The Early Mark Lane

[Michael T. Griffith]

MTG--

Unfortunately, on all sides of the JFKA debates, there are researchers and other characters with shortcomings, and intellectual dishonesty.

Mark Lane cut some corners, and was also a dedicated leftie. In many, many people seeking public office, there seems to be some sort of compulsion to publicity and the limelight, rather than a platform of principled beliefs.

In addition, most researchers have an ideology that underlines their work. The ideology drives the agenda, and the agenda write the narrative.

Unfortunately, we earnest JFKA researchers have to cut through the chaff.

What parts of the Mark Lane narrative of the JFKA hold water?

It might seem odd, but Lane's early JFKA research--i.e., Rush to Judgment--is actually pretty good. Then again, Lane was fully aware that any challenge to the WC would be carefully scrutinized by the commission's defenders, which at the time included most journalists and academics. I would give Rush to Judgment a B overall.

In contrast, Lane's 2012 book Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK contains a lot of erroneous research mixed with some valid research. The parts of the book that are valid are worthwhile and important, but those parts are mixed in with a great deal of dubious material.

When it came to the Vietnam War, Lane was a shameful mouthpiece for Soviet and North Vietnamese propaganda. Like most leftists who berated our noble war effort in Vietnam, he had nothing to say when the North Vietnamese proceeded to execute over 60,000 South Vietnamese and sent 800,000 others to harsh concentration camps after Hanoi won the war (thanks to the betrayal of South Vietnam by the anti-war majority in Congress).

[Royell Storing]

  What sets Holland apart from other eyewitnesses is his elevated viewing position. Holland's "elevated" view is similar to the elevated view of Lee Bowers from inside the 2 story tall railroad tower. BOTH of these eyewitnesses with an elevated view reported seeing a motorcycle rolling UP the Knoll. There's a big difference between seeing/hearing at ground level vs seeing/hearing when looking DOWNWARD from an elevated position. A "high ground" position is always preferable to "ground level", whether it be a military conflict or seats on the 50 yard line.   

[Benjamin Cole]

MTG--

I have posted a video on EF-JFKA 1962 wherein JFK refers to 500 terror attacks, murders etc. a week by communists, against public officials and facilities in SV, then a nation of 13 million.

That would be 11,000 terror attacks every week in the present-day US, for comparison.

The communists mounted a terror campaign in SV, and such campaigns are hellish to defeat. The terrorists can strike anywhere--bus stops, factories, shopping areas, power lines, government offices, public officials, you name it. Then hide.

This goes on today in southern Thailand, facing Muslim terrorists.

Yet to beat the terrorists calls for very intense and sustained efforts that appear brutal. And even decent governments too are made up of men, who have flaws, and sometimes go to excess.

The left-wing is out to lunch on SV, and today on the Middle East.

Then, at the EF-JFKA, there are participants who appear tainted by Putin money.

Besides all that, one of the moderators there is an anti-Semitic crackpot.