New York Times, April 23, 1981
Money Quote:
As the disciples murmured and applauded, the visitor said he had traveled in Guyana on a 19th-century train, a relic of colonialism. "And then you come here. And you don't just come up to the 20th century. You're in the future all of a sudden. It's a big move. And either this is the future or there won't be any."
It was Mark Lane speaking: The lawyer-promoter who has so relentlessly exploited American assassinations. We have come to know Lane over his years of grisly self-promotion. But it is still something to hear his voice praising Jonestown -- and Jim Jones giggling in the background and saying, "That's so true."
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mark Lane
An opinion piece from the Washington Post
A good opinion piece from the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Meagher tells Labro a story about Mark Lane.
Even a left-wing magazine like The Progressive found Mark Lane hard to take.
Mark Lane's addition to the 1992 edition of Rush to Judgment is eye opening.
Lane tells Dolan about Garrison's amazing evidence.
Lane makes a startling allegation.
A profile from Mother Jones magazine.
Lane and Meagher feuded about a blurb for her book.
A profile from Esquire Magazine.
An article from the Tampa Bay Times.
An Anthony Lewis column on Mark Lane from 1978.
Howard Roffman finds that Mark Lane's scholarship is lacking.
A profile of Mark Lane in Newsweek.
For $25,000 Mark Lane offers to introduce Jim Garrison to a witness that would tie Jack Ruby with Clay Shaw.
This post has a good case study of how Mark Lane exploited a redaction in a document.