Books: Food for the Suspicious

INQUEST: THE WARREN COMMISSION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUTH by Edward Jay Epstein. 224 pages. Viking. $5.

Just as it is true that the mind can conceive unending webworks of intrigue, so it is that the Kennedy assassination will forever evoke suspicions, claims, counterclaims and new theories. He was shot with one bullet—no, two. He was killed by one man—no, two, or maybe three. The fatal bullet entered his neck—no, his back. Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist—no, a right-winger. Kennedy ordered his own assassination—no, Lyndon Johnson did.

Despite the thoroughness of the 26-volume Warren Commission report, many people in the world prefer...