Plausible Denial; Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xvi, [2], 393, [5] pages. Signed by the author on the fep. Occasional footnotes. Chronology. CIA Cast of Characters. Introduction by L. Fletcher Prouty. Appendix. Index. Mark Lane (February 24, 1927 - May 10, 2016) was an American attorney, New York state legislator, civil rights activist, and Vietnam war-crimes investigator. In 1959, Lane helped found the Reform Democrat movement within the New York Democratic Party. He was elected with the support of Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy (JFK) to the New York Legislature in 1960. He is best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. From his 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission, Rush to Judgment, to Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, published in 2011, Lane wrote at least four major works on the JFK assassination and no fewer than ten books overall. Derived from a Kirkus review: The author offers his most damning version yet of CIA wrongdoing. Lane assembles his evidence and builds to a riveting climax: an eyewitness account of CIA spy E. Howard Hunt paying off a CIA- backed Cuban assassination team in Dallas the night before the murder and clearly setting up Jack Ruby--before the assassination- -to kill Oswald, the patsy, who never fired a shot. Lane's evidence is drawn from a trial he conducted in 1978 while defending a small magazine, Spotlight, which had lost a defamation suit brought against it by Hunt. Lane saw his opportunity ever to cross- examine top figures in his assassination scenario. He deposes CIA directors Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner, G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt himself--and strikes gold in CIA agent Marita Lorenz, who, under oath, tells of a talk with the proud assassin. Lane's convincing report sounds like the last word on the assassination. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Lane, the lawyer whose Rush to Judgment was the first in a flood of books calling into question the Warren Commission Report on the JFK assassination, has come up with a highly unusual angle this time. He tells, in enormous detail, the story of a little-publicized 1985 trial in which he figured and which ended in a Florida jury endorsing the notion that the CIA was involved in Kennedy's killing. The case arose out of a libel suit brought by CIA officer E. Howard Hunt against Liberty Lobby and its magazine Spotlight for an article claiming he was in Dallas at the time of the assassination and played a role in it on behalf of the CIA. Representing Liberty Lobby, Hunt's alibi, that he was in Washington on Nov. 22, 1963, could not be adequately supported, and an important witness, CIA operative Marita Lorenz, placed Hunt in Dallas, along with agent Frank Sturgis and a carload of guns, the day before the assassination. Lane's arguments convinced the jury. He justly excoriates the press for never having sufficiently followed his leads--and ends with an epilogue suggesting that President Bush was also associated with the CIA at that time, long before he became director. A highly stimulating, disturbing book.