Vince Foster killed himself, okay?

The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation, by Christopher Ruddy (Free Press, 316 pp., $25)

WE KNOW that as President Kennedy lay dying in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, a priest came to administer the Last Rites. Later the priest commented that he had seen a ghastly wound on the left side of the President’s head, though nearly everyone else who saw the President, and the autopsy photos, place the wound on the right. (The priest probably confused his left side with the President’s.) One witness to the shooting insisted that the President’s car came to a complete stop, as if to make the shot easier for the assassin, and another witness saw someone rear up from the back of the car holding a submachine gun (but no one else saw these things, nor are they confirmed by films of the car during the time in question). Yet another eyewitness to the shooting, one of Oliver Stone’s prime witnesses in his film JFK, commented that she had seen a puppy dog in the back seat of the presidential limousine, between the President and Mrs. Kennedy. (She may have seen it, but it wasn’t there.)

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The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation, by Christopher Ruddy (Free Press, 316 pp., $25)

WE KNOW that as President Kennedy lay dying in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, a priest came to administer the Last Rites. Later the priest commented that he had seen a ghastly wound on the left side of the President’s head, though nearly everyone else who saw the President, and the autopsy photos, place the wound on the right. (The priest probably confused his left side with the President’s.) One witness to the shooting insisted that the President’s car came to a complete stop, as if to make the shot easier for the assassin, and another witness saw someone rear up from the back of the car holding a submachine gun (but no one else saw these things, nor are they confirmed by films of the car during the time in question). Yet another eyewitness to the shooting, one of Oliver Stone’s prime witnesses in his film JFK, commented that she had seen a puppy dog in the back seat of the presidential limousine, between the President and Mrs. Kennedy. (She may have seen it, but it wasn’t there.)