Biography
Mark Lane was a New York State Assemblyman who joined the 1961 Freedom Rides and was arrested on an integrated bus ride and jailed in Jackson, Mississippi. He was sentenced to four months (two suspended) and a $200 fine for 'breach of the peace,' and appealed.
Lane went on to become one of the most prominent critics of the Warren Commission: his 1966 best-seller Rush to Judgment was the first major book challenging the official account of the Kennedy assassination. A lawyer to the end of his life, he later represented James Earl Ray before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, was in Jonestown as an attorney for the Peoples Temple when the 1978 massacre began and escaped into the jungle, and continued writing and litigating civil-rights cases until his death in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2016.
