Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?"

Good for the history books!
I usually do not like to buy these types of serious interview shows, but for historical events, I like to see full interviews from around the time period that it happened. Mark Lane (Moshe Levine) has been a long-time critic of the Warren Commission and William F. Buckley was indeed a CIA contact, so I thought this would be interesting.

I won't go too much into the interview except to say that it is 100% about the JFK assassination and not about anything else. I would have been mad if it were. The quality of the disc was of big concern to me as the last few DVD's (I mainly buy Blu-Ray) I bought were movies that only used a single layer disc. Then I thought, this is only a 1 hour shows so a single layers disc is OK. With that said, the quality is very good and so is that packaging. It is an Amazon manufactured disc, but the quality was great. The only difference in quality between this and a store bought is the blue dye on the bottom. The top side is silk screened so...

The Light and the Shadow
Another "Firing Line" show that I had missed due the exigencies of college, I came to this viewing having a skewed bias against Mark Lane, being the second assassination investigator of my acquaintance. However, this show, will reveal to others similarly biased, that Mark Lane's legwork holds up today. You see him deftly retort Mr. Buckley at every turn, appearing like a bespectacled James Garner with the courtroom chops of Gerry Spence. Despite sparring with Lane courteously and sympathetically at times, Mr. Buckley reveals Mr. Lane's valid competence and uncanny recall of assassination facts to be on sum worth exploration rather than dismissal. One fact alone, the utterance of JFK caught by one trailing secret service agent, " My, God, I've been shot" in the sequence of events, as explained by the bemusedly, pipe-smoking Mr. Lane, lends great substance to his investigative efforts, weighed against the volumes of hidden testimony by the biased, bungling Dallas Police in the service...

Very Informative
This will someday be a good history lesson for the young ones. Not all may agree, but you ought to listen and learn. I was reminded of this event and I love the dialogue between the two. This is something we need more of today.

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