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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Mark Lane Addressed the Secret Government’s Role in the Assassination [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)While watching it I was reminded again that Dustin Hoffman based his character in the otherwise dreadful movie "Hook" on William F Buckley. Hoffman said he wanted to do a more layered kind of evil and be true to the genteel origins of the real life pirates, many of whom had come from upper class backgrounds in Britain and then went "rogue."
I give Buckley credit for being a very quick thinker and I think that Mark Lane at the very least, matches him in that exchange. Lane doesn't let Buckley get away with anything, not flawed analogies, not nuthin'. And Buckley is agile while his questions perhaps by design, fail to get the best argument out of Lane.
Another recent favorite is the Garrison equal time on NBC clip. From the era before the Fairness Doctrine went away:
I have tried to focus on the evidence this year because I have found that to be a more straightforward and efficient way of getting through the data on the shootings, Oswald, Ruby and other players. I love the YouTube-available TV from the 1960s but since it is more focused on how the dots get connected than it is on the dots themselves I think analysis of Lane and Garrison and all the surrogate defenders of the WCR leads more to an understanding of the role of media than to an understanding of the crime itself. But also, for an intermediate student of the assassination, I think that in both 'Firing Line' and the equal time piece, Garrison and Lane point to all the major things that a person should research for themselves to their own satisfaction.