Rush to Judgment
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| Author | Mark Lane |
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| Subject | Assassination of John F. Kennedy |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart & Winston |
Publication date | August 1966 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 478 pp. |
| OCLC | 4215197 |
| LC Class | E842.9 .L3 1966a |
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 is a 1966 book by American defense attorney Mark Lane. He examines the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy—and the murders of Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit and accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald—and takes issue with the investigatory methods and conclusions of the Warren Commission.
Lane's book, along with Inquest by Edward Jay Epstein and The Oswald Affair by Léo Sauvage, was part of the initial wave of mass market hardcovers to challenge the Warren Commission's findings. Rush to Judgment was a fixture on best seller lists for two years, first in hardcover, then in paperback. According to Alex Raksin, the book's success "opened the floodgate" for JFK assassination conspiracy theories.