John Updike on the the Umbrella Man

Josiah Thompson, in his book Six Seconds in Dallas, discussed the umbrella man: (pages 227 - 228)

John Updike mentioned the umbrella man in The New Yorker:

The New Yorker, December 9, 1967

Money Quote:

We wonder whether a genuine mystery is being concealed here of whether any similar scrutiny of a minute section of time and space would yield similar strangeness -- gaps, inconsistencies, warps and bubble in the surface of circumstance.

The book Suspicious Minds Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories quotes from Updike's article:

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