Mark Lane (February 24, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an American [ 1] attorney and former New York state legislator , civil rights activist , and Vietnam war-crimes investigator.
Lane was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn .
He was best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist [ 2] on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy . He wrote the 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission , Rush to Judgment to The Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK , published in 2011.
Lane has written at least four major works on the JFK assassination and no fewer than ten books overall.
Lane died of a heart attack at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia on May 10, 2016 at the age of 89.[ 3]
References
↑ Mark Lane, "Palestinians in Israel: A Jewish Perspective", June 18, 1984 lecture at University of Calgary, as reported on in "Non-Profit" (editorial), The Jewish Star (Calgary edition), July 6, 1984, p. 4.
↑ Rosenthal, Harry F. (January 26, 1995). "Judge Rebukes Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane" . Associated Press . AP. Retrieved February 28, 2013 .
↑ "Mark Lane, Author of Best-Selling Book, "Rush to Judgment" on President Kennedy's Assassination, Dies at 89" (Press release).
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