My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists.

[DanTex]

64. Believing in a government conspiracy against the paradise of People's Temple makes a person a nut.

It is also evidence of a tendency to see conspiracies around every corner. Which is exactly my point. People who push JFK conspiracies tend to be nuts who see conspiracies everywhere, rather than rational and skeptical people who make judgements based on evidence.

There is evidence that the Warren Commission investigators considered and others at the time considered him a nut, at least according to the recent book A Cruel and Shocking Act on the Warren investigation I have been reading. For example, the Dallas Morning News reporter Hugh Aynesworth is quoted as saying "I made mistakes, I helped create the monster of Mark Lane". This after Aynesworth let Lane borrow some classified witness statements which Lane went on to misrepresent (according to Aynesworth). There is also plenty of indication that the commission as a whole though his claims were absurd. Earl Warren "couldn't understand why respectable journalists gave any credibility to Lane". And so on.

Like I said, that's the impression I got. If there is any evidence to the contrary, any indication that Mark Lane is a person of credibility and sound mind, I would be interested in that. Evidently you don't have any.