Mark Lane (author)

Mark Lane (author)

Mark Lane (born February 24, 1927) is an American lawyer and conspiracy theorist who has written many books, including Rush to Judgment and A Citizen's Dissent, two major books published in the immediate wake of the John F. Kennedy assassination that questioned the conclusions of the Warren Commission. Two other books, Plausible Denial, published in 1991, and The Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, published in 2011, continued his interest in the JFK assassination. Lane was thought to be a screenwriter for the 1973 action movie, Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan, but in actuality he only worked on the first draft of the screenplay. 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.

Lane represented 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.