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1 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,002 January, 1961.

2 00:00:59,253 --> 00:01:03,173 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation.

3 00:01:03,424 --> 00:01:08,262 This conjunction of an immense military establishment and arms industry is new...

4 00:01:08,846 --> 00:01:10,848 ...in the American experience.

5 00:01:11,014 --> 00:01:12,599 The total influence...

6 00:01:12,766 --> 00:01:15,437 ...economic, political, even spiritual...

7 00:01:16,271 --> 00:01:20,859 ...is felt in every city, every statehouse, every government office.

8 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:23,695 We must guard against the acquisition...

9 00:01:23,862 --> 00:01:27,699 ...of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought...

10 00:01:27,866 --> 00:01:30,785 ...by the military-industrial complex.

11 00:01:31,036 --> 00:01:33,538 We must never let the weight of this combination...

12 00:01:33,705 --> 00:01:36,624 ...endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

13 00:01:38,126 --> 00:01:39,587 November, 1960.

14 00:01:40,129 --> 00:01:43,215 Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts...

15 00:01:43,382 --> 00:01:46,469 ...wins one of the narrowest election victories in American history...

16 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:51,307 ...over Vice President Richard Nixon by a little more than 100,000 votes.

17 00:01:51,974 --> 00:01:55,895 Alongside his beautiful and elegant wife, Jacqueline Bouvier...

18 00:01:56,062 --> 00:01:59,732 ...Kennedy is the symbol of the new freedom of the 1960s...

19 00:01:59,899 --> 00:02:03,069 ...signifying change and upheaval to the American public.

20 00:02:03,277 --> 00:02:05,072 All men are created equal.

21 00:02:05,322 --> 00:02:08,742 Every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted...

22 00:02:08,909 --> 00:02:10,744 ...to freedom around the world.

23 00:02:10,994 --> 00:02:13,413 Today, the proudest boast is:

24 00:02:13,580 --> 00:02:15,499 "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

25 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:21,338 He inherits a secret war against the communist Castro dictatorship in Cuba...

26 00:02:21,505 --> 00:02:24,925 ...a war run by the CIA and angry Cuban exiles.

27 00:02:25,175 --> 00:02:27,511 Castro is a successful revolutionary...

28 00:02:27,678 --> 00:02:30,681 ...frightening to American business interests in Latin America.

29 00:02:31,182 --> 00:02:34,602 This war culminates in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion...

30 00:02:34,769 --> 00:02:36,688 ...in April, 1961...

31 00:02:37,105 --> 00:02:41,609 ...when Kennedy refuses to provide air cover for the exiled Cuban brigade.

32 00:02:41,776 --> 00:02:45,113 Kennedy takes public responsibility for the failure.

33 00:02:45,321 --> 00:02:48,241 He privately claims the CIA lied to him...

34 00:02:48,283 --> 00:02:52,745 ...and tried to manipulate him into ordering an American invasion of Cuba.

35 00:02:54,455 --> 00:02:56,457 In October, 1962...

36 00:02:56,874 --> 00:02:59,545 ...the world comes to the brink of nuclear war...

37 00:02:59,712 --> 00:03:01,547 ...when Kennedy quarantines Cuba...

38 00:03:01,714 --> 00:03:05,801 ...after announcing the presence of offensive Soviet nuclear missiles...

39 00:03:06,051 --> 00:03:08,053 ...90 miles off American shores.

40 00:03:08,220 --> 00:03:11,390 Soviet ships with more missiles sail towards Cuba...

41 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,809 ...but at the last moment they turn back.

42 00:03:14,059 --> 00:03:16,312 The world breathes with relief.

43 00:03:16,562 --> 00:03:20,733 In Washington, rumors abound that JFK has cut a secret deal...

44 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:22,651 ...with Russian Premier Khrushchev...

45 00:03:22,818 --> 00:03:27,324 ...not to invade Cuba in return for a Russian withdrawal of missiles.

46 00:03:27,741 --> 00:03:31,745 Suspicions abound that Kennedy is soft on communism.

47 00:03:32,412 --> 00:03:36,416 Kennedy also finds himself embroiled in Laos and Vietnam.

48 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:38,668 We've got our difficulties there.

49 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:41,838 Unless a greater effort is made by the government...

50 00:03:42,005 --> 00:03:45,634 ...to win popular support, I don't think the war can be won there.

51 00:03:45,842 --> 00:03:49,680 It's their war. They're the ones who have to win or lose it.

52 00:03:49,847 --> 00:03:51,349 Early that fateful summer...

53 00:03:51,516 --> 00:03:55,102 ...Kennedy speaks of his new vision at the American University.

54 00:03:55,269 --> 00:03:56,771 What kind of peace do I mean?

55 00:03:56,938 --> 00:03:58,773 What kind of peace do we seek?

56 00:03:59,023 --> 00:04:00,608 Not a Pax Americana...

57 00:04:01,025 --> 00:04:04,529 ...enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

58 00:04:04,946 --> 00:04:08,783 We must re-examine our own attitudes towards the Soviet Union.

59 00:04:09,283 --> 00:04:11,452 Our most basic common link...

60 00:04:11,702 --> 00:04:13,788 ...is that we all inhabit...

61 00:04:14,038 --> 00:04:15,541 ...this small planet.

62 00:04:15,874 --> 00:04:17,793 We all breathe the same air.

63 00:04:18,127 --> 00:04:20,546 We all cherish our children's future.

64 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:22,881 And we are all mortal.

65 00:04:33,142 --> 00:04:34,893 You fucking assholes!

66 00:04:42,402 --> 00:04:43,820 They've gone to Dallas.

67 00:04:44,738 --> 00:04:45,739 Friday.

68 00:04:48,408 --> 00:04:50,577 They're going to kill...

69 00:04:50,910 --> 00:04:52,245 ...Kennedy.

70 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:55,749 Call somebody.

71 00:04:56,916 --> 00:04:58,084 Stop them.

72 00:05:01,838 --> 00:05:05,341 These are serious fucking guys.

73 00:05:10,431 --> 00:05:13,768 She's been high on something since they brought her in.

74 00:05:14,018 --> 00:05:16,687 Help! Please!

75 00:07:11,389 --> 00:07:14,476 Here is a bulletin from CBS News.

76 00:07:14,893 --> 00:07:17,521 In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired...

77 00:07:17,604 --> 00:07:20,316 ...at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.

78 00:07:20,733 --> 00:07:23,277 The first reports say that President Kennedy...

79 00:07:23,361 --> 00:07:26,030 ...has been seriously wounded by the shooting.

80 00:07:49,096 --> 00:07:50,514 What's wrong?

81 00:07:52,266 --> 00:07:53,684 The President's been shot.

82 00:07:54,518 --> 00:07:56,520 In Dallas. 5 minutes ago.

83 00:07:56,937 --> 00:07:58,272 Oh, no!

84 00:08:01,024 --> 00:08:02,359 How bad?

85 00:08:02,609 --> 00:08:05,195 No word. They think it's in the head.

86 00:08:13,788 --> 00:08:15,498 Napoleon's has a TV set.

87 00:08:16,458 --> 00:08:21,212 Three bullets were found. Governor Connally also appeared to have been hit.

88 00:08:21,463 --> 00:08:25,967 The President was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, 4 miles away.

89 00:08:26,551 --> 00:08:30,555 We are told the bullet entered the base of the throat and came out the back.

90 00:08:30,722 --> 00:08:32,974 But there is no confirmation.

91 00:08:33,224 --> 00:08:37,480 Blood transfusions are being given. A priest has administered the last rites.

92 00:08:40,316 --> 00:08:42,068 There's still a chance.

93 00:08:43,903 --> 00:08:45,071 Pull through, Jack.

94 00:08:45,237 --> 00:08:46,280 From Dallas...

95 00:08:46,530 --> 00:08:48,532 ...the flash, apparently official:

96 00:08:48,991 --> 00:08:50,785 President Kennedy died...

97 00:08:51,077 --> 00:08:54,497 ...at 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.

98 00:08:54,747 --> 00:08:56,916 2:00 Eastern Standard Time...

99 00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:59,919 ...some 38 minutes ago.

100 00:09:05,092 --> 00:09:07,678 Vice President Johnson has left the hospital.

101 00:09:08,178 --> 00:09:11,765 Presumably he will take the oath of office shortly...

102 00:09:12,099 --> 00:09:16,353 ...and become the 36th President of the United States.

103 00:09:17,020 --> 00:09:21,275 He did so much for this country, for colored people. Why?

104 00:09:25,696 --> 00:09:28,616 Good-bye, you sorry bastard! Die!

105 00:09:29,033 --> 00:09:31,035 Shut the fuck up!

106 00:09:32,036 --> 00:09:34,706 I'm ashamed to be an American today.

107 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:38,376 The President of the United States is dead.

108 00:09:39,043 --> 00:09:43,881 I just talked to Father Oscar Hubert of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

109 00:09:44,382 --> 00:09:46,050 He told me...

110 00:09:46,217 --> 00:09:49,971 ...President Kennedy had been given the last rites.

111 00:09:50,221 --> 00:09:52,557 Shortly after 12:30...

112 00:09:52,890 --> 00:09:56,395 ...near the park in downtown Dallas...

113 00:09:56,687 --> 00:09:58,272 ...the shots rang out.

114 00:09:58,898 --> 00:10:01,066 The President is dead.

115 00:10:02,818 --> 00:10:04,820 The bullets came up over our heads...

116 00:10:05,070 --> 00:10:07,740 ...from that fence up on the knoll.

117 00:10:08,073 --> 00:10:10,576 I seen his face when it hit.

118 00:10:11,827 --> 00:10:15,664 His ear blew off and he turned real white.

119 00:10:18,584 --> 00:10:21,004 He flopped over on his stomach...

120 00:10:23,590 --> 00:10:25,592 ...with his foot sticking out.

121 00:10:28,178 --> 00:10:32,015 None of us thought it could happen in America or any place else.

122 00:10:32,349 --> 00:10:35,602 All this blubbering over that no-count son-of-a-bitch!

123 00:10:35,769 --> 00:10:39,272 They're bawling like they knew the man. Makes me want to puke.

124 00:10:40,524 --> 00:10:43,026 For God's sake, the President was shot.

125 00:10:43,276 --> 00:10:44,945 A bullshit President!

126 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:48,199 Nobody's crying for the thousands of Cubans...

127 00:10:48,991 --> 00:10:52,120 ...that bastard condemned to death and torture at Bay of Pigs.

128 00:10:53,621 --> 00:10:55,790 Goddamn peace treaties!

129 00:10:56,707 --> 00:10:58,459 I heard shots from over there.

130 00:10:59,210 --> 00:11:02,130 - I heard shots from over there. - How many?

131 00:11:02,630 --> 00:11:04,882 That's what happens when you let the niggers vote.

132 00:11:06,384 --> 00:11:09,387 They get together with the Jews and the Catholics...

133 00:11:09,971 --> 00:11:12,306 ...and elect an Irish bleeding heart.

134 00:11:12,557 --> 00:11:14,977 Chief, maybe you had too much to drink.

135 00:11:15,310 --> 00:11:16,645 Bullshit!

136 00:11:16,895 --> 00:11:19,064 Here's to the New Frontier.

137 00:11:19,982 --> 00:11:22,067 Camelot in smithereens.

138 00:11:23,318 --> 00:11:25,070 I'll drink to that.

139 00:11:30,033 --> 00:11:32,870 Dallas police have just announced...

140 00:11:33,078 --> 00:11:37,332 ...they have a suspect in the killing of Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit...

141 00:11:37,499 --> 00:11:41,921 ...who was shot at 1:15 in Oak Cliff, a Dallas suburb.

142 00:11:42,172 --> 00:11:46,176 Police say there could be a tie-in to the President's murder.

143 00:11:46,426 --> 00:11:50,180 The suspect, identified as a Lee Harvey Oswald...

144 00:11:50,346 --> 00:11:53,016 ...was arrested by more than a dozen police officers...

145 00:11:53,183 --> 00:11:56,936 ...after a short scuffle at a movie theater in Oak Cliff.

146 00:11:58,229 --> 00:11:59,898 Officer Tippit was killed...

147 00:12:01,274 --> 00:12:03,777 ...by a revolver which was found on Oswald.

148 00:12:05,696 --> 00:12:07,698 Shoot the bastard!

149 00:12:07,865 --> 00:12:10,701 Give him a medal for shooting Kennedy!

150 00:12:12,870 --> 00:12:14,872 I don't know what I am charged with...

151 00:12:15,289 --> 00:12:17,208 ...but I emphatically deny these charges.

152 00:12:20,044 --> 00:12:23,214 The kid must've gone nuts, right?

153 00:12:24,048 --> 00:12:26,217 I said Oswald must've flipped.

154 00:12:26,550 --> 00:12:27,635 Right?

155 00:12:28,636 --> 00:12:32,140 Just did this crazy thing before anybody could stop him.

156 00:12:32,641 --> 00:12:35,310 I'm going. I've got to get home, chief.

157 00:12:35,477 --> 00:12:37,562 What are you talking about?

158 00:12:38,647 --> 00:12:40,148 Who'd have ever thought...

159 00:12:40,482 --> 00:12:44,987 ...that goofy Oswald kid would pull a stunt like an assassination?

160 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,366 Goes to show you can never know about some people. Am I right, Jack?

161 00:12:49,908 --> 00:12:51,368 Am I right, Jack?

162 00:12:51,827 --> 00:12:53,662 Well, bless my soul.

163 00:12:54,329 --> 00:12:57,667 All these years, I thought you were on my team.

164 00:12:58,334 --> 00:13:00,169 Are you kidding?

165 00:13:00,837 --> 00:13:03,673 I couldn't be more serious, Jack.

166 00:13:03,923 --> 00:13:07,552 Your little red eyes had me wondering about your loyalty.

167 00:13:15,852 --> 00:13:18,021 Look at that, Martin.

168 00:13:21,190 --> 00:13:23,235 Who's been going through my files?

169 00:13:23,611 --> 00:13:26,697 You been looking through my files, you little weasel!

170 00:13:27,698 --> 00:13:30,743 You're starting to get paranoid. Really!

171 00:13:31,869 --> 00:13:33,704 You went through all my files!

172 00:13:34,288 --> 00:13:35,581 You're a goddamn spy!

173 00:13:35,789 --> 00:13:38,375 Why would I want to look through your files?

174 00:13:38,626 --> 00:13:41,420 I've seen enough here this summer to write a book.

175 00:13:41,712 --> 00:13:43,881 I always lock my files!

176 00:13:44,131 --> 00:13:46,091 You're the only one here today.

177 00:13:46,717 --> 00:13:49,429 What do you mean, you bastard?

178 00:13:49,721 --> 00:13:52,057 You're going to write a book?

179 00:13:52,307 --> 00:13:54,100 You know what I mean.

180 00:13:54,392 --> 00:13:57,729 I've seen a lot of strange things here.

181 00:13:58,230 --> 00:13:59,731 Strange people.

182 00:14:08,323 --> 00:14:10,784 You didn't see a goddamn thing!

183 00:14:11,076 --> 00:14:12,452 Not a goddamn thing!

184 00:14:12,828 --> 00:14:15,623 The full name is Lee Harvey Oswald.

185 00:14:16,833 --> 00:14:20,461 - Did you shoot the President? - I didn't shoot anybody.

186 00:14:20,753 --> 00:14:25,424 They have taken me in because I have lived in the Soviet Union.

187 00:14:26,008 --> 00:14:28,094 I'm just a patsy!

188 00:14:28,511 --> 00:14:30,972 He sure looks like a creep.

189 00:14:31,681 --> 00:14:35,643 I protested at that time I was not allowed legal representation...

190 00:14:36,769 --> 00:14:40,314 ...during that very short and sweet hearing.

191 00:14:40,606 --> 00:14:42,151 I really don't know...

192 00:14:42,359 --> 00:14:44,111 ...what this situation is about.

193 00:14:44,278 --> 00:14:47,114 Nobody has told me anything except that I am accused...

194 00:14:47,781 --> 00:14:48,782 ...of murdering a policeman.

195 00:14:49,867 --> 00:14:52,661 I know nothing more than that.

196 00:14:52,870 --> 00:14:55,497 I do request someone to come forward...

197 00:14:55,789 --> 00:14:57,958 ...to give me legal assistance.

198 00:14:58,625 --> 00:15:01,628 Were you ever in the Free Cuba movement or whatever it's called?

199 00:15:01,795 --> 00:15:04,006 Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

200 00:15:04,381 --> 00:15:06,675 Why were you in Russia? What happened to your eyes?

201 00:15:06,884 --> 00:15:09,804 He seems pretty cool for a man under pressure.

202 00:15:09,971 --> 00:15:11,639 A policeman hit me.

203 00:15:11,806 --> 00:15:13,308 He gives me the willies.

204 00:15:13,475 --> 00:15:16,853 Come on, sugarplums, it's past your bedtimes.

205 00:15:17,312 --> 00:15:20,815 Mattie, honey, get a hold of yourself.

206 00:15:24,402 --> 00:15:25,862 A fine man.

207 00:15:27,405 --> 00:15:29,866 After a stint in the Marines...

208 00:15:30,158 --> 00:15:34,372 ...he became fascinated by communism. He is said to be a dedicated Marxist...

209 00:15:34,580 --> 00:15:38,876 ...and a fanatical supporter of Fidel Castro and ultra left-wing causes.

210 00:15:39,168 --> 00:15:42,004 He spent last summer in New Orleans and was arrested...

211 00:15:42,171 --> 00:15:45,591 ...in a brawl with anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

212 00:15:48,344 --> 00:15:51,180 Lou? Sorry to disturb you this late.

213 00:15:51,764 --> 00:15:56,227 Matter of routine. Get on this Oswald connection in New Orleans.

214 00:15:56,519 --> 00:16:01,024 Check out his record. Find any friends or associates from last summer.

215 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:05,195 Let's meet with the investigators day after tomorrow.

216 00:16:05,445 --> 00:16:06,697 On Sunday?

217 00:16:06,863 --> 00:16:08,699 Sunday. 11:00.

218 00:16:09,449 --> 00:16:10,742 Thanks, Lou.

219 00:16:10,951 --> 00:16:14,037 I would say that he is the killer...

220 00:16:14,288 --> 00:16:17,582 ...beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty.

221 00:16:17,958 --> 00:16:21,712 I thought a motorcycle had backfired. I looked to my left.

222 00:16:21,878 --> 00:16:23,880 A second shot hit him in the face.

223 00:16:24,047 --> 00:16:28,845 The rifle, a cheap World War II Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano...

224 00:16:29,137 --> 00:16:31,055 ...was ordered from a Chicago mailing house...

225 00:16:31,723 --> 00:16:35,059 ...and shipped to Oswald's alias, A. Hidell...

226 00:16:35,310 --> 00:16:38,104 ...at a post office box in March of 1963.

227 00:16:38,313 --> 00:16:42,108 This same rifle was used to assassinate the President.

228 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,068 That ties it up.

229 00:16:44,569 --> 00:16:48,281 Another nut. Jesus Christ, anybody can get a rifle in Texas!

230 00:16:48,573 --> 00:16:53,245 As far as Oswald's associates, one name keeps popping up: David Ferrie.

231 00:16:53,495 --> 00:16:56,248 Oswald was seen with him several times last summer.

232 00:16:56,832 --> 00:16:59,919 I know David. Strange character.

233 00:17:00,169 --> 00:17:03,797 He's been in trouble before. He was a hot- shot pilot for Eastern Airlines.

234 00:17:04,006 --> 00:17:06,592 Got canned after an alleged homosexual incident.

235 00:17:06,842 --> 00:17:10,804 These photos were found yesterday among Oswald's possessions...

236 00:17:11,013 --> 00:17:15,267 ...in the garage where Marina Oswald and her children are living.

237 00:17:15,476 --> 00:17:18,813 Somebody mentioned Ferrie on that Texas trip. Find out who.

238 00:17:18,980 --> 00:17:21,650 He no shoot anyone.

239 00:17:22,192 --> 00:17:24,194 He good man. Good husband.

240 00:17:24,861 --> 00:17:28,824 So it seems David Ferrie drove off on Friday afternoon for Texas.

241 00:17:29,115 --> 00:17:32,327 A source said maybe he was a getaway pilot for Oswald.

242 00:17:34,037 --> 00:17:35,497 Hold your horses.

243 00:17:35,705 --> 00:17:37,332 What kind of source?

244 00:17:37,624 --> 00:17:39,668 The anonymous kind, chief.

245 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,797 I remember Ferrie speaking at a meeting of some veterans group...

246 00:17:43,965 --> 00:17:47,009 ...ranting against Castro. Extreme stuff.

247 00:17:48,553 --> 00:17:51,681 They're bringing him out. Numa, turn it up.

248 00:17:52,974 --> 00:17:54,308 Here he comes!

249 00:17:59,856 --> 00:18:01,816 Anything to say in your defense?

250 00:18:02,817 --> 00:18:04,152 Oswald!

251 00:18:05,570 --> 00:18:07,363 He shot him!

252 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:11,160 He shot him on TV!

253 00:18:14,663 --> 00:18:15,831 There's a man with a gun!

254 00:18:18,167 --> 00:18:20,377 70 cops there. What were they doing?

255 00:18:22,421 --> 00:18:26,925 No trial now. Somebody just saved the Dallas DA a pile of work.

256 00:18:32,931 --> 00:18:35,559 Let's get David Ferrie in here anyway.

257 00:18:36,102 --> 00:18:38,897 It's wrong. This is crazy!

258 00:18:52,869 --> 00:18:57,123 Yesterday, in the midst of sorrow, the business of government went on.

259 00:18:57,374 --> 00:19:02,003 The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge, our Ambassador to Vietnam...

260 00:19:02,128 --> 00:19:03,798 ...and members of his Cabinet.

261 00:19:04,131 --> 00:19:06,384 The major subject was Vietnam...

262 00:19:06,550 --> 00:19:09,303 ...a crisis that does not pause for bereavement.

263 00:19:09,470 --> 00:19:10,971 From this meeting...

264 00:19:11,138 --> 00:19:14,892 ...came affirmations that the U.S. would continue aiding...

265 00:19:15,059 --> 00:19:19,897 ...the new government of Vietnam and its war against the communist insurgents.

266 00:19:26,570 --> 00:19:27,989 David Ferrie.

267 00:19:29,574 --> 00:19:31,076 Come on in.

268 00:19:32,327 --> 00:19:33,412 Thanks for coming.

269 00:19:33,829 --> 00:19:37,833 Remember me? We met on Carondelet Street after your election.

270 00:19:38,667 --> 00:19:41,586 I remember. You make quite an impression.

271 00:19:42,254 --> 00:19:45,090 I've heard you're a first-rate pilot.

272 00:19:45,257 --> 00:19:49,177 Legend has it you can get in and out of the smallest field.

273 00:19:49,344 --> 00:19:54,182 I'm a pilot myself. Flew grasshoppers for the field artillery in the war.

274 00:19:54,684 --> 00:19:56,769 Make yourself comfortable.

275 00:19:58,354 --> 00:19:59,856 Mind if I smoke?

276 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:01,524 How could l?

277 00:20:02,775 --> 00:20:06,195 As you know, President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday.

278 00:20:06,362 --> 00:20:10,033 A man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested as a suspect...

279 00:20:10,283 --> 00:20:13,036 ...then murdered yesterday by a man named Jack Ruby.

280 00:20:13,620 --> 00:20:16,456 We've had reports that Oswald spent the summer here...

281 00:20:16,623 --> 00:20:18,708 ...and that you knew Oswald.

282 00:20:19,626 --> 00:20:23,881 I've never met anyone named Oswald. Anybody told you that has to be crazy.

283 00:20:24,131 --> 00:20:28,135 When he was a teenager he served in your Civil Air Patrol unit.

284 00:20:28,302 --> 00:20:30,721 If he did, I don't remember him.

285 00:20:30,971 --> 00:20:32,973 Lots of boys in and out.

286 00:20:33,140 --> 00:20:37,561 Surely you've seen this. Perhaps you knew him under another name?

287 00:20:39,563 --> 00:20:41,899 I never saw him before in my life.

288 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,320 Then we must have gotten mistaken information.

289 00:20:46,571 --> 00:20:48,740 Thanks for straightening it out.

290 00:20:50,659 --> 00:20:52,744 There's one other matter.

291 00:20:55,413 --> 00:20:59,751 We heard you went to Texas shortly after the assassination on Friday.

292 00:20:59,918 --> 00:21:02,003 True. I drove to Houston.

293 00:21:02,170 --> 00:21:04,339 What was so appealing about Houston?

294 00:21:04,589 --> 00:21:08,426 I hadn't been ice-skating lately. Some young friends and l...

295 00:21:08,593 --> 00:21:10,345 ...decided to go skating.

296 00:21:10,512 --> 00:21:13,182 Why the urge to ice-skate in Texas...

297 00:21:13,349 --> 00:21:16,686 ...during one of the worst thunderstorms in recent memory?

298 00:21:19,355 --> 00:21:21,607 Spur of the moment thing.

299 00:21:21,774 --> 00:21:23,526 Storm wasn't bad.

300 00:21:25,027 --> 00:21:26,112 Where did you go?

301 00:21:26,696 --> 00:21:27,697 Houston.

302 00:21:28,698 --> 00:21:31,367 Saturday we drove to Galveston, stayed there.

303 00:21:31,951 --> 00:21:33,453 And Sunday?

304 00:21:34,287 --> 00:21:36,456 In the morning, we went goose hunting.

305 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:38,374 Did you bag any?

306 00:21:39,293 --> 00:21:41,211 The boys got a couple.

307 00:21:41,378 --> 00:21:43,297 Boys said they didn't get any.

308 00:21:46,633 --> 00:21:47,718 They're right.

309 00:21:49,052 --> 00:21:51,972 There were thousands of geese everywhere.

310 00:21:52,973 --> 00:21:55,809 But you couldn't approach them. They're wise.

311 00:21:57,311 --> 00:21:59,980 Your friends said you had no weapons.

312 00:22:00,814 --> 00:22:03,984 Isn't it difficult to hunt geese without a shotgun?

313 00:22:09,157 --> 00:22:11,242 I remember now. I'm sorry.

314 00:22:11,659 --> 00:22:12,994 I got confused.

315 00:22:13,328 --> 00:22:17,665 We got near the geese, then realized we had forgotten our shotguns.

316 00:22:19,084 --> 00:22:20,335 Stupid, right?

317 00:22:20,752 --> 00:22:23,755 So, of course, we didn't get any geese.

318 00:22:24,672 --> 00:22:27,092 Thank you for your time.

319 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:30,095 Sorry this must end inconveniently...

320 00:22:30,261 --> 00:22:33,933 ...but I must detain you for questioning by the FBI.

321 00:22:34,350 --> 00:22:35,935 Why? What's wrong?

322 00:22:36,102 --> 00:22:37,687 Your story is not believable.

323 00:22:39,438 --> 00:22:40,690 Really?

324 00:22:44,110 --> 00:22:45,444 What part?

325 00:23:05,215 --> 00:23:08,552 This afternoon the FBI released David W. Ferrie...

326 00:23:08,844 --> 00:23:10,220 ...of New Orleans.

327 00:23:10,387 --> 00:23:13,890 After extensive questioning and a background check...

328 00:23:14,057 --> 00:23:18,979 ...the Bureau found no evidence that Mr. Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald...

329 00:23:19,313 --> 00:23:23,234 ...or had any connection with the assassination.

330 00:23:23,651 --> 00:23:26,738 The agent in charge would like to make clear...

331 00:23:26,988 --> 00:23:29,407 ...that Ferrie was detained for questioning...

332 00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:32,410 ...by the District Attorney of Orleans Parish.

333 00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:35,580 I thought we were on the same side.

334 00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:37,582 Why are they saying that?

335 00:23:37,749 --> 00:23:40,335 Pretty fast, the way they let him go.

336 00:23:40,835 --> 00:23:43,087 They must know something we don't.

337 00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:46,507 So let's get on with our lives.

338 00:23:47,175 --> 00:23:49,345 We have homegrown crimes to prosecute.

339 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:51,013 The President has announced...

340 00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:55,601 ...the creation of a commission to probe the events in Dallas.

341 00:23:55,851 --> 00:23:59,855 It will be headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren...

342 00:24:00,022 --> 00:24:04,693 ...and is expected to head off several Congressional and Texas inquiries.

343 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:07,947 On the panel are Allen Dulles, ex-chief of the CIA...

344 00:24:08,113 --> 00:24:12,201 ...Representative Gerald Ford, banker John McCloy...

345 00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:20,961 Fucking out of control. All of these hippies running around on drugs.

346 00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:25,298 You can't tell a boy from a girl anymore.

347 00:24:25,465 --> 00:24:30,053 I saw a girl the other day. Pregnant. You could see her whole belly.

348 00:24:30,303 --> 00:24:34,724 You know what she had painted on it? "Love Child."

349 00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:41,232 It's a mess down there, Jim.

350 00:24:41,649 --> 00:24:45,069 We've bitten off more Vietnam than we can chew.

351 00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:48,990 It figures with that polecat Lyndon in the White House.

352 00:24:50,408 --> 00:24:55,079 I sometimes think things have gone downhill since Kennedy died.

353 00:24:55,246 --> 00:24:57,165 Don't get me started on that.

354 00:24:57,331 --> 00:25:01,335 Those Warren Commission fellows were picking gnat shit out of pepper.

355 00:25:01,586 --> 00:25:06,007 Nobody's going to tell me that kid shot like he did from that bookstore.

356 00:25:08,177 --> 00:25:11,680 But the FBI test-fired the rifle to see if it could be done.

357 00:25:11,847 --> 00:25:14,933 Three experts and not one of them could do it.

358 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:19,354 They say that Oswald got off 3 shots with world-class precision...

359 00:25:19,605 --> 00:25:23,442 ...from a manual bolt-action rifle in less than 6 seconds.

360 00:25:23,609 --> 00:25:27,112 According to his Marine buddies, he got Maggie's drawers.

361 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:29,615 That means he wasn't any good.

362 00:25:30,032 --> 00:25:32,785 Average man would be lucky to shoot twice.

363 00:25:32,951 --> 00:25:35,372 And the first would be the best.

364 00:25:35,622 --> 00:25:37,874 Here the third shot's perfect.

365 00:25:38,041 --> 00:25:40,960 And they got that bullet zigzagging all over the place...

366 00:25:41,127 --> 00:25:43,129 ...hitting Kennedy and Connally 7 times.

367 00:25:44,631 --> 00:25:47,801 One pristine bullet? That dog don't hunt.

368 00:25:50,637 --> 00:25:53,807 Something's always bothered me about that from day one.

369 00:25:55,058 --> 00:25:57,560 Think other men were involved?

370 00:25:58,395 --> 00:26:03,150 If I'm investigating the case, I'd round up the world's 100 best riflemen...

371 00:26:03,401 --> 00:26:06,153 ...find out which were in Dallas that day.

372 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,824 You been duck hunting. Oswald's an old-fashioned decoy.

373 00:26:09,991 --> 00:26:13,661 What did he say? "I'm just a patsy." Believe it.

374 00:26:25,006 --> 00:26:27,426 Dinner's just about ready.

375 00:26:28,844 --> 00:26:32,347 Got a surprise for you tonight. Tried something new.

376 00:26:38,854 --> 00:26:40,605 - What? - Dinner.

377 00:26:41,773 --> 00:26:44,192 Smells good. Do you know Oswald...

378 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,696 ...was interrogated for 12 hours after the assassination...

379 00:26:47,863 --> 00:26:51,951 ...with no lawyer present, and nobody recorded a word of it.

380 00:26:53,036 --> 00:26:57,790 I can't believe it. A police captain and a crowd of FBI agents had to know...

381 00:26:57,957 --> 00:27:01,878 ...that with no record what Oswald said is inadmissible in court.

382 00:27:02,045 --> 00:27:04,464 Let's talk at the table. It's getting cold.

383 00:27:04,797 --> 00:27:06,799 What are you doing here?

384 00:27:06,966 --> 00:27:09,218 Daddy said it's okay if I'm quiet.

385 00:27:09,802 --> 00:27:10,803 It is.

386 00:27:11,054 --> 00:27:14,057 If I handled a minor felon that way, it'd be all over the papers.

387 00:27:14,307 --> 00:27:16,142 This is the alleged murderer of the President.

388 00:27:22,983 --> 00:27:26,320 Again and again credible testimony's ignored.

389 00:27:26,737 --> 00:27:31,492 Leads are not followed up, conclusions are selective, no index.

390 00:27:31,825 --> 00:27:35,162 It's the sloppiest investigation I've ever seen.

391 00:27:36,163 --> 00:27:39,583 Dozens of witnesses heard the shots...

392 00:27:39,792 --> 00:27:42,503 ...coming from the grassy knoll in front of Kennedy...

393 00:27:42,670 --> 00:27:45,173 ...not the Book Depository behind him.

394 00:27:45,423 --> 00:27:50,262 But it's broken down and spread around. You read it, but the point is lost.

395 00:27:50,428 --> 00:27:52,264 I never believed it.

396 00:27:52,597 --> 00:27:55,183 I'll do the dishes. You take Eb up.

397 00:27:56,601 --> 00:27:59,020 Elizabeth, your bedtime too!

398 00:27:59,271 --> 00:28:03,441 That was 3 years ago. We've tried to put it out of our minds.

399 00:28:03,608 --> 00:28:05,527 You keep digging it up.

400 00:28:05,777 --> 00:28:07,779 You're the DA of New Orleans.

401 00:28:07,946 --> 00:28:11,284 Isn't the Kennedy assassination a bit out of your domain?

402 00:28:12,034 --> 00:28:14,287 All those important people studied it.

403 00:28:14,454 --> 00:28:19,125 I can't believe a man as intelligent as Earl Warren read those volumes.

404 00:28:20,126 --> 00:28:21,627 Maybe you're right.

405 00:28:22,211 --> 00:28:26,883 You got an hour to solve the case while I get the kids in bed.

406 00:28:27,133 --> 00:28:31,637 Then you're mine. Mr. Kennedy will have to wait until morning.

407 00:28:36,143 --> 00:28:38,812 Look, Dad. Look what I drew.

408 00:28:39,062 --> 00:28:40,814 That's something. What is it?

409 00:28:40,981 --> 00:28:42,733 It's a rhino in a cage.

410 00:28:42,983 --> 00:28:46,487 - Can I stay up another hour? - I don't think so, son.

411 00:28:46,653 --> 00:28:48,989 Pickle and Snapper, my two...

412 00:28:49,573 --> 00:28:50,908 ...dancing partners.

413 00:28:51,075 --> 00:28:53,160 Good night, doodle bugs.

414 00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:55,829 One hour, you hear?

415 00:28:56,246 --> 00:28:58,582 Some Saturday night date you are.

416 00:28:58,832 --> 00:29:03,505 Mama warned me this would happen if I married such a serious man as you.

417 00:29:03,838 --> 00:29:08,259 When I come up, I'll show you how Saturday night got invented.

418 00:29:32,034 --> 00:29:36,539 I sealed off the area and held off the trains till they could be examined.

419 00:29:36,789 --> 00:29:40,543 There were some transients taken on at least one train.

420 00:29:42,128 --> 00:29:46,966 Mr. Bowers, you already talked to us about this matter. Is that correct?

421 00:29:47,508 --> 00:29:48,509 Yes.

422 00:29:48,884 --> 00:29:51,137 Is there anything else you told us...

423 00:29:51,303 --> 00:29:54,308 ...that I haven't asked you about, that you can think of?

424 00:29:55,642 --> 00:29:57,853 Nothing that I can recall.

425 00:29:58,478 --> 00:30:00,063 Witness is excused.

426 00:30:01,857 --> 00:30:03,108 A long freight...

427 00:30:03,317 --> 00:30:06,069 ...was in there and we pulled some people off.

428 00:30:09,906 --> 00:30:11,617 Do you mean some transients?

429 00:30:12,159 --> 00:30:13,410 Tramps and hobos.

430 00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:15,329 Were they questioned?

431 00:30:15,495 --> 00:30:18,081 They were questioned at the station.

432 00:30:18,832 --> 00:30:20,167 Ask the question.

433 00:30:21,336 --> 00:30:24,255 Let's go back to that Amos Evins matter.

434 00:30:25,423 --> 00:30:29,093 Traffic had been cut off into the area since 10:00.

435 00:30:29,260 --> 00:30:32,263 But 3 cars came in during this time.

436 00:30:33,514 --> 00:30:36,851 From around noon till the time of the shooting.

437 00:30:37,185 --> 00:30:39,729 They circled the parking lot and left.

438 00:30:40,188 --> 00:30:42,690 Like they was checking the area.

439 00:30:43,524 --> 00:30:45,276 One of the drivers...

440 00:30:45,443 --> 00:30:47,363 ...was holding something...

441 00:30:47,530 --> 00:30:48,697 ...to his mouth.

442 00:30:50,449 --> 00:30:55,538 The last car came in about 7 to 10 minutes before the shooting.

443 00:30:57,039 --> 00:31:00,209 It was a white Chevrolet, 4-door Impala.

444 00:31:00,626 --> 00:31:02,795 Muddy up to the windows.

445 00:31:04,129 --> 00:31:07,466 Towards the underpass, I saw 2 men...

446 00:31:07,633 --> 00:31:10,553 ...standing behind a picket fence...

447 00:31:10,719 --> 00:31:14,558 ...looking up towards Main and Houston, as the caravan came down.

448 00:31:16,893 --> 00:31:18,728 One of them was middle-aged...

449 00:31:19,312 --> 00:31:20,564 ...heavyset.

450 00:31:21,147 --> 00:31:23,233 The other man was younger.

451 00:31:23,817 --> 00:31:27,154 Two other men were on the east end of the parking lot.

452 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,156 They both had uniforms.

453 00:31:29,573 --> 00:31:31,908 At the time of the shooting...

454 00:31:32,159 --> 00:31:35,162 ...there seemed to be some commotion.

455 00:31:36,913 --> 00:31:39,834 I'm just unable to describe...

456 00:31:40,751 --> 00:31:44,172 ...a flash of light or smoke or something.

457 00:31:44,839 --> 00:31:48,009 It caused me to feel that something out of the ordinary...

458 00:31:48,176 --> 00:31:50,261 ...had occurred on the embankment.

459 00:31:50,428 --> 00:31:51,471 Goddamn.

460 00:32:09,031 --> 00:32:10,032 No!

461 00:32:15,204 --> 00:32:18,123 - You all right? - Honey, it's incredible.

462 00:32:18,624 --> 00:32:19,792 What?

463 00:32:20,209 --> 00:32:21,794 The whole thing.

464 00:32:22,628 --> 00:32:24,797 A Lt. Colonel testifies that...

465 00:32:24,963 --> 00:32:29,218 ...Oswald has a Russian language exam as part of his Marine training...

466 00:32:29,384 --> 00:32:32,472 ...only a few months before he defects to the Soviet Union.

467 00:32:32,639 --> 00:32:34,307 A Russian exam.

468 00:32:34,557 --> 00:32:38,895 It's 4:30 a.m.! I have 5 kids who'll wake up in an hour.

469 00:32:38,978 --> 00:32:43,817 In all my years in the military, I never knew a single man who had a Russian test.

470 00:32:44,818 --> 00:32:46,820 Oswald was a radar operator.

471 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,741 He'd have about as much use for Russian as a cat has for pajamas.

472 00:32:51,908 --> 00:32:54,160 These books have gotten to your mind!

473 00:32:54,327 --> 00:32:57,248 - Stop reading. - They make it sound like nothing.

474 00:32:57,415 --> 00:32:59,667 Oswald tested badly.

475 00:32:59,834 --> 00:33:03,087 He got only two more Russian words right than wrong.

476 00:33:03,337 --> 00:33:07,341 That's like me saying Touchdown here is not very intelligent...

477 00:33:07,466 --> 00:33:11,262 ...because I beat him 3 games out of 5 when we played chess.

478 00:33:11,429 --> 00:33:15,266 Are you going to stay up all night, every night? For what?

479 00:33:15,516 --> 00:33:18,936 To be the only man who's read all 26 volumes of the Warren Report?

480 00:33:19,103 --> 00:33:21,439 Do I have to spell it out for you?

481 00:33:22,273 --> 00:33:24,943 Lee Oswald was no ordinary soldier.

482 00:33:25,944 --> 00:33:28,947 He was in military intelligence. He was trained in Russian.

483 00:33:29,114 --> 00:33:31,366 It was no accident he was in Russia.

484 00:33:31,533 --> 00:33:35,287 - Go back to sleep. - Been sleeping for three years!

485 00:33:53,306 --> 00:33:56,059 Morning boys. Ready for a walking tour?

486 00:33:56,225 --> 00:33:59,812 7:30 Sunday morning? Not exactly fresh blood we're sniffing.

487 00:34:00,063 --> 00:34:02,398 Old stains, but just as telling.

488 00:34:10,114 --> 00:34:12,367 531 Lafayette Street.

489 00:34:12,659 --> 00:34:14,827 Remember whose office this was in '63?

490 00:34:16,247 --> 00:34:18,165 Sure. Guy Banister.

491 00:34:18,832 --> 00:34:21,669 Ex-FBI man. Died a couple of years ago.

492 00:34:24,255 --> 00:34:28,676 Headed the Chicago office. Retired and became a private eye here.

493 00:34:28,842 --> 00:34:32,680 I used to have lunch with him. John Birch Society, Minutemen.

494 00:34:32,930 --> 00:34:34,640 To the right of Attila the Hun.

495 00:34:35,266 --> 00:34:39,687 Recruited students to infiltrate radical organizations on campus.

496 00:34:40,020 --> 00:34:43,024 Headed the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean.

497 00:34:43,441 --> 00:34:45,443 All out of this office.

498 00:34:48,530 --> 00:34:50,615 I want to show you something.

499 00:34:58,790 --> 00:35:00,375 Take a look here.

500 00:35:00,959 --> 00:35:03,044 544 Camp Street.

501 00:35:03,712 --> 00:35:06,047 531 Lafayette Street.

502 00:35:06,298 --> 00:35:08,134 Same building, right?

503 00:35:08,384 --> 00:35:11,637 Different addresses, different entrances, both going...

504 00:35:12,805 --> 00:35:14,807 ...to the same offices upstairs.

505 00:35:15,308 --> 00:35:16,851 Guess who used it?

506 00:35:19,145 --> 00:35:21,147 Lee Harvey Oswald.

507 00:35:22,148 --> 00:35:23,983 How do we know that?

508 00:35:24,317 --> 00:35:26,319 This address was stamped on...

509 00:35:26,569 --> 00:35:31,240 ...pro-Castro leaflets he handed out in the summer of '63 on Canal Street.

510 00:35:31,574 --> 00:35:34,995 The same leaflets they found in his garage in Dallas.

511 00:35:37,915 --> 00:35:42,169 After the arrest, 544 Camp St. never appeared on the pamphlets again.

512 00:35:43,003 --> 00:35:45,923 He was arrested for fighting with anti-Castro Cubans.

513 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,842 But he'd contacted them already...

514 00:35:49,009 --> 00:35:53,430 ...as an ex-Marine trying to join the anti-Castro crusade.

515 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,268 When they heard he was now pro-Castro, they paid him a visit.

516 00:35:58,519 --> 00:35:59,938 What's this Fidel shit?

517 00:36:00,105 --> 00:36:01,689 You lied to me!

518 00:36:02,524 --> 00:36:04,275 Liar! Son-of-a-bitch!

519 00:36:04,442 --> 00:36:06,945 Do not take this communist propaganda!

520 00:36:08,363 --> 00:36:10,031 If you want to hit me, hit me.

521 00:36:10,198 --> 00:36:11,658 You pinko shit!

522 00:36:11,866 --> 00:36:13,451 Go back to Moscow!

523 00:36:13,618 --> 00:36:15,120 It was no real fight.

524 00:36:15,286 --> 00:36:18,957 The arresting lieutenant later said he felt it was a staged incident.

525 00:36:19,874 --> 00:36:22,544 In jail, Oswald has a private session...

526 00:36:22,711 --> 00:36:25,548 ...with Special Agent John Quigley of the FBI.

527 00:36:26,215 --> 00:36:27,717 Oswald is released.

528 00:36:27,883 --> 00:36:30,803 And Quigley destroys his notes from the interview.

529 00:36:31,053 --> 00:36:33,889 The arrest gets Oswald a lot of publicity.

530 00:36:34,056 --> 00:36:36,308 And he appears on a local TV debate.

531 00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:39,228 You are a Communist, are you not?

532 00:36:39,395 --> 00:36:43,065 No, Mr. Bringuier. I am not a Communist.

533 00:36:43,232 --> 00:36:44,650 I'm a Marxist-Leninist.

534 00:36:44,817 --> 00:36:48,237 Communist, Marxist-Leninist, what's the difference?

535 00:36:49,572 --> 00:36:54,494 What if I told you Oswald was trained in the Russian language in the Marines?

536 00:36:54,661 --> 00:36:57,080 I'd say he got intelligence training.

537 00:36:57,247 --> 00:36:59,416 You were a Marine. Who'd run it?

538 00:36:59,583 --> 00:37:01,585 Office of Naval Intelligence.

539 00:37:01,918 --> 00:37:03,920 Look across the street.

540 00:37:04,504 --> 00:37:06,006 Post office.

541 00:37:06,256 --> 00:37:10,677 Upstairs, in 1963, that was the Office of Naval Intelligence.

542 00:37:10,844 --> 00:37:14,598 By coincidence, Banister, before he was FBI, was ONI.

543 00:37:14,765 --> 00:37:16,433 What's their saying?

544 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,603 "Once ONI, Always ONI"

545 00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:21,606 He likes working near his old pals.

546 00:37:24,609 --> 00:37:26,611 We are standing in the heart of...

547 00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:30,198 ...the U.S. government's intelligence community in New Orleans.

548 00:37:30,365 --> 00:37:31,699 FBI.

549 00:37:31,866 --> 00:37:33,159 CIA.

550 00:37:33,368 --> 00:37:35,036 Secret Service.

551 00:37:35,203 --> 00:37:36,287 ONI.

552 00:37:36,454 --> 00:37:39,123 Isn't this a strange place for a...

553 00:37:39,290 --> 00:37:41,626 ...Communist to spend his spare time?

554 00:37:44,547 --> 00:37:46,549 What are you driving at?

555 00:37:49,635 --> 00:37:51,887 We're going back into the case.

556 00:37:52,638 --> 00:37:54,306 The murder of the President.

557 00:37:54,473 --> 00:37:56,809 Lord, wake me. I must be dreaming.

558 00:37:56,976 --> 00:37:59,395 You're awake. I'm deadly serious.

559 00:37:59,562 --> 00:38:03,065 Now, let's track down your anonymous source from 3 years ago.

560 00:38:03,232 --> 00:38:06,235 How'd you find out David Ferrie drove to Texas that day?

561 00:38:06,485 --> 00:38:10,490 I can't remember last night, let alone 3 years ago, boss.

562 00:38:14,828 --> 00:38:17,080 You're not being cross-examined.

563 00:38:17,247 --> 00:38:21,751 I need clarification about the night Guy Banister beat you over the head.

564 00:38:21,918 --> 00:38:24,504 Don't tell me you don't remember.

565 00:38:24,671 --> 00:38:29,509 You called our office from your hospital bed. You were hopping mad about it.

566 00:38:29,926 --> 00:38:31,595 Here's my problem.

567 00:38:32,012 --> 00:38:35,432 You told me you and Guy were good friends for a long time.

568 00:38:35,599 --> 00:38:38,269 - Over 10 years. - And he never hit you before?

569 00:38:38,436 --> 00:38:39,854 Never touched me.

570 00:38:40,438 --> 00:38:42,690 Yet, on November 22, 1963, the day...

571 00:38:42,857 --> 00:38:44,776 ...of the President's murder...

572 00:38:44,942 --> 00:38:47,069 ...the police report says...

573 00:38:47,862 --> 00:38:51,365 ...he pistol-whipped you with a .357 Magnum.

574 00:38:51,616 --> 00:38:54,786 It also says you argued about the phone bill. Look!

575 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,958 Is an argument over a phone bill a believable explanation to you?

576 00:39:03,378 --> 00:39:05,214 There's more to it.

577 00:39:06,381 --> 00:39:07,382 How much more?

578 00:39:08,092 --> 00:39:09,468 I shouldn't talk.

579 00:39:09,593 --> 00:39:12,513 I'd ask Guy. We were friendly. Heart attack?

580 00:39:13,722 --> 00:39:15,224 You buy what you read in the papers.

581 00:39:15,641 --> 00:39:18,644 - You have other information? - I didn't say that!

582 00:39:18,852 --> 00:39:24,024 All I know is he died suddenly. Just before the Warren Report came out.

583 00:39:26,402 --> 00:39:28,405 Why did Guy beat you, Jack?

584 00:39:36,246 --> 00:39:37,747 You were the only one here!

585 00:39:37,914 --> 00:39:39,249 The only one here!

586 00:39:44,087 --> 00:39:46,548 You didn't see a goddamn thing!

587 00:39:47,215 --> 00:39:51,928 Hell, Guy's dead, so it don't matter no more. It was all about those...

588 00:39:52,262 --> 00:39:56,267 ...people that was hanging around the office that summer.

589 00:39:56,767 --> 00:39:59,103 I was never part of the operation.

590 00:39:59,270 --> 00:40:03,065 I just handled their private eye work as it came in for Guy.

591 00:40:03,232 --> 00:40:06,110 Not much did, but that's why I was there.

592 00:40:07,236 --> 00:40:09,447 It was a nut house.

593 00:40:10,114 --> 00:40:14,910 Cubans coming, going. And Christ, they all look the same to me.

594 00:40:15,953 --> 00:40:18,789 You going to play with this rifle or pack it?

595 00:40:19,081 --> 00:40:20,542 David Ferrie.

596 00:40:20,751 --> 00:40:24,129 - You know about him? - We know Dave. Was he there?

597 00:40:24,296 --> 00:40:26,590 He practically lived there.

598 00:40:28,425 --> 00:40:30,636 The whole thing was all...

599 00:40:30,927 --> 00:40:33,138 ...cloak-and-dagger stuff.

600 00:40:33,305 --> 00:40:35,974 They called it Operation Mongoose.

601 00:40:37,267 --> 00:40:41,438 Idea was to train these Cuban exiles for another invasion of Cuba.

602 00:40:42,105 --> 00:40:44,650 Banister's office was part of the supply line...

603 00:40:44,983 --> 00:40:47,779 ...from Dallas through New Orleans to Miami.

604 00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:49,989 We stockpiled arms, explosives.

605 00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:53,243 In view of the intelligence community in Lafayette Square?

606 00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:57,997 Yes. Everybody knew everybody. They were all part of the network.

607 00:40:58,164 --> 00:40:59,999 All worked for the CIA.

608 00:41:00,959 --> 00:41:05,838 Pilots and black operators and civilians and the military.

609 00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:07,799 Everybody was running guns then.

610 00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:12,303 Ft. Jefferson, Bayou Bluff, Morgan City, you name it.

611 00:41:12,846 --> 00:41:16,183 McAllen, Texas? Big gun run operation.

612 00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:21,855 Where does Banister fit in?

613 00:41:22,189 --> 00:41:25,359 He was running his camp north of Lake Pontchartrain.

614 00:41:25,526 --> 00:41:27,528 Ferrie did a lot of the training.

615 00:41:27,695 --> 00:41:32,032 They had a shooting range and tropical territory, like in Cuba.

616 00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:35,160 Americans were trained there too.

617 00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,371 Nazi types. Mercenaries.

618 00:41:38,038 --> 00:41:41,334 That Ferrie, though. Jesus, he was the craziest.

619 00:41:43,003 --> 00:41:47,674 Late summer the party was over. Kennedy didn't want another Bay of Pigs.

620 00:41:49,217 --> 00:41:51,511 He told the FBI, "Shut up the camps."

621 00:41:51,678 --> 00:41:54,014 "Confiscate the napalm, C-4 and all."

622 00:41:54,890 --> 00:41:58,018 The G-men were just going through the motions.

623 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,938 Their hearts were still with their old FBI buddy Banister.

624 00:42:04,692 --> 00:42:06,027 Oswald?

625 00:42:10,573 --> 00:42:12,575 He was there too.

626 00:42:13,242 --> 00:42:16,913 Sometimes meeting with Banister.

627 00:42:18,706 --> 00:42:19,749 With the door shut.

628 00:42:23,336 --> 00:42:26,964 Shootin' the bull with Ferrie, whatever. But he was there, all right.

629 00:42:27,089 --> 00:42:30,384 Anything more specific, Jack? It's important.

630 00:42:34,431 --> 00:42:36,975 One time, the secretary got upset...

631 00:42:37,101 --> 00:42:40,395 I can't believe it, Mr. Banister. Lee Oswald is down on Canal Street...

632 00:42:40,437 --> 00:42:43,398 ...handing out communist leaflets supporting Castro.

633 00:42:48,445 --> 00:42:51,073 It's okay, Delphine. He's with us.

634 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:55,327 Was anyone else involved at...

635 00:42:55,494 --> 00:42:56,871 ...Banister's level?

636 00:42:57,664 --> 00:43:00,041 One guy. I don't know who.

637 00:43:00,667 --> 00:43:02,961 Big. White hair.

638 00:43:03,211 --> 00:43:06,715 I saw him in the office once. He looked out of place.

639 00:43:06,965 --> 00:43:09,426 You know, a society guy.

640 00:43:09,592 --> 00:43:12,429 Don't know his name, but Oswald was with him.

641 00:43:14,222 --> 00:43:18,435 He had to do with money, because Banister never kissed ass...

642 00:43:18,601 --> 00:43:20,562 ...but he kissed his.

643 00:43:27,820 --> 00:43:28,696 Clay something.

644 00:43:28,863 --> 00:43:31,073 That was his name. Clay...

645 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:32,241 ...Bertrand?

646 00:43:32,450 --> 00:43:34,702 - Clay Bertrand? - I don't know.

647 00:43:36,370 --> 00:43:37,872 - Maybe not. - No, that's right.

648 00:43:37,955 --> 00:43:38,873 I must go.

649 00:43:38,998 --> 00:43:42,084 He was in the Warren Report. He got Oswald a lawyer.

650 00:43:42,877 --> 00:43:44,170 Was Kennedy discussed?

651 00:43:44,462 --> 00:43:45,546 I don't know.

652 00:43:46,297 --> 00:43:48,090 The assassination?

653 00:43:48,466 --> 00:43:50,802 - Not with me. I've got to go. - Hold on.

654 00:43:50,927 --> 00:43:53,096 - That's all I'll say. - What's the problem?

655 00:43:57,601 --> 00:43:59,603 Do I have to spell it out for you?

656 00:43:59,811 --> 00:44:02,481 Nobody knows what we're talking about here.

657 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:06,193 Oh, you are so naive.

658 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,041 - When'd you do business with Bertrand? - Pipe the bimbo in red.

659 00:44:22,043 --> 00:44:22,919 Lawdy.

660 00:44:23,086 --> 00:44:24,921 She's not as cute as you.

661 00:44:26,381 --> 00:44:30,677 - You should try a legitimate business. - Why you dance on my head?

662 00:44:30,969 --> 00:44:33,263 - We've been friends since law school. - Because you're conning me.

663 00:44:33,471 --> 00:44:36,641 - I read your testimony. - Grain of salt.

664 00:44:36,808 --> 00:44:40,812 You said Clay Bertrand called you the day after the assassination...

665 00:44:40,979 --> 00:44:43,190 ...and asked you to be Oswald's lawyer.

666 00:44:43,399 --> 00:44:44,400 Right.

667 00:44:44,984 --> 00:44:46,986 That's pretty important.

668 00:44:47,236 --> 00:44:51,824 You told the FBI he's 6'2", then you tell the Commission he's 5'8".

669 00:44:52,116 --> 00:44:54,910 How the hell does a man shrink like that?

670 00:44:55,077 --> 00:44:59,415 They put the heat on me man, like you. I gave them what popped in my cabeza.

671 00:45:00,124 --> 00:45:02,293 Truth is, I never met the dude.

672 00:45:02,501 --> 00:45:06,005 - One likes friends that have friends. - Indeed.

673 00:45:06,130 --> 00:45:09,217 I don't know what that cat looks like or where he's at.

674 00:45:09,509 --> 00:45:12,429 All I know is sometimes he sends me some cases.

675 00:45:12,596 --> 00:45:16,224 One day he calls, talks to me about repping Oswald in Dallas.

676 00:45:16,433 --> 00:45:18,768 You ever speak to Oswald in Dallas?

677 00:45:18,935 --> 00:45:22,856 I told that Bertrand cat right off this ain't my scene.

678 00:45:23,106 --> 00:45:26,776 - I'm a hack. He needs a hot dog. - How did you get in the Commission?

679 00:45:27,944 --> 00:45:30,113 Like I told the Washington boys...

680 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,869 ...Bertrand asked me that summer to help the kid upgrade his Marine discharge.

681 00:45:36,162 --> 00:45:38,164 Mr. Bertrand said he would take care of any of.

682 00:45:38,498 --> 00:45:39,165 Fine.

683 00:45:39,832 --> 00:45:43,961 - To whom am I speaking? - Clay Bertrand. I'll pay what they owe.

684 00:45:44,128 --> 00:45:48,132 There was no conspiracy. If there was, why didn't Bobby Kennedy prosecute?

685 00:45:48,466 --> 00:45:50,551 He was his brother.

686 00:45:51,052 --> 00:45:53,346 How'd so many people keep such a secret?

687 00:45:54,388 --> 00:45:58,184 - It was Oswald. He hated... - We're having communication problem.

688 00:45:58,351 --> 00:46:03,065 I know you know who Clay Bertrand is. Stop eating that crab meat and listen.

689 00:46:03,148 --> 00:46:08,028 I'm aware of our friendship, but I'll call you before the Grand Jury.

690 00:46:08,237 --> 00:46:12,157 You lie to them as you lied to me, I'll charge you with perjury.

691 00:46:12,408 --> 00:46:14,910 I took 9 judges on here in New Orleans.

692 00:46:15,077 --> 00:46:18,247 I beat them all. Am I communicating with you?

693 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,542 Off the record?

694 00:46:23,460 --> 00:46:25,922 In that case, let me sum it up for you.

695 00:46:30,343 --> 00:46:33,096 If I answer that question you keep asking...

696 00:46:33,972 --> 00:46:36,933 ...if I give you the name of the big enchilada...

697 00:46:38,268 --> 00:46:40,103 ...then it's bon voyage, Deano.

698 00:46:40,270 --> 00:46:42,564 Like a bullet in my head, you dig?

699 00:46:43,106 --> 00:46:46,818 You're a mouse fighting a gorilla. JFK's dead as that crab meat.

700 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,988 The government's still breathing.

701 00:46:50,113 --> 00:46:53,743 Either you give the Grand Jury Clay Bertrand's real identity...

702 00:46:53,909 --> 00:46:56,579 ...or your fat behind's going to the slammer.

703 00:46:57,079 --> 00:47:00,750 You as crazy as you mama. It's in the genes.

704 00:47:00,916 --> 00:47:03,461 Do you know what you're getting into?

705 00:47:03,669 --> 00:47:07,631 The government will jump all over your head and go cock-a-doodle-doo.

706 00:47:08,674 --> 00:47:10,384 Good day to you, sir.

707 00:47:15,848 --> 00:47:19,227 District Attorney Garrison to see Prisoner 5388.

708 00:47:19,394 --> 00:47:21,605 Ward block 2378.

709 00:47:35,410 --> 00:47:37,579 We don't need gates with that swamp.

710 00:47:38,038 --> 00:47:40,749 Many of them gone in there, none of them came out.

711 00:47:55,598 --> 00:47:58,768 You got visitors here. Don't give them trouble.

712 00:47:59,102 --> 00:48:02,188 - How you doing, Mr. Broussard? - Let's go, Willie.

713 00:48:14,451 --> 00:48:17,121 Thank you, Mr. O'Keefe, for this time.

714 00:48:17,454 --> 00:48:18,914 I got nothing but time.

715 00:48:19,957 --> 00:48:22,418 Minutes, hours, days. Years of time.

716 00:48:22,751 --> 00:48:27,131 Time stands still here, like a snake sunning itself.

717 00:48:27,631 --> 00:48:28,924 Clay Bertrand?

718 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:34,930 I met him sometime in...

719 00:48:35,139 --> 00:48:38,226 ...June of '62. The Masquerade Bar.

720 00:48:38,476 --> 00:48:41,271 Dave Ferrie took me there expressly to meet him.

721 00:48:42,022 --> 00:48:43,023 Sexual purposes?

722 00:48:44,983 --> 00:48:46,151 Did he pay you?

723 00:48:46,318 --> 00:48:49,821 $20 each time. Ain't no secret. That's what I'm in for.

724 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:51,573 Anything unusual about him...

725 00:48:51,781 --> 00:48:53,742 ...you'd be able to describe in court?

726 00:48:53,950 --> 00:48:56,578 He had something wrong with his leg.

727 00:48:56,828 --> 00:49:00,123 Don't get me wrong. He's not one of those limp wrists.

728 00:49:00,457 --> 00:49:03,294 He's a butch John. Meet him on the street, you'd never snap.

729 00:49:03,503 --> 00:49:08,299 You could play poker with him, go fishing, you'd never snap.

730 00:49:08,841 --> 00:49:11,302 One night we were at David Ferrie's...

731 00:49:11,511 --> 00:49:14,305 ...some time late in the summer of '63.

732 00:49:15,848 --> 00:49:18,476 There was about 9 to 10 people there.

733 00:49:18,810 --> 00:49:23,439 Cuban. Friends who'd done stuff in the bush with him. Place was a mess.

734 00:49:23,606 --> 00:49:26,526 Dave's mind is a mess. He had caged mice...

735 00:49:26,734 --> 00:49:28,612 ...'cause he's working on a cancer cure.

736 00:49:30,989 --> 00:49:34,701 Dave's smart, though. Speaks five languages.

737 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,831 Knows philosophy, medicine, military history, politics.

738 00:49:39,039 --> 00:49:43,335 He wanted to be a priest. They defrocked him 'cause he's queer.

739 00:49:43,460 --> 00:49:46,171 That's where you first met Oswald?

740 00:49:46,338 --> 00:49:49,007 Strange Guy. Dave introduced him as...

741 00:49:49,174 --> 00:49:50,467 ...Leon Oswald.

742 00:49:50,634 --> 00:49:52,136 How you doing?

743 00:49:52,845 --> 00:49:54,639 What the fuck is he doing here?

744 00:49:54,889 --> 00:49:57,225 Fuck you, motherfucker.

745 00:49:58,893 --> 00:50:01,980 Leon's in a bad mood. Don't get excited.

746 00:50:02,689 --> 00:50:05,150 You said Leon was actually Lee Harvey Oswald?

747 00:50:06,359 --> 00:50:08,028 I have no reason to lie to you.

748 00:50:08,361 --> 00:50:10,113 I'm already in jail.

749 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:11,281 Go on.

750 00:50:11,406 --> 00:50:15,035 Finally they left and I was alone with Dave...

751 00:50:15,243 --> 00:50:16,745 ...and this Leon...

752 00:50:16,870 --> 00:50:19,706 ...and two of the Cubans, and this guy Bertrand.

753 00:50:20,750 --> 00:50:23,336 Dave pulled out some clippings.

754 00:50:23,502 --> 00:50:27,048 He'd been obsessed with Castro and Kennedy for months.

755 00:50:27,381 --> 00:50:31,052 Little ass-wipe closed down the camps! Took our C-4!

756 00:50:31,260 --> 00:50:35,181 Took 10,000 rounds! 3,000 pounds of gunpowder!

757 00:50:35,389 --> 00:50:36,307 All our weapons!

758 00:50:38,809 --> 00:50:41,228 You want to free Cuba? Whack out the fucking beard!

759 00:50:41,395 --> 00:50:44,398 Kennedy won't let us. Our hands are empty. How can we?

760 00:50:44,607 --> 00:50:47,527 Problem getting to him. Informers on every block.

761 00:50:47,694 --> 00:50:49,237 They got new stuff!

762 00:50:49,613 --> 00:50:54,201 I could show you dozens of poisons! Put it in his food, he'd die in 3 days.

763 00:50:54,368 --> 00:50:55,702 No trace!

764 00:50:55,869 --> 00:51:00,040 Put something in his beard, make it fall out. He'd look ridiculous...

765 00:51:00,874 --> 00:51:05,712 Fucking Kennedy's doing all kinds of deals with that bastard Khrushchev.

766 00:51:06,129 --> 00:51:07,589 Licking his ass.

767 00:51:09,549 --> 00:51:14,389 An inspired act of God should happen here. Put a Texan in the White House!

768 00:51:15,431 --> 00:51:18,726 The Cubans left. Dave was drunk.

769 00:51:19,894 --> 00:51:21,396 He started in on Kennedy again.

770 00:51:22,355 --> 00:51:25,608 I will kill! In the White House! Stab him in the heart!

771 00:51:26,109 --> 00:51:28,111 Somebody must get rid of him!

772 00:51:29,153 --> 00:51:31,573 You won't get that son-of-a-bitch!

773 00:51:31,739 --> 00:51:35,243 It won't be long. That fucker will get what he deserves.

774 00:51:35,577 --> 00:51:38,414 Blame Castro, the country will want to invade Cuba.

775 00:51:38,581 --> 00:51:40,583 We just need to get him in the open.

776 00:51:42,001 --> 00:51:44,920 Always some harebrained scheme.

777 00:51:48,007 --> 00:51:50,926 Let's have some more champagne, shall we?

778 00:51:51,343 --> 00:51:53,304 The Secret Service? The Cops?

779 00:51:54,013 --> 00:51:57,641 If it's planned right, no problem. They got close to De Gaulle.

780 00:51:57,850 --> 00:51:59,935 Eisenhower rode in open top.

781 00:52:00,185 --> 00:52:03,147 We need 3 mechanics in 3 different locations.

782 00:52:03,647 --> 00:52:05,942 An office building, a power rifle.

783 00:52:06,359 --> 00:52:09,988 Triangulation of cross fire, that's the key. That's the key.

784 00:52:10,614 --> 00:52:13,325 A diversionary shot get the Secret Service looking one way.

785 00:52:13,617 --> 00:52:15,494 Boom! Get the kill shot.

786 00:52:16,369 --> 00:52:18,455 One man has to be sacrificed.

787 00:52:19,664 --> 00:52:22,167 In the commotion, the job gets done.

788 00:52:22,459 --> 00:52:24,169 The others leave the country.

789 00:52:24,628 --> 00:52:29,132 Let's drop this subject. It's one thing to banter with these kids...

790 00:52:29,299 --> 00:52:33,513 ...but this sort of thing could be so easily misunderstood.

791 00:52:34,138 --> 00:52:37,683 I didn't think much about it then. It's just bullshit.

792 00:52:37,892 --> 00:52:40,353 People act more important than they are.

793 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:42,313 Especially in the homosexual underworld.

794 00:52:44,065 --> 00:52:45,858 But when they killed him...

795 00:52:46,234 --> 00:52:47,693 ...l got scared.

796 00:52:47,985 --> 00:52:49,362 Real scared.

797 00:52:49,904 --> 00:52:51,531 That's when I got popped.

798 00:52:51,989 --> 00:52:55,201 The things you said will be attacked by many people.

799 00:52:55,409 --> 00:52:59,540 Bring them on. Bring on their college degrees, I got nothing to hide.

800 00:52:59,706 --> 00:53:01,708 No one can buy me.

801 00:53:02,543 --> 00:53:05,170 - I don't even need this parole. - What parole?

802 00:53:05,671 --> 00:53:10,175 You liberal, you don't know shit. You never been fucked in the ass.

803 00:53:10,551 --> 00:53:14,388 This ain't about justice! No, this is about order!

804 00:53:14,847 --> 00:53:17,224 Who rules? Fascism is coming back.

805 00:53:17,433 --> 00:53:21,895 Nobody wants to buy you. No one's promising you parole.

806 00:53:23,356 --> 00:53:27,569 What I need to know is why are you telling us this.

807 00:53:28,194 --> 00:53:30,530 'Cause that motherfucker Kennedy...

808 00:53:30,697 --> 00:53:33,533 ...stole that motherfucking election, that's why.

809 00:53:33,700 --> 00:53:37,871 Nixon was going to be a great president until Kennedy wrecked this country.

810 00:53:38,038 --> 00:53:41,875 Niggers wanting rights! Why do you think we have all this crime.

811 00:53:42,042 --> 00:53:44,711 He promised those motherfuckers too much!

812 00:53:44,961 --> 00:53:47,881 Revolution's coming, bullshit! Fascism's coming back!

813 00:53:48,048 --> 00:53:52,428 The day that communist son-of-a- bitch died was a great day!

814 00:53:52,595 --> 00:53:54,930 A great day for this country.

815 00:53:55,222 --> 00:53:59,226 I hate to think they blame it on silly fucking Oswald.

816 00:53:59,393 --> 00:54:01,562 Didn't know shit, anyway.

817 00:54:01,729 --> 00:54:05,399 People got to know. People got to know why he was killed.

818 00:54:05,775 --> 00:54:08,444 Because he was a Communist.

819 00:54:09,236 --> 00:54:14,075 You go ahead, put me on the stand, I'll tell the same goddamned story!

820 00:54:14,575 --> 00:54:15,786 Don't matter to me!

821 00:54:17,162 --> 00:54:19,790 All right, Willie. Thanks.

822 00:54:20,332 --> 00:54:21,625 We'll be in touch.

823 00:54:22,084 --> 00:54:23,293 All right.

824 00:54:28,507 --> 00:54:31,426 You know, you're not a bad-looking man.

825 00:54:31,593 --> 00:54:32,803 Not bad at all.

826 00:54:33,428 --> 00:54:36,473 I get out of here, I'll come see you. We can have fun!

827 00:54:37,099 --> 00:54:39,601 Their testimony won't hold up in court.

828 00:54:39,768 --> 00:54:42,814 Their reputations are lower than crocodile piss.

829 00:54:43,106 --> 00:54:44,774 That bothers you?

830 00:54:46,192 --> 00:54:50,780 If a woman's a prostitute, must she also have bad eyesight?

831 00:54:51,781 --> 00:54:54,951 Find Clay Bertrand. Start by checking around the Quarter.

832 00:54:55,118 --> 00:54:57,954 The 6 of us, with almost no budget and in secret...

833 00:54:58,121 --> 00:55:01,124 ...will solve a case the Warren Commission couldn't?

834 00:55:01,291 --> 00:55:04,627 - I didn't pick you for your legal skill. - Thanks, boss.

835 00:55:04,794 --> 00:55:08,799 You're a fighter. I like a man who's not afraid of bad odds.

836 00:55:08,966 --> 00:55:11,844 Mr. Garrison, how are you? Remember me?

837 00:55:12,136 --> 00:55:13,470 You vote for me?

838 00:55:13,637 --> 00:55:17,016 I did. We sang together at the Royal Orleans, remember?

839 00:55:17,224 --> 00:55:18,309 We sang:

840 00:55:18,475 --> 00:55:21,478 'You're the cream in my coffee'

841 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,816 Haven't seen you much lately.

842 00:55:25,983 --> 00:55:30,154 Been too busy. Elected men can't have as much fun as they used to.

843 00:55:30,321 --> 00:55:33,700 It's always nice to see you. Pleasure to serve you always.

844 00:55:35,327 --> 00:55:37,996 How are you? Nice to see you.

845 00:55:38,830 --> 00:55:40,499 Welcome back, Lou.

846 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,670 - Think I could get a martini? - They're waiting for you, sir.

847 00:55:46,713 --> 00:55:48,840 Keep that table open for us.

848 00:55:51,718 --> 00:55:53,553 Anything on the hoboes?

849 00:55:54,012 --> 00:55:57,349 Dallas Times Herald photographer got great shots.

850 00:55:58,183 --> 00:55:59,727 Never published.

851 00:56:01,854 --> 00:56:04,524 Can't say that comes as a surprise.

852 00:56:06,025 --> 00:56:10,696 They took them to the sheriff's and let them go. No record of questioning.

853 00:56:10,863 --> 00:56:13,699 Do they look like the hoboes you remember?

854 00:56:15,034 --> 00:56:16,869 These two look young.

855 00:56:17,036 --> 00:56:20,873 Not a frayed collar or cuff, fresh haircuts and shaves...

856 00:56:21,541 --> 00:56:25,546 ...clean hands, new shoe leather. Who the hell are they then?

857 00:56:28,924 --> 00:56:30,092 Sit down.

858 00:56:32,094 --> 00:56:34,763 This could be it. Let's look for them.

859 00:56:35,889 --> 00:56:40,727 What about the railroad man, Lee Bowers, who saw the men at the picket fence?

860 00:56:41,061 --> 00:56:43,605 Graveyard. Dead. August this year.

861 00:56:44,064 --> 00:56:47,735 Single-car accident on an empty road in Midlothian, Texas.

862 00:56:47,943 --> 00:56:50,946 The doctor said he was in a strange shock when he died.

863 00:56:51,656 --> 00:56:54,242 We need to find more witnesses.

864 00:56:54,409 --> 00:56:56,244 There was Rose Cheramie, a whore.

865 00:56:56,578 --> 00:56:59,956 She said she was a dope runner for Jack Ruby.

866 00:57:00,248 --> 00:57:03,960 And that Ruby knew Oswald for years.

867 00:57:04,252 --> 00:57:07,088 - Can we talk to her? - She dead too.

868 00:57:07,589 --> 00:57:08,923 Hit and run.

869 00:57:13,928 --> 00:57:16,598 Why don't we go to the horse's mouth?

870 00:57:16,806 --> 00:57:21,771 Jack Ruby's been in a Dallas jail cell for 3 years. Maybe he'll crack.

871 00:57:21,937 --> 00:57:26,108 Can't. If I go to him our investigation will hit the front pages.

872 00:57:26,275 --> 00:57:30,488 It'll blow up in our face. Susie, what did you find on Oswald?

873 00:57:30,988 --> 00:57:34,325 Negative on his tax records. Classified.

874 00:57:34,533 --> 00:57:37,161 First time a DA can't get a tax record.

875 00:57:37,828 --> 00:57:42,625 I asked for the CIA files on Oswald that were part of the Warren Report.

876 00:57:43,543 --> 00:57:47,506 About 1200 documents. Can't get one of them.

877 00:57:47,798 --> 00:57:51,468 All classified as secret on the grounds of national security.

878 00:57:51,635 --> 00:57:56,139 I got his grammar school records. It's a study of his pubic hairs.

879 00:57:56,974 --> 00:57:58,642 Lonely kid, no father.

880 00:57:58,809 --> 00:58:01,019 Joins the Marines at 17.

881 00:58:01,186 --> 00:58:04,356 Learns Russian. Acts overtly Marxist.

882 00:58:04,564 --> 00:58:08,151 But he's stationed at a top secret air base in Japan...

883 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,322 ...where U2 spy flights over Russia originate.

884 00:58:11,823 --> 00:58:13,366 He's discharged...

885 00:58:13,575 --> 00:58:17,036 ...supposedly because his mother's sick. Stays home 3 days.

886 00:58:17,203 --> 00:58:22,000 Then, with a $1500 ticket from a $203 bank account, he goes to Moscow.

887 00:58:22,375 --> 00:58:24,544 Mr. Oswald, do you understand...

888 00:58:24,752 --> 00:58:28,172 - ...the action you are about to take? - Yes, I do, sir.

889 00:58:30,758 --> 00:58:32,885 I wish to renounce my citizenship...

890 00:58:33,761 --> 00:58:36,891 ...and become a Soviet citizen.

891 00:58:37,182 --> 00:58:41,395 I'll give them all the information I have on the Marines.

892 00:58:41,770 --> 00:58:44,732 He disappears for 6 weeks, presumably with the KGB.

893 00:58:45,357 --> 00:58:48,027 He's taken to a radio factory in Minsk...

894 00:58:48,194 --> 00:58:51,530 ...where he lives as high on the hog as he ever has.

895 00:58:51,697 --> 00:58:56,410 He's given 5,000 rubles, a roomy apartment with a balcony.

896 00:58:56,619 --> 00:58:58,871 Has affairs with local girls.

897 00:58:59,205 --> 00:59:01,207 Makes sense. He's a spokesman.

898 00:59:03,210 --> 00:59:06,087 But he never does any propaganda for the Russians.

899 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:08,381 He meets Marina.

900 00:59:08,798 --> 00:59:12,219 Her uncle is a colonel in Soviet intelligence.

901 00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:15,931 She thinks he's Russian by his speech.

902 00:59:16,097 --> 00:59:19,100 Six weeks later they marry, have a daughter.

903 00:59:19,267 --> 00:59:23,605 Only explanation for the royal treatment is he gave them radar secrets.

904 00:59:23,813 --> 00:59:25,273 Or fake secrets.

905 00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,108 Six months after he's in Russia.

906 00:59:27,442 --> 00:59:30,905 ...Francis Gary Powers' U2 spy flight goes down...

907 00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,449 ...in Russia. That plane was untouchable.

908 00:59:33,825 --> 00:59:35,785 Powers hinted that Oswald...

909 00:59:35,952 --> 00:59:39,122 ...could've given the Russians enough data to hit it.

910 00:59:39,288 --> 00:59:43,459 As a result, the peace summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower failed.

911 00:59:43,751 --> 00:59:47,839 Perhaps our military didn't want the conference to happen?

912 00:59:49,090 --> 00:59:51,425 Maybe Oswald was part of that!

913 00:59:51,592 --> 00:59:56,098 - Stick to what you can prove in court. - You want facts?

914 00:59:57,683 --> 01:00:00,811 Don't get sidetracked. How'd he get back to the States?

915 01:00:01,103 --> 01:00:03,772 Does he have any problems with Uncle Sam?

916 01:00:03,939 --> 01:00:07,651 No. The State Department issues him a new passport in 48 hours...

917 01:00:07,943 --> 01:00:09,945 ...and loans him travel money.

918 01:00:10,863 --> 01:00:15,325 He's never investigated or charged for revealing classified information.

919 01:00:15,617 --> 01:00:18,328 ...or, as far as we know, debriefed by the CIA.

920 01:00:18,495 --> 01:00:22,625 Bastard should've been prosecuted as a traitor when he got off the boat.

921 01:00:23,460 --> 01:00:25,837 Did Marina have problems getting out?

922 01:00:26,004 --> 01:00:30,675 None, though it's almost impossible to get Russian sweethearts out.

923 01:00:30,967 --> 01:00:35,805 This is a man who defected once already. It's crazy. Ordinary people...

924 01:00:36,014 --> 01:00:38,641 ...get blacklisted for having leftist affiliations.

925 01:00:38,808 --> 01:00:40,351 Doesn't add up.

926 01:00:40,518 --> 01:00:43,980 Next thing, he's living in Dallas-Fort Worth, '62...

927 01:00:44,355 --> 01:00:47,360 ...working 6 months at Jaggars- Chiles-Stovall...

928 01:00:47,526 --> 01:00:51,197 ...a photographic firm that makes maps for the Army.

929 01:00:52,198 --> 01:00:55,868 Oswald becomes chummy with the Dallas White Russian community.

930 01:00:56,035 --> 01:00:58,204 All rabid anti-Communists.

931 01:00:58,371 --> 01:00:59,497 It's odd.

932 01:00:59,538 --> 01:01:03,292 His closest friend is an oil man named George DeMornschild...

933 01:01:04,377 --> 01:01:06,796 ...who's about 35 years older than Oswald...

934 01:01:06,879 --> 01:01:09,465 ...who is only 23 and supposedly broke.

935 01:01:10,383 --> 01:01:13,887 DeMornschild is a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club...

936 01:01:14,721 --> 01:01:18,809 ...speaks 5 languages, and was in French Vichy intelligence during the War.

937 01:01:18,934 --> 01:01:21,728 Also rumored to have been a Nazi sympathizer.

938 01:01:21,833 --> 01:01:24,481 I think you really talk like a redneck.

939 01:01:24,731 --> 01:01:28,026 DeMornschild draws a picture of Oswald as an intellectual...

940 01:01:28,068 --> 01:01:31,947 ...well-read, speaks excellent Russian, a man who adored JFK.

941 01:01:36,535 --> 01:01:39,706 I think he's made some mistakes regarding Cuba.

942 01:01:40,373 --> 01:01:42,792 I think he's doing a pretty good job.

943 01:01:42,917 --> 01:01:44,419 If he succeeds, in my opinion...

944 01:01:44,502 --> 01:01:47,922 ...l think he'd make a great president, and a really handsome one, too.

945 01:01:48,006 --> 01:01:50,883 That's scenery, Susan. Now, don't get sidetracked.

946 01:01:50,967 --> 01:01:53,678 This is the same man that bottom-line nailed Oswald...

947 01:01:53,761 --> 01:01:56,097 ...to the Warren Commission as a potentially violent man...

948 01:01:56,139 --> 01:01:58,099 ...and linked him to the rifle.

949 01:01:58,141 --> 01:02:00,935 In that sense, Castro is an experimenter.

950 01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:05,399 He could go any way with that country.

951 01:02:07,318 --> 01:02:09,361 What you got there?

952 01:02:10,404 --> 01:02:12,781 You have a rifle in there?

953 01:02:13,407 --> 01:02:14,783 Lee, tell me.

954 01:02:16,118 --> 01:02:19,288 What are you shooting at? Rabbits or Fascists?

955 01:02:19,705 --> 01:02:21,081 I, uh, I hunt.

956 01:02:21,624 --> 01:02:23,542 You hunt? Hillbillies.

957 01:02:23,918 --> 01:02:26,879 We don't know if he's CIA. Let's circle him. Very probable.

958 01:02:26,962 --> 01:02:28,172 Call him Oswald's handler.

959 01:02:28,297 --> 01:02:33,011 The Oswalds are introduced to Janet and Bill Williams.

960 01:02:34,930 --> 01:02:39,434 It's through Janet Williams, in October '63, that Lee gets the job...

961 01:02:39,768 --> 01:02:43,438 ...at the warehouse on Elm Street at the Book Depository.

962 01:02:44,731 --> 01:02:49,569 So he can now exercise his intellect, stacking school texts at $1 .25 an hour.

963 01:02:51,571 --> 01:02:54,741 Marina fights with Lee about many things.

964 01:02:56,368 --> 01:02:58,454 His secrecy, their lack of money.

965 01:02:59,455 --> 01:03:02,792 She says that Lee is not sexually adequate.

966 01:03:05,211 --> 01:03:07,296 Lee hits her on several occasions.

967 01:03:08,464 --> 01:03:10,049 At the age of 24...

968 01:03:10,216 --> 01:03:13,678 ...he rents a room in Dallas under the alias of O.H. Lee.

969 01:03:13,803 --> 01:03:17,390 Do you want to watch TV? Are you all right?

970 01:03:17,807 --> 01:03:19,809 No, thank you. I'm fine.

971 01:03:20,768 --> 01:03:24,690 All I know about the Williams is their tax returns are classified.

972 01:03:24,898 --> 01:03:28,402 Bill Williams has links to the CIA through his family...

973 01:03:28,610 --> 01:03:31,238 ...does classified work for Bell Helicopter.

974 01:03:31,405 --> 01:03:36,160 Bill's convenient separation from Janet allows Marina to move into her house...

975 01:03:36,326 --> 01:03:39,163 ...where she suddenly becomes Marina's best friend.

976 01:03:39,329 --> 01:03:42,499 There Marina and Lee have a second daughter.

977 01:03:43,834 --> 01:03:46,795 I have to go away. Just for a short while.

978 01:03:47,004 --> 01:03:49,007 What's wrong with this family?

979 01:03:49,257 --> 01:03:50,800 I love Lee...

980 01:03:51,801 --> 01:03:53,428 ...and I sorry him.

981 01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:55,096 Sorry for him?

982 01:03:56,514 --> 01:03:59,851 When he's arrested, Marina buries him with the public.

983 01:04:00,018 --> 01:04:03,354 She describes him as a psychotic and violent man.

984 01:04:03,521 --> 01:04:05,190 I have too much facts...

985 01:04:05,356 --> 01:04:09,194 ...and facts tell me that Lee shot Kennedy.

986 01:04:09,361 --> 01:04:12,947 After being locked away by the feds for 2 months...

987 01:04:13,114 --> 01:04:15,117 ...and afraid she'd be deported...

988 01:04:15,368 --> 01:04:18,746 ...she was probably suffering from nervous exhaustion.

989 01:04:18,871 --> 01:04:20,956 They taught her how to answer.

990 01:04:21,540 --> 01:04:24,293 When they think she's ready, they buy her dresses...

991 01:04:24,543 --> 01:04:26,545 ...polish her up and wheel her out.

992 01:04:26,837 --> 01:04:30,466 - I'd like to thank the Warren Commission. - Oswald was no angel.

993 01:04:31,550 --> 01:04:33,052 But who was he?

994 01:04:33,219 --> 01:04:35,721 I'm lost. What are we saying?

995 01:04:36,889 --> 01:04:40,852 That when Oswald went to Russia, he was not a real defector.

996 01:04:41,228 --> 01:04:46,066 He was an intelligence agent for our government and remained one till he died.

997 01:04:47,150 --> 01:04:49,987 So because Oswald pulled the trigger...

998 01:04:50,237 --> 01:04:53,156 ...the intelligence community murdered the President?

999 01:04:53,323 --> 01:04:56,785 I'll go you one better. Maybe Oswald...

1000 01:04:56,994 --> 01:04:58,787 ...didn't pull the trigger.

1001 01:04:58,912 --> 01:05:02,582 Nitrate tests indicate he hadn't fired a rifle that day.

1002 01:05:02,874 --> 01:05:06,879 And they didn't bother to see if the rifle'd been fired that day.

1003 01:05:07,005 --> 01:05:10,174 - His palm print was on it. - It went to the FBI.

1004 01:05:10,925 --> 01:05:13,177 FBI didn't find a goddamn thing.

1005 01:05:13,344 --> 01:05:18,182 It comes back a week later and a Dallas policeman suddenly finds a palm print?

1006 01:05:18,725 --> 01:05:22,895 It could've been lifted at the morgue. There's no chain of evidence.

1007 01:05:23,021 --> 01:05:27,191 I can't figure out why he orders a traceable weapon...

1008 01:05:27,525 --> 01:05:31,237 ...to a PO box, when he can go to any store in Texas...

1009 01:05:31,404 --> 01:05:34,783 ...and buy an untraceable rifle under a fake name.

1010 01:05:34,950 --> 01:05:36,952 To frame him, obviously!

1011 01:05:37,286 --> 01:05:39,205 A lot of smoke. And some fire.

1012 01:05:39,371 --> 01:05:40,831 It's our government!

1013 01:05:40,956 --> 01:05:43,292 We're talking about a crime.

1014 01:05:44,043 --> 01:05:46,962 You must think on a different level, like the CIA does.

1015 01:05:47,963 --> 01:05:51,550 We're through the looking glass. White is black.

1016 01:05:53,552 --> 01:05:55,930 And black is white.

1017 01:05:56,055 --> 01:05:59,643 Maybe Oswald is just what he said he was. A patsy.

1018 01:06:06,316 --> 01:06:08,401 Unbelievable. You were here?

1019 01:06:08,568 --> 01:06:11,071 Yes, this is where I was sitting.

1020 01:06:11,488 --> 01:06:15,575 Shots came from near the wooden fence over there...

1021 01:06:16,159 --> 01:06:18,078 ...near the overpass.

1022 01:06:18,245 --> 01:06:22,332 I saw a man run from the fence toward those railroad cars.

1023 01:06:22,499 --> 01:06:25,169 I made it clear to the Warren people.

1024 01:06:25,336 --> 01:06:28,256 One of the shots came from behind that picket fence.

1025 01:06:28,506 --> 01:06:32,677 I heard the report and saw smoke, 6 or 8 feet above the ground.

1026 01:06:32,969 --> 01:06:34,971 Out from under those trees.

1027 01:06:35,096 --> 01:06:37,974 All four of us railroad men...

1028 01:06:38,099 --> 01:06:40,101 ...seen the same thing.

1029 01:06:40,518 --> 01:06:43,604 The smoke came from behind the hedge.

1030 01:06:43,896 --> 01:06:47,859 I was standing next to Mary Moorman, who took the photo when he was killed.

1031 01:06:49,694 --> 01:06:52,197 I stepped down and yelled:

1032 01:06:52,364 --> 01:06:55,701 "Mr. President, look over here!"

1033 01:06:56,910 --> 01:06:58,370 Then shots rang out.

1034 01:07:00,706 --> 01:07:05,544 Mary dropped to the ground, yelling, "They're shooting! Get down!"

1035 01:07:06,795 --> 01:07:08,839 I just stood there watching.

1036 01:07:09,465 --> 01:07:11,467 The driver had stopped.

1037 01:07:12,217 --> 01:07:14,386 I don't know what was wrong with him.

1038 01:07:16,722 --> 01:07:18,850 Out of the corner of my eye...

1039 01:07:19,559 --> 01:07:22,228 ...l saw a flash of light in the bushes.

1040 01:07:22,395 --> 01:07:23,855 And that last shot...

1041 01:07:25,231 --> 01:07:26,566 ...just ripped his head off.

1042 01:07:28,068 --> 01:07:32,238 I look up and saw smoke coming from over there, on the knoll.

1043 01:07:32,405 --> 01:07:34,908 We came around to look for tracks.

1044 01:07:35,241 --> 01:07:38,328 It rained that morning and we found a bunch.

1045 01:07:39,079 --> 01:07:42,916 Cigarette butts. Someone had stood about...here.

1046 01:07:49,090 --> 01:07:50,591 That's a good spot.

1047 01:07:51,676 --> 01:07:53,344 For the head shot.

1048 01:07:54,762 --> 01:07:56,889 Everything was just frozen.

1049 01:07:57,598 --> 01:08:01,894 Like people weren't breathing. Like looking at a picture.

1050 01:08:05,064 --> 01:08:06,774 Except for one man.

1051 01:08:07,441 --> 01:08:12,114 I saw this one man running from the corner of the Book Depository...

1052 01:08:12,364 --> 01:08:13,907 ...to the parking lot.

1053 01:08:14,074 --> 01:08:15,909 It was about 11 a.m.

1054 01:08:16,201 --> 01:08:19,288 I was driving on Elm Street toward the underpass.

1055 01:08:19,913 --> 01:08:21,707 In a blue Valiant.

1056 01:08:22,124 --> 01:08:25,460 I'll never forget that day. There was a lot of traffic...

1057 01:08:25,627 --> 01:08:28,463 ...and I stopped alongside a green pickup truck.

1058 01:08:28,797 --> 01:08:33,093 It was very noticeable because it had one wheel up on the curb.

1059 01:08:33,218 --> 01:08:35,095 When I saw the gun, I thought...

1060 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:40,143 ..."The Secret Service is not very secret."

1061 01:08:40,310 --> 01:08:43,313 The next morning, I went to the FBI office.

1062 01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:45,315 They showed me pictures.

1063 01:08:45,481 --> 01:08:49,569 And I picked out 3 pictures that looked like the truck's driver.

1064 01:08:49,819 --> 01:08:51,321 That's the man.

1065 01:08:51,487 --> 01:08:54,324 You mean you identified Jack Ruby on Saturday?

1066 01:08:54,949 --> 01:08:56,826 The day before he shot Oswald?

1067 01:08:57,118 --> 01:09:00,747 That's right. When I saw him on TV, I was shocked.

1068 01:09:00,955 --> 01:09:04,376 I said to my family, "That's the man I saw in the truck."

1069 01:09:05,669 --> 01:09:08,839 You weren't so sure in your statement to the Commission.

1070 01:09:09,048 --> 01:09:12,176 What about these others? You said one might be him?

1071 01:09:13,177 --> 01:09:16,180 They look a bit like him, but I'm sure this is the man.

1072 01:09:16,597 --> 01:09:18,849 It was him I chased up the grassy knoll.

1073 01:09:21,352 --> 01:09:24,688 I thought maybe our guys had shot back and got one of them.

1074 01:09:25,272 --> 01:09:26,941 I got to the parking lot.

1075 01:09:28,276 --> 01:09:31,530 All I saw were the railroad workers and Dallas' finest.

1076 01:09:32,697 --> 01:09:36,868 - Secret Service. Come with us. - No! Find the shooter!

1077 01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:38,537 I want your pictures.

1078 01:09:39,454 --> 01:09:40,455 Bastard!

1079 01:09:40,622 --> 01:09:42,707 Put a hurt on me, but good.

1080 01:09:43,375 --> 01:09:48,088 They must've seen everything because they knew what we had done all day.

1081 01:09:48,213 --> 01:09:51,383 I wasn't hard to find, wearing that red raincoat.

1082 01:09:51,550 --> 01:09:55,179 - How many shots did you hear? - Four to six.

1083 01:09:55,304 --> 01:09:56,222 Impossible!

1084 01:09:57,723 --> 01:09:59,559 You heard echoes!

1085 01:10:01,394 --> 01:10:04,689 We have 3 bullets and 3 shots that came from the Book Depository.

1086 01:10:05,106 --> 01:10:08,192 - That's all we'll say. - No, sir.

1087 01:10:08,317 --> 01:10:13,197 I saw a man shooting from behind that fence. What are you going to do?

1088 01:10:13,406 --> 01:10:16,492 - You go out there and get him! - That's taken care of!

1089 01:10:16,659 --> 01:10:20,247 You only heard 3 shots, and don't discuss this with anyone.

1090 01:10:20,914 --> 01:10:22,416 No one. Understand?

1091 01:10:22,666 --> 01:10:25,919 Which is strange. It's only 20 minutes after the assassination.

1092 01:10:26,128 --> 01:10:27,379 Get her out of here.

1093 01:10:27,588 --> 01:10:30,924 I knew something was crooked as a dog's hind leg.

1094 01:10:31,675 --> 01:10:35,053 When I read my testimony in the Warren Report...

1095 01:10:35,345 --> 01:10:37,598 ...it was a total fabrication.

1096 01:10:37,848 --> 01:10:42,603 That's what bothers me, Mr. Garrison. They've altered my statements.

1097 01:10:43,145 --> 01:10:44,688 This one says:

1098 01:10:44,855 --> 01:10:49,611 "Mercer couldn't identify any photograph as being the man she observed...

1099 01:10:49,778 --> 01:10:52,781 ...slouched over the wheel of the green truck." Not true.

1100 01:10:52,947 --> 01:10:56,076 I recognized him and I told them so.

1101 01:10:56,368 --> 01:10:57,702 Take your time.

1102 01:10:57,869 --> 01:10:58,953 I'm sure.

1103 01:10:59,162 --> 01:11:00,872 And the sheriff's report...

1104 01:11:01,247 --> 01:11:03,375 This is really strange.

1105 01:11:03,541 --> 01:11:06,127 See that notarized signature?

1106 01:11:06,294 --> 01:11:07,962 That's not mine.

1107 01:11:08,171 --> 01:11:11,966 There wasn't any notary present during my questioning.

1108 01:11:13,260 --> 01:11:15,888 Mrs. Mercer, as a former FBI man...

1109 01:11:17,556 --> 01:11:19,809 ...it's difficult to accept this.

1110 01:11:20,309 --> 01:11:23,562 Beverly, tell Mr. Garrison about the Carousel Club.

1111 01:11:30,131 --> 01:11:34,637 I used to go there to see Jack and my friend, Jatta, who danced there.

1112 01:11:34,804 --> 01:11:37,306 It was a real swinging spot in town.

1113 01:11:37,473 --> 01:11:38,808 Everybody came.

1114 01:11:39,058 --> 01:11:42,645 Businessmen. Politicians from Austin. L.B.J.'s friends.

1115 01:11:42,979 --> 01:11:45,148 Dallas was a slowpokin' town then.

1116 01:11:45,314 --> 01:11:48,901 You chewed toothpicks, played dominoes, spit, dated policemen.

1117 01:11:49,068 --> 01:11:52,613 But Jack was exciting. There were always cops there.

1118 01:11:52,822 --> 01:11:56,784 Jack liked them around. But he threw out the drunks himself.

1119 01:11:57,076 --> 01:11:58,828 He had a violent temper.

1120 01:12:00,247 --> 01:12:03,625 Everyone in those days knew Jack was in the mob.

1121 01:12:04,251 --> 01:12:06,837 Cops back then, they were bad.

1122 01:12:07,004 --> 01:12:09,715 They'd shake you down for the money in your pocket.

1123 01:12:12,342 --> 01:12:14,178 What about Lee?

1124 01:12:15,262 --> 01:12:16,847 One time I came in.

1125 01:12:17,014 --> 01:12:21,852 Jack introduced me to 2 guys. He says, "This is my friend, Lee Oswald."

1126 01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:26,191 I don't remember the other guy's name.

1127 01:12:26,357 --> 01:12:29,861 But he was a weird-looking guy. He had these eyebrows.

1128 01:12:30,362 --> 01:12:32,655 And he looked like a buzzard.

1129 01:12:34,741 --> 01:12:37,285 Lee didn't make much of an impression.

1130 01:12:38,286 --> 01:12:40,372 He wasn't very handsome.

1131 01:12:40,663 --> 01:12:44,042 He didn't look like he had any money, and he was in a bad mood.

1132 01:12:44,292 --> 01:12:46,878 So I didn't pay him much mind.

1133 01:12:48,296 --> 01:12:52,301 I may not remember a name, but I always remember a face.

1134 01:12:53,302 --> 01:12:55,471 Later, I saw him on television.

1135 01:12:57,139 --> 01:12:59,725 I screamed, "My God, that's him!"

1136 01:13:00,059 --> 01:13:01,977 "That's Jack's friend!"

1137 01:13:03,312 --> 01:13:05,314 Will you testify, Beverly?

1138 01:13:07,900 --> 01:13:11,070 - I don't think so. - I thought we had an agreement.

1139 01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:18,704 - I don't want to be another statistic. - We could call you in.

1140 01:13:18,912 --> 01:13:23,000 If they can kill the President of the United States...

1141 01:13:23,917 --> 01:13:28,338 ...you think they'll think twice about a two-bit show girl like me?

1142 01:13:33,802 --> 01:13:36,179 I understand the pressure you're under.

1143 01:13:36,888 --> 01:13:38,890 Don't think that I don't.

1144 01:13:39,933 --> 01:13:41,435 We both do.

1145 01:13:47,609 --> 01:13:52,530 Mr. Chief Justice, do you understand that I can't tell the truth in Dallas?

1146 01:13:53,948 --> 01:13:57,035 There are people here who do not want me to tell the truth.

1147 01:13:57,452 --> 01:13:59,621 Who don't want me to have a retrial.

1148 01:14:00,204 --> 01:14:02,457 Why don't you just tell us now?

1149 01:14:02,790 --> 01:14:04,459 My life is in danger!

1150 01:14:04,792 --> 01:14:07,462 If you request that I go to Washington...

1151 01:14:07,629 --> 01:14:10,633 That is, if you want to hear further testimony from me.

1152 01:14:10,883 --> 01:14:12,468 Can you take me with you?

1153 01:14:12,635 --> 01:14:14,470 No. It can't be done.

1154 01:14:14,970 --> 01:14:17,139 There would be no safe place for you.

1155 01:14:17,306 --> 01:14:20,309 We're not law enforcement officers.

1156 01:14:20,643 --> 01:14:24,313 There's a great deal at stake in this matter.

1157 01:14:24,980 --> 01:14:26,815 If I'm eliminated...

1158 01:14:27,149 --> 01:14:31,987 ...there won't be any way of knowing any bit of truth pertaining to my situation.

1159 01:14:33,322 --> 01:14:37,828 Consequently, a whole new form of government will take over.

1160 01:14:39,162 --> 01:14:42,415 And I won't live to see you some other time.

1161 01:14:42,833 --> 01:14:44,501 I want to tell the truth.

1162 01:14:44,668 --> 01:14:45,836 And then...

1163 01:14:46,002 --> 01:14:47,671 ...leave this world.

1164 01:14:50,006 --> 01:14:53,510 The Zapruder film establishes 3 shots in 5.6 seconds.

1165 01:14:56,930 --> 01:14:58,265 I'm Oswald.

1166 01:14:59,266 --> 01:15:00,600 Time me.

1167 01:15:01,685 --> 01:15:02,770 Go.

1168 01:15:08,276 --> 01:15:09,277 Time?

1169 01:15:09,444 --> 01:15:10,945 Between 6 and 7 seconds.

1170 01:15:11,112 --> 01:15:12,613 Without really aiming.

1171 01:15:12,864 --> 01:15:16,701 The 2nd and 3rd shots came almost right on top of each other.

1172 01:15:17,034 --> 01:15:19,036 It takes a minimum of...

1173 01:15:19,203 --> 01:15:22,123 ...2.3 seconds to recycle this thing.

1174 01:15:22,290 --> 01:15:24,625 The other problem is, there was a tree...

1175 01:15:25,042 --> 01:15:29,131 ...blocking the first 2 shots when fired in the Zapruder film.

1176 01:15:29,798 --> 01:15:33,469 Didn't Hoover say something about leaves falling in November?

1177 01:15:33,635 --> 01:15:35,971 It was Texas live oak, chief.

1178 01:15:36,388 --> 01:15:39,141 It sheds its leaves in early March.

1179 01:15:39,391 --> 01:15:42,811 Take this Carcano, world's worst shoulder weapon...

1180 01:15:43,061 --> 01:15:47,858 ...and try to hit a moving target at 88 yards through heavy foliage.

1181 01:15:48,233 --> 01:15:49,568 No way.

1182 01:15:52,404 --> 01:15:54,657 FBI tried two sets of tests.

1183 01:15:54,824 --> 01:15:58,161 Not one sharpshooter could match Oswald's performance.

1184 01:15:58,328 --> 01:15:59,662 Not one.

1185 01:15:59,829 --> 01:16:02,499 Oswald was at best a medium shot.

1186 01:16:02,832 --> 01:16:05,168 The scope was defective on it too.

1187 01:16:05,418 --> 01:16:08,338 This is the whole essence of the case to me.

1188 01:16:08,588 --> 01:16:11,174 The guy couldn't do the shooting.

1189 01:16:11,591 --> 01:16:12,926 Nobody could.

1190 01:16:13,176 --> 01:16:14,677 They sold this lemon to the American public.

1191 01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,768 The Zapruder film was the proof they didn't count on.

1192 01:16:21,602 --> 01:16:23,437 We must get hold of it.

1193 01:16:24,772 --> 01:16:28,275 It means we'll have to subpoena Time-Life.

1194 01:16:29,026 --> 01:16:30,778 Let me ask you something.

1195 01:16:31,070 --> 01:16:33,322 Why not just shoot Kennedy on Houston?

1196 01:16:33,864 --> 01:16:35,533 Plenty of time.

1197 01:16:36,701 --> 01:16:39,704 - He's out in the open. - I keep asking myself the same thing.

1198 01:16:39,870 --> 01:16:41,914 - Frontal shot. - Even if you miss him once...

1199 01:16:42,707 --> 01:16:45,292 ...if he accelerates, you get a second shot.

1200 01:16:45,459 --> 01:16:47,379 The only reason to get him on Elm...

1201 01:16:47,629 --> 01:16:50,966 ...is you got him in a triangulated cross fire.

1202 01:16:51,550 --> 01:16:54,303 You put a team there down at the fence.

1203 01:16:54,469 --> 01:16:57,306 Frontal shot. Flat, low trajectory.

1204 01:16:57,639 --> 01:17:00,475 Put a third team down in this building...

1205 01:17:00,642 --> 01:17:02,227 ...on a low floor.

1206 01:17:02,561 --> 01:17:05,480 Kennedy's in the kill zone. It's a turkey shoot.

1207 01:17:08,567 --> 01:17:09,985 How many men?

1208 01:17:11,737 --> 01:17:15,658 One shooter. One spotter on a radio. Maybe three teams.

1209 01:17:17,994 --> 01:17:21,581 These are professional riflemen. Serious people.

1210 01:17:22,415 --> 01:17:23,583 Hunters.

1211 01:17:25,501 --> 01:17:26,836 Patient.

1212 01:17:28,755 --> 01:17:30,673 It takes skill to kill with a rifle.

1213 01:17:33,927 --> 01:17:38,766 That's why no chief executive's been executed with one in 200 years.

1214 01:17:42,186 --> 01:17:42,853 Three...

1215 01:17:44,355 --> 01:17:45,064 ...two...

1216 01:17:46,941 --> 01:17:47,691 ...one.

1217 01:17:58,035 --> 01:18:00,037 Main Street's over there.

1218 01:18:00,871 --> 01:18:04,375 The original parade route on the way to the trade mart...

1219 01:18:04,417 --> 01:18:06,044 ...is too far, right?

1220 01:18:07,087 --> 01:18:10,340 Impossible shot, so they change the parade route.

1221 01:18:11,216 --> 01:18:12,551 Bring him down here.

1222 01:18:12,592 --> 01:18:14,344 Moving a normal 25 miles per hour...

1223 01:18:14,427 --> 01:18:16,137 ...they knew the motorcade would have to slow down...

1224 01:18:16,221 --> 01:18:19,432 ...to about 10 miles per hour to make that turn there...

1225 01:18:19,516 --> 01:18:21,768 ...and that's where they got him.

1226 01:18:28,316 --> 01:18:30,778 Who do you think changed the parade route, Lou?

1227 01:18:30,882 --> 01:18:34,449 Beats me. Secret Service, city officials, Dallas Police.

1228 01:18:34,615 --> 01:18:36,576 You know who the mayor was at the time?

1229 01:18:36,617 --> 01:18:37,869 Roy Cabell.

1230 01:18:38,411 --> 01:18:39,787 Guess who his brother is.

1231 01:18:39,829 --> 01:18:40,746 Who?

1232 01:18:41,456 --> 01:18:42,790 General Charles Cabell.

1233 01:18:42,832 --> 01:18:43,624 Who?

1234 01:18:43,708 --> 01:18:45,418 Deputy Director of the CIA

1235 01:18:45,460 --> 01:18:49,297 Kennedy fired him in '61 because of the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

1236 01:18:49,964 --> 01:18:53,384 Moved back to the Pentagon, called Kennedy a traitor.

1237 01:18:53,468 --> 01:18:55,178 When he came to New Orleans...

1238 01:18:55,219 --> 01:18:56,638 ...to address the Foreign Policy Association...

1239 01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:58,432 ...you know who introduced him?

1240 01:18:58,515 --> 01:18:59,183 Who?

1241 01:19:00,017 --> 01:19:01,685 Our friend, Clay Shaw.

1242 01:19:01,727 --> 01:19:03,604 Didn't the Warren Commission call him?

1243 01:19:03,645 --> 01:19:05,731 His boss was the one on the Warren Commission...

1244 01:19:05,814 --> 01:19:07,983 ...who handled all the leads in the intelligence community.

1245 01:19:08,067 --> 01:19:09,234 Allen Dulles?

1246 01:19:09,318 --> 01:19:11,487 Head of the CIA since '53.

1247 01:19:12,154 --> 01:19:14,156 Kennedy fired them both.

1248 01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,743 Cabell was a deputy for nine years.

1249 01:19:19,244 --> 01:19:22,539 Talk about the fox investigating the chicken coop.

1250 01:19:23,792 --> 01:19:26,044 Now, we'll have to subpoena them both.

1251 01:19:38,181 --> 01:19:40,809 Clay Bertrand? Sure, I know him.

1252 01:19:41,101 --> 01:19:42,560 Comes to the Quarter.

1253 01:19:42,727 --> 01:19:46,898 Who is he? I've been to all the bars. Nobody wants to talk.

1254 01:19:47,857 --> 01:19:49,902 Why should they talk to you?

1255 01:19:51,028 --> 01:19:55,157 I told your uncle, I never met a lawman who wasn't a punk.

1256 01:19:58,744 --> 01:20:01,831 A big shot businessman. I seen him on the TV news...

1257 01:20:02,123 --> 01:20:04,375 ...with all the other big shots.

1258 01:20:04,542 --> 01:20:06,752 The guy's a fag, you know?

1259 01:20:07,044 --> 01:20:08,671 Goes by another name.

1260 01:20:08,879 --> 01:20:10,256 What name?

1261 01:20:10,923 --> 01:20:12,049 Shaw.

1262 01:20:12,216 --> 01:20:13,676 Clay Shaw.

1263 01:20:14,051 --> 01:20:15,595 Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw?

1264 01:20:16,722 --> 01:20:18,765 Ran the International Trade Mart?

1265 01:20:19,599 --> 01:20:22,936 What's the mystery? Everybody down here knows him.

1266 01:20:24,146 --> 01:20:26,606 Then why does he call himself Bertrand?

1267 01:20:26,940 --> 01:20:29,610 Who gives a shit what he calls himself?

1268 01:20:29,901 --> 01:20:33,697 Will you give us a little help on that Grand Jury thing?

1269 01:20:33,905 --> 01:20:36,283 I hope so. We could use it.

1270 01:20:36,450 --> 01:20:38,201 Your hunch was right, boss.

1271 01:20:38,243 --> 01:20:40,495 But it's even spookier than we thought.

1272 01:20:40,537 --> 01:20:42,832 Starting in September '63 on,

1273 01:20:43,249 --> 01:20:45,585 two months before the assassination,

1274 01:20:45,627 --> 01:20:48,713 there are sightings of Oswald all over Dallas.

1275 01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:52,300 Buying ammunition, getting a telescopic sight fixed.

1276 01:20:54,260 --> 01:20:55,762 Going to rifle ranges.

1277 01:20:55,803 --> 01:20:56,804 Early November...

1278 01:20:56,888 --> 01:20:59,807 ...at a Dallas downtown Lincoln/Mercury dealership...

1279 01:20:59,891 --> 01:21:02,352 ...where he tells the salesman, Albert Beauregard.

1280 01:21:02,435 --> 01:21:03,436 Let's take it out for a test drive.

1281 01:21:03,519 --> 01:21:05,271 Despite the fact that he has no license, and...

1282 01:21:05,355 --> 01:21:06,606 ...from what Marina says...

1283 01:21:06,689 --> 01:21:10,736 ...doesn't know how to drive, he hits the curves like A.J. Foyt at the Indy 500.

1284 01:21:11,028 --> 01:21:14,823 Beauregard later told his boss that he drove like a madman.

1285 01:21:15,157 --> 01:21:18,327 300 bucks down now, Mr. Oswald, you can drive out of here.

1286 01:21:18,410 --> 01:21:20,287 What?! For this heap?

1287 01:21:21,455 --> 01:21:22,831 No honest working man...

1288 01:21:22,915 --> 01:21:25,543 ...can afford to buy a car in this goddamn country anymore.

1289 01:21:25,626 --> 01:21:27,962 Maybe I'll have to go to Russia and buy a car.

1290 01:21:28,003 --> 01:21:29,463 Really dumb dialogue...

1291 01:21:29,505 --> 01:21:32,341 ...like he's trying to draw attention to himself. A real moron.

1292 01:21:32,383 --> 01:21:35,762 He walks out. Salesman remembers him as about 5'7".

1293 01:21:35,804 --> 01:21:38,974 But we know from Oswald's draft card that he was actually 5'11".

1294 01:21:39,307 --> 01:21:42,686 Other witnesses see him at different firing ranges.

1295 01:21:43,854 --> 01:21:45,856 One time, November 9th...

1296 01:21:46,022 --> 01:21:49,359 ...he decides to practice on the next guy's target.

1297 01:21:49,526 --> 01:21:51,319 I didn't pay for a target...

1298 01:21:51,486 --> 01:21:53,613 ...just to have you shoot at it!

1299 01:21:54,322 --> 01:21:55,949 I'm sorry, buddy.

1300 01:21:57,534 --> 01:22:00,371 I thought I was shooting at that son-of-a-bitch Kennedy.

1301 01:22:01,164 --> 01:22:04,292 As subtle as a cockroach crawling across a white rug.

1302 01:22:04,500 --> 01:22:06,961 Then he shows up at Sylvia Odio's...

1303 01:22:07,336 --> 01:22:10,381 ...Cuban lady in Dallas in the anti-Castro underground.

1304 01:22:11,007 --> 01:22:14,635 The two Cubans introduce him as Leon Oswald.

1305 01:22:16,679 --> 01:22:18,181 Something about the man bothers her.

1306 01:22:18,264 --> 01:22:21,851 About 48 hours later, one of the Cubans calls her back.

1307 01:22:22,101 --> 01:22:24,520 Oye! What do you think of Leon Oswald last night?

1308 01:22:24,562 --> 01:22:26,148 I don't care. I don't know Oswald.

1309 01:22:26,190 --> 01:22:27,357 You know what he said to us?

1310 01:22:27,441 --> 01:22:29,318 He said, "You Cubans don't have any guts...

1311 01:22:29,359 --> 01:22:31,695 ...'cause Kennedy should have been killed after the Bay of Pigs...

1312 01:22:31,737 --> 01:22:33,030 ...and some Cuban should have done it."

1313 01:22:33,113 --> 01:22:36,533 It's like he's giving her information she doesn't even ask for.

1314 01:22:36,638 --> 01:22:38,660 She's scared. Doesn't see him again...

1315 01:22:38,702 --> 01:22:41,163 ...till she sees Oswald's picture in the paper.

1316 01:22:42,039 --> 01:22:45,250 But the Warren Commission says Sylvia...

1317 01:22:45,417 --> 01:22:48,712 ...has bad eyesight because they have Oswald in Mexico...

1318 01:22:48,879 --> 01:22:51,508 ...trying to get back into Cuba.

1319 01:22:51,716 --> 01:22:55,178 The CIA has a camera outside the Cuban Embassy.

1320 01:22:55,387 --> 01:22:57,347 And they say that this...

1321 01:22:58,014 --> 01:22:59,516 ...is Oswald in Mexico.

1322 01:23:01,559 --> 01:23:04,854 If this is Oswald, it must be our third Oswald.

1323 01:23:05,063 --> 01:23:09,526 The Warren Commission made great efforts to make him a Communist.

1324 01:23:09,901 --> 01:23:14,864 I think the point of the Mexican episode was to lay the blame on Fidel Castro.

1325 01:23:15,907 --> 01:23:18,911 If Oswald or someone purporting to be Oswald...

1326 01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:22,790 ...had gotten into Cuba, come back, then killed the President...

1327 01:23:23,416 --> 01:23:26,711 ...the American public would support a Cuban invasion.

1328 01:23:26,919 --> 01:23:29,755 I even have doubts about this photo, boss.

1329 01:23:30,047 --> 01:23:33,217 This convicted Oswald in the public's mind.

1330 01:23:33,426 --> 01:23:37,054 But Oswald told Capt. Fritz that the photo was a fake.

1331 01:23:37,221 --> 01:23:38,639 This is not me!

1332 01:23:38,764 --> 01:23:40,641 It was in Janet Williams' garage.

1333 01:23:40,766 --> 01:23:42,727 I never saw this picture.

1334 01:23:42,893 --> 01:23:47,107 It's my face but it's superimposed. The rest is not me.

1335 01:23:47,316 --> 01:23:51,653 I know photographic work. That picture was made by someone else!

1336 01:23:51,778 --> 01:23:53,780 I took this picture to two experts.

1337 01:23:53,947 --> 01:23:56,450 The shadows on the nose...

1338 01:23:56,658 --> 01:23:58,952 ...fall straight, like it's high noon.

1339 01:23:59,119 --> 01:24:02,581 But the shadow on the ground reads like late afternoon or early morning.

1340 01:24:02,789 --> 01:24:06,627 It's not the same time. And see the crop marks across the chin?

1341 01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,504 This head is pasted onto another body.

1342 01:24:10,089 --> 01:24:12,592 Implicating him with the rifle and gun.

1343 01:24:12,926 --> 01:24:16,638 Who the hell are you? Alex Hidell or Lee Oswald?

1344 01:24:19,682 --> 01:24:21,643 You're policemen. You work it out.

1345 01:24:21,976 --> 01:24:24,479 Now it gets positively spooky.

1346 01:24:24,646 --> 01:24:28,983 In January 1961, in New Orleans, at the Bolton Ford dealership...

1347 01:24:29,484 --> 01:24:32,445 ...when the Oswald we know is in Russia...

1348 01:24:32,570 --> 01:24:35,658 ...there is a man using the name Oswald to buy trucks...

1349 01:24:36,158 --> 01:24:37,993 ...for the Friends of Democratic Cuba.

1350 01:24:38,661 --> 01:24:40,329 Salesman never sees him again, but guess who's on the...

1351 01:24:40,496 --> 01:24:45,084 ...Articles of Incorporation of the Friends of Democratic Cuba?

1352 01:24:45,918 --> 01:24:47,503 Guy Banister.

1353 01:24:48,671 --> 01:24:52,341 Banister has someone using the name Oswald to buy the trucks.

1354 01:24:52,591 --> 01:24:56,136 Hoover at the FBI has a memo dated June of 1960...

1355 01:24:56,345 --> 01:24:57,972 ...that someone...

1356 01:24:58,180 --> 01:25:00,182 ...could be using Oswald's passport and identity.

1357 01:25:00,683 --> 01:25:03,061 They created Oswald from day one.

1358 01:25:03,395 --> 01:25:07,899 Like a dummy corporation in the Bahamas. Just move him around a board.

1359 01:25:08,066 --> 01:25:09,734 Anybody want to quit?

1360 01:25:12,070 --> 01:25:14,239 Dumb question. Put your hands down.

1361 01:25:16,533 --> 01:25:18,410 I found Clay Bertrand.

1362 01:25:19,202 --> 01:25:21,746 Grab your socks and hose and pull.

1363 01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:24,082 Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw.

1364 01:25:24,875 --> 01:25:28,004 - Director of the Trade Mart? - Former director.

1365 01:25:28,212 --> 01:25:29,297 Incredible.

1366 01:25:29,464 --> 01:25:31,132 Can you get sworn statements?

1367 01:25:32,049 --> 01:25:34,677 That'll be tough. Nobody's talking.

1368 01:25:35,887 --> 01:25:37,763 Let's have him in for a chat.

1369 01:25:37,930 --> 01:25:40,266 I hate to get him dragged into this.

1370 01:25:40,433 --> 01:25:43,728 He's done so much for the city, restoring the Quarter.

1371 01:25:43,936 --> 01:25:47,940 Remember, we saw him at a fund-raiser. Seems like such a nice man.

1372 01:25:48,232 --> 01:25:51,944 It'll be off the record. I'll bring him in on a Sunday.

1373 01:25:53,738 --> 01:25:56,116 A quiet little chat between gentlemen.

1374 01:26:12,758 --> 01:26:14,468 In heavy fighting in Vietnam today...

1375 01:26:14,635 --> 01:26:17,805 ...7 more American soldiers died and 23 were wounded.

1376 01:26:17,971 --> 01:26:21,059 The body count for this week is now over 67 Americans...

1377 01:26:21,267 --> 01:26:24,312 ...and 626 enemy soldiers killed in action.

1378 01:26:24,646 --> 01:26:29,109 President Johnson said he regretted there is no end in sight to the war...

1379 01:26:29,275 --> 01:26:31,903 ...where 500,000 U.S. troops are now fighting.

1380 01:26:32,112 --> 01:26:33,071 We face...

1381 01:26:33,279 --> 01:26:34,447 ...more cost...

1382 01:26:34,614 --> 01:26:35,949 ...more loss...

1383 01:26:36,491 --> 01:26:37,826 ...and more agony.

1384 01:26:37,992 --> 01:26:40,078 Come hunt for Easter eggs.

1385 01:26:40,620 --> 01:26:45,458 That's the kids' job. You know I don't like these tribal rituals, anyway.

1386 01:26:45,625 --> 01:26:48,004 I'm talking to Clay Shaw this morning.

1387 01:26:48,170 --> 01:26:50,965 We're going to Antoine's with the kids!

1388 01:26:51,132 --> 01:26:53,259 I told you I was talking to Shaw.

1389 01:26:53,342 --> 01:26:55,803 In the middle of Easter Sunday?

1390 01:26:55,970 --> 01:26:58,681 When I scheduled it, I didn't know it was a holiday.

1391 01:26:58,973 --> 01:27:00,850 Look at the calendar!

1392 01:27:01,017 --> 01:27:03,185 You said a Sunday, not Easter Sunday.

1393 01:27:03,853 --> 01:27:05,646 Clay Shaw is important.

1394 01:27:05,855 --> 01:27:08,524 - And we're not. - I didn't say that.

1395 01:27:09,150 --> 01:27:10,776 I didn't say that.

1396 01:27:11,652 --> 01:27:14,865 You're missing most of your life and you don't know it.

1397 01:27:15,032 --> 01:27:17,117 The kids are missing out too.

1398 01:27:17,701 --> 01:27:21,997 - We're all making sacrifices. - I'll be there by 2:00, I promise.

1399 01:27:22,831 --> 01:27:24,499 Just start without me.

1400 01:27:34,217 --> 01:27:37,179 Mr. Garrison, what can I do for you on Easter Sunday?

1401 01:27:37,346 --> 01:27:39,390 I'm sorry to interrupt this holiday.

1402 01:27:39,557 --> 01:27:44,062 But this conversation is best kept out of the everyday bustle of this office.

1403 01:27:44,228 --> 01:27:45,730 I don't understand.

1404 01:27:45,897 --> 01:27:50,068 In an investigation we're conducting, your name keeps coming up.

1405 01:27:50,235 --> 01:27:51,236 Can't imagine where.

1406 01:27:51,736 --> 01:27:55,531 We've talked to a number of men who claim to know you.

1407 01:27:55,740 --> 01:27:57,700 Do you know a David Logan?

1408 01:27:57,867 --> 01:27:59,827 No. Never heard of him.

1409 01:28:00,578 --> 01:28:01,704 Perry Russo?

1410 01:28:01,871 --> 01:28:02,872 No.

1411 01:28:03,873 --> 01:28:05,584 Willie O'Keefe?

1412 01:28:06,877 --> 01:28:09,421 I don't know anyone by that name.

1413 01:28:09,588 --> 01:28:13,884 Mr. O'Keefe told us he met you at the Masquerade Bar in the Quarter.

1414 01:28:14,385 --> 01:28:18,347 Then you had him over for dinner at your apartment on Dauphine Street.

1415 01:28:18,556 --> 01:28:21,392 - Do you recall that? - I don't know this man.

1416 01:28:22,434 --> 01:28:23,936 Be still my heart.

1417 01:28:24,228 --> 01:28:26,772 Obviously, I wouldn't have him over.

1418 01:28:26,939 --> 01:28:28,566 Hope you like squab.

1419 01:28:30,402 --> 01:28:31,862 Champagne?

1420 01:28:32,237 --> 01:28:36,867 Perhaps a few more details about the evening will refresh your memory.

1421 01:28:42,789 --> 01:28:47,586 Mr. O'Keefe told us dinner was served by a uniformed waiter, a colored man.

1422 01:28:48,086 --> 01:28:52,632 You sat at one end and he at the other, which he found unusual...

1423 01:28:52,966 --> 01:28:55,135 ...because the table was so long.

1424 01:28:55,635 --> 01:28:56,971 How was your mousse?

1425 01:28:57,138 --> 01:28:59,432 Bring back memories of Willie O'Keefe?

1426 01:28:59,599 --> 01:29:00,933 Not at all.

1427 01:29:01,434 --> 01:29:03,144 But I do have...

1428 01:29:03,311 --> 01:29:05,771 ...a lovely Chippendale dining table.

1429 01:29:05,980 --> 01:29:09,609 I often have a friend sit at one end while I sit at the other.

1430 01:29:09,776 --> 01:29:13,488 It's precisely the point of a long dining table.

1431 01:29:13,654 --> 01:29:16,491 The splendor of the meal adds to its enjoyment.

1432 01:29:16,783 --> 01:29:18,910 I imagine a uniformed waiter helps.

1433 01:29:19,118 --> 01:29:21,329 It adds elegance, for which I confess...

1434 01:29:21,496 --> 01:29:23,499 ...a weakness now and then.

1435 01:29:23,791 --> 01:29:25,000 I call him Smedley.

1436 01:29:26,293 --> 01:29:30,672 His real name's Frankie Jenkins, but it would be so uncouth during dinner...

1437 01:29:30,839 --> 01:29:33,175 ...to turn to the kitchen and holler...

1438 01:29:33,342 --> 01:29:35,010 ..."Frankie! "

1439 01:29:40,140 --> 01:29:42,267 Where is all this leading to?

1440 01:29:42,518 --> 01:29:44,311 After dinner, you paid him to have sex.

1441 01:29:48,315 --> 01:29:50,360 That is absolute nonsense.

1442 01:29:51,027 --> 01:29:55,365 The Quarter is filled with vivid imaginations, dear Mr. Garrison.

1443 01:29:55,657 --> 01:29:58,993 Grimy young hoodlums who will say and do anything!

1444 01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:00,995 Mr. O'Keefe told us...

1445 01:30:01,162 --> 01:30:04,290 ...David Ferrie came to the house with another young man.

1446 01:30:06,334 --> 01:30:08,294 - Who? - David Ferrie.

1447 01:30:09,379 --> 01:30:11,172 I don't know that name.

1448 01:30:11,548 --> 01:30:15,219 Having never met Mr. O'Keefe, I couldn't have met Mr. Ferrie.

1449 01:30:28,858 --> 01:30:30,318 You're mine, Mary.

1450 01:30:31,235 --> 01:30:34,071 You partied early into the morning hours.

1451 01:30:34,363 --> 01:30:35,990 Look at this picture.

1452 01:30:36,907 --> 01:30:39,910 I've never met anyone of such bizarre appearance.

1453 01:30:48,420 --> 01:30:52,507 Only way you get this, you do exactly what I say. I'm the man.

1454 01:30:54,551 --> 01:30:56,720 You know the name Clay Bertrand?

1455 01:30:56,887 --> 01:30:58,430 Clay Bertrands.

1456 01:30:59,056 --> 01:31:02,768 A man with a similar name worked at the Chamber of Commerce.

1457 01:31:02,934 --> 01:31:05,771 - That the man you had in mind? - No, it was not.

1458 01:31:06,605 --> 01:31:09,108 Can you identify this man?

1459 01:31:09,275 --> 01:31:13,279 Naturally. You claim Mr. Oswald also had dinner with me?

1460 01:31:13,571 --> 01:31:16,449 Have you ever met Lee Harvey Oswald?

1461 01:31:16,616 --> 01:31:20,286 You have me consorting with a sordid cast of characters.

1462 01:31:20,453 --> 01:31:23,122 - Please answer the question. - 'Course not.

1463 01:31:23,623 --> 01:31:26,584 The assassination was such a pity. In fact...

1464 01:31:26,751 --> 01:31:29,254 ...l admired Kennedy. Man of true panache.

1465 01:31:29,420 --> 01:31:31,256 Wife of impeccable taste.

1466 01:31:31,631 --> 01:31:35,094 Let's order without your daddy. He won't mind.

1467 01:31:35,261 --> 01:31:36,971 I want a Shirley Temple!

1468 01:31:37,137 --> 01:31:39,473 Kids, put your water guns away.

1469 01:31:39,932 --> 01:31:41,475 When's Daddy coming?

1470 01:31:42,476 --> 01:31:44,061 He's coming soon.

1471 01:31:44,311 --> 01:31:47,648 He's sorry he's late, but he promised he'd be here.

1472 01:31:47,815 --> 01:31:50,818 Daddy never keeps his promises.

1473 01:31:54,613 --> 01:31:57,241 This Italian newspaper article says...

1474 01:31:57,449 --> 01:32:01,413 ...you were a board member of Centro Mondo Commerciale in Italy.

1475 01:32:01,788 --> 01:32:06,001 This company was created by the CIA to transfer funds in Italy...

1476 01:32:06,168 --> 01:32:08,837 ...for illegal political espionage activities.

1477 01:32:09,004 --> 01:32:13,300 Says that this company was expelled from Italy for those activities.

1478 01:32:13,508 --> 01:32:15,969 I'm well aware of that asinine article.

1479 01:32:16,136 --> 01:32:18,346 I'm thinking of suing that rag.

1480 01:32:18,513 --> 01:32:21,516 This company is linked to the Schlumberger Tool Company...

1481 01:32:21,683 --> 01:32:25,188 ...in Louisiana, providing arms to David Ferrie and his Cubans.

1482 01:32:25,480 --> 01:32:27,023 You're reaching.

1483 01:32:27,190 --> 01:32:28,191 Am l?

1484 01:32:28,357 --> 01:32:31,944 I'm an international businessman. The Trade Mart I founded...

1485 01:32:32,153 --> 01:32:36,824 ...is America's commercial pipeline to Latin America. I trade everywhere.

1486 01:32:37,492 --> 01:32:39,827 Like all businessmen, I am accused of all things.

1487 01:32:40,870 --> 01:32:45,208 I go about my business, make money, help society the best I can...

1488 01:32:45,374 --> 01:32:48,169 ...and try to promote free trade in this world.

1489 01:32:49,170 --> 01:32:52,382 Have you ever been a contract agent for the CIA?

1490 01:32:57,012 --> 01:32:58,555 And if I were...

1491 01:32:59,389 --> 01:33:02,726 ...do you believe I would be here today...

1492 01:33:03,727 --> 01:33:06,021 ...talking to somebody like you?

1493 01:33:11,527 --> 01:33:14,238 - People like you don't have to. - May I go?

1494 01:33:14,405 --> 01:33:17,701 People like you walk between the raindrops.

1495 01:33:18,243 --> 01:33:19,577 May I go?

1496 01:33:21,705 --> 01:33:22,872 Yes.

1497 01:33:31,047 --> 01:33:35,927 Regardless of what you may think of me, I am a patriot first and foremost.

1498 01:33:36,094 --> 01:33:38,430 I've spent half my life in the military...

1499 01:33:38,596 --> 01:33:40,390 ...defending my country.

1500 01:33:40,557 --> 01:33:44,937 I don't consider it a patriotic act to murder your own President.

1501 01:33:45,104 --> 01:33:47,273 You are way out of line.

1502 01:33:47,440 --> 01:33:50,776 It's getting late. That's all the questions we have.

1503 01:33:50,943 --> 01:33:53,112 Thank you for your honesty.

1504 01:33:53,779 --> 01:33:55,614 I enjoyed meeting you.

1505 01:33:56,741 --> 01:34:00,119 And you, Miss Cox. It's been most pleasant.

1506 01:34:05,124 --> 01:34:09,921 I extend to you and your families my best wishes for a Happy Easter.

1507 01:34:18,305 --> 01:34:21,642 "One may smile, and smile and be a villain."

1508 01:34:22,768 --> 01:34:25,103 Goddamn it! We've got one of them.

1509 01:34:25,270 --> 01:34:26,188 See that?

1510 01:34:43,289 --> 01:34:44,624 Hi, honey.

1511 01:34:49,337 --> 01:34:50,672 Tough day.

1512 01:34:50,838 --> 01:34:52,507 Where you been?

1513 01:34:53,299 --> 01:34:54,759 My sympathies.

1514 01:34:55,009 --> 01:34:58,513 I'm sorry, the meeting took much longer than expected.

1515 01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:00,181 Just a second.

1516 01:35:00,807 --> 01:35:03,352 We waited for hours, Jim!

1517 01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:06,522 You could've telephoned.

1518 01:35:06,689 --> 01:35:11,360 I can only say I'm sorry. I just don't have rabbits on my mind.

1519 01:35:12,027 --> 01:35:13,612 You know what I think?

1520 01:35:13,821 --> 01:35:17,283 You care more about John Kennedy than your own family.

1521 01:35:17,491 --> 01:35:21,996 All day the kids ask, "Where's Daddy?" What should I tell them?

1522 01:35:22,329 --> 01:35:23,789 I don't know!

1523 01:35:23,998 --> 01:35:27,042 The truth! I'm doing my job to make sure they grow up...

1524 01:35:27,334 --> 01:35:31,214 ...in a country where justice won't be a vanished idea in history books...

1525 01:35:31,381 --> 01:35:33,550 ...like dinosaurs or Atlantis.

1526 01:35:33,675 --> 01:35:36,511 It doesn't replace a husband or a father on Easter Sunday.

1527 01:35:36,678 --> 01:35:38,805 It's going to get worse!

1528 01:35:44,477 --> 01:35:46,479 I beat you again, I must get a raise.

1529 01:35:46,646 --> 01:35:49,149 Who can you brag to?

1530 01:35:51,193 --> 01:35:54,655 Who killed President Kennedy? Was there a conspiracy here?

1531 01:35:54,822 --> 01:35:57,200 I don't know what you're talking about.

1532 01:35:58,034 --> 01:36:00,703 Clear the door! Watch out! Move!

1533 01:36:03,206 --> 01:36:05,500 Congratulations. You're Page One.

1534 01:36:06,042 --> 01:36:07,710 Ain't pretty. It says...

1535 01:36:07,877 --> 01:36:11,714 ...we've spent $8,000 on unexplained investigative expenses...

1536 01:36:11,881 --> 01:36:13,382 ...since November, 1966.

1537 01:36:13,424 --> 01:36:14,342 Goddamn!

1538 01:36:14,967 --> 01:36:16,552 They went to the public records.

1539 01:36:16,636 --> 01:36:19,263 They got the vouchers that we requested for withdrawals.

1540 01:36:19,305 --> 01:36:21,058 Shaw must have gotten them on our tail.

1541 01:36:21,141 --> 01:36:23,685 It could have been Ferrie, Martin, Andrews, any of them.

1542 01:36:23,727 --> 01:36:25,896 Damnit, we didn't talk to Ruby 'cause of them...

1543 01:36:25,979 --> 01:36:28,482 ...and they're on our asses for a measly $8,000.

1544 01:36:28,565 --> 01:36:30,025 They're hunting down the news. It's their business.

1545 01:36:30,067 --> 01:36:33,070 Well, you'd at least think they'd attempt to understand what we're tryin' to do!

1546 01:36:33,153 --> 01:36:36,573 Getting angry doesn't accomplish a damn thing, now.

1547 01:36:38,033 --> 01:36:39,493 Son-of-a-bitch.

1548 01:36:40,661 --> 01:36:43,205 Well, this changes everything, now, doesn't it?

1549 01:36:43,247 --> 01:36:44,832 What do you mean?

1550 01:36:47,210 --> 01:36:48,378 Well, either we pull out now...

1551 01:36:48,420 --> 01:36:51,297 ...or we go through some heavy flak together.

1552 01:36:53,591 --> 01:36:54,718 Bear in mind, each of you...

1553 01:36:54,759 --> 01:36:58,221 ...this may affect the rest of your careers, your lives.

1554 01:36:58,722 --> 01:37:01,891 Any one of you who want to pull out now, I assure you...

1555 01:37:01,975 --> 01:37:04,227 ...l will bear no ill feelings towards that person.

1556 01:37:04,269 --> 01:37:06,813 I'll reassign you to regular duties.

1557 01:37:10,275 --> 01:37:11,609 There it is, then.

1558 01:37:11,693 --> 01:37:12,903 Thank you.

1559 01:37:13,112 --> 01:37:15,281 It means a great deal to me.

1560 01:37:17,950 --> 01:37:22,038 I'm giving this office $6,000 from my National Guard savings account...

1561 01:37:22,455 --> 01:37:24,123 ...so we can continue.

1562 01:37:24,874 --> 01:37:28,461 I'll make speeches where I can and pick up additional money.

1563 01:37:28,627 --> 01:37:31,130 Mr. Garrison, what shall I tell them? They're piling up outside the door.

1564 01:37:31,213 --> 01:37:32,465 They want a statement.

1565 01:37:32,548 --> 01:37:34,467 The phones are going crazier than bugs on a cake!

1566 01:37:34,571 --> 01:37:37,470 Neither confirm, deny, nor discuss, Sharon.

1567 01:37:39,139 --> 01:37:41,183 Goodbye, ladies, gentlemen.

1568 01:37:43,185 --> 01:37:46,647 I'm going home to where I can get a decent day's work done.

1569 01:37:47,648 --> 01:37:49,483 ...has raised some interesting questions.

1570 01:37:49,650 --> 01:37:53,403 With taxpayer money, has he uncovered valuable new evidence?

1571 01:37:53,570 --> 01:37:58,408 Or is he merely saving the information to gain exposure at a national level?

1572 01:37:58,825 --> 01:38:01,745 Mr. Garrison should have some explanation.

1573 01:38:01,912 --> 01:38:04,039 Did your office plant that in the paper?!

1574 01:38:04,249 --> 01:38:06,251 - Who is this? - You know damn well.

1575 01:38:06,417 --> 01:38:08,419 - Dave? - You got it. Listen.

1576 01:38:08,586 --> 01:38:10,672 You're the only straight-shooter there.

1577 01:38:10,838 --> 01:38:12,840 I want an answer! Did you plant it?!

1578 01:38:13,007 --> 01:38:16,844 You think we're nuts? It's been a zoo since that broke.

1579 01:38:17,011 --> 01:38:18,930 Reporters everywhere.

1580 01:38:19,055 --> 01:38:21,766 Somebody planted that fucking story!

1581 01:38:21,933 --> 01:38:25,603 I'm one of fucking Garrison's suspects. I can't go home!

1582 01:38:25,770 --> 01:38:28,856 The maggots are everywhere! Do you know what you've done to me?!

1583 01:38:29,023 --> 01:38:30,359 Calm down.

1584 01:38:30,526 --> 01:38:31,527 From here on...

1585 01:38:31,694 --> 01:38:33,779 ...I'm a fucking dead man!

1586 01:38:33,946 --> 01:38:37,074 You weren't even mentioned in the story.

1587 01:38:37,366 --> 01:38:40,536 Meet me in the lobby of the Fountainbleau in 20 minutes.

1588 01:38:41,078 --> 01:38:45,958 I guarantee the boss'll protect you. He likes you. He likes your mind.

1589 01:38:50,671 --> 01:38:52,715 I just don't know who to trust anymore.

1590 01:38:53,090 --> 01:38:57,929 I suppose I could use a pot of hot coffee and a few packs of Luckys.

1591 01:38:58,763 --> 01:39:00,015 Anything new?

1592 01:39:00,432 --> 01:39:02,350 Who are you scared of?

1593 01:39:02,767 --> 01:39:06,104 Everybody. The Agency, mob, Cubans.

1594 01:39:06,354 --> 01:39:08,023 Follow the Cubans.

1595 01:39:08,190 --> 01:39:11,693 Check them out. Here. In Miami. Dallas.

1596 01:39:12,194 --> 01:39:14,446 Check out Eladio del Valle.

1597 01:39:14,696 --> 01:39:18,033 He was my paymaster when I flew missions into Cuba.

1598 01:39:18,366 --> 01:39:21,953 You're on the right track. Don't write this down!

1599 01:39:22,370 --> 01:39:24,707 I ain't cooperating with no one!

1600 01:39:25,124 --> 01:39:28,211 There's a death warrant for me! Don't you get it?

1601 01:39:28,461 --> 01:39:30,463 Damn! Wait a minute!

1602 01:39:30,630 --> 01:39:33,549 You ain't bugged, are you? Son-of-a- bitch, Lou!

1603 01:39:33,716 --> 01:39:34,801 Are you?

1604 01:39:35,134 --> 01:39:36,636 I play square. No bugs.

1605 01:39:37,136 --> 01:39:40,973 I'd love you to go on the record, but I'm in no hurry.

1606 01:39:41,140 --> 01:39:43,142 I haven't slept since that article.

1607 01:39:43,392 --> 01:39:47,396 - Why'd you get me involved? - Did we involve you? Or did Shaw?

1608 01:39:47,980 --> 01:39:51,068 Cocksucking faggot. He got me by the balls.

1609 01:39:51,235 --> 01:39:54,154 - What do you mean? - Photographs, compromising stuff.

1610 01:39:54,655 --> 01:39:55,989 He'll use them too.

1611 01:39:56,156 --> 01:39:57,825 Agency plays for keeps.

1612 01:39:57,991 --> 01:40:01,745 Oswald was in my Civil Air Patrol unit. I taught him everything.

1613 01:40:01,912 --> 01:40:05,582 He was a wannabe. No one liked him.

1614 01:40:05,999 --> 01:40:07,584 But I treated him good.

1615 01:40:07,751 --> 01:40:10,754 He wanted his kid to grow up with a chance.

1616 01:40:11,004 --> 01:40:13,173 What's this? What's going on?

1617 01:40:15,093 --> 01:40:16,511 Don't let him in.

1618 01:40:16,678 --> 01:40:18,513 No one's coming in here.

1619 01:40:21,516 --> 01:40:23,351 Black. Give it to me.

1620 01:40:23,518 --> 01:40:26,271 Black. My neck is killing me.

1621 01:40:26,688 --> 01:40:31,109 I've had cancer for years. Been working with mice to find a cure.

1622 01:40:31,776 --> 01:40:33,194 Did you work for the CIA?

1623 01:40:33,695 --> 01:40:37,365 You sound like it's a remote experience in ancient history.

1624 01:40:37,532 --> 01:40:39,034 You don't leave the Agency.

1625 01:40:40,452 --> 01:40:43,622 - Once you're in, they got you for life. - And Shaw?

1626 01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:46,792 Shaw's an untouchable. Highest clearance.

1627 01:40:47,043 --> 01:40:50,046 Shaw, Oswald, the Cubans, all Agency.

1628 01:40:51,213 --> 01:40:52,048 Ruby?

1629 01:40:56,218 --> 01:40:59,138 Jack was a pimp. A bagman for the Dallas mob.

1630 01:40:59,472 --> 01:41:01,807 Ran guns to Castro when he was on our side.

1631 01:41:02,224 --> 01:41:04,810 Castro was almost with us till we tried to whack him.

1632 01:41:05,144 --> 01:41:06,897 Everybody keeps flipping sides.

1633 01:41:07,064 --> 01:41:08,899 It's fun and games.

1634 01:41:09,066 --> 01:41:12,486 - How do the mob figure in this? - They're Agency too.

1635 01:41:12,653 --> 01:41:17,157 The CIA and the Mafia worked together for years trying to whack out the beard.

1636 01:41:17,324 --> 01:41:19,993 There's more to this than you could dream!

1637 01:41:20,911 --> 01:41:24,247 Check out something called "Operation Mongoose."

1638 01:41:24,498 --> 01:41:27,918 Government, Pentagon stuff. They're in charge.

1639 01:41:28,085 --> 01:41:30,837 But who pulls whose chain? Who knows?

1640 01:41:31,588 --> 01:41:34,592 "Oh, what a deadly web we weave when we practice to deceive."

1641 01:41:34,759 --> 01:41:36,261 Who killed the President?

1642 01:41:36,427 --> 01:41:40,181 Why don't you fucking stop it? Shit!

1643 01:41:40,431 --> 01:41:43,601 This is too big for you, you know that?

1644 01:41:43,768 --> 01:41:47,689 Who did the President? Fuck! It's a mystery.

1645 01:41:47,855 --> 01:41:50,775 It's a mystery wrapped in riddle inside an enigma!

1646 01:41:50,942 --> 01:41:53,945 The shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?!

1647 01:41:54,112 --> 01:41:57,031 Fuck man! I can't keep talking like this!

1648 01:41:57,198 --> 01:41:59,201 They'll fucking kill me!

1649 01:41:59,368 --> 01:42:01,370 I'll fucking die!

1650 01:42:05,291 --> 01:42:06,625 Son-of-a-bitch!

1651 01:42:07,293 --> 01:42:08,878 It's all right.

1652 01:42:10,296 --> 01:42:12,381 I don't know what happened.

1653 01:42:12,798 --> 01:42:13,966 Fuck!

1654 01:42:20,639 --> 01:42:23,309 All I wanted in the world...

1655 01:42:25,145 --> 01:42:27,314 ...was to be a Catholic priest.

1656 01:42:28,481 --> 01:42:30,150 Live in a monastery.

1657 01:42:30,317 --> 01:42:31,735 Pray. Serve God.

1658 01:42:33,236 --> 01:42:34,404 I had...

1659 01:42:36,907 --> 01:42:39,659 ...one terrible fucking weakness.

1660 01:42:40,243 --> 01:42:41,995 And they defrocked me!

1661 01:42:46,249 --> 01:42:48,668 Then I started to lose everything.

1662 01:42:50,253 --> 01:42:52,340 You'll be okay, Dave.

1663 01:42:52,757 --> 01:42:56,177 Just talk to us on record. We'll protect you.

1664 01:43:02,099 --> 01:43:03,851 They'll get to you too.

1665 01:43:05,102 --> 01:43:06,687 They'll destroy you.

1666 01:43:08,523 --> 01:43:09,774 They're untouchable.

1667 01:43:13,694 --> 01:43:17,282 I'm so fucking exhausted, I can't see straight.

1668 01:43:31,922 --> 01:43:33,841 Early for Mardi Gras, isn't it?

1669 01:43:34,007 --> 01:43:36,677 "Paris Match," the largest magazine in France.

1670 01:43:36,844 --> 01:43:39,596 Moscow "Literaturnaya Gazeta."

1671 01:43:39,763 --> 01:43:41,224 Victoria Taylor...

1672 01:43:41,391 --> 01:43:42,726 ..."Private Eye."

1673 01:43:42,934 --> 01:43:45,687 You know who shot the President? Mr. Garrison is too busy.

1674 01:43:45,854 --> 01:43:50,775 They're putting the heat on David Ferrie. If we wait, he won't hold off.

1675 01:43:53,611 --> 01:43:57,866 He keeps changing his story. We can't call him to a Grand Jury.

1676 01:43:58,700 --> 01:44:03,538 He'll keep deteriorating. We'll get more out of him when he cracks.

1677 01:44:03,955 --> 01:44:07,543 If he freezes up, we'll lose our best shot.

1678 01:44:07,710 --> 01:44:12,131 He can't go down further. We must protect him full time.

1679 01:44:13,299 --> 01:44:15,801 I know what you're going through with Ferrie.

1680 01:44:16,135 --> 01:44:20,973 We'll talk tomorrow. I have to catch a plane to Washington.

1681 01:44:22,308 --> 01:44:26,062 Lead says he's closely connected to these events...

1682 01:44:26,312 --> 01:44:27,646 ...but he won't come here.

1683 01:44:27,813 --> 01:44:30,900 I'm onto Ferrie's Cuban paymaster, Eladio del Valle.

1684 01:44:31,150 --> 01:44:33,987 I need more men. I got to get him in.

1685 01:44:34,154 --> 01:44:37,491 I can't pull the teams watching Ferrie. I promised him!

1686 01:44:37,658 --> 01:44:39,660 This is our case!

1687 01:44:42,579 --> 01:44:44,581 I got something to show you.

1688 01:44:44,748 --> 01:44:47,918 I think you'll find it interesting.

1689 01:44:50,253 --> 01:44:51,922 This was found in your office.

1690 01:44:52,089 --> 01:44:56,927 The conference room is bugged, maybe the phones. We have to debug the place.

1691 01:44:57,094 --> 01:45:00,181 Bugging the DA's office. This is outrageous!

1692 01:45:00,431 --> 01:45:03,184 Believe what you want, but we must be more careful.

1693 01:45:03,351 --> 01:45:05,937 All these new volunteers!

1694 01:45:06,688 --> 01:45:10,692 You handle it, okay? I don't have time for this nonsense.

1695 01:45:12,694 --> 01:45:16,781 Well, we obviously got the bastards worried now.

1696 01:45:18,866 --> 01:45:21,202 I'm coming to Washington!

1697 01:45:26,458 --> 01:45:28,377 Dave Ferrie's dead.

1698 01:45:28,878 --> 01:45:32,298 Found his body at the apartment two hours ago.

1699 01:45:56,907 --> 01:45:58,158 What's it look like?

1700 01:45:58,325 --> 01:46:03,079 I don't see any violence. Heart attack, maybe an aneurysm. Natural causes.

1701 01:46:03,246 --> 01:46:06,082 This is addressed to no one and no signature.

1702 01:46:06,333 --> 01:46:09,252 "To leave this life is for me a sweet prospect.

1703 01:46:09,419 --> 01:46:11,671 I find nothing in it that is desirable...

1704 01:46:11,838 --> 01:46:14,925 ...and, on the other hand, everything that is loathsome."

1705 01:46:15,175 --> 01:46:16,927 It goes on and on.

1706 01:46:17,177 --> 01:46:21,849 "Daily we are propagandized more and more by the rising crime wave."

1707 01:46:22,183 --> 01:46:24,685 Seems pretty flowery for Dave Ferrie.

1708 01:46:45,541 --> 01:46:46,417 Proloid.

1709 01:46:48,877 --> 01:46:52,464 I took it once for a low thyroid condition.

1710 01:46:52,798 --> 01:46:54,883 It raises the metabolism.

1711 01:46:56,301 --> 01:46:59,721 Ferrie strike you as the kind of person with a low metabolism?

1712 01:46:59,888 --> 01:47:03,225 Hardly, I'd say the opposite. Maybe hypertension.

1713 01:47:03,892 --> 01:47:08,730 Ferrie was the only one to express any kind of remorse about the whole thing.

1714 01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:12,152 I think it got him killed.

1715 01:47:14,070 --> 01:47:15,822 More bad news from Miami.

1716 01:47:15,989 --> 01:47:18,658 Ferrie's friend, Eladio del Valle, was found...

1717 01:47:18,908 --> 01:47:21,828 ...hacked to death with a machete today.

1718 01:47:21,995 --> 01:47:26,916 He was tortured, shot point-blank in the heart, his skull split open with an ax.

1719 01:47:27,584 --> 01:47:29,419 Ain't that the devil's piss!

1720 01:47:29,586 --> 01:47:32,839 Found another note. Same thing. No name. No signature.

1721 01:47:33,089 --> 01:47:37,595 "When you receive this, I will be quite dead, so no answer is possible.

1722 01:47:37,762 --> 01:47:42,516 - I offered you love; I got kicked." - Must've pressed to come up with that.

1723 01:47:44,685 --> 01:47:49,357 What if a man with hypertension were to take an entire bottle of Proloid?

1724 01:47:49,857 --> 01:47:54,528 He'd die quickly. A heart storm or a ruptured blood vessel in the brain.

1725 01:47:55,196 --> 01:47:58,199 Can you ascertain if there's Proloid in his system?

1726 01:47:58,366 --> 01:48:00,117 Not with a routine autopsy.

1727 01:48:00,284 --> 01:48:03,789 But there may be a high level of iodine in the spinal fluid.

1728 01:48:03,956 --> 01:48:06,959 But it's difficult to know. What's your thinking?

1729 01:48:08,536 --> 01:48:12,040 It doesn't make sense. Would a man afraid of dying...

1730 01:48:12,206 --> 01:48:15,043 ...kill himself in a way that leaves no trace?

1731 01:48:16,461 --> 01:48:19,297 And leave two unsigned suicide notes?

1732 01:48:19,547 --> 01:48:22,550 If it's a suicide, I've seen weirder.

1733 01:48:23,134 --> 01:48:26,220 The fact is, he's gone. And so is our case.

1734 01:48:26,387 --> 01:48:28,224 Unless we go for Shaw now.

1735 01:48:28,390 --> 01:48:31,727 With whose testimony? O'Keefe, a male prostitute?

1736 01:48:31,977 --> 01:48:34,980 Jack Martin, a drunk? Vernon Bundy, a dope fiend?

1737 01:48:35,147 --> 01:48:39,151 Shaw's got respect. Newspaper editors, American Bar Association.

1738 01:48:39,318 --> 01:48:42,905 - I agree. We don't have the goods. - We wait, Shaw will get whacked!

1739 01:48:43,072 --> 01:48:46,242 How many corpses do you need to figure out what's going on?

1740 01:48:46,408 --> 01:48:48,994 Watch your mouth! Ferrie did this himself.

1741 01:48:49,411 --> 01:48:50,829 Where're you going?

1742 01:48:50,996 --> 01:48:52,331 I don't know.

1743 01:48:52,748 --> 01:48:54,501 I just don't know.

1744 01:48:59,714 --> 01:49:01,883 Frank, you're wasting your time here.

1745 01:49:02,050 --> 01:49:04,719 Big Jim gave strict orders. No FBI.

1746 01:49:04,886 --> 01:49:05,971 It's you I want.

1747 01:49:06,429 --> 01:49:09,099 Boss'd fry me in hog fat if I talk to you.

1748 01:49:09,266 --> 01:49:11,726 Boss got a problem. Real serious.

1749 01:49:11,893 --> 01:49:13,728 We know what's going on.

1750 01:49:13,895 --> 01:49:15,105 Guess you do.

1751 01:49:15,272 --> 01:49:19,276 You got nothing. I'm a friend. You're riding on the Titanic.

1752 01:49:19,442 --> 01:49:22,405 Time to jump off before you too get destroyed.

1753 01:49:22,613 --> 01:49:23,739 Enough!

1754 01:49:23,948 --> 01:49:27,076 We're talking about your career. You're young.

1755 01:49:27,910 --> 01:49:29,287 You're on the Castro thing.

1756 01:49:29,745 --> 01:49:31,414 - No, I'm not. - You are.

1757 01:49:31,581 --> 01:49:35,126 We know Oswald didn't pull that trigger. Castro did.

1758 01:49:35,585 --> 01:49:37,295 If it comes out, it's war.

1759 01:49:37,462 --> 01:49:41,924 Millions of people will die. That's more important than Jim Garrison.

1760 01:49:42,300 --> 01:49:45,428 Look at me when I talk to you! You're too selfish!

1761 01:49:45,595 --> 01:49:47,055 Shut up!

1762 01:49:47,306 --> 01:49:52,102 If you got a brain in your thick skull, listen to me. Listen real hard.

1763 01:49:53,020 --> 01:49:54,146 Get in the car.

1764 01:50:16,002 --> 01:50:17,295 Garrison?

1765 01:50:20,673 --> 01:50:22,008 Glad you came.

1766 01:50:22,342 --> 01:50:24,135 Sorry about the precautions.

1767 01:50:24,302 --> 01:50:27,138 I just hope it was worth my while, Mr...?

1768 01:50:28,014 --> 01:50:32,143 I could give you a false name, but I won't. Call me "X".

1769 01:50:33,311 --> 01:50:38,149 I've already been warned by the Agency, so if this is another threat.

1770 01:50:38,317 --> 01:50:40,861 I'm not with the Agency, Mr. Garrison.

1771 01:50:41,529 --> 01:50:45,533 If you've come this far, what I have to say interests you.

1772 01:50:45,700 --> 01:50:49,161 I won't name names or tell you who I represent.

1773 01:50:49,704 --> 01:50:51,497 Except to say you're close.

1774 01:50:52,707 --> 01:50:54,375 Closer than you think.

1775 01:50:58,004 --> 01:51:01,340 Everything I'll say is classified top secret.

1776 01:51:01,882 --> 01:51:05,178 I was a soldier, Mr. Garrison. Two wars.

1777 01:51:05,679 --> 01:51:09,391 A secret Pentagon guy, supplying the hardware.

1778 01:51:09,641 --> 01:51:11,727 Planes, bullets, rifles...

1779 01:51:11,935 --> 01:51:14,396 ...for what we call Black Operations.

1780 01:51:14,563 --> 01:51:17,357 Black Ops. Assassinations. Coups d'etat...

1781 01:51:17,524 --> 01:51:20,402 ...rigging elections, propaganda, psych warfare.

1782 01:51:21,403 --> 01:51:25,032 In World War II, I was in Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia.

1783 01:51:25,407 --> 01:51:29,870 I helped evacuate part of Nazi intelligence at the end of the war.

1784 01:51:30,329 --> 01:51:32,707 And we used those guys against the Communists.

1785 01:51:32,874 --> 01:51:35,251 In Italy, '48, we stole the elections.

1786 01:51:35,418 --> 01:51:37,879 France '49, we broke the strikes.

1787 01:51:38,671 --> 01:51:41,257 Overthrew Quirino in the Philippines. Arbenz in Guatemala.

1788 01:51:41,424 --> 01:51:44,552 Mossadegh in Iran. Vietnam in '54.

1789 01:51:44,761 --> 01:51:47,013 Indonesia, '58. Tibet, '59.

1790 01:51:47,639 --> 01:51:51,643 Got the Dalai Lama out. We were good.

1791 01:51:52,185 --> 01:51:53,478 Very good.

1792 01:51:54,479 --> 01:51:57,316 Then we got into the Cuban thing.

1793 01:51:57,483 --> 01:52:00,986 Set up an invasion to take place in October, '62.

1794 01:52:01,237 --> 01:52:04,406 Khrushchev sent missiles to resist. Kennedy didn't invade.

1795 01:52:05,241 --> 01:52:07,826 We just had our dicks in the wind.

1796 01:52:07,993 --> 01:52:10,996 A lot of pissed-off people, Mr. Garrison.

1797 01:52:11,205 --> 01:52:12,331 Understand?

1798 01:52:12,665 --> 01:52:14,333 I'll come to that later.

1799 01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:16,835 So, 1963...

1800 01:52:17,753 --> 01:52:20,673 I spent much of September of '63...

1801 01:52:20,839 --> 01:52:24,094 ...working on the Kennedy plan to get all U.S. personnel...

1802 01:52:24,261 --> 01:52:27,222 ...out of Vietnam by the end of 1965.

1803 01:52:27,347 --> 01:52:31,434 One of the strongest plans issued by the Kennedy White House...

1804 01:52:31,852 --> 01:52:34,229 ...National Security memo 263...

1805 01:52:34,354 --> 01:52:36,773 ...ordered home the first 1,000 troops.

1806 01:52:37,524 --> 01:52:41,945 But in November, a week after the murder of Vietnamese President Diem...

1807 01:52:42,154 --> 01:52:44,698 ...and 2 weeks before Kennedy's assassination.

1808 01:52:44,865 --> 01:52:47,284 ...a strange thing happened to me.

1809 01:52:49,537 --> 01:52:51,456 Is Dave in there?

1810 01:52:56,252 --> 01:52:58,546 You wanted to see me, General?

1811 01:52:58,713 --> 01:53:00,173 I do, indeed.

1812 01:53:00,548 --> 01:53:02,258 You're going to the South Pole.

1813 01:53:02,884 --> 01:53:04,051 I am?

1814 01:53:04,302 --> 01:53:06,304 Dr. Mooney's got the details.

1815 01:53:06,471 --> 01:53:09,724 Check with him. Have a nice vacation.

1816 01:53:10,057 --> 01:53:13,311 I was sent by my superior, we'll call him "Y"...

1817 01:53:13,478 --> 01:53:16,148 ...l was sent by General Y to the South Pole...

1818 01:53:16,815 --> 01:53:20,652 ...as military escort for a group of international VIPs.

1819 01:53:21,195 --> 01:53:24,364 I was on my way back, in New Zealand...

1820 01:53:25,199 --> 01:53:26,617 ...when the President was killed.

1821 01:53:29,536 --> 01:53:32,039 Oswald was charged at 7 p.m., Dallas time...

1822 01:53:32,372 --> 01:53:33,832 ...with Tippit's murder.

1823 01:53:33,999 --> 01:53:37,461 That's 2 p.m. the next day in New Zealand.

1824 01:53:37,669 --> 01:53:40,840 But already their papers had the entire history...

1825 01:53:41,007 --> 01:53:43,676 ...of this unknown, 24-year-old Oswald.

1826 01:53:43,718 --> 01:53:47,013 Studio picture, detailed biography, Russian information...

1827 01:53:47,180 --> 01:53:50,058 ...and were sure he killed the President alone...

1828 01:53:50,225 --> 01:53:54,854 ...although it took them 4 more hours to charge him with that crime in Dallas.

1829 01:53:57,023 --> 01:53:58,692 It felt to me as if...

1830 01:53:59,859 --> 01:54:01,903 ...a cover story was being put out.

1831 01:54:02,153 --> 01:54:03,655 Like we would in Black Op.

1832 01:54:06,157 --> 01:54:07,243 After I came back...

1833 01:54:07,743 --> 01:54:11,539 ...l asked myself, why was l, the chief of Special Ops...

1834 01:54:11,706 --> 01:54:14,667 ...sent to the South Pole to do a job...

1835 01:54:14,875 --> 01:54:16,544 ...many others could have done?

1836 01:54:16,711 --> 01:54:18,546 I wonder if it could've been because...

1837 01:54:18,713 --> 01:54:21,549 ...one of my routine duties, if I'd been in Washington...

1838 01:54:21,716 --> 01:54:24,552 ...would've been to order additional security in Texas.

1839 01:54:24,719 --> 01:54:28,264 I checked it out and found that someone...

1840 01:54:28,431 --> 01:54:33,228 ...told the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston...

1841 01:54:33,395 --> 01:54:37,274 ...to stand down that day, over the protests of Colonel Reich.

1842 01:54:37,941 --> 01:54:39,901 I believe it's a mistake.

1843 01:54:40,068 --> 01:54:44,906 It's standard procedure, especially in a known hostile city like Dallas...

1844 01:54:45,782 --> 01:54:47,409 ...to supplement the Secret Service.

1845 01:54:47,618 --> 01:54:51,413 Even if we let him ride with bubble- top on...

1846 01:54:51,580 --> 01:54:55,334 ...we would've put one to two hundred agents on the sidewalk.

1847 01:54:55,959 --> 01:55:00,256 A month before, in Dallas, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was spit on and hit.

1848 01:55:00,423 --> 01:55:03,259 There had been attempts on De Gaulle's life.

1849 01:55:03,426 --> 01:55:06,262 We'd have arrived early, studied the route...

1850 01:55:06,429 --> 01:55:07,889 ...checked all the buildings.

1851 01:55:08,139 --> 01:55:10,975 We'd never allow open windows on Dealey. Never!

1852 01:55:11,267 --> 01:55:13,227 Our own snipers would cover the area.

1853 01:55:13,436 --> 01:55:15,605 A window goes up, they're on the radio!

1854 01:55:15,772 --> 01:55:19,108 We'd watch the crowd. Packages, rolled-up newspapers, coats.

1855 01:55:19,275 --> 01:55:21,611 Never let a man open an umbrella.

1856 01:55:21,778 --> 01:55:24,614 Never let that limousine slow down to 10 miles an hour.

1857 01:55:24,781 --> 01:55:27,493 Or take that unusual curve at Houston and Elm.

1858 01:55:28,118 --> 01:55:31,455 You'd have felt an Army presence in the streets that day.

1859 01:55:31,622 --> 01:55:36,460 But none of this happened. It violated our most basic protection codes.

1860 01:55:36,669 --> 01:55:40,673 And it is the best indication of a massive plot in Dallas.

1861 01:55:41,799 --> 01:55:43,842 Who could have best done this?

1862 01:55:44,009 --> 01:55:46,178 Black Ops. People in the business.

1863 01:55:46,345 --> 01:55:49,473 My superior could've called Col. Reich and said:

1864 01:55:49,640 --> 01:55:54,020 "We have another unit coming for security. You'll stand down."

1865 01:55:54,187 --> 01:55:57,649 That day, some Army Intelligence people were in Dallas.

1866 01:55:57,816 --> 01:55:59,484 I don't know who or why.

1867 01:55:59,818 --> 01:56:01,862 But they weren't protecting clients.

1868 01:56:02,028 --> 01:56:06,199 And Oswald. Army Intel had a Lee Harvey Oswald on file.

1869 01:56:06,700 --> 01:56:09,035 Those files have been destroyed.

1870 01:56:09,202 --> 01:56:11,538 Many strange things were happening.

1871 01:56:11,788 --> 01:56:14,040 Oswald had nothing to do with them.

1872 01:56:15,667 --> 01:56:18,129 The entire Cabinet was in the Far East.

1873 01:56:18,337 --> 01:56:21,299 A third of a combat division was returning from Germany...

1874 01:56:21,507 --> 01:56:24,886 ...in the air above the United States, at the time of the shooting.

1875 01:56:25,219 --> 01:56:29,891 At 12:34 p.m., the Washington telephone system went out for an hour.

1876 01:56:31,517 --> 01:56:32,852 On the plane back to Washington...

1877 01:56:33,060 --> 01:56:35,521 ...word was radioed from the Situations Room...

1878 01:56:35,688 --> 01:56:38,399 ...to Johnson that there was only one assassin.

1879 01:56:38,566 --> 01:56:41,235 Sound like coincidences to you?

1880 01:56:41,694 --> 01:56:43,070 Not for one moment.

1881 01:56:43,864 --> 01:56:46,533 The Cabinet was out of the way.

1882 01:56:47,367 --> 01:56:49,828 Troops for riot control were in the air.

1883 01:56:50,037 --> 01:56:53,415 Telephones were out to stop the wrong stories from spreading.

1884 01:56:53,582 --> 01:56:55,250 Nothing was left to chance.

1885 01:56:55,417 --> 01:56:58,587 He could not be allowed to escape alive.

1886 01:57:01,757 --> 01:57:03,926 Things were never the same after that.

1887 01:57:05,219 --> 01:57:07,930 Vietnam started for real. There was an air of...

1888 01:57:09,264 --> 01:57:11,434 ...make-believe in the Pentagon and CIA.

1889 01:57:11,601 --> 01:57:15,939 Those of us in Secret Ops knew the Warren Commission was fiction.

1890 01:57:16,439 --> 01:57:18,233 But there was something...

1891 01:57:18,733 --> 01:57:20,068 ...deeper.

1892 01:57:20,235 --> 01:57:21,277 Uglier.

1893 01:57:21,444 --> 01:57:24,739 I knew Allen Dulles well. I often briefed him in his house.

1894 01:57:24,948 --> 01:57:29,786 But why was he appointed to investigate Kennedy's death? The man who fired him.

1895 01:57:30,578 --> 01:57:34,249 Dulles, by the way, was General Y's benefactor.

1896 01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:37,962 I got out in '64.

1897 01:57:38,462 --> 01:57:39,922 Resigned my commission.

1898 01:57:41,799 --> 01:57:45,928 I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment.

1899 01:57:46,470 --> 01:57:47,972 Is that why?

1900 01:57:48,639 --> 01:57:51,308 That's the real question, isn't it? Why?

1901 01:57:51,600 --> 01:57:55,563 The how and the who is just scenery for the public.

1902 01:57:55,938 --> 01:57:59,108 Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia...

1903 01:57:59,317 --> 01:58:01,277 ...keeps them guessing, like a game.

1904 01:58:01,444 --> 01:58:04,406 Prevents them from asking the most important question:

1905 01:58:04,656 --> 01:58:07,784 Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited?

1906 01:58:08,160 --> 01:58:11,330 Who has the power to cover it up? Who?

1907 01:58:14,916 --> 01:58:16,251 In 1961 ...

1908 01:58:17,836 --> 01:58:21,423 ...right after the Bay of Pigs, very few people know this...

1909 01:58:22,007 --> 01:58:26,803 ...l participated in drawing up National Security Memo 55, 56, 57.

1910 01:58:27,095 --> 01:58:29,933 These are documents classified top secret.

1911 01:58:30,183 --> 01:58:34,103 In them, Kennedy told Gen. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs...

1912 01:58:34,270 --> 01:58:38,316 ...that from here on, the Joint Chiefs would be wholly responsible...

1913 01:58:38,524 --> 01:58:41,277 ...for all covert paramilitary action in peacetime.

1914 01:58:42,528 --> 01:58:44,113 This ended the reign of the CIA.

1915 01:58:44,697 --> 01:58:48,159 "Splintered it into 1,000 pieces," as JFK promised he would.

1916 01:58:48,451 --> 01:58:50,495 And now he was ordering the military...

1917 01:58:50,787 --> 01:58:52,956 ...to help him do it. Unprecedented!

1918 01:58:53,206 --> 01:58:57,962 I can't tell you the shock waves this sent along the corridors of power.

1919 01:58:58,128 --> 01:59:00,130 This and the firing of Allen Dulles...

1920 01:59:00,297 --> 01:59:01,966 ...Richard Bissell and Gen. Charles Cabell.

1921 01:59:02,633 --> 01:59:06,178 All were sacred cows in Intel since World War II.

1922 01:59:06,387 --> 01:59:08,514 They got some very upset people.

1923 01:59:09,640 --> 01:59:12,643 Kennedy's directives weren't implemented because of...

1924 01:59:12,810 --> 01:59:14,979 ...bureaucratic resistance.

1925 01:59:15,729 --> 01:59:17,815 But one of the results was...

1926 01:59:18,065 --> 01:59:21,987 ...the Cuban operation was turned over to my department...

1927 01:59:22,237 --> 01:59:24,489 ...as Operation Mongoose.

1928 01:59:24,823 --> 01:59:27,200 Mongoose was pure Black Ops.

1929 01:59:27,492 --> 01:59:30,704 It was secretly based at Miami University...

1930 01:59:30,996 --> 01:59:33,915 ...which has the largest domestic CIA station...

1931 01:59:34,166 --> 01:59:36,877 ...budgeted annually for hundreds of millions.

1932 01:59:37,169 --> 01:59:40,338 300 agents, 7,000 select Cubans.

1933 01:59:40,672 --> 01:59:43,341 50 fake business fronts to launder money.

1934 01:59:43,550 --> 01:59:46,721 They waged non-stop war against Castro.

1935 01:59:46,929 --> 01:59:49,182 Industrial sabotage, crop burning, etc.

1936 01:59:49,348 --> 01:59:52,018 All under General Y.

1937 01:59:52,268 --> 01:59:54,896 He took the rules of covert warfare he'd used abroad...

1938 01:59:55,104 --> 01:59:56,856 ...and brought them to this country.

1939 01:59:57,023 --> 01:59:59,442 Now he had people, equipment, bases.

1940 01:59:59,859 --> 02:00:00,860 The motivation.

1941 02:00:01,611 --> 02:00:06,199 Don't underestimate the budget cuts that Kennedy called for in March of 1963.

1942 02:00:06,449 --> 02:00:09,368 Nearly 52 military installations in 25 states.

1943 02:00:09,619 --> 02:00:11,579 21 overseas bases.

1944 02:00:11,788 --> 02:00:13,207 Big money.

1945 02:00:13,373 --> 02:00:16,710 You know how many helicopters have been lost in Vietnam?

1946 02:00:17,628 --> 02:00:19,922 Nearly 3,000 so far.

1947 02:00:20,380 --> 02:00:23,717 Who makes them? Bell Helicopter, who owns Bell?

1948 02:00:23,884 --> 02:00:27,596 Bell was near-bankrupt when 1st National Bank of Boston asked the CIA...

1949 02:00:27,805 --> 02:00:31,892 ...to use the helicopter in Indochina. How about the F-111 fighter?

1950 02:00:32,309 --> 02:00:35,437 General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Texas. Who owns that?

1951 02:00:35,646 --> 02:00:40,402 Find out the defense budget since the war began. 75 going on 100 billion.

1952 02:00:40,568 --> 02:00:43,405 200 billion will be spent before it's over.

1953 02:00:43,988 --> 02:00:45,949 In 1949, it was 10 billion.

1954 02:00:46,157 --> 02:00:48,410 No war...no money.

1955 02:00:48,910 --> 02:00:52,747 The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison...

1956 02:00:52,914 --> 02:00:54,416 ...is for war.

1957 02:00:54,582 --> 02:00:58,586 The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.

1958 02:00:58,920 --> 02:01:01,965 Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term.

1959 02:01:02,173 --> 02:01:05,636 He wanted to call off the moon race and cooperate with the Soviets.

1960 02:01:05,761 --> 02:01:08,305 He signed a treaty to ban nuclear testing.

1961 02:01:08,514 --> 02:01:11,100 He refused to invade Cuba in 1962.

1962 02:01:11,267 --> 02:01:13,936 He set out to withdraw from Vietnam.

1963 02:01:15,104 --> 02:01:18,941 But all that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963.

1964 02:01:19,775 --> 02:01:24,322 Since 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to war in Southeast Asia.

1965 02:01:24,613 --> 02:01:27,158 Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies.

1966 02:01:27,283 --> 02:01:31,788 Something's underway, but it has no face. Yet, everybody in the loop knows.

1967 02:01:31,955 --> 02:01:33,498 Forget about combat troops.

1968 02:01:33,707 --> 02:01:38,128 He told McNamara he would pull out the goddamn advisors!

1969 02:01:38,545 --> 02:01:43,133 He fucked us in Laos and now he will fuck us in Vietnam!

1970 02:01:43,300 --> 02:01:46,345 He can't afford to implement it before the election.

1971 02:01:46,637 --> 02:01:48,972 I hear the NSC meeting was a real barn burner.

1972 02:01:49,139 --> 02:01:53,810 I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Heads will roll. Hear about Lemnitzer?

1973 02:01:54,019 --> 02:01:54,853 What?

1974 02:01:55,062 --> 02:01:57,482 Kennedy rubbed Lem's nose in shit.

1975 02:01:57,649 --> 02:02:00,360 Said if we didn't go into Cuba which was so close...

1976 02:02:00,568 --> 02:02:03,321 ...why go into Vietnam which is so far away?

1977 02:02:03,571 --> 02:02:04,864 There he goes again.

1978 02:02:05,073 --> 02:02:07,200 Got his hand on the chicken switch.

1979 02:02:07,408 --> 02:02:10,536 Lem said that Chiefs still think we should go into Cuba.

1980 02:02:10,745 --> 02:02:12,205 Money's at stake.

1981 02:02:12,413 --> 02:02:15,041 Big money. A hundred billion dollars.

1982 02:02:15,500 --> 02:02:18,336 Kennedy bred voting districts for defense dollars.

1983 02:02:18,670 --> 02:02:23,092 He gave TFX fighter contracts only to those countries that will matter in '64.

1984 02:02:23,259 --> 02:02:26,011 The people in the loop fight back. Their way.

1985 02:02:26,595 --> 02:02:28,722 We have to control intelligence from Saigon.

1986 02:02:28,931 --> 02:02:32,893 We just don't let McNamara stick his nose in this thing!

1987 02:02:33,185 --> 02:02:37,106 Every time he goes over to Saigon for a fact-finding mission...

1988 02:02:37,273 --> 02:02:40,234 ...he comes back and scares the shit out of Kennedy!

1989 02:02:40,526 --> 02:02:42,361 Now I want Max Taylor on him night and day...

1990 02:02:42,862 --> 02:02:44,864 ...like a fly on shit.

1991 02:02:45,531 --> 02:02:48,869 You control McNamara, you control Kennedy.

1992 02:02:49,703 --> 02:02:51,204 I think it started like that.

1993 02:02:51,621 --> 02:02:53,039 In the wind.

1994 02:02:53,206 --> 02:02:57,127 Defense contractors, oil bankers. Just conversation.

1995 02:02:57,294 --> 02:03:01,047 A call is made. Maybe to someone like my superior officer, General Y.

1996 02:03:02,382 --> 02:03:04,885 We're going. We need your help.

1997 02:03:05,135 --> 02:03:06,219 When?

1998 02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:09,556 In the fall. Probably in the South.

1999 02:03:09,723 --> 02:03:12,601 - We want you to come up with a plan. - I can do that.

2000 02:03:12,767 --> 02:03:14,561 It is cellularized.

2001 02:03:14,729 --> 02:03:18,274 No one said, "He must die." No vote. Nothing on paper.

2002 02:03:18,649 --> 02:03:20,234 There's no one to blame.

2003 02:03:20,818 --> 02:03:23,070 It's as old as the crucifixion.

2004 02:03:23,237 --> 02:03:25,239 Or the military firing squad.

2005 02:03:25,406 --> 02:03:29,076 5 bullets, 1 blank. No one's guilty.

2006 02:03:29,243 --> 02:03:30,953 Everybody in the power structure...

2007 02:03:31,162 --> 02:03:33,623 ...has a plausible deniability.

2008 02:03:33,790 --> 02:03:37,418 No compromising connections except at the most secret point.

2009 02:03:37,919 --> 02:03:40,296 But it must succeed.

2010 02:03:40,505 --> 02:03:43,133 No matter how many die or how much it costs...

2011 02:03:43,300 --> 02:03:46,136 ...the perpetrators must be on the winning side...

2012 02:03:46,345 --> 02:03:50,265 ...and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone.

2013 02:03:50,432 --> 02:03:52,351 That is a coup d'etat.

2014 02:03:56,188 --> 02:03:59,274 Kennedy announces the Texas trip in September.

2015 02:03:59,441 --> 02:04:03,153 At that moment, second Oswalds pop up all over Dallas.

2016 02:04:03,362 --> 02:04:04,988 They have the mayor and the cops in their pocket.

2017 02:04:05,781 --> 02:04:07,992 General Y flies in the assassins.

2018 02:04:08,201 --> 02:04:11,955 Maybe from the special camp we keep near Athens, Greece.

2019 02:04:12,122 --> 02:04:12,831 Pros.

2020 02:04:13,206 --> 02:04:16,835 They'd be locals, Cubans, Mafia hire. Separate teams.

2021 02:04:17,127 --> 02:04:18,795 Does it matter who shot...

2022 02:04:19,546 --> 02:04:21,172 ...from what rooftop?

2023 02:04:22,549 --> 02:04:24,175 Part of the scenery.

2024 02:04:24,801 --> 02:04:27,303 I keep thinking about that Tuesday...

2025 02:04:27,554 --> 02:04:28,972 ...the 26th of November.

2026 02:04:29,139 --> 02:04:30,640 The day after they buried Kennedy.

2027 02:04:30,974 --> 02:04:35,312 Gentlemen, I am not going to let Vietnam go like China did.

2028 02:04:35,479 --> 02:04:36,856 I'm committed...

2029 02:04:37,314 --> 02:04:41,861 ...not to take our soldiers out of there till they know we mean business in Asia.

2030 02:04:42,069 --> 02:04:45,489 Lyndon Johnson signs National Security Memo 273...

2031 02:04:45,656 --> 02:04:48,492 ...which reverses Kennedy's withdrawal policy...

2032 02:04:48,659 --> 02:04:51,370 ...and approves covert action against North Vietnam...

2033 02:04:51,579 --> 02:04:53,706 ...provoking the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

2034 02:04:53,914 --> 02:04:57,168 Just get me elected, I'll give you the damn war.

2035 02:04:58,419 --> 02:05:00,172 In that document...

2036 02:05:01,173 --> 02:05:02,841 ...lay the Vietnam War.

2037 02:05:08,430 --> 02:05:12,059 I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things.

2038 02:05:13,435 --> 02:05:16,730 - In our time in our country! - They have throughout history.

2039 02:05:16,938 --> 02:05:20,734 Kings are killed. Politics is power, nothing more!

2040 02:05:21,360 --> 02:05:25,198 Don't take my word for it. Do your own thinking.

2041 02:05:27,283 --> 02:05:28,868 The size of this is...

2042 02:05:29,702 --> 02:05:31,037 ...beyond me.

2043 02:05:31,788 --> 02:05:33,206 Testify.

2044 02:05:33,373 --> 02:05:34,916 - Me? - Testify.

2045 02:05:36,042 --> 02:05:37,585 No chance in hell.

2046 02:05:38,378 --> 02:05:42,715 No, I'd be arrested and gagged. Maybe sent to an institution.

2047 02:05:42,882 --> 02:05:44,259 Maybe worse. You too.

2048 02:05:45,051 --> 02:05:49,055 I can give you the background. You find the foreground, the little things.

2049 02:05:49,305 --> 02:05:52,935 Dig, you're the only one to bring a trail in Kennedy's murder.

2050 02:05:53,227 --> 02:05:55,563 That's important. It's historic.

2051 02:05:56,230 --> 02:05:57,731 I haven't yet.

2052 02:05:58,482 --> 02:06:00,901 I don't have much of a case.

2053 02:06:01,819 --> 02:06:03,779 You don't have a choice anymore.

2054 02:06:04,154 --> 02:06:07,783 You're a significant threat to the national security structure.

2055 02:06:08,242 --> 02:06:11,120 They'd have killed you already, but there's light on you.

2056 02:06:11,328 --> 02:06:13,414 So they'll destroy your credibility.

2057 02:06:13,581 --> 02:06:15,583 They already have in many circles.

2058 02:06:16,083 --> 02:06:17,294 Be honest.

2059 02:06:17,669 --> 02:06:22,424 Your only chance is to come up with a case. Something. Anything.

2060 02:06:22,674 --> 02:06:25,427 Make arrests. Stir the shitstorm.

2061 02:06:25,760 --> 02:06:27,596 Hope to start...

2062 02:06:27,762 --> 02:06:30,432 ...a chain reaction of people coming forward.

2063 02:06:30,599 --> 02:06:32,434 The government will crack.

2064 02:06:32,601 --> 02:06:35,812 Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

2065 02:06:36,021 --> 02:06:38,315 And the truth is on your side, bubba.

2066 02:06:45,615 --> 02:06:47,116 I just hope you get a break.

2067 02:07:32,830 --> 02:07:33,705 Mr. Shaw?

2068 02:07:34,498 --> 02:07:36,334 You are under arrest for conspiracy...

2069 02:07:37,168 --> 02:07:41,506 ...and entering into agreement with others for the purpose of murdering...

2070 02:07:41,673 --> 02:07:43,341 ...President John F. Kennedy.

2071 02:07:43,508 --> 02:07:45,885 We have a warrant to search the premises.

2072 02:07:46,928 --> 02:07:48,388 It's my duty to inform you...

2073 02:07:49,097 --> 02:07:51,683 ...you have the right to remain silent.

2074 02:07:51,850 --> 02:07:53,226 Name?

2075 02:07:53,435 --> 02:07:55,061 Clay LaVerne Shaw.

2076 02:07:57,522 --> 02:07:58,565 Address?

2077 02:07:58,773 --> 02:08:01,527 1313 Dauphine Street, New Orleans.

2078 02:08:03,029 --> 02:08:04,947 Ever use any aliases?

2079 02:08:05,197 --> 02:08:06,741 Clay Bertrand.

2080 02:08:13,039 --> 02:08:17,209 Mr. Clark, are you aware of the charges filed by Attorney General Garrison?

2081 02:08:17,376 --> 02:08:20,463 Yes, Mr. Shaw was included in our investigation.

2082 02:08:20,963 --> 02:08:23,549 No connection was found at all.

2083 02:08:23,966 --> 02:08:27,553 If the FBI did investigate him, why is his name not mentioned...

2084 02:08:27,721 --> 02:08:30,223 ...in the entire 26 volumes of the Warren Report...

2085 02:08:30,474 --> 02:08:32,809 ...even if it is to clear his name?

2086 02:08:33,393 --> 02:08:37,230 I doubt this Attorney General would qualify for my staff.

2087 02:08:37,564 --> 02:08:40,567 Mr. Garrison has presented absolutely nothing publicly...

2088 02:08:41,568 --> 02:08:44,404 ...which would contradict our findings.

2089 02:08:44,738 --> 02:08:48,408 I know of no fact which would refute...

2090 02:08:48,575 --> 02:08:50,744 ...the Commission's conclusion...

2091 02:08:50,911 --> 02:08:54,249 ...that Lee Oswald was the lone killer.

2092 02:08:56,167 --> 02:09:00,004 I congratulate Mr. Shaw. Most defendants must wait for trial...

2093 02:09:00,171 --> 02:09:03,925 ...before they produce sacred cows like a Chief Justice...

2094 02:09:04,092 --> 02:09:05,593 ...as a character witness...

2095 02:09:05,760 --> 02:09:09,097 ...who is not under oath and therefore free from perjury.

2096 02:09:09,264 --> 02:09:11,516 Even if it's partly true...

2097 02:09:11,766 --> 02:09:16,354 ...you realize you're damaging the credibility of the country?

2098 02:09:16,521 --> 02:09:20,442 Is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people?

2099 02:09:21,527 --> 02:09:23,445 It's become a dangerous country...

2100 02:09:23,612 --> 02:09:27,449 ...when you cannot trust anyone. When you cannot tell the truth.

2101 02:09:28,617 --> 02:09:31,954 I say let justice be done, though the heavens fall!

2102 02:09:38,043 --> 02:09:41,297 "The JFK Conspiracy: The Case of Jim Garrison."

2103 02:09:41,964 --> 02:09:45,634 - Honey, this is about you. - After an investigation in New Orleans...

2104 02:09:45,801 --> 02:09:47,387 ...reporters have learned...

2105 02:09:47,554 --> 02:09:50,807 ...that District Attorney Jim Garrison and his staff...

2106 02:09:50,974 --> 02:09:54,978 ...have intimidated, bribed and even drugged witnesses...

2107 02:09:55,145 --> 02:09:59,232 ...to attempt to prove a conspiracy involving businessman Clay Shaw...

2108 02:10:00,233 --> 02:10:02,819 ...in the murder of John F. Kennedy.

2109 02:10:03,069 --> 02:10:07,324 John Chancler was a cell mate of Willie O'Keefe's at Angola.

2110 02:10:07,657 --> 02:10:11,077 He said he'd be cut loose if he copped to the DA's office.

2111 02:10:11,244 --> 02:10:13,414 I sent him up for burglary.

2112 02:10:14,499 --> 02:10:16,834 And there's his old buddy Miguel Torres.

2113 02:10:17,251 --> 02:10:18,836 We sent him up too.

2114 02:10:19,003 --> 02:10:23,174 They wanted me to say Shaw was Bertrand. They'd get me a pardon.

2115 02:10:23,424 --> 02:10:26,427 Janet Williams comments on Willie O'Keefe's...

2116 02:10:26,677 --> 02:10:29,180 ...descriptions of having met Oswald.

2117 02:10:29,347 --> 02:10:30,932 Was he a homosexual?

2118 02:10:31,098 --> 02:10:32,850 Not the Lee I knew. Absolutely not.

2119 02:10:33,935 --> 02:10:37,522 Mr. O'Keefe must have seen someone he thought was Lee Oswald.

2120 02:10:37,688 --> 02:10:41,443 I didn't talk to nobody. I was on drugs at the hospital.

2121 02:10:41,944 --> 02:10:45,781 I told the FBI that call was a figment of my imagination.

2122 02:10:45,948 --> 02:10:48,117 I think he's quite ill, mentally.

2123 02:10:48,283 --> 02:10:52,788 With one half of his mind, he is able to fabricate evidence...

2124 02:10:53,038 --> 02:10:57,376 ...then he convinces the other half that the fabrication is the truth.

2125 02:10:58,210 --> 02:11:02,464 Don't worry. There's only 20 or 30 million people watching this tonight.

2126 02:11:04,551 --> 02:11:08,304 My reputation's all right with the people watching "Laugh In."

2127 02:11:08,471 --> 02:11:11,307 Has he ignored the Mafia connections to this conspiracy...

2128 02:11:11,474 --> 02:11:14,060 ...because he's indebted to the mob?

2129 02:11:14,227 --> 02:11:17,647 The more one looks at Jim Garrison, the more one finds...

2130 02:11:17,814 --> 02:11:22,652 ...he has destroyed reputations, spread fear and suspicion, and worst of all...

2131 02:11:22,986 --> 02:11:26,072 ...exploited this nation's sorrow and doubt.

2132 02:11:26,239 --> 02:11:28,241 Jim Garrison has said:

2133 02:11:29,075 --> 02:11:32,663 "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall."

2134 02:11:32,913 --> 02:11:35,583 He seeks the truth. So do we.

2135 02:11:47,261 --> 02:11:50,931 Dr. Martin Luther King's beautiful dream expressed so dramatically...

2136 02:11:51,098 --> 02:11:53,768 ...during the 1963 march on Washington...

2137 02:11:53,934 --> 02:11:57,272 ...was shattered tonight in Memphis, Tennessee by an assassin's bullet.

2138 02:11:57,439 --> 02:12:00,525 Police think the single shot came from across the street.

2139 02:12:00,692 --> 02:12:05,280 They found a Browning automatic rifle, fitted with a marksman's scope.

2140 02:12:06,448 --> 02:12:07,950 I'll get it.

2141 02:12:10,535 --> 02:12:13,455 Hello, is this Jim Garrison's daughter?

2142 02:12:14,206 --> 02:12:16,208 Virginia or Elizabeth?

2143 02:12:17,542 --> 02:12:19,962 Virginia, you're a lucky little girl.

2144 02:12:20,128 --> 02:12:24,467 Your daddy's entered you in a beauty contest. Like to be in one?

2145 02:12:25,301 --> 02:12:26,552 I don't know.

2146 02:12:26,719 --> 02:12:29,639 My God! What have they done?

2147 02:12:30,390 --> 02:12:31,975 It's lynching time.

2148 02:12:34,560 --> 02:12:36,062 That sounds fun.

2149 02:12:36,813 --> 02:12:38,982 You get out of school at 3:00?

2150 02:12:39,148 --> 02:12:40,650 Who are you talking to?

2151 02:12:40,817 --> 02:12:42,652 That's all I need to know.

2152 02:12:42,819 --> 02:12:45,738 Mommy, I'm going to be in a beauty contest.

2153 02:12:45,905 --> 02:12:48,576 Who is this? Who is this?

2154 02:12:50,578 --> 02:12:53,330 Did you enter Virginia in a beauty contest?

2155 02:12:53,497 --> 02:12:56,166 A man called and asked her height, her weight.

2156 02:12:56,333 --> 02:12:59,420 Some crackpot. Martin Luther King was killed.

2157 02:12:59,587 --> 02:13:01,171 Her life's been threatened!

2158 02:13:01,338 --> 02:13:04,758 A crank making calls. Happens 12 times a day at the office.

2159 02:13:04,925 --> 02:13:07,595 Our home! A kidnapper, a murderer!

2160 02:13:07,761 --> 02:13:09,430 Only cowards make crank calls.

2161 02:13:09,597 --> 02:13:11,181 Nothing will happen.

2162 02:13:11,348 --> 02:13:16,021 You don't know what goes on here anymore! You're busy making speeches!

2163 02:13:16,188 --> 02:13:18,940 Getting every crazed Klansman after us!

2164 02:13:19,191 --> 02:13:23,528 I'm taking the kids and I'm leaving! I can't stand it anymore!

2165 02:13:23,778 --> 02:13:26,448 - The government wants us scared. - You and your government!

2166 02:13:26,615 --> 02:13:30,368 They want everybody too scared to speak out. They count on it.

2167 02:13:30,535 --> 02:13:33,288 - There's nothing to fear! - Don't you have feelings?

2168 02:13:35,373 --> 02:13:37,125 Your own daughter!

2169 02:13:37,542 --> 02:13:39,628 What kind of a man are you?

2170 02:13:43,049 --> 02:13:47,136 I'll take them to my mother's. You spend a week.

2171 02:13:47,303 --> 02:13:50,056 I'll change the locks, the phones. I'll get a bodyguard.

2172 02:13:50,181 --> 02:13:52,225 Get a hold of yourself!

2173 02:13:52,558 --> 02:13:56,395 Before this Kennedy thing, your children mattered most.

2174 02:13:56,646 --> 02:13:59,565 The other night you didn't even notice Jasper.

2175 02:13:59,732 --> 02:14:01,734 He came to me bawling his eyes out.

2176 02:14:01,901 --> 02:14:04,987 I promise I'll make more time for Jasper.

2177 02:14:05,154 --> 02:14:07,074 Is it such a chore?!

2178 02:14:07,241 --> 02:14:11,245 Goddamn it! If I said I'll spend more time with him, I will!

2179 02:14:11,495 --> 02:14:13,914 I cannot fight you and the whole world too!

2180 02:14:14,081 --> 02:14:16,834 I'm not fighting you! I'm trying to reach you.

2181 02:14:17,084 --> 02:14:19,920 - You've changed. - Of course I've changed!

2182 02:14:20,754 --> 02:14:22,506 My eyes have opened.

2183 02:14:22,756 --> 02:14:25,676 And what once looked normal seems insane.

2184 02:14:25,843 --> 02:14:29,263 And now King. Don't you think this has something to do with that?

2185 02:14:29,430 --> 02:14:30,764 Can't you see?

2186 02:14:30,931 --> 02:14:34,936 I don't want to see, goddamn it! I'm tired. I've had enough!

2187 02:14:35,103 --> 02:14:39,274 You're ruining this man Shaw's life because he's a homosexual.

2188 02:14:39,524 --> 02:14:41,109 That's not why!

2189 02:14:41,276 --> 02:14:44,446 Did you ever once stop to consider his feelings?

2190 02:14:46,781 --> 02:14:48,366 You don't believe me?

2191 02:14:48,700 --> 02:14:51,619 - I don't know! - You never believed me?

2192 02:14:52,620 --> 02:14:56,624 I just want to raise our children and live a normal life.

2193 02:14:56,791 --> 02:14:58,793 I want my life back!

2194 02:14:59,378 --> 02:15:01,464 So do l, goddamn it!

2195 02:15:01,881 --> 02:15:03,966 I had a life too, you know!

2196 02:15:04,216 --> 02:15:08,054 You can't bury your head in the sand like an ostrich, Liz!

2197 02:15:08,304 --> 02:15:13,059 It's not about our well-being, our two cars, our TVs and your kitchen!

2198 02:15:14,727 --> 02:15:18,147 It's about our kids growing up in a shithole of lies. I'm angry!

2199 02:15:18,314 --> 02:15:20,399 My life is fucked because of it.

2200 02:15:20,566 --> 02:15:23,569 If you could see it that way, you'd see your life is fucked too.

2201 02:15:23,736 --> 02:15:25,322 You never talked to me this way.

2202 02:15:25,572 --> 02:15:27,658 If you don't want to support me, fine.

2203 02:15:27,824 --> 02:15:30,661 But don't make threats about taking the children.

2204 02:15:30,827 --> 02:15:32,245 I'm leaving you!

2205 02:15:32,496 --> 02:15:34,915 - I'm taking the children! - Go on! Get out!

2206 02:15:35,082 --> 02:15:36,583 - I am! - Go hide!

2207 02:15:36,750 --> 02:15:38,919 Join the rest! They'll say I'm crazy.

2208 02:15:39,086 --> 02:15:41,964 Plenty of people will tell you I'm crazy.

2209 02:15:43,423 --> 02:15:46,843 You won't have any problems filling out divorce papers.

2210 02:15:47,844 --> 02:15:50,347 But somebody's got to try, goddamn it!

2211 02:15:50,597 --> 02:15:51,933 Somebody!

2212 02:15:56,187 --> 02:15:58,606 Are we going away, Daddy?

2213 02:16:05,613 --> 02:16:07,365 I don't know, Jasper.

2214 02:16:08,199 --> 02:16:09,617 Because of Kennedy?

2215 02:16:10,285 --> 02:16:13,204 Will the same people kill us, Papa?

2216 02:16:15,623 --> 02:16:17,626 Nobody will kill us.

2217 02:16:18,127 --> 02:16:19,378 I'm scared.

2218 02:16:20,546 --> 02:16:24,300 I don't like it when you and Mommy fight.

2219 02:16:26,302 --> 02:16:28,304 I don't like it either, honey.

2220 02:16:29,388 --> 02:16:31,891 Why do we have to leave?

2221 02:16:32,224 --> 02:16:34,894 Don't you love us anymore?

2222 02:16:37,146 --> 02:16:39,148 Daddy loves you both.

2223 02:16:40,733 --> 02:16:43,820 There's nothing wrong feeling a little scared, Jasper.

2224 02:16:44,488 --> 02:16:47,824 Telling the truth can be a scary thing sometimes.

2225 02:16:48,492 --> 02:16:51,661 It scared President Kennedy, and he was a brave man.

2226 02:16:52,496 --> 02:16:55,165 But if you let yourself be too scared...

2227 02:16:55,415 --> 02:16:58,502 ...then you let the bad guys take over the country.

2228 02:17:00,170 --> 02:17:02,172 Then everybody gets scared.

2229 02:17:03,006 --> 02:17:04,925 Stay with Mom, Papa.

2230 02:17:05,091 --> 02:17:06,426 Please.

2231 02:17:13,351 --> 02:17:14,352 Here's another.

2232 02:17:15,269 --> 02:17:18,523 The U.S. Attorney in Washington declines to serve our subpoena...

2233 02:17:18,689 --> 02:17:22,944 ...on Allen Dulles, Charles Cabell, CIA director Richard Helms, any FBI agent.

2234 02:17:23,194 --> 02:17:25,863 What'd you expect from a pig but a grunt?

2235 02:17:26,114 --> 02:17:30,368 Now it'll be near impossible to prove Shaw's connection to the CIA.

2236 02:17:30,535 --> 02:17:31,953 What's going on?

2237 02:17:32,120 --> 02:17:35,457 We've never been refused an extradition request.

2238 02:17:35,624 --> 02:17:37,793 Let's get Julia Ann Mercer in here.

2239 02:17:37,960 --> 02:17:39,628 No, she could get hurt.

2240 02:17:39,795 --> 02:17:42,297 Look what's happening to other people.

2241 02:17:42,464 --> 02:17:44,550 She's the best witness we have.

2242 02:17:44,716 --> 02:17:48,053 I just don't want to do it. Now, what else?

2243 02:17:48,887 --> 02:17:53,142 You got your hate mail here. And your fan mail here.

2244 02:17:53,559 --> 02:17:58,480 The bad news is that the IRS requested an audit of your income from this office.

2245 02:17:59,064 --> 02:18:03,236 I expected that two months ago. They're wasting their time.

2246 02:18:05,739 --> 02:18:09,909 The bad news is the National Guard just asked me to resign after 18 years.

2247 02:18:11,161 --> 02:18:15,498 Maybe that's the good news. Never was as good as combat.

2248 02:18:15,999 --> 02:18:17,208 But this is.

2249 02:18:18,960 --> 02:18:21,004 Any more on Oswald or Shaw?

2250 02:18:21,087 --> 02:18:21,671 Yeah.

2251 02:18:22,255 --> 02:18:25,258 They were seen together in Clinton in early September.

2252 02:18:25,967 --> 02:18:30,014 The Civil Rights Movement was running a voter's registration drive.

2253 02:18:30,097 --> 02:18:33,768 Rumor is, Shaw, a local boy, was working on some arms deal...

2254 02:18:33,809 --> 02:18:36,562 ...to discredit the Civil Rights Movement.

2255 02:18:36,937 --> 02:18:39,440 Nobody really knows what they were doing there, but...

2256 02:18:39,523 --> 02:18:41,734 ...hell, they stood out like cotton balls.

2257 02:18:41,817 --> 02:18:44,487 I got whites and colored that saw 'em with a...

2258 02:18:44,570 --> 02:18:45,863 Last time I checked...

2259 02:18:45,905 --> 02:18:48,866 ...there was nothing illegal with registering to vote.

2260 02:18:48,949 --> 02:18:52,203 We still got the uh, Negro junkie, Vernon Bundy...

2261 02:18:52,787 --> 02:18:55,874 ...who saw him talking at the sea wall near Lake Pontchartrain.

2262 02:18:55,958 --> 02:18:58,460 But, hell, it's tough, boss, nobody wants to talk about Shaw.

2263 02:18:58,585 --> 02:18:59,211 He's just.

2264 02:18:59,294 --> 02:19:00,754 You keep saying this, see, you keep saying that...

2265 02:19:00,837 --> 02:19:01,421 ...you're not digging.

2266 02:19:01,546 --> 02:19:02,547 - I keep saying what? - You're not digging.

2267 02:19:03,173 --> 02:19:05,926 You wanna do my job? You do my job, I'll do your job!

2268 02:19:05,968 --> 02:19:08,679 I think Clinton is a breakthrough, now.

2269 02:19:10,847 --> 02:19:13,308 Shaw denies ever knowing Ferrie or Oswald, right?

2270 02:19:13,350 --> 02:19:14,434 Right.

2271 02:19:14,476 --> 02:19:16,103 That proves he's a liar.

2272 02:19:17,646 --> 02:19:18,647 Keep on it, Bill.

2273 02:19:18,772 --> 02:19:19,606 This is interesting.

2274 02:19:20,108 --> 02:19:21,943 Oswald went to see the FBI 2 weeks...

2275 02:19:22,777 --> 02:19:23,611 ...before the assassination.

2276 02:19:24,320 --> 02:19:25,613 May I see Special Agent Hosty?

2277 02:19:26,990 --> 02:19:28,408 He's not in. Can someone else help you?

2278 02:19:28,491 --> 02:19:32,579 Special Agent Hosty made 3 visits to Janet Williams' house...

2279 02:19:32,745 --> 02:19:35,039 ...to keep an eye on Marina. He left a note.

2280 02:19:35,373 --> 02:19:38,334 Hosty told a newspaperman it was a warning...

2281 02:19:38,668 --> 02:19:41,921 ...to stop questioning Marina when Oswald was not present.

2282 02:19:42,255 --> 02:19:46,844 She was not a citizen, so possibly he was threatening to deport her to Russia.

2283 02:19:47,928 --> 02:19:50,097 But what the note really said, no one knows.

2284 02:19:50,556 --> 02:19:53,225 Hosty tore it up and flushed it down the toilet.

2285 02:19:53,392 --> 02:19:54,935 This is just speculation.

2286 02:19:55,144 --> 02:19:59,315 But what if the note described the assassination attempt on JFK?

2287 02:20:05,487 --> 02:20:07,406 Come on, think!

2288 02:20:07,573 --> 02:20:09,825 That's the only reason to destroy it.

2289 02:20:10,159 --> 02:20:14,414 If it was a threat like Hosty said, they would have kept it.

2290 02:20:14,664 --> 02:20:18,418 It makes their case against the angry lone nut that much stronger.

2291 02:20:19,169 --> 02:20:20,921 Remember Agent Quigley...

2292 02:20:21,087 --> 02:20:22,631 ...the day he was arrested?

2293 02:20:22,839 --> 02:20:25,675 Quigley destroyed the notes from the interview.

2294 02:20:25,842 --> 02:20:30,096 We can raise the possibility that Oswald was not only an informant...

2295 02:20:30,430 --> 02:20:35,352 ...but he may have been the original source for the telex dated November 17...

2296 02:20:35,852 --> 02:20:40,274 ...warning of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22.

2297 02:20:42,360 --> 02:20:46,614 William Walters, the FBI night clerk, gave me a copy.

2298 02:20:46,864 --> 02:20:49,534 It went all over the country. Nothing was done.

2299 02:20:49,700 --> 02:20:53,162 The motorcade went on schedule. The Warren Report didn't mention it.

2300 02:20:53,371 --> 02:20:57,708 "A militant group may attempt to assassinate President Kennedy...

2301 02:20:57,875 --> 02:20:59,794 ...on his proposed trip to Dallas, Texas."

2302 02:21:00,044 --> 02:21:01,879 Shortly after the assassination...

2303 02:21:02,296 --> 02:21:05,843 ...Walters says the telex was removed from all the files...

2304 02:21:06,260 --> 02:21:09,054 ...as an obvious embarrassment to the Bureau.

2305 02:21:10,222 --> 02:21:12,891 I believe Oswald sent information through Hosty.

2306 02:21:13,142 --> 02:21:16,895 I have a hunch Oswald had infiltrated this group.

2307 02:21:17,062 --> 02:21:19,231 Cubans or right-wing extremists.

2308 02:21:19,982 --> 02:21:23,652 He was told to be at the Book Depository that day...

2309 02:21:23,819 --> 02:21:27,072 ...to either prevent the assassination or take part in it.

2310 02:21:27,322 --> 02:21:30,827 Either they told him they'd close down the plotters...

2311 02:21:31,828 --> 02:21:33,246 ...or simulate an attack...

2312 02:21:33,413 --> 02:21:35,665 ...on Kennedy to whip up public opinion...

2313 02:21:35,832 --> 02:21:39,335 ...so Kennedy would have to reverse his policies on communism.

2314 02:21:39,836 --> 02:21:42,005 What they told him doesn't matter.

2315 02:21:42,589 --> 02:21:44,049 He was under orders.

2316 02:21:44,257 --> 02:21:46,092 He was a foot soldier.

2317 02:21:48,595 --> 02:21:51,514 You can't miss. He is a dead duck.

2318 02:21:52,724 --> 02:21:53,808 I don't buy it.

2319 02:21:54,267 --> 02:21:56,228 Why would the FBI cover it up?

2320 02:21:56,520 --> 02:22:00,691 A telex disappears from every single FBI office in this country?

2321 02:22:00,858 --> 02:22:02,401 There's a word, Bill.

2322 02:22:02,610 --> 02:22:05,446 - Orders. - Or a cover- up.

2323 02:22:05,696 --> 02:22:08,616 Don't you have enough proof of the FBI's complicity yet?

2324 02:22:08,783 --> 02:22:11,118 I respect this country's institutions!

2325 02:22:13,788 --> 02:22:16,749 How the hell can you keep a conspiracy going...

2326 02:22:17,041 --> 02:22:21,462 ...between the mob, CIA, FBI, Army Intelligence and who knows what else...

2327 02:22:21,879 --> 02:22:25,801 ...when you can't keep a secret in this room between 12 people?

2328 02:22:25,968 --> 02:22:27,803 I mean, we got leaks everywhere.

2329 02:22:28,053 --> 02:22:30,806 We are going to trial, y'all!

2330 02:22:30,973 --> 02:22:33,141 What the hell do we really got?

2331 02:22:33,308 --> 02:22:36,770 Oswald, Ruby, Banister and Ferrie are dead.

2332 02:22:36,979 --> 02:22:39,731 Maybe Shaw is an agent. I don't know.

2333 02:22:39,898 --> 02:22:41,441 But as a covert operator...

2334 02:22:41,650 --> 02:22:45,070 ...he is wide open for blackmail because of his homosexuality.

2335 02:22:45,237 --> 02:22:49,158 Shaw's our toehold. I don't know or care exactly how he fits.

2336 02:22:49,659 --> 02:22:52,829 But he's lying through his teeth. I won't let go of him.

2337 02:22:52,996 --> 02:22:55,665 That's why you're going to trial against Clay Shaw?

2338 02:22:55,832 --> 02:22:57,500 You will lose!

2339 02:22:57,667 --> 02:23:00,420 We should investigate our Mafia leads here.

2340 02:23:00,587 --> 02:23:03,840 I can buy that easier than I can the government.

2341 02:23:05,008 --> 02:23:08,970 Ruby is all mob, knows Oswald, sets him up.

2342 02:23:09,262 --> 02:23:13,266 Hoffa, Trafficante, Marcello, they hire some guns and do Kennedy.

2343 02:23:13,600 --> 02:23:17,187 The government doesn't want to open up a whole can of worms...

2344 02:23:17,354 --> 02:23:20,691 ...because it used the mob to try to get Castro.

2345 02:23:20,858 --> 02:23:24,320 Castro being assassinated by the mob by us...

2346 02:23:24,528 --> 02:23:26,697 ...sounds wild to John Q. Citizen.

2347 02:23:26,864 --> 02:23:29,783 So they close the book on JFK.

2348 02:23:30,743 --> 02:23:32,286 Makes perfect sense to me.

2349 02:23:32,453 --> 02:23:35,456 I don't doubt their involvement at a low level.

2350 02:23:36,040 --> 02:23:38,000 Could the mob change the parade route?

2351 02:23:38,709 --> 02:23:41,671 Or eliminate the protection for the President?

2352 02:23:41,880 --> 02:23:45,217 Could the mob send Oswald to Russia and get him back?

2353 02:23:45,383 --> 02:23:49,971 Get the FBI, the CIA and the Dallas Police to mess up the investigation?

2354 02:23:50,138 --> 02:23:53,475 Get the Warren Commission appointed to cover it up?

2355 02:23:53,975 --> 02:23:58,480 Wreck the autopsy? Influence the national media to go to sleep?

2356 02:23:58,647 --> 02:24:02,234 Since when has the mob used anything but .38's for hits up close?

2357 02:24:03,902 --> 02:24:07,740 The mob wouldn't have the guts or the power for something of this magnitude.

2358 02:24:08,324 --> 02:24:10,743 Assassins need payrolls.

2359 02:24:10,910 --> 02:24:13,329 Schedules, times, orders.

2360 02:24:13,913 --> 02:24:16,582 This was a military-style ambush.

2361 02:24:16,749 --> 02:24:20,211 A coup d'etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings.

2362 02:24:20,503 --> 02:24:24,674 You're saying Lyndon Johnson was involved? The President?

2363 02:24:24,841 --> 02:24:28,261 Johnson got $1 billion for his friends, Brown and Root...

2364 02:24:28,427 --> 02:24:30,763 ...to dredge Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.

2365 02:24:31,013 --> 02:24:34,184 Boss, are you calling the President a murderer?

2366 02:24:34,351 --> 02:24:37,938 If I'm so far from the truth, why is the FBI bugging our offices?

2367 02:24:38,188 --> 02:24:40,858 Why are witnesses bought off and murdered?

2368 02:24:41,108 --> 02:24:44,695 Why are federal agencies blocking our extraditions and subpoenas?

2369 02:24:44,862 --> 02:24:46,530 I don't know.

2370 02:24:46,697 --> 02:24:49,700 Maybe there's some rogue element in the government.

2371 02:24:49,867 --> 02:24:52,119 With a full-blown cover-up?

2372 02:24:53,454 --> 02:24:55,414 You ever read Shakespeare?

2373 02:24:58,041 --> 02:24:59,210 I do.

2374 02:24:59,878 --> 02:25:01,421 "Julius Caesar"?

2375 02:25:02,213 --> 02:25:05,550 "Brutus and Cassius, they too are honorable men."

2376 02:25:06,301 --> 02:25:07,969 Who killed Caesar?

2377 02:25:08,720 --> 02:25:10,722 10 or 12 Senators.

2378 02:25:10,972 --> 02:25:13,641 All it takes is one Judas.

2379 02:25:13,808 --> 02:25:17,145 A few people on the inside. Pentagon, CIA.

2380 02:25:17,312 --> 02:25:19,147 This is Louisiana.

2381 02:25:19,481 --> 02:25:23,902 How do you know who your daddy is? 'Cause your mama told you so.

2382 02:25:24,820 --> 02:25:27,156 You are taking a crap in the wind.

2383 02:25:27,490 --> 02:25:31,160 And I am not going along on this one.

2384 02:25:40,586 --> 02:25:43,422 I've had my doubts all along about Bill.

2385 02:25:44,006 --> 02:25:45,925 He's been fighting us.

2386 02:25:47,426 --> 02:25:48,844 We need him back.

2387 02:25:49,011 --> 02:25:51,264 He wasted a month trying to prove...

2388 02:25:51,431 --> 02:25:55,102 ...that mob boys like Jack Ruby are hooked up with Hunt Oil.

2389 02:25:55,268 --> 02:25:57,521 - I don't trust him. - I will not hear this.

2390 02:25:57,688 --> 02:26:00,649 I value Bill as much as any person here.

2391 02:26:01,858 --> 02:26:06,321 It's time... 

2392 02:27:27,089 --> 02:27:30,009 And now, Jerry, here's Jim Garrison...

2393 02:27:30,510 --> 02:27:33,679 ...the District Attorney of New Orleans, Louisiana.

2394 02:27:48,153 --> 02:27:50,030 Welcome, District Attorney Garrison.

2395 02:27:50,531 --> 02:27:53,992 So, you're investigating the murder of President Kennedy.

2396 02:27:54,076 --> 02:27:57,329 You know, I must say, we've heard some strange things...

2397 02:27:57,454 --> 02:27:59,331 ...coming out of your office in New Orleans.

2398 02:27:59,456 --> 02:28:03,211 First, we heard that the Cuban exiles killed the President.

2399 02:28:03,586 --> 02:28:05,004 Then, the mob.

2400 02:28:05,422 --> 02:28:09,718 Now, your latest theory seems to be that the CIA, and the FBI...

2401 02:28:10,260 --> 02:28:12,554 ...and the Pentagon and the White House...

2402 02:28:12,929 --> 02:28:17,225 ...all combined in some elaborate conspiracy to kill John Kennedy.

2403 02:28:17,434 --> 02:28:20,228 Let me ask you, is there anyone besides Lee Harvey Oswald...

2404 02:28:20,395 --> 02:28:23,565 ...who you think didn't conspire to kill the President?

2405 02:28:26,276 --> 02:28:28,236 Let's just say this, Jerry:

2406 02:28:28,903 --> 02:28:30,323 I've stopped beating my wife.

2407 02:28:32,908 --> 02:28:34,327 Maybe you should ask Lyndon Johnson.

2408 02:28:34,452 --> 02:28:36,620 We know he has some answers.

2409 02:28:40,291 --> 02:28:43,544 Now, there've been a number of reports in reputable news media...

2410 02:28:43,627 --> 02:28:46,422 ...Time, Newsweek, our own NBC...

2411 02:28:46,505 --> 02:28:50,009 ...that you've gone way beyond the legal means available to you...

2412 02:28:50,134 --> 02:28:51,260 ...as a prosecutor...

2413 02:28:51,302 --> 02:28:54,430 ...that you have intimidated, even drugged, witnesses...

2414 02:28:54,513 --> 02:28:57,601 ...bribed them, even urged them to commit perjury?

2415 02:28:58,310 --> 02:28:59,561 Do you have a response to this?

2416 02:28:59,603 --> 02:29:02,939 Your faith in the veracity of the major media is touching, Jerry.

2417 02:29:03,023 --> 02:29:06,109 It indicates that the age of innocence is not yet over.

2418 02:29:06,234 --> 02:29:07,653 But ask yourself:

2419 02:29:07,736 --> 02:29:10,572 ...if we had learned on November 22nd, 1963...

2420 02:29:10,697 --> 02:29:12,658 ...that the Premier of Russia had been shot from...

2421 02:29:12,741 --> 02:29:16,078 ...a Moscow office building by a lonely capitalist sympathizer who...

2422 02:29:16,161 --> 02:29:18,956 ...himself, was then liquidated by a patriotic Muscovite within 48 hours...

2423 02:29:19,456 --> 02:29:21,584 ...while surrounded by armed police...

2424 02:29:22,043 --> 02:29:24,963 ...l think it would be pretty apparent to any free thinking person...

2425 02:29:25,004 --> 02:29:26,881 ...that a coup d'etat or a transfer of power...

2426 02:29:26,965 --> 02:29:29,592 ...had just taken place in the Soviet Union.

2427 02:29:29,676 --> 02:29:31,177 And we would not be asking questions...

2428 02:29:31,302 --> 02:29:33,680 ...or attacking Jim Garrison or his record.

2429 02:29:33,805 --> 02:29:35,848 We would, in a free thinking society...

2430 02:29:35,974 --> 02:29:38,476 ...be asking hard questions about why he was killed...

2431 02:29:38,601 --> 02:29:40,478 ...and what forces were opposed to him.

2432 02:29:40,645 --> 02:29:41,688 Jim, you know, there are some people...

2433 02:29:41,813 --> 02:29:44,065 ...who might say you're paranoid.

2434 02:29:44,524 --> 02:29:45,984 Maybe I'd better show you some pictures...

2435 02:29:46,109 --> 02:29:50,197 ...so you can begin to understand what it is that I'm talking about.

2436 02:29:51,365 --> 02:29:52,950 These are arrests.

2437 02:29:53,200 --> 02:29:57,121 Now, these arrests were photographed minutes after the assassination.

2438 02:29:57,204 --> 02:29:59,373 Now, they were never shown to the American public.

2439 02:29:59,456 --> 02:30:01,375 Jim, I'm sorry. These pictures can't show up on TV.

2440 02:30:01,500 --> 02:30:02,167 Well, sure they can.

2441 02:30:02,209 --> 02:30:03,711 No, I'm sorry, they can't.

2442 02:30:03,836 --> 02:30:05,629 No. The camera can pick these up.

2443 02:30:05,713 --> 02:30:09,425 Jim, I'm sorry. They can't. We have libel laws, you know.

2444 02:30:11,176 --> 02:30:13,220 Those men you just saw were arrested in Dallas...

2445 02:30:13,345 --> 02:30:16,391 ...minutes after the assassination. They were never seen again.

2446 02:30:16,516 --> 02:30:19,686 No record of arrest, no mug shot, no fingerprints.

2447 02:30:19,769 --> 02:30:21,146 Jim? Hold that thought.

2448 02:30:21,229 --> 02:30:23,148 We're gonna be back right after these commercials.

2449 02:30:23,231 --> 02:30:24,524 Who were they?

2450 02:30:32,491 --> 02:30:33,158 Jim!

2451 02:30:34,743 --> 02:30:36,953 Bill, what the hell are you doing here?

2452 02:30:37,496 --> 02:30:39,080 I'm sorry about the other day, chief.

2453 02:30:39,206 --> 02:30:41,083 I didn't mean to walk out on you like that.

2454 02:30:42,502 --> 02:30:44,712 Bill, you came all the way to tell me the obvious?

2455 02:30:45,671 --> 02:30:47,131 No, boss. Look...

2456 02:30:47,340 --> 02:30:49,675 ...l just got word there's going to be an attempt to kill you...

2457 02:30:49,717 --> 02:30:51,886 ...somewhere between here and New Orleans.

2458 02:30:51,928 --> 02:30:55,181 The mob guy was brought down by Shaw from Canada.

2459 02:30:55,556 --> 02:30:57,058 This is serious, chief.

2460 02:30:57,141 --> 02:30:59,268 You're gonna need a bodyguard tonight.

2461 02:30:59,310 --> 02:31:00,186 Bill, when you were in the Army...

2462 02:31:00,311 --> 02:31:02,271 ...did you have a chance to find out what an order meant?

2463 02:31:02,688 --> 02:31:03,356 Yeah.

2464 02:31:03,439 --> 02:31:05,316 You happen to remember my order for anyone in my staff...

2465 02:31:05,441 --> 02:31:07,736 ...not to participate in passing on these endless rumors...

2466 02:31:07,778 --> 02:31:09,321 ...about how somebody's going to get killed?

2467 02:31:09,405 --> 02:31:10,739 Yes, I do, boss, but this is dif.

2468 02:31:10,781 --> 02:31:11,907 No, there is no "but."

2469 02:31:11,949 --> 02:31:14,618 There is no "but" in a military situation, Broussard!

2470 02:31:15,244 --> 02:31:18,038 I don't appreciate your dumping this paranoid garbage on me.

2471 02:31:18,372 --> 02:31:20,457 And I don't appreciate your inability to follow a simple order...

2472 02:31:20,582 --> 02:31:22,876 ...especially when it means I'm personally gonna end up...

2473 02:31:23,001 --> 02:31:26,046 ...paying for your flight back to New Orleans.

2474 02:31:26,088 --> 02:31:27,381 Now, let's get you a ticket.

2475 02:31:29,299 --> 02:31:32,053 Boss, I'm sorry. I'm just looking out for you.

2476 02:31:32,679 --> 02:31:33,888 Get a receipt.

2477 02:32:21,520 --> 02:32:22,855 Come on, come on, he's out here.

2478 02:32:23,439 --> 02:32:26,318 Jim, where're you going? It's me, Samuel.

2479 02:32:34,534 --> 02:32:36,370 Hey! How long were you in that restroom, mister?

2480 02:32:36,411 --> 02:32:37,663 None of your goddamn business.

2481 02:33:29,258 --> 02:33:31,010 Jim? Bad news. Bill's turned.

2482 02:33:31,552 --> 02:33:33,929 I think he's given everything we've got to the Feds.

2483 02:33:34,054 --> 02:33:36,390 We studied the memos, and there was nothing there, chief.

2484 02:33:36,515 --> 02:33:37,391 Nothing.

2485 02:33:37,433 --> 02:33:38,350 We went to confront him...

2486 02:33:38,434 --> 02:33:41,061 ...and the landlady said that the son- of-a-bitch just took off.

2487 02:33:41,145 --> 02:33:42,647 Left everything.

2488 02:33:43,064 --> 02:33:44,649 It's unbelievable.

2489 02:33:45,108 --> 02:33:48,236 Mattie, could you get Mr. Garrison a drink, please?

2490 02:33:48,320 --> 02:33:49,946 Something sure scared him.

2491 02:33:49,988 --> 02:33:52,949 Bill doesn't scare that easy. Somebody got to his thinking.

2492 02:33:53,033 --> 02:33:54,743 He was never that good a thinker.

2493 02:33:54,826 --> 02:33:56,745 Well, he sure fooled us.

2494 02:33:57,370 --> 02:34:00,624 No, don't turn it down, turn it up. I want to see this.

2495 02:34:02,751 --> 02:34:03,835 He's winning!

2496 02:34:06,254 --> 02:34:07,422 He'll never make it.

2497 02:34:09,008 --> 02:34:10,426 If he wins, they'll kill him.

2498 02:34:11,219 --> 02:34:12,512 He'll stop the war.

2499 02:34:14,889 --> 02:34:16,891 They're gonna kill him before they'll let him be president.

2500 02:34:20,478 --> 02:34:21,437 Thank you, Mattie.

2501 02:34:22,146 --> 02:34:25,107 Boss, with Broussard, they have everything.

2502 02:34:25,650 --> 02:34:28,111 All our witnesses, our strategy for the trial.

2503 02:34:28,277 --> 02:34:30,113 We gotta double check all his work.

2504 02:34:30,238 --> 02:34:32,115 There could be false leads. We can't go to trial!

2505 02:34:33,157 --> 02:34:34,117 We don't have a prayer!

2506 02:34:34,618 --> 02:34:35,619 I don't think so, Al.

2507 02:34:35,744 --> 02:34:37,996 I have to agree with Al, boss.

2508 02:34:38,330 --> 02:34:40,833 This is not one we're going to come out on.

2509 02:34:40,999 --> 02:34:44,878 You remember the Hemingway story, "The Old Man and the Sea"?

2510 02:34:45,129 --> 02:34:48,006 The old fisherman manages to catch this great fish.

2511 02:34:48,632 --> 02:34:50,342 Fish so huge that he has to tie it...

2512 02:34:50,426 --> 02:34:52,761 ...to the side of the boat in order to get it back in.

2513 02:34:52,970 --> 02:34:54,847 But by the time it reached the shore...

2514 02:34:54,930 --> 02:34:57,808 ...the fish had long since been picked apart by sharks.

2515 02:35:01,771 --> 02:35:03,648 Nothing was left but the skeleton.

2516 02:35:03,857 --> 02:35:05,316 And that's what's gonna happen to us.

2517 02:35:05,483 --> 02:35:07,569 Then what'd we go to all this trouble for, boss?

2518 02:35:07,736 --> 02:35:09,654 It's a means to an end.

2519 02:35:09,821 --> 02:35:11,823 Now, this war has two fronts.

2520 02:35:13,074 --> 02:35:15,326 In the court of law, we hope against the odds...

2521 02:35:15,410 --> 02:35:17,662 ...to nail Clay Shaw on a conspiracy charge.

2522 02:35:17,704 --> 02:35:20,874 In the court of public opinion, it could take another 25, 30 years...

2523 02:35:21,458 --> 02:35:22,792 ...for the truth to come out.

2524 02:35:25,587 --> 02:35:27,840 But at least we're going to strike the first blow.

2525 02:35:30,009 --> 02:35:31,344 What if you're wrong?

2526 02:35:35,723 --> 02:35:38,392 I never thought for a second I was, honey.

2527 02:35:38,809 --> 02:35:39,310 Liz.

2528 02:35:41,979 --> 02:35:43,606 Will you come to the trial?

2529 02:35:45,149 --> 02:35:46,150 I don't think so.

2530 02:35:48,402 --> 02:35:53,700 With 53% of the precincts reporting, Sen. Kennedy has a 48% to 41% lead...

2531 02:35:53,951 --> 02:35:54,868 ...over Sen. McCarthy.

2532 02:35:55,619 --> 02:35:58,205 CBS News projects Sen. Robert Kennedy...

2533 02:35:58,413 --> 02:36:01,041 ...the winner of the California primary.

2534 02:36:01,458 --> 02:36:04,962 Within the United States over the period of the last 3 years...

2535 02:36:05,128 --> 02:36:09,675 ...the division, the violence, the disenchantment with our society...

2536 02:36:09,883 --> 02:36:12,135 ...the divisions between blacks and whites...

2537 02:36:12,302 --> 02:36:15,555 ...the poor and the affluent, between age groups...

2538 02:36:15,722 --> 02:36:18,225 ...or Vietnam, we can work together.

2539 02:36:18,433 --> 02:36:22,313 We are a great country, an unselfish, compassionate country.

2540 02:36:22,480 --> 02:36:24,774 That's my basis for running.

2541 02:36:28,987 --> 02:36:32,407 Thank you all. It's on to Chicago and let's win there.

2542 02:36:45,796 --> 02:36:47,590 Senator Kennedy has been shot!

2543 02:37:30,509 --> 02:37:32,135 They killed him, honey.

2544 02:37:34,721 --> 02:37:36,056 He won...

2545 02:37:36,389 --> 02:37:38,726 ...and they killed Robert Kennedy.

2546 02:37:40,728 --> 02:37:42,230 They shot him down.

2547 02:37:44,524 --> 02:37:46,067 Oh, my God!

2548 02:37:48,694 --> 02:37:50,071 Both of them?

2549 02:37:50,905 --> 02:37:52,657 Both brothers?

2550 02:37:57,870 --> 02:37:59,330 You were right.

2551 02:38:01,332 --> 02:38:03,168 It hasn't ended yet.

2552 02:38:10,884 --> 02:38:12,594 For the first time...

2553 02:38:14,263 --> 02:38:16,265 ...l feel really scared.

2554 02:38:28,777 --> 02:38:31,114 I wish I could've loved you more.

2555 02:38:34,117 --> 02:38:38,455 Sometimes I feel like I didn't ever love you...

2556 02:38:39,789 --> 02:38:41,791 ...or the children enough.

2557 02:38:43,793 --> 02:38:45,128 I'm sorry.

2558 02:39:28,840 --> 02:39:30,175 Please rise.

2559 02:39:32,427 --> 02:39:37,265 The Criminal District Court for Orleans Parish, Section H, is now in session.

2560 02:39:37,683 --> 02:39:41,937 Honorable Judge Edward A. Haggerty, Jr. presiding. Be seated.

2561 02:39:46,984 --> 02:39:48,319 That's Clay Bertrand.

2562 02:39:48,653 --> 02:39:50,280 That's who I saw at Ferrie's.

2563 02:39:50,697 --> 02:39:52,448 That's who you say you saw.

2564 02:39:53,700 --> 02:39:55,368 A confessed homosexual.

2565 02:39:56,536 --> 02:39:58,788 Convicted of pandering and soliciting.

2566 02:39:59,706 --> 02:40:02,041 A man who has lied about everything...

2567 02:40:02,542 --> 02:40:05,378 ...and now wants to be taken at his word.

2568 02:40:05,837 --> 02:40:08,214 That man, right there. Yes, sir.

2569 02:40:08,464 --> 02:40:10,800 He was at the Pontchartrain wall...

2570 02:40:11,301 --> 02:40:13,136 ...with the man who shot the President.

2571 02:40:14,722 --> 02:40:17,057 I remember him because of his limp.

2572 02:40:17,308 --> 02:40:20,227 A heroin addict injecting himself at the wall.

2573 02:40:20,561 --> 02:40:22,646 Barely conscious of his surroundings.

2574 02:40:23,272 --> 02:40:24,648 Is that the man?

2575 02:40:24,732 --> 02:40:26,567 That was the man, right there.

2576 02:40:26,650 --> 02:40:29,153 He dropped Oswald off on the voter's line.

2577 02:40:29,195 --> 02:40:30,487 I remember, 'cause they were the only...

2578 02:40:30,613 --> 02:40:32,489 ...white strangers around that morning.

2579 02:40:32,573 --> 02:40:36,577 The big, black Cadillac of his made me think they might be FBI.

2580 02:40:37,828 --> 02:40:39,831 Anything we can do to help you, please let us know.

2581 02:40:39,873 --> 02:40:40,874 Said he was a representative...

2582 02:40:40,916 --> 02:40:44,085 ...of one International Trade Mart of New Orleans.

2583 02:40:44,127 --> 02:40:46,922 More than five years ago, for two minutes.

2584 02:40:47,506 --> 02:40:50,008 It's fair to say you could be mistaken.

2585 02:40:50,133 --> 02:40:52,260 Just a figment of my imagination.

2586 02:40:52,427 --> 02:40:54,888 The cat's stewing you, I told him.

2587 02:40:55,180 --> 02:40:58,058 You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho.

2588 02:40:58,350 --> 02:41:02,020 Bertrand is not Shaw, Scout's honor. And you can tell him I said so.

2589 02:41:02,187 --> 02:41:03,188 Objection, Your Honor!

2590 02:41:03,313 --> 02:41:06,692 Andrews has been convicted of perjury on this matter.

2591 02:41:06,943 --> 02:41:09,070 Exception taken. That case is on appeal.

2592 02:41:10,696 --> 02:41:11,864 Mr. Goldberg.

2593 02:41:12,240 --> 02:41:14,200 You claim that you met David Ferrie and Clay Shaw...

2594 02:41:14,367 --> 02:41:17,245 ...on a vacation trip from your accounting business in New York.

2595 02:41:17,370 --> 02:41:19,705 You had drinks, and, under the influence...

2596 02:41:19,872 --> 02:41:21,165 ...discussed killing Kennedy.

2597 02:41:21,332 --> 02:41:22,166 Is that not so?

2598 02:41:22,291 --> 02:41:23,334 Yes. I did.

2599 02:41:23,543 --> 02:41:25,545 Is it not also true that you fingerprinted your daughter...

2600 02:41:25,628 --> 02:41:27,839 ...when she went to Louisiana State University?

2601 02:41:27,922 --> 02:41:29,465 Yes, sir. I did.

2602 02:41:29,799 --> 02:41:32,344 And is it not also true that you fingerprinted her when she returned...

2603 02:41:32,428 --> 02:41:33,679 ...at the end of the semester?

2604 02:41:33,720 --> 02:41:35,055 Yes. I did.

2605 02:41:35,389 --> 02:41:36,223 Why?

2606 02:41:36,557 --> 02:41:40,644 Well, I wanted to make sure that she was the same girl I sent away.

2607 02:41:42,813 --> 02:41:45,441 He was one of Broussard's witnesses, chief.

2608 02:41:45,524 --> 02:41:48,110 I'm sorry. He was totally sane when we took his affidavit.

2609 02:41:48,235 --> 02:41:52,489 Your Honor, we call Police Officer Aloysius Habighorst to the stand.

2610 02:41:53,073 --> 02:41:55,534 I must ask the jury to leave the court.

2611 02:41:59,080 --> 02:42:01,332 - Name? - Clay LaVerne Shaw.

2612 02:42:01,499 --> 02:42:03,334 Defendant didn't have his lawyer present.

2613 02:42:03,501 --> 02:42:06,504 It's standard booking procedure to ask an alias!

2614 02:42:06,629 --> 02:42:08,089 I call them as I see them!

2615 02:42:08,256 --> 02:42:09,507 Any aliases?

2616 02:42:09,632 --> 02:42:11,092 Clay Bertrand.

2617 02:42:12,761 --> 02:42:16,556 It's not constitutionally required that a lawyer be present!

2618 02:42:17,599 --> 02:42:20,560 - I'm ruling that inadmissible! - That's our case!

2619 02:42:20,769 --> 02:42:23,271 Then you didn't have a case.

2620 02:42:23,521 --> 02:42:26,275 I wouldn't believe anything Habighorst said anyway.

2621 02:42:26,525 --> 02:42:28,527 I can't believe you're saying this!

2622 02:42:28,653 --> 02:42:30,946 I am saying it. Bring in the jury.

2623 02:42:34,992 --> 02:42:37,828 - Oswald? - No, I did not.

2624 02:42:38,454 --> 02:42:41,582 - Ever call Dean Andrews? - No, I did not.

2625 02:42:42,917 --> 02:42:45,294 Have you ever met David Ferrie?

2626 02:42:46,629 --> 02:42:50,467 Wouldn't even know what he looked like if I hadn't seen pictures.

2627 02:42:51,510 --> 02:42:53,971 Did you ever use the alias, Clay Bertrand?

2628 02:42:54,262 --> 02:42:55,973 No, I did not.

2629 02:42:57,391 --> 02:42:59,309 Thank you, Mr. Shaw.

2630 02:43:01,812 --> 02:43:05,107 A very great actor has just given us a great performance.

2631 02:43:05,399 --> 02:43:07,859 But we are nowhere closer to the truth.

2632 02:43:08,402 --> 02:43:12,406 My office is charging Clay Shaw with outright perjury...

2633 02:43:12,572 --> 02:43:16,619 ...on 15 answers he's given today, not one word being true.

2634 02:43:17,078 --> 02:43:19,622 You're out of order! Now, sit down!

2635 02:43:19,956 --> 02:43:21,833 That's the man right there.

2636 02:43:28,756 --> 02:43:31,968 To prove there was a conspiracy involving Clay Shaw...

2637 02:43:32,468 --> 02:43:36,764 ...we must prove there was more than one man involved in the assassination.

2638 02:43:37,515 --> 02:43:38,600 To do that...

2639 02:43:38,891 --> 02:43:42,271 ...we must look at the Zapruder film which my office subpoenaed.

2640 02:43:42,980 --> 02:43:45,566 The American public has not seen.

2641 02:43:47,276 --> 02:43:51,989 ...has not seen the film. It's been locked in a vault the last 5 years...

2642 02:43:53,532 --> 02:43:54,742 ...in the Time/Life Building in New York.

2643 02:43:56,744 --> 02:43:58,579 There's a reason for that.

2644 02:43:59,663 --> 02:44:00,497 Watch.

2645 02:44:51,092 --> 02:44:53,636 The picture speaks 1,000 words.

2646 02:44:55,346 --> 02:44:58,099 The Warren Commission thought they had an open-and-shut case.

2647 02:44:58,432 --> 02:45:00,561 Three bullets, one assassin.

2648 02:45:01,353 --> 02:45:05,983 But two unpredictable things happened that day to make it virtually impossible.

2649 02:45:06,191 --> 02:45:10,988 One, the film shot by Abraham Zapruder while standing near the grassy knoll.

2650 02:45:11,113 --> 02:45:15,075 And two, the third wounded man, James Tague, nicked by a fragment...

2651 02:45:15,659 --> 02:45:18,203 ...while standing near the triple underpass.

2652 02:45:18,495 --> 02:45:21,915 The time frame, 5.6 seconds, established by the Zapruder film...

2653 02:45:22,124 --> 02:45:24,835 ...left no possibility of a fourth shot.

2654 02:45:25,085 --> 02:45:29,591 So the shot of fragment that left a superficial wound on Tague's cheek...

2655 02:45:29,758 --> 02:45:34,095 ...had to come from one of the 3 bullets fired from the Depository's 6th floor.

2656 02:45:34,763 --> 02:45:36,598 That leaves just two bullets.

2657 02:45:36,931 --> 02:45:40,852 We know one of them was the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy.

2658 02:45:42,353 --> 02:45:44,147 So a single bullet remains.

2659 02:45:44,397 --> 02:45:49,235 A single bullet must account for the 7 wounds in Kennedy and Connally.

2660 02:45:50,028 --> 02:45:53,157 Rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further...

2661 02:45:53,366 --> 02:45:56,160 ...the Warren Commission endorsed the theory...

2662 02:45:56,369 --> 02:45:59,163 ...put forth by an ambitious attorney, Arlen Spector.

2663 02:45:59,372 --> 02:46:02,708 One of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people.

2664 02:46:04,168 --> 02:46:06,629 It's known as the "magic bullet" theory.

2665 02:46:07,421 --> 02:46:08,964 The magic bullet...

2666 02:46:09,131 --> 02:46:13,803 ...enters the President's back, headed downward at a 17 degree angle.

2667 02:46:14,053 --> 02:46:18,892 It then moves upwards to leave Kennedy's body from the front of his neck...

2668 02:46:19,267 --> 02:46:20,978 ...wound #2...

2669 02:46:21,269 --> 02:46:23,814 ...where it waits 1 .6 seconds...

2670 02:46:24,064 --> 02:46:28,068 ...presumably in midair, where it turns right, then left...

2671 02:46:28,568 --> 02:46:30,570 ...right, then left...

2672 02:46:30,904 --> 02:46:34,157 ...and continues into Connally's right armpit.

2673 02:46:34,658 --> 02:46:36,285 Wound #3.

2674 02:46:36,660 --> 02:46:41,456 The bullet then heads down at an angle of 27 degrees, shattering his rib...

2675 02:46:42,165 --> 02:46:46,296 ...and exiting from the right side of his chest. Wound #4.

2676 02:46:46,671 --> 02:46:51,301 The bullet turns right, reentering Connally's body at his right wrist.

2677 02:46:52,093 --> 02:46:53,761 Wound #5.

2678 02:46:54,095 --> 02:46:56,097 Shattering the radius bone...

2679 02:46:56,306 --> 02:46:58,933 ...the bullet exits Connally's wrist, wound #6...

2680 02:46:59,475 --> 02:47:04,188 ...makes a dramatic U-turn, then buries itself in Connally's left thigh.

2681 02:47:04,397 --> 02:47:07,609 Wound #7, from which it later falls out...

2682 02:47:07,942 --> 02:47:10,863 ...and is found in almost pristine condition...

2683 02:47:11,113 --> 02:47:14,200 ...on a stretcher in a corridor of Parkland hospital.

2684 02:47:16,619 --> 02:47:18,245 Some bullet.

2685 02:47:19,872 --> 02:47:22,958 Any combat vet can tell you never in the history of gunfire...

2686 02:47:23,125 --> 02:47:25,794 ...has there been a bullet this ridiculous.

2687 02:47:26,712 --> 02:47:31,508 The government says it can prove it with some fancy physics in a nuclear lab.

2688 02:47:31,884 --> 02:47:33,510 Of course they can.

2689 02:47:33,802 --> 02:47:36,973 Theoretical physics can prove an elephant can hang from a cliff...

2690 02:47:37,140 --> 02:47:39,351 ...with his tail tied to a daisy.

2691 02:47:40,060 --> 02:47:42,812 But use your eyes, your common sense.

2692 02:47:43,146 --> 02:47:47,651 The Army wound ballistics experts fired some comparison bullets.

2693 02:47:47,901 --> 02:47:50,529 Not one of them looked anything like this.

2694 02:47:51,446 --> 02:47:53,114 Take a look at CE-856.

2695 02:47:55,116 --> 02:47:56,785 An identical bullet...

2696 02:47:57,244 --> 02:47:59,746 ...fired through the wrist of a human cadaver.

2697 02:48:00,413 --> 02:48:03,751 ...just one of the bones smashed by the magic bullet.

2698 02:48:04,460 --> 02:48:06,295 Seven wounds, gentlemen.

2699 02:48:06,796 --> 02:48:08,131 Tough skin...

2700 02:48:08,422 --> 02:48:10,091 ...dense bones.

2701 02:48:11,092 --> 02:48:13,302 This single bullet explanation...

2702 02:48:13,469 --> 02:48:17,640 ...is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of one assassin.

2703 02:48:17,974 --> 02:48:19,642 And once you conclude...

2704 02:48:19,809 --> 02:48:22,478 ...the magic bullet couldn't create all 7 wounds...

2705 02:48:22,937 --> 02:48:26,899 ...you must conclude there was a fourth shot and a second rifleman.

2706 02:48:28,276 --> 02:48:30,320 And if there was a second rifleman...

2707 02:48:31,155 --> 02:48:34,491 ...then by definition there had to be a conspiracy...

2708 02:48:34,783 --> 02:48:37,995 ...which we believe involves the accused, Clay Shaw.

2709 02:48:38,954 --> 02:48:43,667 51 witnesses thought they heard shots from the grassy knoll...

2710 02:48:44,293 --> 02:48:47,629 ...which is to the right, in front of the President.

2711 02:48:48,839 --> 02:48:50,632 Key witnesses that day?

2712 02:48:50,966 --> 02:48:53,469 Charles Brehm, a combat vet.

2713 02:48:54,636 --> 02:48:56,806 And Jean Hill and Mary Moorman.

2714 02:48:57,140 --> 02:48:59,809 S. M. Holland, Richard Dodd, James Simmons...

2715 02:49:00,351 --> 02:49:02,312 ...standing on the overpass. J.C. Price...

2716 02:49:02,812 --> 02:49:04,522 ...overlooking the plaza.

2717 02:49:05,315 --> 02:49:07,692 William Newman, father of two children.

2718 02:49:08,193 --> 02:49:10,653 He hit the deck on the north side of Elm.

2719 02:49:12,322 --> 02:49:13,990 Abraham Zapruder.

2720 02:49:30,383 --> 02:49:33,511 Each of these key witnesses has no doubt whatsoever...

2721 02:49:33,678 --> 02:49:36,847 ...one or more shots came from behind the picket fence.

2722 02:49:37,682 --> 02:49:41,394 26 trained medical personnel at Parkland Hospital...

2723 02:49:41,560 --> 02:49:45,523 ...saw the back of the President's head blasted out!

2724 02:49:47,191 --> 02:49:48,860 Doctor Peters.

2725 02:49:49,361 --> 02:49:53,865 There was a large 7-centimeter opening at the right occipital parietal area.

2726 02:49:54,074 --> 02:49:57,035 A considerable portion of the brain was missing.

2727 02:49:58,745 --> 02:50:03,583 A fifth or possibly a quarter of the back of the head had been blasted out...

2728 02:50:03,750 --> 02:50:06,253 ...along with the underlying brain tissue.

2729 02:50:06,420 --> 02:50:08,922 When's the proper time to declare one dead?

2730 02:50:09,089 --> 02:50:12,926 There was also a large fragment of skull attached to a flap of the scalp.

2731 02:50:13,260 --> 02:50:17,265 The exit hole in the rear of his head measured about 120 millimeters...

2732 02:50:17,557 --> 02:50:19,100 ...or five inches across.

2733 02:50:19,267 --> 02:50:23,271 Not one of the civilian doctors who examined the President...

2734 02:50:23,563 --> 02:50:26,900 ...regarded his throat wound as anything but an entry wound.

2735 02:50:27,734 --> 02:50:31,237 But then the body was illegally moved to Washington for the autopsy.

2736 02:50:31,404 --> 02:50:33,573 Because when a coup d'etat has occurred...

2737 02:50:33,740 --> 02:50:37,952 ...there's a big difference between an autopsy performed by civilian doctors...

2738 02:50:38,244 --> 02:50:41,790 ...and one that is performed by military doctors under orders.

2739 02:50:42,958 --> 02:50:47,254 The departure of Air Force One on Friday was not so much a takeoff...

2740 02:50:47,421 --> 02:50:51,133 ...as it was a getaway, with the newly sworn in President.

2741 02:50:51,300 --> 02:50:52,593 Objection!

2742 02:50:52,760 --> 02:50:53,802 Sustained.

2743 02:50:53,969 --> 02:50:58,098 On the plane, the White House Situation Room announced Oswald's guilt...

2744 02:50:58,265 --> 02:51:02,311 ...to all passengers before any kind of investigation had begun.

2745 02:51:02,603 --> 02:51:05,439 The "angry lone nut" solution is beginning to take shape.

2746 02:51:05,607 --> 02:51:08,610 - Objection, Your Honor. - Sustained.

2747 02:51:09,945 --> 02:51:11,655 Please bottle the acid.

2748 02:51:13,782 --> 02:51:18,620 The three Bethesda doctors picked by the military left something to be desired.

2749 02:51:18,787 --> 02:51:22,457 None of them had experience with combat gunfire wounds.

2750 02:51:22,833 --> 02:51:27,337 Through their autopsy, we've been able to justify 8 wounds from two bullets.

2751 02:51:27,629 --> 02:51:30,006 Three to Kennedy, five to Connally.

2752 02:51:30,298 --> 02:51:32,468 One of them being the "magic bullet."

2753 02:51:32,677 --> 02:51:34,011 - FBI? - Here.

2754 02:51:34,262 --> 02:51:38,099 Col. Finck, are you saying someone told you not to dissect the neck?

2755 02:51:38,307 --> 02:51:40,685 I was told the family wanted the examination of the head.

2756 02:51:41,853 --> 02:51:43,146 Oh, Christ.

2757 02:51:43,312 --> 02:51:44,981 Looks like half his brain is gone.

2758 02:51:45,148 --> 02:51:47,358 - Weigh it. - 653 grams.

2759 02:51:47,650 --> 02:51:50,820 As a pathologist, it was your obligation to explore...

2760 02:51:50,987 --> 02:51:52,822 ...all possible causes of death.

2761 02:51:52,989 --> 02:51:54,490 I had the cause of death.

2762 02:51:54,657 --> 02:51:58,328 Your Honor, please direct the witness to answer my question.

2763 02:51:58,829 --> 02:52:01,999 Why did Col. Finck not dissect the tract of the bullet wound?

2764 02:52:02,166 --> 02:52:04,168 I heard Dr. Humes stating...

2765 02:52:04,376 --> 02:52:06,503 That's enough. That's enough.

2766 02:52:06,837 --> 02:52:08,213 It's duly noted.

2767 02:52:08,505 --> 02:52:10,507 Let's check the back.

2768 02:52:17,848 --> 02:52:20,684 I can feel the end of the wound with my finger.

2769 02:52:20,893 --> 02:52:22,853 That won't be necessary.

2770 02:52:25,190 --> 02:52:26,858 Watch the ear!

2771 02:52:27,901 --> 02:52:30,236 Shot in the back. Cheap crime.

2772 02:52:30,737 --> 02:52:31,738 He said:

2773 02:52:31,905 --> 02:52:33,740 Who's in charge here?

2774 02:52:34,199 --> 02:52:35,241 I am.

2775 02:52:36,242 --> 02:52:37,869 I don't remember his name.

2776 02:52:38,536 --> 02:52:40,246 It was quite crowded.

2777 02:52:40,413 --> 02:52:44,084 And when you are called to look at the wounds of the dead President...

2778 02:52:44,250 --> 02:52:47,420 ...you don't ask people for their names and who they are.

2779 02:52:48,046 --> 02:52:52,259 But you were a qualified pathologist. Was the Army General?

2780 02:52:53,886 --> 02:52:55,388 But you took his orders.

2781 02:52:56,931 --> 02:52:59,392 So he was directing the autopsy.

2782 02:52:59,725 --> 02:53:01,394 There were others.

2783 02:53:02,561 --> 02:53:04,397 There were Admirals.

2784 02:53:05,439 --> 02:53:08,943 When you're a Lieutenant Colonel, you follow orders.

2785 02:53:09,402 --> 02:53:14,073 It is not our business to discuss this with anyone outside this room.

2786 02:53:14,407 --> 02:53:17,119 As I recall, Admiral Kenney, Navy Surgeon General...

2787 02:53:17,452 --> 02:53:20,747 ...specifically told us not to discuss the case.

2788 02:53:23,458 --> 02:53:26,795 A lot of people were deciding what was private...

2789 02:53:27,087 --> 02:53:29,423 ...none of the American people's business.

2790 02:53:29,798 --> 02:53:32,092 The chief pathologist, Commander Humes...

2791 02:53:32,259 --> 02:53:35,595 ...by his own admission, voluntarily burns his autopsy notes.

2792 02:53:35,971 --> 02:53:38,473 President Johnson orders the blood soaked limousine...

2793 02:53:38,640 --> 02:53:42,103 ...filled with bullet holes and clues to be washed and rebuilt.

2794 02:53:42,604 --> 02:53:46,149 He sends Connally's bloody suit to the cleaners.

2795 02:53:46,608 --> 02:53:51,112 The Justice Department denied this office access to the autopsy photos.

2796 02:53:51,779 --> 02:53:56,326 When we finally get a court order to examine Kennedy's brain...

2797 02:53:56,618 --> 02:53:59,120 ...in the hopes of finding from which direction the bullet came...

2798 02:53:59,996 --> 02:54:01,331 ...we're told...

2799 02:54:02,165 --> 02:54:06,169 ...by your government that the President's brain has disappeared.

2800 02:54:09,632 --> 02:54:13,177 That's not all that's disappeared. With it, the concept of justice.

2801 02:54:13,427 --> 02:54:17,514 Objection. Mr. Garrison is insulting the federal government.

2802 02:54:19,350 --> 02:54:20,976 Overruled!

2803 02:54:27,191 --> 02:54:29,527 So, what really happened that day?

2804 02:54:29,985 --> 02:54:32,696 Let's just for a moment speculate, shall we?

2805 02:54:33,155 --> 02:54:35,325 We have the epileptic seizure...

2806 02:54:35,534 --> 02:54:39,830 ...distracting the police and allowing the shooters to get into place.

2807 02:54:41,039 --> 02:54:45,168 The epileptic later vanished, never checking into the hospital.

2808 02:54:46,336 --> 02:54:49,381 The A-team goes to the 6th floor of the Depository.

2809 02:54:49,548 --> 02:54:52,551 They were refurbishing the floors of the Depository that week...

2810 02:54:52,843 --> 02:54:55,220 ...allowing unknown workmen in the building.

2811 02:54:56,221 --> 02:55:00,183 They move quickly into position minutes before the shooting.

2812 02:55:00,393 --> 02:55:05,022 The second spotter, talking by radio to the other teams, has the best overall view.

2813 02:55:05,398 --> 02:55:06,399 The God spot.

2814 02:55:07,191 --> 02:55:11,696 B-team, one rifleman and one spotter with access to the building...

2815 02:55:12,071 --> 02:55:15,241 ...moves into a low floor of the Dal-Tex Building.

2816 02:55:16,033 --> 02:55:20,872 The third team, C-team, moves in behind the fence above the grassy knoll...

2817 02:55:21,080 --> 02:55:25,543 ...where the shooter and the spotter are first seen by the late Lee Bowers.

2818 02:55:26,420 --> 02:55:28,422 They have the best position.

2819 02:55:29,047 --> 02:55:32,718 Kennedy is close and on a flat low trajectory.

2820 02:55:32,926 --> 02:55:34,553 Part of this team is a coordinator...

2821 02:55:34,762 --> 02:55:39,099 ...who flashed security credentials at people, chasing them from the area.

2822 02:55:40,225 --> 02:55:42,936 Probably two to three more men are in the crowd.

2823 02:55:44,563 --> 02:55:48,067 10 to 12 men. Three teams. Three shooters.

2824 02:55:48,442 --> 02:55:53,114 The triangulation of fire Clay Shaw and David Ferrie discussed 2 months before.

2825 02:55:54,282 --> 02:55:56,117 They've walked the Plaza.

2826 02:55:56,284 --> 02:55:58,119 They know every inch.

2827 02:56:00,413 --> 02:56:04,125 They've calibrated their sights. Practiced on moving targets.

2828 02:56:04,918 --> 02:56:05,960 They're ready.

2829 02:56:07,128 --> 02:56:10,799 Kennedy's motorcade makes a turn from Main onto Houston.

2830 02:56:11,257 --> 02:56:13,134 It's going to be a turkey shoot.

2831 02:56:14,969 --> 02:56:16,971 They don't shoot him on Houston...

2832 02:56:17,138 --> 02:56:20,309 ...the easiest shot for a single shooter in the Depository.

2833 02:56:20,935 --> 02:56:24,730 They wait till he gets to the killing zone between 3 rifles.

2834 02:56:25,940 --> 02:56:28,985 Kennedy makes the turn from Houston onto Elm.

2835 02:56:29,819 --> 02:56:33,155 Slowing down to some 11 miles an hour.

2836 02:56:33,948 --> 02:56:38,119 The shooters across Dealey Plaza tighten, taking their aim.

2837 02:56:39,662 --> 02:56:42,957 Waiting for the radio to say, "Green! Green!"

2838 02:56:43,791 --> 02:56:46,295 Or, "Abort! Abort!"

2839 02:56:52,342 --> 02:56:53,844 The first shot rings out.

2840 02:56:55,012 --> 02:56:58,140 Sounding like a backfire, it misses the car completely.

2841 02:56:59,016 --> 02:57:02,144 Frame 161, Kennedy stops waving as he hears something.

2842 02:57:02,477 --> 02:57:05,147 Connally's head turns slightly to the right.

2843 02:57:05,355 --> 02:57:09,026 Frame 193, the second shot hits Kennedy in the throat from the front.

2844 02:57:09,985 --> 02:57:13,323 Frame 225, the President emerging from behind the road sign.

2845 02:57:13,656 --> 02:57:17,493 You can see that he's obviously been hit, raising his arms to his throat.

2846 02:57:17,702 --> 02:57:20,496 The third shot, frame 232...

2847 02:57:20,705 --> 02:57:23,499 ...hits Kennedy in the back, pulling him downward and forward.

2848 02:57:24,167 --> 02:57:27,337 Connally, you will notice, shows no signs at all of being hit.

2849 02:57:27,545 --> 02:57:31,841 He is visibly holding his Stetson, which is impossible if his wrist has been shattered.

2850 02:57:32,008 --> 02:57:33,843 Connally is turning here now.

2851 02:57:34,010 --> 02:57:35,887 Frame 238. The fourth shot.

2852 02:57:36,179 --> 02:57:39,516 It misses Kennedy and takes Connally in the back.

2853 02:57:39,725 --> 02:57:42,728 This is the shot that proves there were two rifles.

2854 02:57:42,895 --> 02:57:46,398 Connally yells, "My God! They're going to kill us all!"

2855 02:57:46,732 --> 02:57:49,693 Around this time, another shot misses the car completely...

2856 02:57:50,027 --> 02:57:52,571 ...striking James Tague by the underpass.

2857 02:57:53,531 --> 02:57:54,740 The car brakes.

2858 02:57:55,032 --> 02:57:56,700 The sixth and fatal shot.

2859 02:57:56,909 --> 02:58:00,538 Frame 313, takes Kennedy in the head from the front.

2860 02:58:02,039 --> 02:58:03,708 This is the key shot.

2861 02:58:04,209 --> 02:58:07,379 The President going back and to his left...

2862 02:58:07,587 --> 02:58:09,381 ...shot from the front and right.

2863 02:58:10,549 --> 02:58:13,927 Totally inconsistent with the shot from the Depository.

2864 02:58:14,094 --> 02:58:14,719 Again.

2865 02:58:19,266 --> 02:58:21,601 Back, and to the left.

2866 02:58:22,435 --> 02:58:24,271 Back, and to the left.

2867 02:58:25,564 --> 02:58:27,566 Back, and to the left.

2868 02:58:29,735 --> 02:58:31,571 So what happens then?

2869 02:58:34,073 --> 02:58:35,283 Pandemonium.

2870 02:58:38,119 --> 02:58:40,079 Let's go! We got him!

2871 02:58:45,793 --> 02:58:50,590 The shooters quickly disassemble their various weapons, except the Oswald rifle.

2872 02:59:01,477 --> 02:59:04,938 Patrolman Smith rushes to the parking lot behind the fence.

2873 02:59:05,606 --> 02:59:07,149 He smells gunpowder.

2874 02:59:07,316 --> 02:59:11,487 He produced credentials showing him to be Secret Service.

2875 02:59:12,154 --> 02:59:14,823 Let's see your ID. See anyone else up here?

2876 02:59:15,783 --> 02:59:19,119 I accepted that and let him go.

2877 02:59:19,495 --> 02:59:21,831 I regretted it. He looked like a mechanic.

2878 02:59:22,957 --> 02:59:27,670 He had on a sports shirt and pants, but he had dirty fingernails.

2879 02:59:28,963 --> 02:59:31,966 Afterward, it didn't ring true. But at the time...

2880 02:59:32,342 --> 02:59:34,177 ...we were so pressed for time.

2881 02:59:34,844 --> 02:59:37,847 All Secret Servicemen in Dallas were accounted for.

2882 02:59:38,848 --> 02:59:42,685 None were on foot in Dealey Plaza before or after the shooting...

2883 02:59:42,852 --> 02:59:46,356 ...till the Dallas Secret Service chief returned at 12:55.

2884 02:59:46,856 --> 02:59:50,987 The Dallas police took at least 12 people into custody.

2885 02:59:51,529 --> 02:59:53,197 No record of their arrest.

2886 02:59:53,364 --> 02:59:56,867 Men acting like hoboes were pulled off trains...

2887 02:59:57,034 --> 02:59:59,495 ...marched through Dealey Plaza, photographed.

2888 02:59:59,662 --> 03:00:01,831 Yet there's no record of their arrest.

2889 03:00:01,998 --> 03:00:05,876 Men identifying themselves as Secret Service agents were everywhere.

2890 03:00:06,669 --> 03:00:08,379 But who was impersonating them?

2891 03:00:09,005 --> 03:00:10,548 Where was Oswald?

2892 03:00:11,215 --> 03:00:14,553 Around 12:15, leaving the building to see the motorcade...

2893 03:00:15,178 --> 03:00:18,682 ...Carolyn Arnold sees Oswald in the 2nd-floor snacking...

2894 03:00:18,890 --> 03:00:21,059 ...where he said he went for a Coke.

2895 03:00:21,685 --> 03:00:25,022 He was in a booth on the right side of the room.

2896 03:00:25,397 --> 03:00:29,192 He was by himself as usual, appeared to be having lunch.

2897 03:00:29,401 --> 03:00:32,404 I didn't speak to him, but I recognized him clearly.

2898 03:00:33,739 --> 03:00:38,410 At the same time, Bonnie Ray Williams is supposedly eating lunch in the 6th floor.

2899 03:00:38,577 --> 03:00:41,581 He's there until 12:15, maybe 12:20.

2900 03:00:41,748 --> 03:00:43,374 He sees nobody.

2901 03:00:43,750 --> 03:00:48,421 Arnold Rowlands, on the street, looks up, sees two men in the 6th-floor windows...

2902 03:00:48,588 --> 03:00:52,216 ...presumably after Williams finished lunch and left.

2903 03:00:52,425 --> 03:00:56,262 John Powell, a prisoner on the 6th floor of the county jail, sees them.

2904 03:00:56,429 --> 03:00:58,056 Many of us saw them.

2905 03:00:58,222 --> 03:01:02,435 Everyone was hollering and yelling. We thought they was security guys.

2906 03:01:02,602 --> 03:01:07,274 If Oswald was the assassin, he was nonchalant about moving into position.

2907 03:01:07,900 --> 03:01:11,779 Later, he told police he was in the 2nd- floor snack room.

2908 03:01:11,946 --> 03:01:15,115 Probably told to wait there by his handler for a call.

2909 03:01:16,575 --> 03:01:18,619 But the phone call never came.

2910 03:01:19,245 --> 03:01:21,914 Maximum 90 seconds after Kennedy's shot...

2911 03:01:22,081 --> 03:01:26,252 ...patrolman Marrion Baker sees Oswald in that 2nd-floor lunchroom.

2912 03:01:27,419 --> 03:01:29,129 Is this man an employee?

2913 03:01:29,296 --> 03:01:31,925 Yes. The President's been shot.

2914 03:01:32,133 --> 03:01:34,469 The Commission would have us believe...

2915 03:01:34,761 --> 03:01:38,098 ...that after firing 3 bolt-action shots in 5.6 seconds...

2916 03:01:38,265 --> 03:01:42,811 ...Oswald then leaves 3 cartridges neatly side-by-side in the firing nest...

2917 03:01:42,978 --> 03:01:47,607 ...wipes fingerprints off the rifle, stashes it on the other side of the loft...

2918 03:01:48,608 --> 03:01:50,819 ...sprints down 5 flights of stairs...

2919 03:01:50,986 --> 03:01:54,489 ...past Victoria Adams and Sandra Styles who never see him...

2920 03:01:55,323 --> 03:01:59,787 ...then shows up, cool and calm, on the 2nd floor in front of Patrolman Baker.

2921 03:02:01,164 --> 03:02:04,500 All this within a maximum of 90 seconds of the shooting.

2922 03:02:05,001 --> 03:02:07,128 Is this man an employee?

2923 03:02:07,295 --> 03:02:09,172 Yes. The President's been shot.

2924 03:02:09,338 --> 03:02:10,798 Is he out of breath?

2925 03:02:11,340 --> 03:02:14,302 According to Baker, absolutely not.

2926 03:02:14,469 --> 03:02:19,307 Assuming he is the sole assassin, Oswald is free to leave the building.

2927 03:02:19,849 --> 03:02:24,813 The longer he delays, the more chance the building will be sealed by police.

2928 03:02:25,147 --> 03:02:29,151 Is he guilty? Does he walk out the nearest staircase?

2929 03:02:30,652 --> 03:02:32,529 He buys a Coke...

2930 03:02:32,696 --> 03:02:36,992 ...and at a slow pace, spotted by Mrs. Reid on the 2nd floor...

2931 03:02:37,201 --> 03:02:40,037 ...he strolls out the more distant front exit...

2932 03:02:40,204 --> 03:02:42,164 ...where cops have gathered.

2933 03:02:42,331 --> 03:02:45,000 Odd, since 3 shots were fired from there...

2934 03:02:45,167 --> 03:02:48,045 ...nobody seals the Depository for 10 more minutes.

2935 03:02:48,212 --> 03:02:51,174 Oswald slips out, as do several other employees.

2936 03:02:51,383 --> 03:02:55,512 When he realized something had gone wrong and Kennedy had been killed...

2937 03:02:56,012 --> 03:02:59,849 ...he knew there was a problem. Maybe even that he was the patsy.

2938 03:03:00,392 --> 03:03:04,896 An intuition, maybe. The President killed in spite of his warning.

2939 03:03:05,188 --> 03:03:06,564 The phone call that never came.

2940 03:03:06,731 --> 03:03:10,193 Perhaps fear now came to Oswald for the very first time.

2941 03:03:11,695 --> 03:03:15,532 Oswald returns to his rooming house around 1:00 p.m...

2942 03:03:15,740 --> 03:03:17,410 ...a half hour after the assassination.

2943 03:03:17,702 --> 03:03:19,412 A man shot the President!

2944 03:03:19,578 --> 03:03:22,581 He puts on his jacket, grabs his .38 revolver...

2945 03:03:22,748 --> 03:03:24,750 ...and leaves at 1:04.

2946 03:03:25,084 --> 03:03:29,088 Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper, heard two beeps on a car horn.

2947 03:03:29,380 --> 03:03:32,383 Two uniformed cops pulled up while Oswald was in his room.

2948 03:03:32,550 --> 03:03:33,926 Like it was a signal.

2949 03:03:34,593 --> 03:03:38,931 Officer Tippit is shot between 1:10 and 1:15, a mile away.

2950 03:03:39,223 --> 03:03:42,227 And though no one saw him walking...

2951 03:03:42,436 --> 03:03:44,730 ...the government says Oswald covered that distance.

2952 03:03:44,938 --> 03:03:47,607 Giving the government the benefit of the doubt...

2953 03:03:47,774 --> 03:03:50,611 ...Oswald would have had to jog a mile in 6 to 11 minutes...

2954 03:03:50,777 --> 03:03:52,279 ...then commit the murder...

2955 03:03:52,446 --> 03:03:56,116 ...and walk 3/5ths of a mile to the Texas Theater...

2956 03:03:56,783 --> 03:04:00,287 ...and arrive sometime before 1:30.

2957 03:04:04,791 --> 03:04:06,585 It's also a useful conclusion.

2958 03:04:06,793 --> 03:04:09,297 After all, why would Oswald kill Officer Tippit...

2959 03:04:09,464 --> 03:04:11,925 ...unless he just shot the President and feared arrest?

2960 03:04:12,967 --> 03:04:14,969 Domingo Benevides...

2961 03:04:16,596 --> 03:04:18,598 ...the closest witness to the shooting...

2962 03:04:18,765 --> 03:04:22,268 ...refuses to identify Oswald as the killer and was never taken to a line-up.

2963 03:04:23,645 --> 03:04:24,771 Acquilla Clemons...

2964 03:04:24,938 --> 03:04:28,316 ...saw the killer and another man go off in separate directions.

2965 03:04:28,608 --> 03:04:32,737 Mrs. Clemons was never taken to a line- up or to the Warren Commission.

2966 03:04:33,279 --> 03:04:36,951 At the scene, Officer Poe marks his initials on the shells...

2967 03:04:37,117 --> 03:04:39,119 ...to record the chain of evidence.

2968 03:04:40,162 --> 03:04:42,998 Those initials are not on the 3 cartridge cases...

2969 03:04:43,165 --> 03:04:45,668 ...which the Warren Commission present to him.

2970 03:04:45,834 --> 03:04:50,297 As early as 12:44, only 14 minutes after the assassination...

2971 03:04:50,506 --> 03:04:54,969 ...the police put out a description matching Oswald's size and build.

2972 03:04:55,135 --> 03:04:59,473 Oswald is next seen by a shoe salesman, Johnny Brewer, on Jefferson Avenue.

2973 03:05:00,809 --> 03:05:05,480 Oswald is scared. He begins to realize the full implications of this thing.

2974 03:05:05,689 --> 03:05:09,192 He goes to the Texas Theater, possibly a prearranged meeting point.

2975 03:05:09,484 --> 03:05:14,322 Though he has $14 in his pocket, he doesn't buy the 75c ticket.

2976 03:05:14,656 --> 03:05:17,200 Brewer has the cashier call the police.

2977 03:05:17,492 --> 03:05:19,661 In response to that call...

2978 03:05:19,828 --> 03:05:24,332 ...at least 30 officers in patrol cars descend on the movie theater.

2979 03:05:24,499 --> 03:05:27,837 This is the most remarkable example of police intuition...

2980 03:05:28,004 --> 03:05:30,173 ...since the Reichstag fire.

2981 03:05:30,882 --> 03:05:31,883 I don't buy it!

2982 03:05:32,341 --> 03:05:36,512 They knew. Someone knew Oswald would be there.

2983 03:05:37,054 --> 03:05:39,390 Brewer leads the cops into the theater...

2984 03:05:39,557 --> 03:05:42,226 ...and from the stage, points Oswald out.

2985 03:05:55,240 --> 03:05:57,701 Sir, can I get you to stand up?

2986 03:06:03,540 --> 03:06:08,045 I am not resisting arrest! I am not resisting arrest!

2987 03:06:08,212 --> 03:06:09,588 They have their man.

2988 03:06:10,589 --> 03:06:13,884 It's already been decided in Washington.

2989 03:06:14,259 --> 03:06:16,887 When he is brought from the theater...

2990 03:06:17,054 --> 03:06:19,432 ...a crowd is waiting to scream at him.

2991 03:06:19,724 --> 03:06:23,103 Lee Oswald must have felt like Joseph K. in Kafka's "The Trial."

2992 03:06:23,269 --> 03:06:25,772 He's never given reasons for his arrest.

2993 03:06:25,939 --> 03:06:29,109 He doesn't know the unseen forces ranging against him.

2994 03:06:29,442 --> 03:06:33,279 At police headquarters, he was booked for murdering Tippet.

2995 03:06:33,446 --> 03:06:35,281 No legal counsel is provided.

2996 03:06:35,448 --> 03:06:37,617 No record made of the questioning.

2997 03:06:37,784 --> 03:06:40,453 When the sun rises the next morning...

2998 03:06:40,620 --> 03:06:43,081 ...he is booked for murdering the President.

2999 03:06:43,248 --> 03:06:47,461 The whole country, fueled by the media, assumes he is guilty.

3000 03:06:47,920 --> 03:06:50,631 Under the guise of a patriotic club owner...

3001 03:06:50,798 --> 03:06:54,135 ...out to spare Jackie Kennedy from testifying at a trial...

3002 03:06:54,301 --> 03:06:56,804 ...Jack Ruby is let into a garage...

3003 03:06:56,971 --> 03:07:00,307 ...by one of his inside men on the police force.

3004 03:07:00,599 --> 03:07:04,478 Oswald is brought out like a sacrificial lamb...

3005 03:07:04,770 --> 03:07:07,940 ...and nicely disposed of as an enemy of the people.

3006 03:07:26,335 --> 03:07:28,462 Who grieves for Lee Harvey Oswald...

3007 03:07:29,171 --> 03:07:32,299 ...buried in a cheap grave under the name Oswald?

3008 03:07:33,175 --> 03:07:34,176 Nobody.

3009 03:07:42,310 --> 03:07:46,481 False statements and press leaks about Oswald circulate the globe.

3010 03:07:47,690 --> 03:07:51,027 The official legend is created and the media takes it from there.

3011 03:07:52,654 --> 03:07:56,699 The glitter of official lies and the epic splendor of JFK's funeral...

3012 03:07:56,866 --> 03:08:00,536 ...confuse the eye and confound the understanding.

3013 03:08:01,204 --> 03:08:03,040 Hitler said:

3014 03:08:03,332 --> 03:08:07,002 "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it."

3015 03:08:08,003 --> 03:08:11,674 Lee Harvey Oswald, a crazed lonely man who wanted attention...

3016 03:08:11,840 --> 03:08:16,554 ...and got it by killing a President was only the first in a long line of patsies.

3017 03:08:16,845 --> 03:08:19,557 In later years, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King...

3018 03:08:19,723 --> 03:08:22,518 ...men whose commitment to change and peace...

3019 03:08:22,685 --> 03:08:26,355 ...made them dangerous to men committed to war, would follow...

3020 03:08:26,730 --> 03:08:30,026 ...also killed by such lonely crazed men.

3021 03:08:30,694 --> 03:08:35,407 Men who remove all guilt by making murder a meaningless act of a loner.

3022 03:08:36,241 --> 03:08:40,412 We've all become Hamlets in our country, children of a slain father-leader...

3023 03:08:40,579 --> 03:08:42,914 ...whose killers still possess the throne.

3024 03:08:43,540 --> 03:08:47,377 The ghost of John F. Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder...

3025 03:08:47,544 --> 03:08:49,588 ...at the heart of the American Dream.

3026 03:08:49,754 --> 03:08:54,426 He forces on us the appalling questions: Of what is our Constitution made?

3027 03:08:54,886 --> 03:08:57,263 What are our lives worth?

3028 03:08:57,430 --> 03:08:59,432 What is the future of a democracy...

3029 03:08:59,599 --> 03:09:03,936 ...where a President can be assassinated under suspicious circumstances...

3030 03:09:04,103 --> 03:09:06,939 ...while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles?

3031 03:09:08,107 --> 03:09:11,736 How many more political murders disguised as heart attacks...

3032 03:09:11,944 --> 03:09:14,572 ...suicides, cancers, drug overdoses?

3033 03:09:14,781 --> 03:09:17,450 How many plane and car crashes will occur...

3034 03:09:17,617 --> 03:09:20,244 ...before they are exposed for what they are?

3035 03:09:21,747 --> 03:09:24,958 "Treason doth never prosper," wrote an English poet.

3036 03:09:25,459 --> 03:09:26,919 "What's the reason?"

3037 03:09:27,628 --> 03:09:30,089 "For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

3038 03:09:31,256 --> 03:09:34,259 The American public has yet to see the Zapruder film.

3039 03:09:34,760 --> 03:09:35,803 Why?

3040 03:09:36,428 --> 03:09:40,641 The American public has yet to see the real X-rays and autopsy pictures.

3041 03:09:40,808 --> 03:09:41,767 Why?

3042 03:09:42,643 --> 03:09:45,938 Hundreds of documents could help prove this conspiracy.

3043 03:09:46,105 --> 03:09:49,109 Why are they being withheld or burned by the government?

3044 03:09:50,110 --> 03:09:54,823 When my office or you, the people, asked those questions, demanded evidence...

3045 03:09:54,989 --> 03:09:58,952 ...the answer from on high has always been: national security.

3046 03:09:59,828 --> 03:10:03,998 What kind of national security do we have when we're robbed of our leaders?

3047 03:10:04,457 --> 03:10:06,835 What national security permits the removal...

3048 03:10:07,001 --> 03:10:09,671 ...of fundamental power from the people...

3049 03:10:09,838 --> 03:10:14,010 ...and validates the ascendancy of invisible government in the U.S.?

3050 03:10:14,969 --> 03:10:17,013 That kind of national security...

3051 03:10:17,179 --> 03:10:20,975 ...when it smells like it, feels like it, and looks like it...

3052 03:10:21,142 --> 03:10:23,185 ...you call it what it is:

3053 03:10:23,352 --> 03:10:24,812 Fascism!

3054 03:10:26,856 --> 03:10:30,985 I submit to you that what took place on November 22, 1963...

3055 03:10:31,193 --> 03:10:33,529 ...was a coup d'etat.

3056 03:10:34,363 --> 03:10:36,699 Its most direct and tragic result...

3057 03:10:36,866 --> 03:10:40,871 ...was the reversal of Kennedy's decision to withdraw from Vietnam.

3058 03:10:42,164 --> 03:10:44,875 The war is the biggest business in America...

3059 03:10:45,042 --> 03:10:47,711 ...with 80 billion dollars a year.

3060 03:10:48,170 --> 03:10:51,048 President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy...

3061 03:10:51,214 --> 03:10:54,051 ...planned at the highest levels of government...

3062 03:10:54,217 --> 03:10:57,721 ...carried out by fanatical and disciplined cold warriors...

3063 03:10:57,888 --> 03:11:01,391 ...in the Pentagon and CIA's covert operation apparatus.

3064 03:11:01,558 --> 03:11:04,394 Among them, Clay Shaw, here before you.

3065 03:11:04,853 --> 03:11:08,191 It was a public execution, and it was covered up by...

3066 03:11:08,358 --> 03:11:11,027 ...like-minded people in the Dallas police...

3067 03:11:11,236 --> 03:11:14,364 ...the Secret Service, the FBI, and the White House...

3068 03:11:14,530 --> 03:11:19,077 ...up to and including J. Edgar Hoover, and Lyndon Johnson...

3069 03:11:19,244 --> 03:11:21,246 ...who were accomplices after the fact.

3070 03:11:22,038 --> 03:11:26,542 The assassination reduced the President to a transient official.

3071 03:11:27,210 --> 03:11:32,091 His job is to speak as often as possible of the nation's desire for peace...

3072 03:11:32,591 --> 03:11:35,386 ...while he acts as a business agent in the Congress...

3073 03:11:35,553 --> 03:11:37,513 ...for the military and their contractors.

3074 03:11:39,723 --> 03:11:42,101 Some people say I'm crazy.

3075 03:11:43,269 --> 03:11:46,730 Southern caricature seeking higher office.

3076 03:11:48,440 --> 03:11:51,402 There's a simple way to determine if I am paranoid.

3077 03:11:51,944 --> 03:11:54,780 Ask the 2 men who profited most from the assassination.

3078 03:11:54,947 --> 03:11:58,910 ...former President Johnson and your new President, Nixon...

3079 03:11:59,077 --> 03:12:03,915 ...to release the 51 CIA documents pertaining to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby.

3080 03:12:04,457 --> 03:12:06,251 Or the secret CIA memo...

3081 03:12:06,418 --> 03:12:10,422 ...on Oswald's activities in Russia that was destroyed while being photocopied.

3082 03:12:10,922 --> 03:12:12,257 These documents are yours.

3083 03:12:13,425 --> 03:12:16,094 The people's property. You pay for it.

3084 03:12:16,636 --> 03:12:18,930 But as the government sees you as children...

3085 03:12:19,097 --> 03:12:22,434 ...who might be too disturbed to face this reality...

3086 03:12:23,268 --> 03:12:25,813 ...or because you might lynch those involved...

3087 03:12:26,314 --> 03:12:29,484 ...you cannot see these documents for another 75 years.

3088 03:12:30,610 --> 03:12:32,278 I'm in my 40's...

3089 03:12:33,488 --> 03:12:36,491 ...so I'll have shuffled off this mortal coil by then.

3090 03:12:36,657 --> 03:12:41,329 But I'm telling my 8-year-old son to keep himself physically fit...

3091 03:12:41,829 --> 03:12:45,833 ...so that one glorious September morning, in 2038...

3092 03:12:46,125 --> 03:12:50,839 ...he can go to the National Archives and learn what the CIA and FBI knew.

3093 03:12:52,466 --> 03:12:54,635 They may push it back then.

3094 03:12:54,843 --> 03:12:59,681 It may become a generational affair. Questions passed from parent to child.

3095 03:12:59,848 --> 03:13:04,520 But some day, somewhere, someone may find out the damn truth.

3096 03:13:04,812 --> 03:13:05,813 We better.

3097 03:13:07,314 --> 03:13:11,151 Or we might just as well build ourselves another government...

3098 03:13:11,318 --> 03:13:15,699 ...like the Declaration of Independence says to, when the old one don't work.

3099 03:13:15,865 --> 03:13:17,617 Just a bit farther out West.

3100 03:13:19,202 --> 03:13:21,371 An American naturalist wrote:

3101 03:13:21,538 --> 03:13:24,708 "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country...

3102 03:13:25,041 --> 03:13:26,876 ...against its government."

3103 03:13:28,545 --> 03:13:30,380 I'd hate to be in your shoes today.

3104 03:13:31,506 --> 03:13:36,177 You have a lot to think about. You've seen evidence the public hasn't seen.

3105 03:13:37,387 --> 03:13:40,014 Going back to when we were children...

3106 03:13:40,557 --> 03:13:43,185 ...l think most of us in this court...

3107 03:13:43,352 --> 03:13:46,022 ...thought justice came automatically.

3108 03:13:46,522 --> 03:13:48,566 That virtue was its own reward.

3109 03:13:48,733 --> 03:13:50,735 That good triumphs over evil.

3110 03:13:51,861 --> 03:13:54,739 But as we get older we know this isn't true.

3111 03:13:55,573 --> 03:14:00,036 Individual human beings have to create justice, and this is not easy...

3112 03:14:01,078 --> 03:14:04,248 ...because the truth often poses a threat to power...

3113 03:14:04,582 --> 03:14:07,543 ...and we often have to fight power at great risk to ourselves.

3114 03:14:08,420 --> 03:14:10,589 People like S.M. Holland...

3115 03:14:11,048 --> 03:14:12,549 ...Lee Bowers...

3116 03:14:12,883 --> 03:14:14,593 ...Jean Hill, Willie O'Keefe...

3117 03:14:14,760 --> 03:14:17,721 ...have all taken that risk and they've all come forward.

3118 03:14:18,430 --> 03:14:21,725 I have here some $8,000 in these letters...

3119 03:14:22,267 --> 03:14:24,603 ...sent from all over the country.

3120 03:14:24,770 --> 03:14:27,439 Quarters, dimes, dollars from housewives...

3121 03:14:28,065 --> 03:14:31,401 ...plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, invalids.

3122 03:14:32,110 --> 03:14:35,573 These are people who cannot afford to send money but do.

3123 03:14:36,407 --> 03:14:38,243 People who drive cabs...

3124 03:14:38,952 --> 03:14:40,578 ...who nurse in hospitals...

3125 03:14:40,745 --> 03:14:43,456 ...who see their kids go to Vietnam.

3126 03:14:44,415 --> 03:14:45,458 Why?

3127 03:14:46,918 --> 03:14:48,795 Because they care.

3128 03:14:49,295 --> 03:14:51,130 Because they want the truth.

3129 03:14:52,131 --> 03:14:54,259 Because they want their country back.

3130 03:14:54,425 --> 03:14:56,761 Because it still belongs to us...

3131 03:14:56,928 --> 03:15:00,307 ...as long as the people fight for what they believe in.

3132 03:15:03,143 --> 03:15:07,439 The truth is the most important value we have because if it doesn't endure...

3133 03:15:08,607 --> 03:15:10,109 ...if the government murders truth...

3134 03:15:10,317 --> 03:15:13,320 ...if we cannot respect these people...

3135 03:15:13,654 --> 03:15:18,325 ...then this is not the country I was born in, or the country I want to die in.

3136 03:15:19,660 --> 03:15:20,995 Tennyson wrote:

3137 03:15:21,161 --> 03:15:23,497 "Authority forgets a dying king."

3138 03:15:25,040 --> 03:15:27,711 This was never more true than for John F. Kennedy...

3139 03:15:28,003 --> 03:15:31,339 ...whose murder was probably one of the most terrible moments...

3140 03:15:31,506 --> 03:15:33,466 ...in the history of our country.

3141 03:15:36,344 --> 03:15:40,307 We, the people, the jury system sitting in judgment on Clay Shaw...

3142 03:15:42,058 --> 03:15:43,727 ...represent the hope...

3143 03:15:43,894 --> 03:15:46,563 ...of humanity against government power.

3144 03:15:47,689 --> 03:15:49,649 In discharging your duty...

3145 03:15:50,358 --> 03:15:53,821 ...to bring a first conviction in this house of cards...

3146 03:15:54,030 --> 03:15:55,865 ...against Clay Shaw...

3147 03:15:56,199 --> 03:16:00,411 "...ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

3148 03:16:01,412 --> 03:16:03,039 Do not forget...

3149 03:16:03,539 --> 03:16:05,374 ...your dying king.

3150 03:16:06,876 --> 03:16:08,628 Show this world...

3151 03:16:09,045 --> 03:16:13,883 ...this is still a government of the people, for the people and by the people.

3152 03:16:16,385 --> 03:16:18,137 Nothing as long as you live...

3153 03:16:18,430 --> 03:16:20,432 ...will ever be more important.

3154 03:16:23,727 --> 03:16:25,062 It's up to you.

3155 03:16:48,253 --> 03:16:50,714 Has the jury reached a verdict?

3156 03:16:50,922 --> 03:16:52,048 We have, Your Honor.

3157 03:16:52,298 --> 03:16:54,759 Please hand the verdict to the clerk.

3158 03:17:04,269 --> 03:17:06,896 Will the defendant please rise?

3159 03:17:11,027 --> 03:17:13,279 The clerk will now read the verdict.

3160 03:17:13,821 --> 03:17:17,616 New Orleans, Louisiana. March 1, 1969.

3161 03:17:18,701 --> 03:17:23,205 We, the jury, find the defendant, Clay Shaw, not guilty.

3162 03:17:45,187 --> 03:17:46,855 We believe there was a conspiracy.

3163 03:17:47,022 --> 03:17:49,858 Whether Shaw was a part of it is another kettle of fish.

3164 03:17:50,150 --> 03:17:51,777 There's Jim!

3165 03:17:54,154 --> 03:17:58,992 Do you agree that this is a full vindication of the Warren Commission?

3166 03:18:00,661 --> 03:18:03,998 It only proves you cannot run an investigation.