Mark Lane, Kennedy assassination nutter and general conspiracy whackjob has died at his his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 89.
His career of peddling nonsense began in 1966 with his best selling book Rush to Judgment, which questioned the findings of the Warren Commission and concluded a second gunman helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate Kennedy. This started the idiocy's move into the mainstream from it's prior existence in the form of self-published screeds. He was the first to use the phrase "grassy knoll".
In his other career Lane was a defense lawyer, representing James Earl Ray (whom he believed was the victim of another conspiracy) and homicidal cult leader Jim Jones (whose victims were also the victims of an external conspiracy according to Lane). He also defended the 'Liberty Lobby' (an anti-Semitic organisation and proponent of Lane's conspiracy theories) in a libel suit brought against them by "Plumber" E. Howard Hunt after they'd claimed he was involved in the Kennedy assassination. Hunt lost as the jury considered him a "public figure" and thus, under US law, merely showing the accusations against him were untrue wasn't enough.
Lane turned the case into another book, carefully withholding evidence and spinning of the material he actually presents to portray the judgement as supportive of his beliefs.
His career of peddling nonsense began in 1966 with his best selling book Rush to Judgment, which questioned the findings of the Warren Commission and concluded a second gunman helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate Kennedy. This started the idiocy's move into the mainstream from it's prior existence in the form of self-published screeds. He was the first to use the phrase "grassy knoll".
In his other career Lane was a defense lawyer, representing James Earl Ray (whom he believed was the victim of another conspiracy) and homicidal cult leader Jim Jones (whose victims were also the victims of an external conspiracy according to Lane). He also defended the 'Liberty Lobby' (an anti-Semitic organisation and proponent of Lane's conspiracy theories) in a libel suit brought against them by "Plumber" E. Howard Hunt after they'd claimed he was involved in the Kennedy assassination. Hunt lost as the jury considered him a "public figure" and thus, under US law, merely showing the accusations against him were untrue wasn't enough.
Lane turned the case into another book, carefully withholding evidence and spinning of the material he actually presents to portray the judgement as supportive of his beliefs.
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