Good Thing They Weren't Betting Men!
- Fred Litwin
- 42 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Money Quotes:
"If I were a betting man," says trial lawyer Bernard J. Fensterwald, "I'd bet the full story will be known within a year."
"A year? I'm surprised at Fensterwald," said Dr. Richard Popkin, a philosophy professor at Washington University in St. Louis. "I'd make in six months."
Fensterwald's comment on Marina Oswald strikes me as fairly cruel:
"Can you imagine what you could do with Marina (Oswald's Russian-born widow) in one morning if you put her under oath, and told her the first time you lie you're going to be on the first plane back to Moscow?" he asked.
And then Richard Popkin tops it all off with another ridiculous theory:
One hypothesis, Popkin said, is that "they [the CIA] might need to solve the Kennedy case to get back into business." He foresees a time when the CIA "commits suicide in public, there will be confessions of wrongdoing, Congress will ban all sorts of activities, and the CIA will be reconstructed in another form."
Had they actually made a wager, they both would have lost.
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