Editing Rush to Judgment (section)

===''Rush to Judgment''===
''Rush to Judgment'' became a number one best seller and spent 29 weeks on the ''New York Times'' best-seller list.<ref>name=Hawes Publications | url=http://www.hawes.com/1966/1966-09-11.pdf, p.2 | url=http://www.hawes.com/1967/1967-03-26.pdf</ref> Lane questions, among other things, the Warren Commission conclusion that three shots were fired from the [[Texas School Book Depository]] and focus on the witnesses who had recounted seeing or hearing shots coming from the [[Dealey Plaza#Grassy knoll|grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza]]. Lane questions whether Oswald was guilty of the murder of policeman [[J.D. Tippit]] shortly after the Kennedy murder.  Lane also states that none of the Warren Commission firearm experts were able to duplicate Oswald's shooting feat.<ref>Bugliosi, p. 1005</ref>

According to former [[KGB]] officer [[Vasili Mitrokhin]] in his 1999 book ''[[Mitrokhin Archive|The Sword and the Shield]]'', the KGB helped finance Lane's research on ''Rush to Judgment'' without the author's knowledge.<ref name=Persico>{{cite news|last=Persico|first=Joseph E.|title=Secrets From the Lubyanka: A historian examines an archive of Soviet files smuggled to the West by a former K.G.B. agent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/31/reviews/991031.31persict.html|accessdate=March 31, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 31, 1999|author-link=Joseph E. Persico|location=New York}}</ref> The KGB allegedly used journalist [[Genrikh Borovik]] as a contact and provided Lane with $2,000 for research and travel in 1964.<ref name=Bugliosi>[[Vincent Bugliosi|Bugliosi, Vincent]].  ''Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy''.  2007, Norton, {{ISBN|978-0-393-04525-3}} Pg. 162</ref><ref>Christopher Andrew and [[Vasili Mitrokhin]], ''The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB'', [[Basic Books]], 1999. Excerpted [http://www.jfk-online.com/mitrokhin.html here]. According to the book, Soviet journalists, including KGB agent [[Genrikh Borovik]], met with Mark Lane to encourage him in his research.</ref> Mark Lane called the allegation "an outright lie" and wrote, "Neither the KGB nor any person or organization associated with it ever made any contribution to my work."<ref name="LaneLetter">{{cite news |last1=Holland |first1=Mark |last2=Lane |first2=Mark |date=2 March 2006 |title=November 22, 1963: You Are There. Much mail has come in on the subject of Max Holland's "The JFK Lawyers' Conspiracy" |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/november-22-1963-you-are-there/ |url-status=dead |accessdate=20 August 2017 |work=[[The Nation]]}}</ref>