Mark Lane (author)

Mark Lane (February 24, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an American attorney and former New York state legislator, civil rights activist, and Vietnam war-crimes investigator. 
Lane was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn.
He was best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. He wrote the 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission, "Rush to Judgment" to "The Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK", published in 2011. 
Lane has written at least four major works on the JFK assassination and no fewer than ten books overall.
Lane died of a heart attack at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia on May 10, 2016 at the age of 89.