Walter Winborn witnessed the JFK assassination from the railroad overpass in Dealey Plaza. He is one of the witnesses that Mark Lane quotes in his book Rush to Judgment (page 40) to help prove a shot from the grassy knoll. Walter L. Winborn and Thomas J. Murphy told an independent investigator that they also had seen smoke in the trees on the knoll. Here is his statement to the FBI from 1964: Winborn said all the shots came from the same location, but he could not tell where

Washington Post, May 14, 1977 Money Quote When Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif), as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, protested against the intrusive nature of the hidden recording devices, voice stress analyzers and other gadgets proposed for the investigation by chief Counsel Sprague, Lane began denouncing him on the lecture circuit and noting darkly that Edwards was a former agent of the FBI. Up to that point, Edwards had been mentioned favorably in Ci

A very revealing story about Mark Lane from Mort Sahl's book, Heartland : Money Quote: Sciambra [Garrison Assistant District Attorney Andrew] used to say if Dracula tried to drive a stake through his [Mark Lane's] heart, he'd be in real trouble: The myth would be over. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mort Sahl Mort Sahl -- The Noncomeding Comedian Silliness from Mort Sahl "I Know Who Killed JFK," Part Two Lane speaks at a Men's Business Club. "I Know Who Killed JFK," Part On

Mark Lane Reuters release in various newspapers, March 31, 1967 "I Know Who Killed JFK," Part Two Lane speaks at a Men's Business Club. "I Know Who Killed JFK," Part One Mort Sahl said he knew who killed JFK. Mark Lane Said that Clay Shaw Was a "Powerful, Domestic Force in the Assassination." Lane speaks at the Louisiana State Bar Association.

Mark Lane's mugshot from his arrest in Mississippi. See below for further information. Here is an article from the May 7, 1962, edition of the New York Post . Mark Lane was trying to win the Reform nomination for the 19th district of New York State for the House of Representatives in D.C.: New York Post, May 7, 1962 Lane would go on and lose this vote. Here is the report written by the five residents: Money Quote : While some newspaper readers have been impressed by Lane's pu

Here is an ad for the film Rush to Judgment . I am not sure what newspaper this ad was placed, but clearly it was in New York City. Jim Garrison told all the critics that they were the ones who got him into the JFK assassination investigation. He knew how to flatter people. Most probably, the first book that he read was Harold Weisberg's Whitewash, and it was through that book that he learned that Dean Andrews stuck to his story about Clay Bertrand when testifying to the Warr

Garry Wills was an author, historian and philosopher who won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1993. The Capital Times, April...

Victor Navasky would go on to become editor of The Nation. This review is from the New York Times of July 14, 1968: Money Quote: One...

Mark Lane (one the right) with Jim Jones. For those of you who want to learn more about Mark Lane and his involvement with Jonestown,...

February 4, 1979 Money Quote Seymour Ostrow, his law partner then, said recently that Mr. Lane's reputation was largely an illusion....

New York Times, April 23, 1981 Money Quote: As the disciples murmured and applauded, the visitor said he had traveled in Guyana on a...

Washington Post, December 5, 1978 From the article: It is just one excitement after another for Mark Lane. Only a few days before he went...

Philadelphia Bulletin, February 23, 1979 Lane seems perpetually attracted to mayhem, chaos, the ugly and the profane. He has a unique way...

Philippe Labro was a French journalist who covered the JFK Assassination for France-Soir. He encountered Jack Ruby on November 23, 1963:...

Was it Richard Nixon? Gee, the answer was given in 1973 and I missed it. Of course, Gus Russo told the whole story of JFK's brain in his magisterial book, Live by the Sword : The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK : (pages 699 - 700 in the Kindle edition) There is very little doubt that Robert Kennedy took control of the “missing” material. This was the finding of the HSCA, as well as many of the Archive employees. The only mystery remaining is exactly how Bobby d

Here is a note from the October 1968 issue of The Progressive magazine about Mark Lane: Sylvia Meagher sent this note to a variety of JFK...

Alfredda Scobey, a lawyer on the staff of the Warren Commission, wrote an important paper about the admissibility of evidence if Oswald had been tried. James DiEugenio misinterpreted her words in Oliver Stone's so-called documentary series, JFK: Destiny Betrayed. I discussed this in my book, Oliver Stone's Film-Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza: A central DiEugenio premise is that had Lee Harvey Oswald stood trial, he would have been acquitted. He believes that most of the

Lane and Garrison in March 1967 in New Orleans I just blogged about Mark Lane's appearance on the Joe Dolan Show on KNEW radio after...

Joe Dolan had a radio talk show on KNEW in Oakland in the 1960s. Here is a transcript of a show with Mark Lane:: Lane had been in New...

An intriguing news conference: Beverly Hills Citizen News, July 31, 1968 Money Quote: In a press conference, Lane said he has received "a...