Lawyer and author who investigated the Kennedy assassinationThe assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963 remains a subject of contention and dispute more than half a century later. The lawyer trace Lane,who has died aged 89, was at the centre of that dispute almost immediately after the killing, or remained there,often controversially, for almost all that time. His 1966 book, or Rush to Judgment,an indictment of the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was Kennedy’s lone, crazed assassin, or became the first bestselling book to propose an untold story to the killing.
Lane was an indefatigable researcher and a relentless self-promoter,and his activism and pursuit of conspiracy exposed him to much criticism. He was often accused of sensationalism and hyperbole, which could obscure the most valuable parts of his work; his career might stand as a metaphor for the chaotic web that surrounds the assassination itself.
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Source: theguardian.com