On October 7, 1967 Mark Lane came to speak at UCLA. Mark Lane had recently published "Rush to Judgement," a criticizim of the Supreme Court's Warren Commission Report. The Warren Commission Report outlined what the Court believed to be the final and true facts of the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. It credited Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole shooter and did not press the investigation further. No cross examination of Oswald could take place since he was later assassinated by Jack Ruby. What further infuriated Lane was that no critical examination of the Warren Commission Report was allowed by the media. He felt that the freedom of the press had been violated and that the Supreme Court had made an imcomplete judgement that they were now not allowing the media to view.
In Ackerman Grand Ballroom Mark Lane put on a fiery show. His heated arguments concerning the Warren Commission Report split the audience. Some agreed with his claims and others vehemently opposed them. Mark Lane called into question the integrity ofthe United States Judicial System and its institutions. His arguments irritated Professor Wesley Lieberman that Lieberman got on stage and demanded a debate with Lane. Lane responded that he had been invited to speak at the campus and had not come for debate. He further stated that he was entitled to his own opinions and had been invited to share them. Lane also stated that he would be happy to debate Professor Lieberman at a later date, but not at the moment. Lieberman responded in a manner not reported in the Daily Bruin, but Mark Lane sued Lieberman for slander several days later.
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