MARK LANE HERE, ASKS REVIEW ON ASSASSINATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
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• Publication Date: October 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By GEORGE MONAGHAN left with such'eii impaci "'nth
Globe-Democrat Staff Writer succeeding frames that you can
Author and lawyer Mack Lane see him bouncing off the seat."
has called for a complete re- RIFLE TESTED
examination of the evidence in TWO:The rifle the Commission
the assassination of President said Oswald used was "phys-
Juhn F. Kennedy. ically incapable pf doing what
He charged here that the War- the commission said it did."
ren Commission did not deal with Mr. Lane said the rifle was
the facts, thatit came .to con- tested by three of the "best rifle-
clusions contradicted in its own men in the country." Here, he ~
report. said, is what happened:
Mr. Lane was in St. Louis to Two of the men were unable to
push his case for a national fire as quickly as the assassin
"dialogue" on the assiasslnation, would have had to shoot. Not'
and the conclusions of the War- cne of the total of 18 shots hit
ren Commission report. the head or neck portion of the!
As part of the campaign, he stationary target w h i c h wag
Maid, he is circulating petitions;' placed at the same distance as.
to reopen the case. in the assassination.
FOR 75 YEARS Moreover, Mr. Lane said, the.
The petition also calls for the riflemen were shooting from a
govecnmcnt to open the National -30-foot high perch. He said Os-;
Archives so that evidence sup- wald was firing from 60 feet up.'
presed by the commission in The tests were taken after the
1014 for 75 years could be made wobbly gun scope on the rifle
public. had been repaired.
"By then;" Mr. Lane said, TESTS SHOWED
a "everyone who knows about Despite the evidence, Mr. Lane
the case will be dead." said, the commission contended
lair. Lane, 39, said he gave up; the tests showed Oswald had the
his law practice three years ago "capability" of shooting the
to devote full time to the investi President.
gation of the assassination. THREE: A whole bullet passed
His book,,the best-selling "Ru through the President's neck,'
to Judgment," ;s a 478 - page came out his throat, hit the gov-
document on the assassination ernor in the back, fractured his
and the events surrounding it. right wrist and then went into his
Most of its citations are taken left thigh, according to the com-
from the 26-volume Warren Re mission, Mr. Lane said.
port. But, he added,. the same re-
After traveling to Dallas, Tcx.,, port said the rifle was later fired
einhf times, reading the 26-\;ol at substances simulating Gov.
time report twice and questioning Connally's body.
most of the witnesses on fiim~ "Each bullet was smashed or
and tape, here are some of the ',deformed. Yet the commission
conclusions he said he has said the one bullet that did all
reached: of Sthose things was practically
ONE: The evidence in the com- a pure, whole bullet," Mr. Lane
mission report does not support stated.
the conclusion there was a lone : The bullet,\ moreover, was
assassin. found' to have less than three
TWO DIRECTIONS . grsii)s ;of , metah;missing from it
different directions within six'
seconds.
Only the shots that'came from
the front can account for the:
wound in the President's throat
and the fatal shot in his head,'
Mr. Lane said.
An amateur photographs;
Abraham, Zapruder of Dallas,.'
took films which "conclusively t
show that as the bullet hit the
President in the head, the
President was driven sharply.!
back by the impact and to the j
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Mr. Lane asked:
"Did the President say this
after the bullet ripped through
his neck, or did he say it after
the bullet hit him in the head
and killed him*"
He said that if Oswald wouldt
have lived he would have been
proved innocent and the search
for the assassins would have con-
tinued, or the trial would have
shown others were involved.
When Oswald was being ques-
tioned, Mr. Lane said, a Dallas
newspaper reported that a police
stenographer was present. Yet
no stenographic records of the
questioning are available, Mr.
Lane said.
EVERY SPEECH:
And during the questioning the
FBI was present, he said, ad-
ding that the FBI for the past
three years has tape recorded
"every talk or speech I have
made."
"You would think they wold
have raped the man suspected
of killing' the President," Mr.
Lane said.
"and Gov. Connally today has Mr. Lane is a graduate of the
more than three grains of metal I Brooklyn Law School and did
in his right wrist to say nothing graduate work in law at New
of the metal lest when it hit his York University.
rib and the President." In 196D he was elected to the
FOUR: Paraffin tests on Os-
wald's hands and face showed
there wer no nitrates which us-
ually result from gunfire.
"To. count er,sihtthcemornsi
"To counter this, the commis-
sion said that nitrate tests were
unreliable," Mr. Lane said.
FIVE: None of the member of
New York legislature. The then
Sen. Jchn?'Konnedy-aided in his,
campaig. .
During the Presidential cam-.'
paign, Mr. Lane was one of two
campaign managers in his New,'
York District for .t4 senator
the Commission was allowed to
see the photographs or X-rays!
of the President's body taken
during the autopsy in Bethesda,
Maryland.
AGENT'S COMMENT
Mr. Lane said Roy Kellerman,
a Secret Service man who rode;
in the front seat of the Presi
dent's limousine, claimed that
President Kennedy shouted, !'My
God, I've been shot." after the
first shot was fired..
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