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Dec. 17, 1963: Mark Lane for the defense

Dec. 17, 1963: Mark Lane for the defense

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Dec 17, 2013
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Mark Lane

On December 17, 1963, a lawyer from New York named Mark Lane wrote to Chief Justice Warren to “respectfully request that your Commission give consideration to the appointment of defense counsel” for the accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. He enclosed an article he had written.

The article was published two days later in the National…

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