An Immigrant story
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Born in 1930 in Kansas, Specter is the son of a Russian- Jewish immigrant who left Ukraine at age 18 and ``walked across the entire European continent, alone, uneducated and destitute, to sail steerage to America,'' according to ``Passion for Truth,'' a 2000 memoir the senator co-wrote. As a youth, Arlen worked summers in his father's junkyard and sold magazines door- to-door.
``It was good training to run for the Senate,'' Specter said.
High Honors
Specter, who won Phi Beta Kappa honors at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale Law School, was an assistant city prosecutor in Philadelphia before he worked for the Warren Commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Specter devised the so-called magic-bullet theory that said a single bullet passed through Kennedy and struck Texas Governor John Connally.
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Born in 1930 in Kansas, Specter is the son of a Russian- Jewish immigrant who left Ukraine at age 18 and ``walked across the entire European continent, alone, uneducated and destitute, to sail steerage to America,'' according to ``Passion for Truth,'' a 2000 memoir the senator co-wrote. As a youth, Arlen worked summers in his father's junkyard and sold magazines door- to-door.
``It was good training to run for the Senate,'' Specter said.
High Honors
Specter, who won Phi Beta Kappa honors at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale Law School, was an assistant city prosecutor in Philadelphia before he worked for the Warren Commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Specter devised the so-called magic-bullet theory that said a single bullet passed through Kennedy and struck Texas Governor John Connally.
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