Someone Must Have Cut The String? by Penn Jones

              VOLUME III DECEMBER 22, 1978
SOMEONE MUST HAVE CUT THE STRING? by Penn Jones
It is with regret that I write this article,
but incidents of recent weeks have convinced
me that Mark Lane is and has been playing a
double roll as an assassination investigator
and an agent for the government of the United
States. On close examination and reflection,
we feel, this ambivalance has existed for many
years.
In 1964, I flew to New York City to hear a
debate staged between Attorney Mel vin Belli,
the attorney who headed the defense team for
Jack Ruby, and Attorney Mark Lane, who had
attempted to represent Lee Harvey Oswald be­fore
the Warren Commission. Belli was warming
into his defense of the Warren Commission when
he said: "If you do not believe the Warren
Commission, then you are condemning the Secret
Service, the Dallas Police, the Dallas Sheriff
..." Lane, who had retreated into the shadows
at the rear of the stage, rushed to the podium
and shouted: "That is exactly my position to­night..."
Fifteen hundred people in attendance roared
their applause, and Lane had buried his gifted
opponent.
I flew back to Midlothian convinced of the
sincerity of Mark Lane. He was my new hero.
It is difficult for me now to tell you that
Mark Lane was acting as the hare for the grey­hounds
at the dog tracks. Many of us have
been duped by his eagerness to be out in front
in these investigations, yet Lane never reaches
a conclusion as to just who is responsible for
the death of our President.
It was years later that a subscriber to TCI
told me that he too was in the audience in The
New York theater that night, but that he felt
unsatisfied. This tenacious young man flew on
to Chicago where Lane and Belli had their next
joint appearance on the Warren Commission Re­port.
And the Punch and Judy show continued on its
way across the land.
In the months to follow, I made joint TV appear­ances
with Lane in New York, and Chicago along
with three or four other guests. I was new to
television, but even then, I felt that much
valuable air time was wasted as Lane continually
bickered with the other guests. By so doing,
he delayed the introduction of much valuable
evidence in the case of President John Kennedy's
assassination.
During a lecture in Sherman, Texas in 1976,
Lane stated from the podium that he had no idea
who was responsible for the assassination of
President Kennedy. My friend, Charles Spears
was present for the Sherman lecture and wrote
Lane about that statement. Lane sent Spears
a mineographed letter stating that if Spears
had any evidence as to who killed President
Kenneldy, he should forward same to Lane immedi­ately.
When I told this story to a friend and attorney,
his reply was: "If you don't yet know who
killed President Kennedy, you are either an
idiot or an agent."
Lane is no idiot.
In 1965, Lane and a film crew showed up in
Dallas for the making of a documentary film,
RUSH TO JUDGMENT. The film was a disaster
financially, as it was shown for only a very
short time.
This young man reported to me that Lane and Bell At my request, ex-deputy sheriff Roger Craig
put on the same show including the exact same came to Dealey Plaza to give Lane some first-accusation,
and Lane again rushed to the front hand statements as an eyewitness to the
of the stage to yell that he in fact did not assassination of the President. Lane dismis-trust
the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Dallas Police, sed Craig as of no consequence. Craig went
etc. etc. h°'"e-