Unmasking of phantom-fighter Lane
- Fred Litwin
- 11 minutes ago
- 3 min read
Boston Herald, November, 28, 1978
Money Quote:
Mark Lane, for those of you mercifully spared any notice whatsoever of his addled ramblings, is a sort of vulture in a man suit who has done his feeling for the past several years off the cadavers of public figures killed by madmen. It is Lane's thesis that a whole bunch of folks were involved in the Kennedy and King assassinations. Lane has gone from campus to talk show to campus and back to talk show again, picking up lecture fees for befuddling the uncertain. At best his antics have warranted some doubt that Darwin was correct; at worse, he has come nigh to giving free speech a bad name.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mark Lane
A reporter tells Lane to stop spreading misinformation.
Lane discusses Jim Garrison on television in New Orleans.
Lane cuts out a scene in which Price says the man he saw might have been carrying a hat.
An excellent article from the Dallas Morning News on Lane's witnesses.
Lane cuts out a few of Reynolds' answers.
Sylvia Meagher was incensed at Lane's inclusion of this story in his film.
A good case study in Lane's intellectual dishonesty.
Robert Blakey and the HSCA were very critical of Mark Lane.
Mark Lane and the HSCA.
An interesting anecdote from Mort Sahl's book, Heartland.
Some ads for Lane's film Rush to Judgment.
A Garry Wills opinion piece on Mark Lane.
Navasky tests Lane's book and finds it wanting.
A New York Times profile of Lane and his involvement with Jonestown.
An apt profile.
An opinion piece by Anthony Lewis in the New York Times on Mark Lane and Jonestown.
An opinion piece from the Washington Post
A good opinion piece from the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Meagher tells Labro a story about Mark Lane.
Even a left-wing magazine like The Progressive found Mark Lane hard to take.
Mark Lane's addition to the 1992 edition of Rush to Judgment is eye opening.
Lane tells Dolan about Garrison's amazing evidence.
Lane makes a startling allegation.
A profile from Mother Jones magazine.
Lane and Meagher feuded about a blurb for her book.
A profile from Esquire Magazine.
An article from the Tampa Bay Times.
An Anthony Lewis column on Mark Lane from 1978.
Howard Roffman finds that Mark Lane's scholarship is lacking.
A profile of Mark Lane in Newsweek.
Mark Lane offers to introduce Jim Garrison to a witness that, for $25,000, would tie Jack Ruby with Clay Shaw.
This post has a good case study of how Mark Lane exploited a redaction in a document.
Lane tells the Danish press he knows who killed JFK.
Lane speaks at the Louisiana State Bar Association.
