Lane, Mark, 1927-

Biography:

Mark Lane was a state legislator in New York when he was arrested at the airport in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi on 8 June 1961. Lane went on to serve as a defense attorney for both Lee Harvey Oswald, following the assination of John F. Kennedy, as well as James Earl Ray, following his assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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