RUSH TO JUDGMENTMark Lane

Rush to Judgment was the first book to challenge the Warren Commission findings of the Kennedy assassination. Mark Lane is an attorney who took it upon himself, in the weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the murder of his alleged killer Lee Harvey Oswald, to represent Oswald's mother and widow and to try to find any information he could to exonerate Oswald of the president's murder. What he found out is the basis of what many consider the "original conspiracy theory" -- that Oswald, even if he did pull the trigger, did not act alone in killing JFK. In his book Rush to Judgment, published in 1966, Lane doesn't set forth a theory of who he thinks did kill JFK. He doesn't even say that he is 100 percent sure Oswald didn't do it. What he does propose is that the Warren Commission appointed by President Johnson to investigate the assassination was too quick to finger Oswald as the lone assassin and that its investigations were badly handled, including ignoring evidence and witnesses that could have cast doubt on Oswald's guilt.