the newsstand, they re in the supermarkets. now according to a recent poll, only one in three americans remains convinced that the warren report has the whole story. when you have a great number of people devoting their lives to looking at every word, every comma, they can create a lot of mischief. i believe very firmly that ruby and oswald knew each other, and certainly tippet and ruby knew each other. before we proceed with that kind of questioning, let me ask you. what kind of conspiracy do you think? was it a communist? left wing or right wing conspiracy? i am convinced that there were two riflemen. the warren commission was set up as you know at the request and urging of the communist party. it s obvious that he was working for somebody else at that moment, and that s could not be anyone else than fidel castro.
confronting each other the liar, the misfit, the defector on the one hand, and seven distinguished americans on the other. and yet exactly here we must be careful that we do not say too much. oswald was never tried for any crime, and perhaps therefore there will forever be questions of substance and detail raised by amateur detectives, professional skeptics and serious students as well. we are the jury, all of us. in america and throughout the world. the reaction to the report initially was very positive, but that didn t last very long. this book is the number one best seller on the nonfiction list in the country rush to judgment by mark lane. it s gained a vast number of readers in the recent groundswell of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. we did not envision the breadth and the scope of the criticism. the author has some highly provocative and controversial things to say. please greet mr. mark lane.
[ applause ] no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not going to be reassured by a commission. we re already having a little disagreement here while the commercials were on. what were you saying, david? well, i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i don t know where to begin. let me show you something just in case we have a chance. that is a picture of jack ruby. this was taken five minutes after the assassination in front of the texas school book depository building. the commission said ruby was not there. this is a picture showing how commission published it. he wasn t there when they published the picture because they cropped him out. you re accusing chief justice warren and that group of notable americans you re accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. your part of the media which prevented the american people from finding out what happened. you are alarming the american people. i say the american public should be alarmed.
as if it s a religious experience to read the warren report. i think to the contrary, you re supposed to have faith in a democracy in our own ability to look at the facts and reach our own conclusions. the decreasing trust by americans in their government all started with the kennedy assassination. by 1966 there s this cultural revolution in the united states. we re deeply enmeshed in vietnam. there s a lot of protests and riots. and there s a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. we ve gone off the rails since november 63, and the warren report is a very important part of that loss of confidence in the government. i don t think that all the facts were brought out. i think something was held back. i think there were more involved anytime than just oswald. i don t know how in the world they could ever reach a conclusion that one person assassinated him. it s ridiculous. i saw the whole thing on television. i just happened to be home at
breadth and the scope of the criticism. the author has some highly provocative and controversial things to say. please greet mr. mark lane. [ applause ] no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not going to be reassured by a commission. we re already having a little disagreement here while the commercials were on. what were you saying, david? well, i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i don t know where to begin. let me show you something just in case we have a chance. that is a picture of jack ruby. this was taken five minutes after the assassination in front of the texas school book depository building. the commission said ruby was not there. this is a picture showing how commission published it. he wasn t there when they published the picture because they cropped him out. you re accusing chief justice warren and that group of notable americans you re accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. your part of the media which preven