Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: NY
Document date: 10/21/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/10/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10320-10259

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-409763-138

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

issassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

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MARK LANE

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TO

SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL. FORM.NO. 10

MAY ISOL'EDITION.

5010-108

ASSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GE ERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-409763)

SAC, NEW YORK (100-117844) (P)

MARK

LANE

SM - C

(00 :NY)

DATE: 10/21/64

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINEU

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 4/31/97 BY 5668 SCD/GCL

ReNYairtel, 9/24/64.

On 18/19/64, at 8:00 p.m. at Manhattan Center,

34th St. and ith Ave., New York, NY, the subject appeared

with MELVIN BELLI, former attorney for JACK RUBY, in a

debate entitled "Lee Harvey Oswald - Guilty or Innocent?"

The debate was sponsored by the Citizens' Committee of

Inquiry (CCI).

On 10/20/64, NY 4098-PSI advised that about 4000

people attended this debate, having paid from $1.50 to $5.00

for admission.

LANE and BELLI were each allotted 40 minute

opening statements and a

15 minute rebuttal period.

LANE spoke first. He reiterated points made in

his previous appearances in NYC such as his claim that the

doctors' reports were changed and that the photographs of

OSWALD's rifle were touched up in various magazines.

He made

reference to witnesses that were not called before the Warren

Commission and stated that witnesses were told not to talk

to anyone else.

He commented that the FBI, Secret Service

and Dallas Police Department kept evidence from the public.

BELLI quoted the Warren Commission report which

he stated proved OSWALD was guilty and was the lone assassin.

He refuted some of LANE's points through the facts appearing

in the Warren Commission report. BELLI stated we have to

have faith in the FBI and the Secret Service. He commented

4-Bureau (RM)

REC 4 / 00-402763-138

1-New York

REY: jink

EX- T17

1W DOT 22, 1351

(3)6

Ret fo.

/MOVA, 1964

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