Tuesday, November 26, 2013

About Mark Lane Traitor JFK RFK MLK Conspiracy Theorist Worked With KGB, Liberty Lobby, Jonestown, Indian Movement

About Mark Lane --- ===

Mark Lane Great Anti-American traitor JFK RFK MLK Conspiracy Theorist who worked with Soviet KGB, Liberty Lobby, racist neo-nazi Willis Carto, Jonestown, American Indian Movement

In The Soviet KGB's Propaganda, Forgeries, and Terrorism in America KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin defected with his notes that showed how the Soviet KGB had used "active measures" to incite racial tensions in America in order discredit our justice system at home and abroad. Mitrokhin also explains that Mark Lane, the lawyer for the American Indian Movement(AIM) and the Jonestown People's Temple, had a relationship with KGB agents who posed as journalists

The orignal leading JFK lone gunman critic started as a left-wing civil rights activist defending blacks, but ended up with Willis Carto's neo-Nazi anti-black anti-semitic Liberty Lobby. He was encouraged to do his JFK research by the KGB. He co-authored a book which backs up William Pepper's Robert F Kennedy conspiracy theory that Sirhan Sirhan was a mind controlled patsy pinched by a woman in a polka dot dress to distract from a second gunman. Lane represented the killer of MLK, James Earl Ray, at the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and co-wrote Murder in Memphis: The FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King which also mirrors William Pepper's books. Then, as their lawyer,  he was one of the few survivors of Jonestown massacre. He has been criticized as an unreliable conspiracy monger who makes things up as he goes. He Paved the way for jihad apologist 9-11 truthers.


The main purpose of floating conspiracy theory is to hide who really did it.  We know that he was hiding that Russia killed JFK.  So why was he saying that the US government killed MLK? Also promoted RFK conspiracy theories blaming a polka dress lady. Who was he trying to hide, and who was he working for with the MLK theory? Not hard to figure out.  He is also linked as advocate for Jonestown which ended with a massacre, American Indian Movement, various communist supported anti-war movements, he was lawyer and one-time owner of Willis Carto's neo-Nazi conspiracy theory peddling Liberty Lobby empire

*Books

  • Murder in Memphis: The FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King with Dick Gregory  amazon   Published March 7th 1993 by Basic Books   Mark Lane, the first to question the investigation into the murder of President John F. Kennedy, and activist and author Dick Gregory combine their unique perspectives in a look at the assassination of Martin Luther King. James Earl Ray’s guilty plea allowed the government to sidestep a trial, and yet his hearing, conducted without any challenge by a defense attorney, raised many questions. In Murder in Memphis, Lane and Gregory examine these questions and more: Dr. King’s police protection was removed on the day of the assassination. Why? And by whom? Why was the same FBI squad that J. Edgar Hoover directed to destroy Dr. King responsible for the investigation into the murder? How and why was the most reliable witness prevented from testifying in court? Through exclusive documents and interviews with former FBI agents, security guards, eyewitnesses and James Earl Ray himself, Lane and Gregory present the case to the American people, so they can decide for themselves. troll review: " supposed assassin was on the run as a fugitive after escaping from prison in Missouri. As such, he wound up in Canada, ... got involved with a man he calls "Raoul," who put him on the payroll and had him do several jobs like smuggling drugs across the border, etc. After a while, Ray ended up in Memphis, unwittingly being cast as a dupe in a grand scheme to kill Dr. King.... had Ray not been squeezed into entering a plea of guilty. Would that copies of this book, and others like Dr. William Pepper's Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.  be distributed to every citizen that visits Dr. King's Memorial in DC.
    • Nonfiction Book Review: Who Killed Robert Kennedy? by Mark Lane ... A argues against the exclusive focus on the convicted assassin, Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan, though submitting that he may have been part of an assassination plot. Autopsy results and witnesses suggest the presence of a second gunman; several witnesses identified a ``woman in the polka-dot dress'' as a Sirhan accomplice; and as for motive, while Sirhan was apparently angered at Kennedy's position on Israel, his acquaintances said Sirhan never spoke of that issue. Sirhan was programmed by a mind-control expert to shoot Kennedy. Melanson ( Who Killed Martin Luther King? ) identifies those with possible motives to kill Kennedy, among them the Mafia, J. Edgar Hoover, elements of the CIA, Jimmy Hoffa, right-wing and racist groups, and hard-line cold warriors
    • wikipedia: Lane wrote Murder In Memphis with Dick Gregory (previously titled Code Name Zorro, after the Central Intelligence Agency's name for King) about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he alleged a conspiracy and government coverup.[43] Lane represented James Earl Ray, King's alleged assassin, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) inquiry in 1978. The HSCA said of Lane in its report, "Many of the allegations of conspiracy that the committee investigated were first raised by Mark Lane ...Mark Lane book
    • A Murder in Memphis / moderated by Mark Lane and Dick Gregory ... https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/iz0339  King's program for radical change in the United States ; the tactic of nonviolence ; opposition to the Vietnam War ; joining the anti-war and Civil Rights ...
*Reference
*Critics
  • .Christopher Bollyn: anti-semitic nutcase says Jewish lawyer/C.I.A. agent Mark Lane and his key role in controlling the Liberty Lobby in my essay "Why Are We Unable to Resist?", the subject of American Free Press (AFP) being a controlled-opposition outfit. t Mr. Lane was in Jonestown (CIA mind control project) at the time of the massacre.  Jewish lawyer and C.I.A. agent who owns Liberty Lobby and American Free Press, was born in New York City in 1927, the son of Harry Arnold and Elizabeth Levin (Levin was changed to Lane in the 1920s).   principal lawyer for Jim Jones and his People's Temple movment, blamed Lane for the mass killing of 913 Americans in Jonestown in November 1978.  Lane reportedly went to Switzerland with the business manager of Jonestown shortly after the mass killing and emptied Jones' secret bank accounts.  shows how a Zionist Jew from the C.I.A. can actually control a movement that purports to be working for the American patriot audience.  
  • Gerald Posner In 1995, Lane lost a defamation suit against book publisher Random House who used the caption "Guilty of Misleading the American Public" under a photo of Lane in an advertisement for Gerald Posner's Case Closed.[2] 
  • .mcadams
  • .michael medved fan: it was Jim Marrs, Mark Lane , Robert Groden , Harrison Edward Livingstone , Oliver Stone , etal . , that paved the way for the 911 “truther” movement as well
  • USA Today: JFK files show that Soviet informant said KGB had ties to Mark Lane Jan 10, 2018 - JFK files: KGB had 'trusted relationship' with longtime Warren Commission critic Mark Lane. ... Mark Lane, the New York attorney who challenged the findings of the commission that investigated the JFK assassination had a “trusted relationship” with the Soviet KGB,

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  • American Indian Movement Lane represented the American Indian Movement at the Wounded Knee Trial
  • Antiwar movement front for Russia: Lane involved himself with antiwar Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW): antiwar veterans' group offshoot of front group set up by the Communist Party (CP) to protest the Korean War, run out of offices of Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee (FAVPPC), which networked with numerous Communist front groups; wintersoldier 
  • Army:  Lane was posted to Army Intelligence during WWII, and  in post-war Germany in 1945-47 during the years that over 3,500 German scientists, including over 1600 rocket scientists became American citizens and took up residence across Texas, especially Dallas.
  • CIA Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK: Mark Lane ... Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?
  • Civil Rights: represented numerous African Americans in civil rights cases in the south and was arrested for opposing segregation as a “Freedom rider”. He has been a . Lane represented the American Indian Movement at the Wounded Knee Trial and helped establish the rights of women to bring actions for sexual harassment.
  • Grace Walden Stephens King Inquiry Seeks To Refute Attorney On Possible Witness wapost
    Nov 15, 1978 - A woman who says James Earl Ray was not Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin was committed to a state mental hospital without regard to her role as a possible witness in Ray's defense, Tennessee ... Lawyer Mark Lane charges that the House Assassinations Committee is attempting to "destroy" Stephens.  As her legal guardian, Lane said yesterday he has advised Stephens not to testify before the panel. said in various forums that a man she saw fleeing the bathroom in the rooming house shortly after the assassination was not Ray. later at Memphis hospital, where Lane claims she was given "mind-crippling drugs." spent 10 years in Western State Mental Hospital in Boliver, Tenn. Lane charged that authorities in Tennessee successfully suppressed her description of the man in the Memphis rooming house
  • .James Early Ray: Lane represented James Earl Ray, King's assassin, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) inquiry in 1978
  • .Jonestown Lane was legal counsel for the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, and was one of the few witnesses to survive the tragedy at Jonestown,
  • Jewish: "Lane, a Jew, defended the Liberty Lobby."
  • .Jones's People's Temple: Lane had very publicly taken on the cause of Jones's People's Temple, convinced there was a government conspiracy at play to malign the group. 
  • KGB encouraged Lane to do JFK research.  Soviet journalists, including KGB agent Genrikh Borovik, met with Mark Lane to encourage him in his research. Secrets From the Lubyanka - The New York Times thanks to Comrade Mitrokhin unsettling news that the K.G.B. secretly subsidized several Western authors, for example, financing, without the writer's knowledge, some of the research for Mark Lane's 1966 best-selling conspiratorial treatment of the Kennedy assassination, ''Rush to Judgment.'' 
  • .Lee Harvey Oswald  set out to prove the innocence of John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald American Pravda Ron Unz  Mark Lane, a left-liberal New York City attorney and Democratic Party activist.   The National Guardian, a small left-wing national newspaper, published his 10,000 word critique, highlighting major flaws in the “lone gunman theory.”  
  • Liberty Lobby Willis Carto's Neo-Nazi anti-americans. Lane was their lawyer, and owned Liberty Lobby at one time Lane represented the political advocacy group Liberty Lobby as an attorney when the group was sued over an article in The Spotlight newspaper implicating E. Howard Hunt in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Hunt sued for defamation and won a substantial settlement. Lane successfully got this judgment reversed on appeal.[32] This case became the basis for Lane's book Plausible Denial. In the book, Lane claimed that he convinced the jury that Hunt was involved in the JFK assassination, but mainstream news accounts asserted that some jurors decided the case on the issue of whether The Spotlight had acted with "actual malice".[33] 
  • Martin Luther King conspiracy theorist, represented King’s killer, James Earl Ray, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. After investigating Lane’s claims, the Committee chastised him: the committee found that Lane was willing to advocate conspiracy theories publicly without having checked the factual basis for them.  The Trial of James Earl Ray : a docu-drama / written by Mark Lane ...  youtube Apr. 3, 1978. pro-communist KPFK, uses discredited alibi and testimony of woman who says man who ran out of bathroom was not ray.
  • Michael Bernard Piper has worked for Mark Lane for many years.
  • .National Guardian communist mouthpiece Lane's defense brief  GUARDIAN’S publication of Lane’s brief presumes only one thing: a man’s innocence, under U.S. law, unless or until proved guilty National Guardian - Wikipedia radical leftist independent weekly close to the ideological orbit of the pro-Moscow Communist Party USA. The Guardian - KeyWiki  National Guardian was cited as a Communist Party CPUSA and Soviet propaganda publication by HCUA in 1956,"established by the American Labor Party in 1947 as a 'progressive' weekly * * *. Although it denies having any affiliation with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), it has manifested itself from the beginning as a virtual official propaganda arm of Soviet Russia." [1] as listed in Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications and Appendixes, House Document No. 398, House Committee on Un-American Activities, December 1, 1961, p. 193Some of its earliest writers were directly linked to Soviet operations, including Cedric Belfrage[2] and [3]
  • New York State Legislator he worked to abolish capital punishment
  • Robert F Kennedy conspiracy theorist Who Killed Robert Kennedy? (book) Mark Lane, Author, Philip H. Melanson, Author Odonian Press by the organizer of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives argues against the exclusive focus on the convicted assassin, Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan, though submitting that he may have been part of an assassination plot. Autopsy results and witnesses suggest the presence of a second gunman; several witnesses identified a ``woman in the polka-dot dress'' as a Sirhan accomplice Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW): Lane involved himself witha ntiwar Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW): antiwar veterans' group offshoot of front group set up by the Communist Party (CP) to protest the Korean War, run out of offices of Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee (FAVPPC), which networked with numerous Communist front groups; wintersoldier 
  • Vietnam war: In 1970 protester, Lane involved himself with antiwar organizations such as the Citizens Commission of Inquiry(CCI) and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. 
  • Skyhorse wikipedia publishing has published thirty-five titles about the assassination of John F. Kennedy,[42] including many promoting conspiracy theories.[43][44] The company was reported to have invested $1 million on acquisition, printing and marketing for the publication of eight new books on the subject in 2013; as well as $300,000 to $400,000 on the reprints of seventeen others.[44] Authors on the subject published or re-published by Skyhorse include Richard Belzer,[42][44] Gaeton Fonzi,[42] Jim Garrison[44] Mark Lane,[44] Peter Dale Scott,[44] Roger Stone,[42] Jesse Ventura,[42] and Harold Weisberg.[42]
  • ‎Vietnam War crimes investigations
  • Willis Carto racist neo-nazi wikip Lane represented Willis Carto after Carto lost control of the Institute for Historical Review in 1993.[34]
*Timeline


May 10, 2016 Mark Lane, Who Asserted That Kennedy, MLK Was Killed in Conspiracy, Dies at 89 New York Times  He had organized rent strikes, opposed bomb shelter programs, was a Freedom Rider, took on civil rights cases and was active in the New York City Democratic Party.  concluded in a blockbuster book in the mid-1960s that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy, a thesis supported in part by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979, died on Tuesday at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 89. go on to raise the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr


*Sources


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/mark-lane-is-a-law-unto-himself/story-fn9n8gph-1226460980843# Just weeks earlier, Lane had very publicly taken on the cause of Jones's People's Temple, convinced there was a government conspiracy at play to malign the group. By this stage in his career, government conspiracies were Lane's stock in trade. He held press conferences and wrote legal letters campaigning on the People's Temple's behalf. After his narrow escape, however, that all changed, and none of his previous support for the group is mentioned in the new book. By the time Lane returned to the US from Guyana he'd completely changed his tune, arguing that he had, in fact, tried to warn everyone that Jones was a madman. Lane's many critics in the media were quick to condemn him. Will Mark Lane Never Go Away? was a typical editorial headline at the time, while The New York Times described him as America's "chief ghoul". Some went as far as blaming Lane for inciting the mass murder by stirring up Jones's paranoia. His first book, 1966's Rush to Judgment, set out to prove the innocence of John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, or at least cast reasonable doubt over his guilt, in turn providing the foundation of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. The book spent two years on The New York Times bestseller list.



.McAdams

JFK site  This web site is dedicated to debunking the mass of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the murder of JFK. If you are believer in Oswald as a lone gunman, you are likely to enjoy this web site, since most of that misinformation and disinformation has come from conspiracists. But if you are a sophisticated conspiracist, you likely understand that the mass of silly nonsense in conspiracy books and documentaries does no service to the cause of truth in the assassination, and simply buries the "case for conspiracy" under layers of bunk.
 

s Evidence:  Did you know that all the evidence in this case proven to be forged has been on the conspiracy side? One key piece originated with the KGB! Did you know that the "mysterious deaths" are virtually all not so "mysterious" when you look at them closely? Do you trust authors like Mark Lane to tell you the truth about what witnesses said?

 No one has been more assiduous in promoting conspiracy theories than lawyer Mark Lane (right). And his lectures and books (especially Rush to Judgment and Plausible Denial) have been extremely influential. But can you trust Mark Lane to tell you the truth and the whole truth about any subject he might be writing about? Check out some evidence.... Mark Lane has been a purveyor or Martin Luther King conspiracy theories too, and he represented King’s killer, James Earl Ray, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. After investigating Lane’s claims, the Committee chastised him:

Many of the allegations of conspiracy the committee investigated were first raised by Mark Lane, the attorney who represented James Earl Ray at the committee’s public hearings. As has been noted, the facts were often at variance with Lane’s assertions. . . . In many instances, the committee found that Lane was willing to advocate conspiracy theories publicly without having checked the factual basis for them. 



.Army intelligence

 http://spikethenews.blogspot.com/2013/06/mark-lane-of-army-intelligence.html
Lane, was in U.S. Army intelligence in post-war Germany in 1945-47.  This is the branch that became the C.I.A. after the war, during the years that over 3,500 German scientists, including over 1600 rocket scientists became American citizens and took up residence across Texas, a large Nazi ex-pat community being present in Dallas by 1963. Most notable was Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger, Vice-President of Bell Helicopter, manufacturer of the Huey and employer of the husband of Lee and Marina Oswald's landlady. Lane denies the very possibility of Nazi involvement in the Kennedy Assassination and blocked all such evidence from being introduced into the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation he boasted of being "on the inside" of. . 

 .Civil Rights

 Martin Hay http://www.ctka.net/reviews/last_word_lane.html  I have a huge a mount of respect for Mark Lane. As a lawyer of over fifty years Lane has an undeniable history of looking out for the little guy. He represented numerous African Americans in civil rights cases in the south and was arrested for opposing segregation as a “Freedom rider”. He has been a dedicated antiwar protester and during his term as a New York State Legislator he worked to abolish capital punishment. Lane represented the American Indian Movement at the Wounded Knee Trial and helped establish the rights of women to bring actions for sexual harassment. Even Vincent Bugliosi admitted that Lane's “bona fides as a skilled and dedicated soldier in the fight for civil liberties” are “unquestioned”. (Reclaiming History, p. 1011)




.Jonestown




conspiracy vs conspiracyhttp://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/zionism/news.php?q=1255536099

"EITHER THIS IS THE FUTURE OR THERE WON'T BE ANY"

Mark Lane visited Jonestown in September 1978, two months before Jim Jones took 913 of his followers to their gruesome end in the jungle of Guyana. Lane lavished praise on the mind control settlement and its paranoid leader. Lane told the mind-controlled subjects of Jonestown that they had found a better way of life in the jungle with Jones than they could have in the United States. Lane speech to Jones and his followers from September 1978 was recorded and used in a 1981 National Public Radio (NPR) documentary about Jonestown entitled "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown." Anthony Lewis wrote about Lane's visit and support of the Jonestown mind control project in a New York Times article entitled "Nightmare Brought to Life" in April 1981:

Two months before the Rev. Jim Jones took his followers to their gruesome end in 1978, Jones had a visitor from the United States who praised the settlement and its paranoid leader. People in the United States knew there had to be a better way of life, he said, "and it is here."

As the disciples murmured and applauded, the visitor said he had travelled in Guyana on a 19th-century train, a relic of colonialism. "And then you come here. And you just don't come up to the 20th century. You're in the future all of a sudden. It's a big move. And either this is the future or their won't be any."

It was Mark Lane speaking: the lawyer-promoter who has so relentlessly exploited American assassinations. We have come to know Lane over his years of grisly self-promotion. But it is still something to hear his voice praising Jonestown - and Jim Jones giggling in the background and saying, "That's so true."
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/zionism/news.php?q=1255536099


Mark Lane (center) with Rev. Jim Jones (left) and Charles Garry in Jonestown shortly before the mass killing of some 914 Americans
Anthony Lewis of the New York Times wrote about Mark Lane's devilish character.  Lane's devious duplicity with Jim Jones is seen by those who were there as having led directly to the massacre.

.KGB

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 1999. Excerpted here. According to the book, Soviet journalists, including KGB agent Genrikh Borovik, met with Mark Lane to encourage him in his research.
.Liberty Lobby


Implausible Assertions
Mark Lane is a lawyer....Which brings us to Plausible Denial, Lane’s conspiracy volume published in 1991. The book is a hodgepodge of conspiracy arguments and conspiracy claims, but the central focus is on a trial in which ex-CIA operative E. Howard Hunt sued the Liberty Lobby for libel.

The Liberty Lobby was a rather nasty anti-Semitic operation that published a magazine called The Spotlight. In 1976, The Spotlight ran an article accusing Hunt of being in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and having a role in the Kennedy assassination. Hunt won a libel judgment against The Spotlight in 1981, but it was thrown out on appeal, and the case was retried in 1985 in Miami.

Lane, a Jew, defended the Liberty Lobby.

To hear Lane tell it, he convinced the jury that there was a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, and that Hunt was a part of that conspiracy. (more http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/denial.htm)

.McAdams

Mark Lane — Honest Advocate?

 No one has been more assiduous in promoting conspiracy theories than lawyer Mark Lane (right). And his lectures and books (especially Rush to Judgment and Plausible Denial) have been extremely influential. But can you trust Mark Lane to tell you the truth and the whole truth about any subject he might be writing about? Check out some evidence.
  • Lane told the Warren Commission that Tippit shooting witness Helen Markham said that the shooter was short, heavy, and with bushy hair. Here is a transcript of Lane’s telephone interview with Markham. Judge for yourself whether Markham was an easily manipulated witness, and whether Lane was an honest advocate.
  • In his book Plausible Denial, Mark Lane presents himself as having convinced a jury, in a Federal court in Miami, that E. Howard Hunt was part of a JFK assassination conspiracy. If you believe Lane, it was a landmark case, vindicating what conspiracists have always claimed. But should you believe him?
  • When author Jean Davison first became interested in the assassination, she read Lane’s account of Jack Ruby’s Warren Commission testimony, and then went on to examine what Ruby actually said. This short autobiographical account compares Lane’s version of what Ruby said with the unfiltered testimony.
  • Julia Ann Mercer was a witness who claimed to have seen Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald together in Dealey Plaza shortly before the assassination. How Lane dealt with her testimony is the subject of this short essay. Want to see the primary sources on Mercer, and compare them to what Lane said? Click here.
  • Journalist Hugh Aynesworth met Mark Lane in December of 1963 and supplied him with some then-secret witness statements. Seeing what Lane did with them, he was rather put off.
  • If Lane cannot be trusted to fairly present the evidence about the assassination, how does he perform when he ventures into another area? In 1970 Lane published Conversations With Americans in which American soldiers described a number of atrocities committed by Americans in the Vietnam War. Anti-war journalist Neil Sheehan investigated the accounts in Lane’s book, and found most of them to be bogus.

Misleading the House Select Committee

Mark Lane has been a purveyor or Martin Luther King conspiracy theories too, and he represented King’s killer, James Earl Ray, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. After investigating Lane’s claims, the Committee chastised him:
Many of the allegations of conspiracy the committee investigated were first raised by Mark Lane, the attorney who represented James Earl Ray at the committee’s public hearings. As has been noted, the facts were often at variance with Lane’s assertions. . . . In many instances, the committee found that Lane was willing to advocate conspiracy theories publicly without having checked the factual basis for them. In other instances, Lane proclaimed conspiracy based on little more than inference and innuendo. Lane’s conduct resulted in public misperception about the assassination of Dr. King and must be condemned. (House Select Committee Report, Page 424, footnote 16)
.michael medved 

fan: it was Jim Marrs, Mark Lane , Robert Groden , Harrison Edward Livingstone , Oliver Stone , etal . , that paved the way for the 911 “truther” movement as well 

.Vietnam war:

  In 1970, Lane involved himself with antiwar organizations such as the Citizens Commission of Inquiry(CCI) and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/smearing.htm Opposition to America's war in Vietnam was, for some Americans, an honorable position. But unfortunately, the anti-war movement was marred by extreme self-righteousness and fanaticism. Among its many failings was the tendency to demean and demonize the American soldiers who fought the war.
One of the worst examples of this came from Mark Lane, a writer most famous for his Kennedy assassination conspiracy books, including Rush To Judgment and Plausible Denial. His book Conversations With Americans portrayed American soldiers as brutal war criminals with the same selective use of evidence and the same reliance on unreliable witnesses that mark his JFK conspiracy books.

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Neil Sheehan reported on the Vietnam War for the New York Times. Although he became strongly opposed to the war, he condemned Lane's book in the following review from the New York Times Book Review, December 27, 1970.

By Neil Sheehan This book is so irresponsible that it may help to provoke a responsible inquiry into the question of war crimes and atrocities in Vietnam. "Conversations with Americans" is a lesson in what happens when a society shuns the examination of a pressing, emotional issue and leaves the answers to a Mark Lane.

.Wikipedia

Mark Lane (author)

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Mark Lane
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Mark Lane in Ann Arbor, 1967
BornMark Lane
February 24, 1927 (age 86)
NationalityAmerican
Known forConspiracy theorist on theAssassination of John F. Kennedy
Mark Lane (born February 24, 1927) is an American[1] attorney, former New York state legislator, civil rightsactivist, and Vietnam war crimes investigator. He is best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist[2] on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. From his 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission, Rush to Judgment,[3] 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 was legal counsel for the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, and was one of the few witnesses to survive the tragedy at Jonestown, at which over 900 United States citizens died.

Early career[edit]

As a law student, Lane was the administrative assistant to the National Lawyer's Guild and orchestrated a fund raising event at Town Hall in New York City that featured American folk singer Pete Seeger. In 1959, Mark Lane helped found the Reform Democratic Movement within the New York Democratic Party. In 1960, he was elected to the New York Legislature and served in the New York State Assembly,[4] where he served for one term with the support of Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. In the legislature, Lane spent considerable time working to abolish capital punishment. Lane promised to serve for only one term, and then manage the campaign for his replacement—which he did. He also managed the New York City area's campaign for JFK's 1960 presidential bid.[citation needed]
In June 1961, during the civil rights movement, Lane was the only sitting legislator to be arrested for opposing segregation as a "Freedom Rider".[5] In 1962 he ran for Congress in the Democratic primary and lost.[6] In the 1968 presidential election, Lane appeared on the ballot as a third party vice-presidential candidate, running on the Freedom and Peace Party ticket (an offshoot of the Peace and Freedom Party) with Dick Gregory.

Kennedy assassination[edit]

Four weeks after the assassination (December 19) Mark Lane published an article in National Guardian dealing in-depth with 15 questions regarding public official statements about the alleged assassination of J. D. Tippit and John F. Kennedy from the perspective of a defense attorney, including the witnesses who claimed to have seen Oswald on the sixth floor of the school book depository; the paraffin test which, to Lane, indicated that Oswald had not fired a rifle recently; the conflicting claims about the rifle which at first had been, as the police announced, a German Mauser and afterwards an old WWII Mannlicher-Carcano rifle; the Parkland Hospital doctors announcing an entrance wound in the throat; the role of the FBI; and the press, who convicted Oswald before his guilt was proven. In June 1964 according to historian Peter Knight - Bertrand Russell, "prompted by the emerging work of the lawyer Mark Lane in the US ... rallied support from other noteworthy and left-leaning compatriots to form a Who Killed Kennedy Committee, members of which included Michael Foot MP, the wife of Tony Benn MP, the publisher Victor Gollancz, the writers John Arden and J. B. Priestley, and the Oxford history professor Hugh Trevor-Roper. Russell published a highly critical article weeks before the Warren Commission Report was published, setting forth "16 Questions on the Assassination" and equating the Oswald case with the Dreyfus affair of late nineteenth century France in which the state wrongly convicted an innocent man. Russell also criticized the American press for failing to heed any voices critical of the official version."[7]

Warren Commission[edit]

Lane applied to the Warren Commission to represent the interests of Lee Harvey Oswald, but the Commission rejected his request.[8] Three months laterWalter E. Craig, president of the American Bar Association, was appointed by the Commission to represent the interests of Oswald. Craig himself stated that he was not counsel for Oswald; and official records do not indicate that Craig or his associates named, cross-examined, or interviewed witnesses of their own.[9] Lane continued to search for clues for Oswald's innocence. He was called to testify before the Commission but was not permitted to cross-examine witnesses. According to R. Andrew Kiel in J. Edgar Hoover: The Father of the Cold War, "After the Warren Commission's final report was completed in September 1964, Lane interviewed numerous witnesses ignored by the Commission."

Lane's testimony[edit]

Lane testified before the Warren Commission that witness Helen Markham described Tippit's killer to a reporter as "short, a little on the heavy side, and his hair was somewhat bushy". Lane contacted Markham and asked her to recall how she described the killer to reporters. "I read that you told some of the reporters that he was short, stocky, and had bushy hair", he prompted. Markham replied, "No, no. I did not say this." Markham went on to confirm the man she described was short, not too heavy - a little heavy, maybe 150 to 160 pounds, and had slightly bushy, uncombed hair. Lane testified, "I think it is fair to state that an accurate description of Oswald would be average height, quite slender with thin and receding hair."[10] Markham identified Oswald in a police lineup after his arrest on November 22,[11] though with some difficulty: "When I saw this man I wasn't sure but I had cold chills just run over me."[12]

Rush to Judgment[edit]

Lane published an indictment of the Commission, entitled Rush to Judgment, using these interviews as well as evidence from the twenty-six volumes of the Commission's Report. Despite the fact that the majority of Mark Lane's material for his book came from the Warren Report itself, as well as from interviews from those who were at the scene, sixteen publishers canceled contracts before Rush to Judgment was published."[9] The book became a number one best seller and spent 29 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.[13] It remains one of the most famous books in JFK conspiracy literature. It was adapted into a documentary film in 1966.
Lane questions the Warren Commission conclusion that three shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository and focuses on the witnesses who had recounted having seen or heard shots coming from the grassy knoll. Lane questions whether Oswald was guilty of the murder of policeman J.D. Tippitshortly after the Kennedy murder, but does not mention witnesses Barbara and Virginia Davis (who claim to have seen Oswald crossing their lawn and emptying his pistol immediately after the shooting) or witnesses Ted Callaway and Sam Guinyard (who claim to have seen Oswald carrying a gun and fleeing on foot after the shooting). Lane also states that none of the Warren Commission firearm experts were able to duplicate Oswald's shooting feat.[14]
According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin in his 1999 book The Sword and the Shield, the KGB helped financed Lane's research on Rush to Judgementwithout the author's knowledge.[15] The Soviet agency allegedly use an intermediary—a friend of Lane who was a KGB contact—to provide Lane with $2000 for research and travel in 1964.[6][16] Mark Lane called the allegation "an outright lie" and wrote, "Neither the KGB nor any person or organization associated with it ever made any contribution to my work."[17][dead link]

Other books Lane wrote on the topic[edit]

Lane later wrote A Citizen's Dissent, documenting his response to the Warren Commission's governmental findings on the Kennedy assassination. He also wrote the first screenplay of the 1973 movie Executive Action (starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan) with Donald Freed and was credited with supplying much of the research material for the film.[18] Lane asserted in his 1991 book Plausible Denial that he only worked on the first draft of the screenplay. He noted that he collaborated with Donald Freed on it and after seeing subsequent drafts, they complained both privately to the producer and publicly at press conferences, pointing out errors in the work.[19]
In November 2011, Lane published a third major book on the JFK assassination titled Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK.

Random House suit[edit]

In 1995, Lane lost a defamation suit against book publisher Random House who used the caption "Guilty of Misleading the American Public" under a photo of Lane in an advertisement for Gerald Posner's Case Closed.[2] He sought $10 million in damages for disparagement of his integrity and the unauthorized use of his photograph.[2] Lane was rebuked by Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia who said: "A conspiracy theory warrior outfitted with Lane's acerbic tongue and pen should not expect immunity from an occasional, constrained chastisement."[2] A similar suit filed by Robert J. Groden against Random House was dismissed the previous year by a federal judge in New York.[20]

Vietnam War crimes investigations[edit]

In 1970, Lane involved himself in several war crime inquiries being conducted primarily by antiwar organizations such as the Citizens Commission of Inquiry(CCI) and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Lane used his contacts and raised funds to support these events, including what would become the CCIsNational Veterans Inquiry and the VVAWs Winter Soldier Investigation. CCI and VVAW had originally combined their efforts toward the production of one large war crime investigation, and Lane was initially invited to join the organizing steering committee. Lane suggested the Winter Soldier name, based on Thomas Paine's description of the "summer soldiers" at Valley Forge shrinking from service to their country in a time of crisis. Lane would often travel with fellow activist Jane Fonda to antiwar speaking engagements and fundraising rallies. Lane was also writing a book, Conversations with Americans, a collection of interviews with US servicemen about war crimes in the Vietnam War.
Lane's close association with CCI and VVAW would be short-lived. Tod Ensign of the CCI recalled
It was a mistake to think that celebrities like Jane Fonda and Mark Lane who were used to operating as free agents would submit to the discipline of a steering committee. We should have placed them, instead, on an advisory panel where their visibility and political and money contacts would have been used without having to tangle with them on broader strategic and tactical questions.[21]
CCI staffers criticized Lane as being arrogant and sensationalistic, and said the book he was writing had "shoddy reporting in it". The CCI leaders refused to work with Lane further and gave the VVAW leaders a "Lane or us" ultimatum. VVAW did not wish to lose the monetary support of Lane and Fonda, so the CCI split from the project. The following month, after caustic reviews of Lane's book by authors and a Vietnam expert, VVAW would also distance itself from Lane.[22]
James Reston Jr., in the Saturday Review, calls Lane's book disreputable, in that all of the reports contained in it are admittedly unverified, and lean toward the salacious. "Lane makes no pretense of distinguishing between fact and a soldier's talent for embellishment", Reston observed. Commenting on the book's redeeming social value, Reston added that "it would be to show that a pattern of atrocities exists in Vietnam, proving that while My Lai was larger, it was not unique. This needs to be demonstrated, since the Pentagon continues to insist that My Lai was an isolated case. But the effort will have to be left to more responsible parties, like the National Veterans Inquiry."[23] A review of Lane's book by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times Book Review claimed that four of the 32 servicemen interviewed by Lane for the book had misrepresented their military service, according to the Defense Department. Lane responded to Sheehan’s inquiries by stating that the Defense Department is the least reliable of all sources for verification of atrocity accounts and that verification of simple facts about the interviewees was “not relevant.” Sheehan called Lane's book irresponsible, concluding that, "Some of the horror tales in this book are undoubtedly true", and the "men who now run the military establishment cannot conduct a credible investigation... But until the country does summon up the courage to convene a responsible inquiry, we probably deserve the Mark Lanes." [24] Because of Sheehan's review, Simon and Schuster reneged on the contract for the book. When Lane disproved Sheehan's charges, they were forced to settle with him.[25]
The controversial book reviews caused concern in the VVAW leadership, as Andrew E. Hunt notes,
Sheehan's exposé had placed VVAW leaders in a difficult position. Lane's involvement with the planning of the Winter Soldier Investigation had been extensive. His legal and financial assistance had proven invaluable. Few VVAWers doubted his sincerity or devotion to the effort. Yet they feared associating with Lane could tarnish months of difficult work. "Then the question became, 'How do we protect our integrity?'" recalled Joe Urgo, "'How do we separate ourselves from this guy?'" Organizers hoped Lane would maintain a low profile. Their wishes were fulfilled.[26]
VVAW veterans involved with the WSI event then realized they needed to take control, and insisted that there be no more interference from the likes of Lane. A new, all-veteran steering committee was formed without Lane. Ultimately, the WSI was an event produced by veterans only, without the need of civilians such as Lane and Fonda.[27]

Martin Luther King assassination[edit]

Lane wrote Murder In Memphis with Dick Gregory (previously titled Code Name Zorro, after the Central Intelligence Agency's name for King) about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he alleged a conspiracy and government coverup.[28] Lane represented James Earl Ray, King's assassin, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) inquiry in 1978. The HSCA said of Lane in its report, "Many of the allegations of conspiracy that the committee investigated were first raised by Mark Lane ... [A]s has been noted, the facts were often at variance with Lane's assertions ... Lane was willing to advocate conspiracy theories publicly without having checked the factual basis for them ... Lane's conduct resulted in public misperception about the assassination of Dr. King and must be condemned."[5]

Peoples Temple[edit]

Engagement and work for the Peoples Temple[edit]

In 1978, Lane began to represent the Peoples Temple. Temple leader Jim Jones hired Lane and Donald Freed to help make the case of what it alleged to be a "grand conspiracy" by intelligence agencies against the Peoples Temple.[29] Jones told Lane he wanted to "pull an Eldridge Cleaver", referring to the fugitive Black Panther who was able to return to the United States after repairing his reputation.[29]
In September 1978, Lane visited Jonestown, spoke to Jonestown residents, provided support for the theory that intelligence agencies conspired against Jonestown and drew parallels between Martin Luther King and Jim Jones.[29] Lane then held press conferences stating that "none of the charges" against the Temple "are accurate or true" and that there was a "massive conspiracy" against the Temple by "intelligence organizations," naming the CIA, FBI, FCC and the U.S. Post Office.[29] Though Lane represented himself as disinterested, the Temple paid Lane $6,000 per month to help generate such theories.[30]Regarding the effect of the work of Lane and Freed upon Temple members, Temple member Annie Moore wrote that "Mom and Dad have probably shown you the latest about the conspiracy information that Mark Lane, the famous attorney in the ML King case and Don Freed the other famous author in the Kennedy case have come up with regarding activities planned against us--Peoples Temple." [31] Another Temple member, Carolyn Layton, wrote that Don Freed told them that "anything this drug out could be nothing less than conspiracy".[32]

Jonestown tragedy[edit]

Lane was present in Jonestown during the evening of November 18, 1978 and witnessed or heard part of the events claiming at least 408 lives (out of a total recount of 915 carried out five days later); these events involved, up to some extent, murder-suicide by cyanide poisoning and were compounded by the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and four others at a nearby airstrip.[33] For months before that tragedy, Jones frequently created fear among members by stating that the CIA and other intelligence agencies were conspiring with "capitalist pigs" to destroy Jonestown and harm its members.[34] This included mentions of CIA involvement in the address Jones gave the day before the arrival of Congressman Ryan.[35]
During the visit of Congressman Ryan, Lane helped represent the Temple along with its other attorney, Charles R. Garry, who was furious with Lane for holding numerous press conferences and alleging the existence of conspiracies against the Peoples Temple.[36] Garry was also displeased with Lane for making a veiled threat that the Temple might move to the Soviet Union in a letter to Congressman Ryan.[37]
Late in the afternoon of November 18, two men wielding rifles approached Lane and Garry, who had earlier been sent to a small wooden house by Jones.[38] It is not clear whether the gunmen were sent to kill Lane and Garry, but one of the gunmen recognized Charles Garry as an attorney in a trial that the gunman had attended.[38] After a relatively friendly exchange, the men informed Garry and Lane that they were going to "commit revolutionary suicide" to "expose this racist and fascist society".[38] The gunmen then gave Garry and Lane directions to exit Jonestown.[38] Garry and Lane then sneaked into the jungle, where they hid and called a temporary truce while the tragedy unfolded.[39]
On a tape made while members committed suicide by ingesting cyanide-poisoned punch, the reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with Jones's previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us", "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors".[40] Parroting Jones's prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to Fascism, one temple member states, "[T]he ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies".[40] Annie Moore and Carolyn Layton were among the 900 who died.

After the tragedy[edit]

Lane later wrote a book about the tragedy, The Strongest Poison.[41] Lane reported hearing automatic weapon fire, and presumes that U.S. forces killed Jonestown survivors.[42] While Lane blames Jones and Peoples Temple leadership for the deaths at Jonestown, he also claims that U.S. officials exacerbated the possibility of violence by employing agents provocateur.[42] For example, Lane claimed that Temple attorney (and later defector) Timothy Stoen, who Lane alleged had repeatedly prompted the Temple to take radical action before defecting, "had evidently led three lives", one of those being a government informant or agent.[43]

Later career[edit]

Lane is the author of the book Arcadia in which he details the effort to prove that James Richardson, a black migrant worker in Florida, had been falsely accused of killing his seven children by unlawful actions on the part of the authorities involved. Richardson had been on death row for the crime, but after the book was published he received a new trial in which he was found not guilty. Richardson was released from prison after 21 years, and Richardson's babysitter later confessed to the murders.[citation needed]
Lane represented the political advocacy group Liberty Lobby as an attorney when the group was sued over an article in The Spotlight newspaper implicating E. Howard Hunt in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Hunt sued for defamation and won a substantial settlement. Lane successfully got this judgment reversed on appeal. This case became the basis for Lane's book Plausible Denial. In the book, Lane claimed that he convinced the jury that Hunt was involved in the JFK assassination, but mainstream news accounts asserted that some jurors decided the case on the issue of whether The Spotlight had acted with "actual malice".[44]
Lane now resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.[45] He still practices law and lectures on many subjects, especially the importance of the United States Constitution (mainly the Bill Of Rights and the First Amendment) and civil rights.
At the annual Law Library of Congress and American Bar Association Law Day symposium 2001, on the question, "Who are the paradigms for the lawyer as reformer in American culture?", one of the twelve legal figures featured by panel moderator, Bernard Hibbitts, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, was Mark Lane.[46]

Works[edit]

Sources[edit]

  • Kiel, R. Andrew. J. Edgar Hoover. The Father of the Cold War. How His Obsession with Communism Led to the Warren Commission Coverup and Escalation of the Vietnam War, 2000, University Press of America, Lanham MD, ISBN 978-0-7618-1762-8.

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ 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.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Rosenthal, Harry F. (January 26, 1995)."Judge Rebukes Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane". Associated Press. AP. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  3. Jump up^ name=Hawes Publications | url=http://www.hawes.com/1966/1966-12-25.pdf, p.2
  4. Jump up^ Citizen Lane
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b Bugliosi, p. 1011
  6. ^ Jump up to:a b Bugliosi, p. 1001
  7. Jump up^ Peter Knight, The Kennedy Assassination, Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2007, p. 77. Also see "External Links": "Sixteen Questions on the Assassination (of President Kennedy).
  8. Jump up^ Kiel, p. 162.
  9. ^ Jump up to:a b Kiel, pp. 161-3.
  10. Jump up^ http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/lane1.txt
  11. Jump up^ Bugliosi, p. 135
  12. Jump up^ Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. III, p. 311
  13. Jump up^ name=Hawes Publications | url=http://www.hawes.com/1966/1966-09-11.pdf, p.2 | url=http://www.hawes.com/1967/1967-03-26.pdf
  14. Jump up^ Bugliosi, p. 1005
  15. Jump up^ Persico, Joseph E. (October 31, 1999)."Secrets From the Lubyanka: A historian examines an archive of Soviet files smuggled to the West by a former K.G.B. agent". The New York Times (New York). Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  16. Jump up^ Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 1999. Excerpted here. According to the book, Soviet journalists, including KGB agent Genrikh Borovik, met with Mark Lane to encourage him in his research.
  17. Jump up^ Letter to The Nation from Lane
  18. Jump up^ Farber, Stephen (June 13, 1979). "Kennedy assassination subject of film". The Miami News (Miami). p. 4B. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  19. Jump up^ Plausible Denial, Thunder's Mouth Press copyright 1991 page 326
  20. Jump up^ "Random prevails in suit over 'Case Closed' ad". Publishers Weekly 241 (38): 9. September 19, 1994.
  21. Jump up^ Tod Ensign; Viet Nam Generation: A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Issues, March 1994
  22. Jump up^ Hunt, Andrew E. (2001-05-01, copyright 1999). The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. New York University Press. pp. 63, 67. ISBN 978-0-8147-3635-7. Retrieved 2011-06-29. Lay summary.
  23. Jump up^ James Reston Jr., Saturday Review, January 9, 1971, p. 26
  24. Jump up^ New York Times Book Review, December 27, 1970 by Neil Sheehan
  25. Jump up^ Mark Lane; Citizen Lane, Chicago Review Press, 2012,218-220.
  26. Jump up^ Andrew E. Hunt; The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War; New York University Press, 1999; p. 67
  27. Jump up^ Gerald Nicosia; Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, 2001, p. 84
  28. Jump up^ Bugliosi, p. 1002
  29. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Tim Reiterman (1982) Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People ISBN 0-525-24136-1, p. 440
  30. Jump up^ Tim Reiterman (1982) "Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People"ISBN 0-525-24136-1, p. 441
  31. Jump up^ Moore, Rebecca. A Sympathetic History of Jonestown. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-88946-860-5. p. 282
  32. Jump up^ Moore, Rebecca. A Sympathetic History of Jonestown. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-88946-860-5, p. 272
  33. Jump up^ Tim Reiterman (1982) "Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People"ISBN 0-525-24136-1 page 484
  34. Jump up^ See, e.g., Jim Jones, Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 234, Q 322, Q 051
  35. Jump up^ Jim Jones, Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 050
  36. Jump up^ Tim Reiterman (1982) "Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People"ISBN 0-525-24136-1 page 460
  37. Jump up^ Tim Reiterman (1982) "Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People"ISBN 0-525-24136-1, p. 461
  38. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Tim Reiterman (1982) Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People ISBN 0-525-24136-1, p. 541
  39. Jump up^ Tim Reiterman (1982) "Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People"ISBN 0-525-24136-1, p. 563
  40. ^ Jump up to:a b "Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project"Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. San Diego State University.
  41. Jump up^ Lane, Mark, The Strongest Poison, Hawthorne Books, 1980, ISBN 0-8015-3206-X
  42. ^ Jump up to:a b Moore, Rebecca, "Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown",Journal of Popular Culture 36, no. 2 (Fall 2002): pp. 200-20
  43. Jump up^ Lane, Mark, The Strongest Poison, Hawthorne Books, 1980, ISBN 0-8015-3206-X, p. 290
  44. Jump up^ Implausible Assertions
  45. Jump up^ "Rushing to judgment-- and everywhere". The Hook. November 23, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-09.
  46. Jump up^ Law Day 2001

.Willis Carto connections


  1. The IHR of L. Fletcher Prouty, Mark Lane and Willis Carto - Google ...

    https://groups.google.com/d/topic/alt.conspiracy.jfk/pwXepkq1-c0‎

    The IHR of L. Fletcher Prouty, Mark Lane and Willis Carto ... is located in Costa Mesa, California , denies that the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews and other ta.

  2. enormous privilege

    mcadams.posc.mu.edu/prouty3.txt‎

    Mark Lane is the legal representative of Liberty Lobby and other Carto enterprises, ...from Carto's role as the leading purveyor of racist, anti-Jewish and pro-Nazi  ...

  3. Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/american/ihr/press/express.011092

    www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?orgs/american/ihr/press/express.011092‎

    And what exactly is Mark Lane's connection to them? ... For the record, Willis Carto is the most notorious anti-Semite in the country, the Liberty Lobby ... He founded the Populist Party, whose 1988 presidential candidate was Nazi David Duke
East Bay EXPRESS  [Transcribed and republished to UseNet with permission]

   (P.O. Box 3198, Berkeley, CA 94703)
   January 10, 1992
   Cityside

                         Sticks & Stones
                         by Paul Rauber

                       Conspiracy of Dunces

   Remember the scene in JFK where Kevin Costner reads the Warren
   Commission Report?  While poor Sissy Spacek sulks outside the
   bedroom, Costner/Garrison bounces on the bed, paging through the
   official report on the Kennedy assassination with increasing
   annoyance.  "Ask the question!" he mutters.  "Ask the question!"

   Listeners to KPFA December 20 were yelling the same thing at their
   radios, as the station's conspiracy czar, Dennis Bernstein,
   interviewed conspiracy theorist Mark Lane on the subject of his new
   book on the Kennedy assassination, 'Plausible Denial.' At one point
   the conversation turned to Fletcher Prouty, yet another conspiracy
   theorist who served as consultant to Oliver Stone and who also wrote
   the introduction to Lane's book.

   "Let's be very clear," interjected Bernstein, "because we ahve a very
   astute audience here, Mark Lane."

   Bernstein went on to explain that Prouty had written a "very good
   book," originally published by Prentice-Hall and later reissued by
   Noontide Press.  Yet, he added, "This is the press that suggested
   that the Holocaust didn't happen." (Noontide Press is an imprint of
   the Liberty Lobby, neo-Nazi organization founded by one Willis Carto).

   "Well, let me tell you about that," said Lane.  "They have never,
   never said the Holocaust was a hoax.  They have never said the
   Holocaust didn't happen." Lane went on to characterize a recent court
   case in Los Angelese between Mel Mermelstein, a Holocaust survivor,
   and Willis Carto and the Liberty Lobby.  "In it Mr.  Mermelstein said
   that this is the organization which says the Holocaust is a hoax,
   that it never happened.  The judge in the case, Superior Court Judge
   Stephan Lachs, who is also Jewish, listened to the evidence and then
   he ordered the lawyers for Mr.  Mermelstein to never, ever again say
   in court that any of these organizations ever said the Holocaust was
   a hoax or it didn't happen."

   Astute listeners sat with bated breath waiting for Berstein to ask
   the question.  Who is Willis Carto?  What is the Liberty Lobby?  And
   what exactly is Mark Lane's connection to them?  Alas, the listeners
   got no more satisfaction than Kevin Costner; the conversation
   wandered off into a discussion of George Bush.

   For the record, Willis Carto is the most notorious anti-Semite in the
   country, the Liberty Lobby the most notorious anti-Semitic
   organization, and Mark Lane their lawyer.  Carto was exposed as early
   as 1966 by columnist Drew Pearson, who published a damning letter by
   Carto which said that "Hitler's defeat was the defeat of Europe.  And
   of America.  How could we have been so blind?  The blame, it seems,
   must be laid at the door of the international Jews.  It was their
   propaganda, lies, and demands which blinded the West to what Germany
   was doing...  If Satan himself, with all of his superhuman genius and
   diabolical ingenuity at his command, had tried to create a permanent
   disintegration and force for the destruction of the nations, he could
   have done no better than to invent the Jews."

   As for the Noontide Press, its character can be judged from the
   contents of its catalogue:

   'The Six Million Reconsidered,' 'The Testament of Adolf
   Hitler,''Germany's Hitler' ("a portrait of a man dedicated to his
   people and the vision of the National Socialist philosophy, as well
   as a man who in private life showed a very human side"), and of
   course the classic anti-Semitic text, 'The Protocols of the Elders of
   Zion.'

   Willis Carto is a busy man.  He founded the Populist Party, whose
   1988 presidential candidate was Nazi David Duke.  Carto also started
   a Costa Mesa, California-based organization called the Institute for
   Historical Review, which is dedicated to proving that the Holocaust
   never happened.  In 1980, IHR offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who
   could prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz.  Holocaust survivor
   Mel Mermelstein took him up on the offer and submitted proof.  IHR
   refused to pay, so Mermelstein took it to court, eventually winning
   the $50,000, plus $40,000 more for pain and suffering.  In the course
   of the trial, Willis Carto was deposed.  "Certainly there were no
   Jews gassed at Auschwitz," he said, "because there were no gas
   chambers.  There were no Jews gassed at any of the German - any of
   the camps in Germany."

   Mark Lane's assertion that Judge Lachs ordered Mermelstein's
   attorneys not to make the claim that Carto, IHR, et al.  denied the
   Holocaust is contested by Memmelstein's lawyer, Peter Bersin; since
   the transcripts of the trial have not yet been released, the matter
   cannot be conclusively settled.  The question appears to turn on
   IHR's Humpty-Dumpty game with the word "Holocaust." According to Mark
   Weber, associate editor of IHR's 'Journal of Historical Review,' "If
   by the 'Holocaust' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some
   scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one
   denies that.  But if one says that the 'Holocaust' means the
   systematic extermination of six to eight million Jews in
   concentration camps, that's what we think there's not evidence for."
   That is, IHR dosen't deny that the "Holocaust" happened; they just
   deny that the word "Holocaust" means what people customarily use it
   to mean.

   "Some people say Mark Lane is crazy," Berstein intoned at the end of
   his softball interview.  "Some peole say he's a member of the Liberty
   Lobby.  Some people say he's a pepetual liar.  Other people think
   that his work is very solid and believable.  We leave it up to you.
   We're here to hive you the information, let you consider it, and make
   some of your own descisions."...
.Sources

http://www.amazon.com/A.-J.-MacDonald-Jr/e/B002MH9Z32
This book is a compilation of social and political essays which call for massive, non-violent demonstrations in Washington—made by the People—in order to get the real change we so desperately need in America: an end to wars, an end to torture, an end to spying on Americans, an end to assassinating Americans suspected of being terrorists, an end to the suspension of due process of law for Americans suspected of being terrorists, an end to US support of Israel, and an end to the Washington government’s cover-up of the 9/11 attacks.
 A.J. MacDonald, Jr. 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106170760/Connect-the-dots%E2%80%A6-Mark-Lane-a-CIA-lawyer-is-with-Jim-Jones-at%C2%A0Jonestown%E2%80%A6

Connect thedots… Mark Lane, a CIA/lawyer, is with Jim Jones atJonestown…Mark Lane goes to work at The Spotlight on CapitolHill in Washington… Timothy McVeigh takes out an ad for aphone card The Spotlight is selling in their newspaper…. ADL tellsthe media this after the OKC bombing…. the Spotlight is sued,loses, and changes its name to The American Free Press, withMichael Collins Piper still at its helm, which he has been at for 30 years (= Jonestown/Iran-Contra)… ChristopherBollyn is one of the first AFP
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