Now, a Two-Casket Argument

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An Army helicopter departed at about that same moment from Air Force One's right side. Lifton believes that i Kennedy's body went with it, probably on a five-minute ride to the Army's " Walter Reed Hospital, then by helicopter to Bethesda, getting there ahead of the Kennedy motorcade. Such a trip would have allowed someone up to 30 minutes to work on the body.

Lifton does not speculate about why anyone in the Government would want to kill Kennedy. Nor does he explain why, if Oswald were innocent, he shot a policeman while apparently fleeing Dal las shortly after the assassination. Lif ton quotes Wesley Liebeler, a Warren Commission staff attorney who had at first been sympathetic to much of the author's efforts, as warning about his book, "Well, I don't think that anybody will ever believe anything you say." In fact, some people are always ready to believe most anything about the assassination. But Lifton's novel theory, both grim and fascinating as a mystery story, is all but impossible to accept as reality.