Did Lee Oswald act alone? The last time we checked on Amazon.com, there were 1,351 books falling under the heading: JFK Assassination Books. Here’s a link to ALL of them.

One of the best may be Mark Lane’s latest: Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK.  Mark Lane is one of the best-known, most outspoken, and most controversial researchers of the JFK assassination.

Lane, a New York lawyer, was elected to the New York Legislature in 1960 – he managed John Kennedy’s presidential campaign in New York.  He has worked for nearly half a century, as a lawyer, investigator, and author to get to the bottom of the JFK assassination, and in this book he puts it all together.  (Here’s a link to an interview of Mark Lane many years ago (1966), by William F. Buckley, a leading conservative of the time.)

Lane’s status has afforded him unprecedented access to very high profile opportunities across the spectrum of the investigation as an unmatched legal voice of dissent. He now squarely accuses the CIA for murdering JFK, and recently, he clearly stated in an interview that he agrees with the charge that the Secret Service systemic failure on the day of the murder indicates that they were somehow complicit in the assassination of JFK.

You may find these words of President Kennedy apropos to this topic.  This is a portion of the speech that President John F. Kennedy gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961.

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know. … For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”