Product Description

Oliver Stone's JFK raised once again the question 'Who killed John F. Kennedy?' Plausible Denial provides the answers. The assassination of Kennedy in 1963 has been shrouded in mystery but now lawyer and bestselling author Mark Lane has collected together explosive new evidence which reveals startling information about the CIA's role in a plot to murder the president.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54179 in Books
• Published on: 1992-03-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

Customer Reviews

The truth?
This book is by far the most thorough that I have read on the Kennedy Assasination. Instead of taking us through the well known ballistic reports, faked photographs, and other areas that have been the focus point of the investigation up to now, Mark Lane takes us through a libel trial that changed history forever. E. Howard Hunt attempted to sue Liberty Lobby for printing an article written by Victor Marchetti implicating Mr Hunt (one of the Watergate burglars, and also said to be one of the 3 tramps in Dallas that day) in the murder of President Kennedy. Mr Hunt lost (at the second attempt) the case and has therefore become the only person other than Lee Harvey Oswald to be involved in the murder of the President. This is a well written, thoughtful, and ground-breaking book by the author who also gave Rush to Judgement to the world, a book acquiting Lee Harvey Oswald. If I could give it 6 stars, I would.

An Important Story Written by one of its Central Characters.
Having shown in Rush to Judgment that there was not enough evidence upon which to convict Lee Harvey Oswald, Lane sets out to show in Plausible Denial that the CIA and in particular E. Howard Hunt - one of the Watergate burglars - were behind the assassination.

The book is based around the little known libel trial in which E. Howard Hunt sought damages from Liberty Lobby as a result of an article published in one of their magazines by Victor Marchetti - author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. Lane - himself a lawyer - represented Liberty Lobby in that case in which the jury found that Howard Hunt was not entitled to damages because the substance of the article - that Hunt was involved in the assassination - was true.

Indeed the evidence provided through depositions of former directors of the CIA, Hunt himself and the star witness Marita Lorenz, does convince the reader that Hunt was indeed involved in the assassination in some form. Lorenz had been Castro's girlfriend until she was recruited by the CIA. She became a CIA agent and claims that she was taken to Dallas by Hunt and Frank Sturgis for the purpose of assassinating JFK.

The trial is hugely significant in historical terms as it is the only time in which a jury has found that any individual has been invovled in the assassination of JFK. This book, written by one of the central characters of the assassination story should be read by any serious student of the assassination.

The best book I have ever read!
The fascinating story of lawyer Mark Lane's attempts to get to the bottom of the JFK assassination.

Obscure publisher Liberty Lobby (a company Lane has no great respect for) publishes an article by ex-CIA 'asset' Victor Marchetti, which implications assorted CIA characters (including Watergate buggers E Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis) in a plot to kill Kennedy. Hunt successfully sues for libel and Liberty Lobby stares bankruptcy and closure in the face - it's apologies were naturally not enough for Hunt.

Liberty Lobby turns to Lane, who built his reputation earlier when he destroyed the Warren Commission's report in a great book 'Rush To Judgement', to fight a last-ditch appeal.

Lane agrees but on one condition... they abandon attempts to suggest the libel was not intentional and return to the best defence against any libel accusation - that the story was true.

Lane gets to cross-examine key witnesses (including a CIA agent sent to Cuba to kill Castro, who inconveniently fell in love with him and stayed) and asked questions not asked publicly before and... sorry to ruin the ending... the jury of Hunt's peers finds in Lane's favour - the story was not libellous because it was true! Liberty Lobby was saved but much more importantly some key pieces in the JFK jigsaw were filled in.

JFK conspiracy theorists will love it... so will any intelligent person.