Mark Lane, Esq.

Mark Lane, Esq., is an author, lawyer, social activist and filmmaker. He has written nine books on contemporary legal questions, including Rush to Judgment, the 1966 critique of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and A Citizen's Dissent, his 1968 "reply" to the news media and other defenders of the Warren Report. Plausible Denial, his most recent book and a best-seller in 1992, focused on the trial of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt against a newspaper that had implicated the CIA in the Kennedy assassination; Lane represented the publication and won the case. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Executive Action, produced and appeared in the award-winning documentary film Rush to Judgment, and produced, directed and appeared in the documentary film Two Men in Dallas. A longtime civil rights activist and attorney, Lane successfully represented the American Indian Movement at the historic Wounded Knee trial, tried numerous cases establishing the rights of minorities to serve on juries and utilize public facilities, and argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that helped to establish the law of defamation. A former New York state legislator, Lane was also one of then-Senator John F. Kennedy’s campaign managers for New York City.