Марк Лейн (1927 - 2016) - американский юрист, публицист, гражданский активист. В 1960-1962 гг. был депутатом Законодательного собрания штата Нью-Йорк от Демократической партии; в 1968 году баллотировался на пост вице-президента США от Партии мира и свободы (кандидатом в президенты был чернокожий актер-комик Дик Грегори; славная пара получила 47 тысяч голосов). Прославился в 1966 году книгой Rush to Judgment: A Critique of the Warren Commission's Inquiry into the Murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J.D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald, разошедшейся тиражом свыше миллиона экземпляров. Впоследствии Лейн выпустил ещё три книги об убийстве президента Кеннеди: в 1968 г. - A Citizen's Dissent: Mark Lane Replies to the Defenders of the Warren Report, в 1991 - Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?, в 2011 - Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. Как ясно даже из заголовков, Марк Лейн считал, что президент стал жертвой заговора с участием ЦРУ.
Лейн написал также книгу об убийстве Мартина Лютера Кинга (в соавторстве с вышеупомянутым Диком Грегори), выдержавшую два издания. Кинг, по мнению авторов, стал жертвой заговора с участием ФБР.
В 1978 году Марк Лейн был в Джонстауне, в Гайяне, когда там произошло массовое самоубийство членов религиозной секты "Храм народов". Это событие было описано им в книге The Strongest Poison.
В 2012 году Лейн издал свою автобиографию Citizen Lane: Defending our Rights in the Courts, the Capitol, and the Streets.

Mark Lane is an author, lawyer and activist. His was the first voice to publicly question the top secret investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and his bestselling book, Rush to Judgment, was one of the first to question the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. A Citizen's Dissent recounts the vast efforts of our government and the establishment media to suppress his investigation into the assassination of JFK and to silence and destroy him for his work. His later works on the JFK assassination detailed the involvement of the CIA through an actual trial in which Lane cross-examined multiple agents [Plausible Denial] and the role played by the CIA and Secret Service [Last Word]. He crossed the country speaking at countless colleges and other institutions about the murder of the president sparking the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which looked into the assassinations of Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A Freedom Rider while he served in the New York Legislature in 1961, he has defended the rights of the voiceless from his beginnings in East Harlem to Wounded Knee, where he successfully defended the leaders of the American Indian Movement. He freed James Joseph Richardson, a black man framed in rural Florida for the murder of his own seven children, from prison after serving over 20 years, many of them on death row [Arcadia]. He is a survivor of Jonestown [The Strongest Poison] and was a leader of the anti war movement during the Viet Nam era [Chicago Eyewitness; Conversations with Americans], Lane's autobiography, Citizen Lane, was published in 2012.