. If you look at the Zapruder film, you'll see in the individual frames that John Connolly's right wrist is not near John Connolly's left thigh. It's not a matter of how much weight and credibility do you give to it. It's a matter of whether or not you have a single bullet theory that permits you to conclude that there was only one person firing. whether it was Oswald or anybody else in the world.

If you don't have a single bullet theory, then you cannot have a soul assassin. And if you move to that point, then you're into conspiracy by definition. So this is where we're going to leave you for this week. So this is where we're going to leave you for this week's episode. If you want to keep listening on our tale about Arlen Spector and the single bullet theory, please hop on over to Patreon and subscribe today to get the rest of this episode.

Otherwise, join us next week. On behalf of Dawn, I'm Dick, saying farewell and keep digging. Thank you.