[Sample B: Approval/Signature Sheet] - George Mason University

likelihood there does not exist a single American community where reside 12 men or
women, good and true, who presume that Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate
President Kennedy. No more savage comment can be made in reference to the
breakdown of the Anglo-Saxon system of jurisprudence.” 589 Lane outlined some of the
points in the evidence that he would expand upon in Rush to Judgment. His article came
to the attention of Marguerite Oswald and she asked him to represent her son’s interests
before the Warren Commission. It took courage for Lane to take this unpopular stance,
but his critics would allege that he was only interested in making money with his books.
Lane became a lightning rod for criticism. Warren Commission chief counsel J. Lee
Rankin sought to have Lane disbarred. Later, the CIA would circulate a memo on how
officers overseas could rebut the arguments of Lane and other conspiracy theorists.
Lane and many other critics have complained that the news media – in particular
the three major U.S. television networks and leading newspapers such as the Washington
Post and New York Times – have muzzled the Warren Commission critics, refusing to
examine their arguments. Lane like other critics found an avenue to reach the American
public through presentations at universities and especially through talk radio. In the
dedication to a later edition of Rush to Judgment, Lane paid tribute to talk radio for
allowing “the story of the facts surrounding the murder of our leader to reach into every
city, village, and hamlet.” Lane singled out “Ray Breim in Los Angeles,” “Bob Grant in
New York,” and “Larry King, who is everywhere” for carrying the word about the
assassination “from coast to coast, across the nation.” He claimed that “Marconi and the
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