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In reply to the discussion: Mark Lane, JFK assassination expert, has died. [View all]RobinA
(9,932 posts)he was a loon, I kinda just figured he got way too invested in the whole thing and lost the ability to question his own thinking. I was always open to the idea of some conspiracy but not that interested in the whole murky business, but years later a friend who was a hardcore JFK conspiracy believer convinced me to read Lane's book. I had read things here and there, but it was all just a bit out there (riflemen jumping out of manhole covers, etc.) This was in the '90's. I finished the book, and my reaction was that if this was the best the leading not-Oswald believer could come up with after 30 years, there wasn't much evidence of anybody other than Oswald to be had. The reasoning in Lane's book is pretty bad. E.g. A lot of people around Ruby died before their time, they must have been in on something and killed.
I realize that the fact that Lane couldn't make a good case does not mean there wasn't/isn't a good case to be made, but I have yet to see a convincing one based on solid reasoning. Maybe we'll get a Castro deathbed confession. I'm left with, It was Oswald unless I see a good alternative theory. I got no problem facing the fact that a lone loser can take out the President of the United States.