Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK

After reading this excellent book there can be no doubt in my mind who killed JFK. And it wasn't Lee. Everyone needs to read this book. Great research

Mark Lane is the first guy to really show JFK's hit was a CIA job, the first to have his questions heard around the world. Considering the damage he has done to the official story, it's really most impressive that he is still alive. It's odd how Kennedy's killers silenced by murder a whole bunch of people who probably knew a lot less than Lane did, both reporters and eye witnesses. This is a MUST read for JFK assassination truth seekers, along with Jim Garrison's books, Jim Douglas' JFK Why He Died and Why it Matters, Dr. Mary's Monkey by Ed Haslam, Judith Baker's Me and Lee, Gaeton Fonzi's The Last Investigation and Fletcher Proudy's book on JFK and Vietnam. If you can read this book and all the facts contained therein and stil imagine that Oswald acted alone, then you're either retarded or a stone-cold liar. Only lone nut poseurs like Bugliosi or the CIA's Posner can put it down without learning something worthwhile.

Despite having read Jim Douglass's tremendous study of the JFK assassination, [[ASIN:1439193886 JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters]], I found much of Mark Lane's [[ASIN:1620870703 Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK]] informative, particularly the detailed description of the extremely suspicious (I would even say incriminating) dereliction and misconduct by JFK's Secret Service bodyguards and driver.

My only disappointment with the book is that Mr. Lane does not acknowledge or address the assertion by Judyth Vary Baker, author of [[ASIN:1936296373 Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald]], that Oswald went to Mexico City in late September of 1963 to transport a carcinogenic serum that Baker had prepared for the purpose of assassinating Castro.

Episode eight of Nigel Turner's nine-part documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy, which can be viewed on YouTube, claims that Oswald went to Mexico City to deliver the serum to someone who failed to show up. In that episode, Baker says on screen that Oswald told her that he then tried to connect with his CIA contact in Mexico City--a man Oswald called "Mr. B"--but was informed that Mr. B was in Washington.

The documentary states that Oswald then unsuccessfully tried to obtain a Cuban transit visit. When he returned to Dallas in early October, Oswald's handlers told him that Hurricane Flora had caused so much disruption in Cuba that the assassination plan had been aborted.

Throughout Last Word, Mr. Lane disputes the CIA's claim that Oswald visited Mexico City in late September 1963. It would have been very interesting if Mr. Lane had examined the veracity of the story about Oswald's trip with Baker's carcinogenic serum.

What can one say? Mark Lane was an American hero, and left us with a heroic body of work, forged in the face of powerful opposition, of which this book is the culmination. I'd say Lane should have been given a state funeral but the state he belonged to hasn't existed since at least 1946. Which is when the CIA was born.

A great book.

Beware of reviews that undermine Lane's book by claiming that his footnotes disappear halfway through the book. The CIA has a long history of using journalists—and book reviewers—to do their bidding. In fact, Lane documents his assertions throughout the book, and the evidence he compiles against the CIA is overwhelming. As a lawyer, Lane knows what the word "indictment" means; he knows that an indictment is not a conviction. But an indictment should lead to a trial, and that is what we are still waiting for in the case of the CIA's murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

GOOD BOOK!

Mark Lane is an American Hero in my eyes.

Excellent work from Mark Lane, the first person with the guts to publish a credible explanation of why the cover story for the coup d'état of '63 was a crock. Someone should build a statue for this man. Thank you, Mark!

This is not just a smattering of evidence, this is an entire container ship full. Enough to stand muster in a court of law, like it already has, when... (surprise!, surpise!) a full jury cited CIA involvement in the assassination of JFK during the Hunt trial. I'll say it again--CIA involvement in the assassination of JFK has already been established in an American court of law by a full jury who heard the evidence in this book during E. Howard Hunt's trial!!! Unfortunately, the case was a civil suit involving Hunt, who lost btw, as opposed to putting the CIA on trial. Not really certain you can successfully put them on trial though... I mean, can you? This is no longer conspiracy theory--there is an orgy of evidence that proves otherwise. So why has nothing been done about it? Could it be that the same people (CIA) who suppressed dissent over the Warren Commission's idiotic magical bullet results in the: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, Ot's, Teens--are still doing this today? Last time I checked that branch of Government is still doing business. They're going to be pretty happy when enough key witnesses die (not that they haven't mysteriously died already--seriously read the book). At that point there will be no case. But could you have honestly made a case to begin with? I mean seriously, unless you want a bullet in your head, I don't think you can successfully prosecute and convict the CIA. In the end... you have an American President, murdered by a clandestine portion of our Government. Read this book. If you can accept the facts it lays forth, you can no longer accept the fact that we live in a Democracy.