PA Senator Arlen Specter Dead At Age 82

	PA Senator Arlen Specter Dead At Age 82 PA Senator Arlen Specter Dead - Pennsylvania's Longest Serving US Senator Dies at age 82 US Senator Arlen Specter, whose political career took him from Philadelphia City Hall to the US Congress, died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia at the age of 82 from complications of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He was born February 12, 1930. His career was marked by what the pundits and Specter himself called "fierce independence." But long before Specter ever stepped onto the Senate floor in Washington DC, he made it into national prominence by serving as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission, which investigated the 1963 assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy. Specter postulated the controversial "single-bullet theory" that was eventually embraced by the panel and still stands to this day, despite the cry of conspiracy theorists who say there was more than one gunman in Dallas that November day. "Admittedly a strange path for a bullet to take, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction," Specter said. Arlen Specter's roots stretch back to Wichita, Kan., where he was born in 1930, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His family moved east to Philadelphia during the Depression to live with relatives. It is that part of his early life which figured into his 2009 vote in favor of Pres. Obama's economic stimulus package despite strong opposition from fellow Republicans. "A very, very difficult decision as to whether to support the vote for a stimulus," Specter recalled in a <b>...</b>	From: DynamoMor Views: 0 0 ratings
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