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Dec. 19, 2022
US judge’s novel imagines a Lee Harvey Oswald trial
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco made his imagined trial of Lee Harvey Oswald a paeon to the justice system, and provided the accused assassin a top defense lawyer.
On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death, U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup decided to read the Warren Commission’s official report on the assassination as a New Year’s resolution in 2013.
“I got my hands on those 26 volumes at the library here at the court,” said the San Francisco based federal judge. “I just decided I was going to read some of it. I wasn’t going to read it all.”
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