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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Mark Lane Addressed the Secret Government’s Role in the Assassination [View all]zappaman
(20,606 posts)Judging from website reports, Lanes supporters are unaware of his previous shenanigans which stretch back to December 1963; yes, Lane was present at the creation. In 1966, Lanes first book, Rush to Judgment, was persuasive with the mainstream media who were taken in by Lanes lawyerly tricks and silver tongue as he debated supporters of the Warren Commission around the world. As Commission lawyer Wesley Liebeler observed, Lanes antics during these debates reminded him of an old legend about frogs jumping from the mouth of a perfidious man every time he speaks . . . . If (Lane) talks for five minutes, it takes an hour to straighten out the record. Even the counter-culture Rolling Stone magazine characterized Lane as a huckster and hearse chaser. Bugliosi describes Lane as having infidelity to the truth . . . a person who commits outright fabrications . . . a fraud in his preachments about the known assassin . . . and that he had deliberately distorted the evidence and repeatedly omitted evidence damaging to his side.[6]
In Rush to Judgment, Lane abused the Warren Commission testimony of Jack Ruby, Oswalds killer, and others like Charles Brehm, an alleged grassy knoll witness, who said Lane took his statements out of context and added a different meaning to them. Lane also omitted the statements of key witnesses like Johnny C Brewer, who observed a nervous Oswald avoid police patrols after the shooting of Officer Tippit.[7]
But Lane has a long history of playing fast and loose with the facts. In the early 1970s he used unreliable testimony to accuse American soldiers of multiple atrocities during the Vietnam War, according to New York Times correspondent Neil Sheehan, a prominent critic of US involvement in the Vietnam War. Sheehan investigated the accounts in Lanes book, Conversations with Americans Testimony from 32 Vietnam Veterans, and found most of them to be bogus.[8]
Whole article is worth a read about this sad lying man
http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2012/05/lane.html