Interview with Mark Lane: the assassination of JFK
@JohnMMacgregor History 51 min read
This 1992 article on the murder of JFK was offered to several magazines, and it remains the only article I've written that was rejected by everyone. It contains an interview with Mark Lane, and it broke — or would have, had anyone published it — the confession by Jerry Hemming to being one of the mechanics (shooters) who took out Kennedy.
So this is its first publication, 34 years on. I've corrected a half dozen small logical and factual errors, and broken up the sprawling paragraphs.
For many, the assassination remains Shakespearean in its dimensions. The US destroyed governments and leaders, and indeed entire countries, after World War II, and the killing of Kennedy — who threatened to slow the mayhem — was a part of this.
The real tragedy is that the West threw away its chance to prove a global exemplar: to ignite democracy in the developing world and beyond. All for some squalid profits for a small band of people who had too much money in the first place.