JFK

Name: JFK
Released: 1991

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Movie Name	JFK
Release Name	JFK.1991.[DirectorsCut].UHDRip.2160p.HDR-DV.Eng-Full
Year	1991
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1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:25,874 --> 00:00:27,124 But we can no longer risk 3 00:00:27,208 --> 00:00:30,707 emergency improvisation of national defense. 4 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:32,998 We have been compelled to create 5 00:00:33,082 --> 00:00:35,124 a permanent armaments industry 6 00:00:35,208 --> 00:00:37,290 of vast proportions. 7 00:00:37,374 --> 00:00:38,623 Added to this 8 00:00:38,707 --> 00:00:41,540 three and a half million men and women 9 00:00:41,624 --> 00:00:42,790 are directly engaged 10 00:00:42,874 --> 00:00:44,582 in the defense establishment. 11 00:00:45,458 --> 00:00:48,957 We annually spend on military security alone... 12 00:00:49,041 --> 00:00:51,082 January 1961. 13 00:00:51,166 --> 00:00:54,665 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the nation. 14 00:00:54,749 --> 00:00:55,915 Now this conjunction 15 00:00:55,999 --> 00:00:57,748 of an immense military establishment 16 00:00:57,832 --> 00:00:59,416 and a large arms industry... 17 00:00:59,749 --> 00:01:00,665 is new 18 00:01:00,749 --> 00:01:02,374 in the American experience. 19 00:01:02,874 --> 00:01:04,208 The total influence... 20 00:01:04,582 --> 00:01:07,832 economic, political, even spiritual... 21 00:01:08,082 --> 00:01:09,624 is felt in every city... 22 00:01:09,874 --> 00:01:11,124 every state house, 23 00:01:11,208 --> 00:01:13,156 every office of the federal government. 24 00:01:13,374 --> 00:01:15,832 We must guard against the acquisition 25 00:01:15,916 --> 00:01:17,665 of unwarranted influence, 26 00:01:17,749 --> 00:01:19,500 whether sought or unsought, 27 00:01:19,707 --> 00:01:22,041 by the military-industrial complex. 28 00:01:23,124 --> 00:01:24,374 We must never let the weight 29 00:01:24,458 --> 00:01:25,581 of this combination 30 00:01:25,665 --> 00:01:26,665 endanger our liberties, 31 00:01:26,749 --> 00:01:28,582 or democratic processes. 32 00:01:30,166 --> 00:01:31,998 November, 1960. 33 00:01:32,082 --> 00:01:33,998 Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 34 00:01:34,082 --> 00:01:35,040 of Massachusetts, 35 00:01:35,124 --> 00:01:36,374 wins one of the narrowest 36 00:01:36,458 --> 00:01:38,416 election victories in American history 37 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:39,581 over the vice president, 38 00:01:39,665 --> 00:01:40,457 Richard Nixon, 39 00:01:40,540 --> 00:01:43,166 by a little more than 100,000 votes. 40 00:01:43,999 --> 00:01:45,623 Alongside his beautiful 41 00:01:45,707 --> 00:01:47,915 and elegant wife, Jacqueline Bouvier, 42 00:01:47,999 --> 00:01:49,165 Kennedy is the symbol 43 00:01:49,249 --> 00:01:51,416 of the new freedom of the 1960s, 44 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:53,623 signifying change and upheaval 45 00:01:53,707 --> 00:01:54,748 to the American public. 46 00:01:54,832 --> 00:01:57,124 That all men are created equal. 47 00:01:57,208 --> 00:01:58,581 Every degree of mind and spirit 48 00:01:58,665 --> 00:01:59,915 that I possess 49 00:01:59,999 --> 00:02:02,873 will be devoted to the cause of freedom around the world. 50 00:02:02,957 --> 00:02:05,332 Today, the proudest boast is... 51 00:02:05,416 --> 00:02:07,416 "Ich bin ein Berliner!" 52 00:02:08,458 --> 00:02:09,957 He inherits a secret war 53 00:02:10,041 --> 00:02:12,165 against the communist Castro dictatorship 54 00:02:12,249 --> 00:02:14,873 in Cuba, a war run by the CIA 55 00:02:14,957 --> 00:02:16,998 and angry Cuban exiles. 56 00:02:17,082 --> 00:02:19,416 Castro is a successful revolutionary, 57 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:21,457 frightening to American business interests 58 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:23,040 in Latin America. 59 00:02:23,124 --> 00:02:24,290 This war culminates 60 00:02:24,374 --> 00:02:26,665 in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion 61 00:02:26,749 --> 00:02:28,790 in April 1961, 62 00:02:28,874 --> 00:02:31,540 when Kennedy refuses to provide air cover 63 00:02:31,624 --> 00:02:33,748 for the exiled Cuban brigade. 64 00:02:33,832 --> 00:02:35,998 Kennedy, taking public responsibility 65 00:02:36,082 --> 00:02:36,915 for the failure, 66 00:02:36,999 --> 00:02:39,706 privately claims the CIA lied to him 67 00:02:39,790 --> 00:02:41,623 and tried to manipulate him 68 00:02:41,707 --> 00:02:43,623 into ordering an all-out American invasion 69 00:02:43,707 --> 00:02:44,539 of Cuba. 70 00:02:46,208 --> 00:02:49,748 In October 1962, the world comes 71 00:02:49,832 --> 00:02:51,457 to the brink of nuclear war, 72 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:53,499 when Kennedy quarantines Cuba 73 00:02:53,582 --> 00:02:55,790 after announcing the presence of offensive 74 00:02:55,874 --> 00:02:57,665 Soviet nuclear missiles 75 00:02:57,749 --> 00:02:59,915 90 miles off American shores. 76 00:02:59,999 --> 00:03:01,706 Soviet ships with more missiles 77 00:03:01,790 --> 00:03:03,374 sail towards the island, 78 00:03:03,458 --> 00:03:04,457 but at the last moment, 79 00:03:04,540 --> 00:03:05,957 they turn back. 80 00:03:06,041 --> 00:03:08,082 The world breathes with relief. 81 00:03:08,166 --> 00:03:11,249 In Washington, rumors abound that JFK 82 00:03:11,333 --> 00:03:12,873 has cut a secret deal 83 00:03:12,957 --> 00:03:14,249 with Russian Premier Khrushchev 84 00:03:14,333 --> 00:03:16,416 - no wish to war with Soviet Union... - Not to invade Cuba 85 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:18,165 in return for a Russian withdrawal 86 00:03:18,249 --> 00:03:19,249 of missiles. 87 00:03:19,333 --> 00:03:20,623 Suspicions abound 88 00:03:20,707 --> 00:03:22,957 that Kennedy is soft on communism. 89 00:03:24,374 --> 00:03:26,540 Kennedy also finds himself embroiled 90 00:03:26,624 --> 00:03:28,165 in Laos and Vietnam. 91 00:03:28,249 --> 00:03:29,374 We've got our difficulties there, 92 00:03:29,458 --> 00:03:30,581 quite obviously. 93 00:03:30,665 --> 00:03:33,540 Unless a greater effort is made by the government, 94 00:03:33,624 --> 00:03:35,623 to win popular support, I don't think that 95 00:03:35,707 --> 00:03:37,581 the war can be won out there. 96 00:03:37,665 --> 00:03:38,416 And the final analysis 97 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:39,290 it's their war. 98 00:03:39,374 --> 00:03:41,290 They're the ones who have to win it or lose it. 99 00:03:41,374 --> 00:03:42,874 Early that fateful summer, 100 00:03:43,082 --> 00:03:44,680 Kennedy speaks of his new vision 101 00:03:44,832 --> 00:03:46,998 at the American University in Washington. 102 00:03:47,082 --> 00:03:48,665 What kind of a peace do I mean? 103 00:03:48,749 --> 00:03:50,547 And what kind of a peace do we seek? 104 00:03:50,874 --> 00:03:52,500 Not a Pax Americana... 105 00:03:52,916 --> 00:03:54,124 enforced on the world... 106 00:03:54,540 --> 00:03:56,291 by American weapons of war. 107 00:03:56,790 --> 00:03:58,916 We must reexamine our own attitudes... 108 00:03:59,291 --> 00:04:00,665 towards the Soviet Union. 109 00:04:01,082 --> 00:04:03,333 Our most basic, common link... 110 00:04:03,582 --> 00:04:05,166 is that we all inhabit... 111 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:06,999 this small planet. 112 00:04:07,707 --> 00:04:09,458 We all breathe the same air. 113 00:04:09,957 --> 00:04:12,291 We all cherish our children's futures. 114 00:04:12,790 --> 00:04:14,249 And we are all mortal. 115 00:04:25,041 --> 00:04:27,124 You fucking asshole! 116 00:04:27,208 --> 00:04:28,957 You come back here! 117 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:31,416 Don't leave me here! 118 00:04:34,166 --> 00:04:35,624 They're going up to Dallas. 119 00:04:36,540 --> 00:04:37,373 Friday. 120 00:04:40,166 --> 00:04:43,749 They're gonna... kill... Kennedy. 121 00:04:45,707 --> 00:04:46,957 Call somebody... 122 00:04:47,957 --> 00:04:49,500 And stop them. 123 00:04:53,416 --> 00:04:57,749 These are serious fucking guys! 124 00:05:02,249 --> 00:05:03,947 She's high as a kite on something. 125 00:05:04,333 --> 00:05:07,130 - Been that way since they brought her in. - Please help! 126 00:05:07,832 --> 00:05:09,790 Please! 127 00:07:06,540 --> 00:07:07,457 In Dallas, Texas, 128 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:08,957 three shots were fired 129 00:07:09,041 --> 00:07:10,623 at President Kennedy's motorcade 130 00:07:10,707 --> 00:07:12,124 in Downtown Dallas. 131 00:07:12,624 --> 00:07:13,832 The first reports say that 132 00:07:13,916 --> 00:07:16,748 President Kennedy has been seriously wounded 133 00:07:16,832 --> 00:07:18,416 by this shooting. 134 00:07:40,749 --> 00:07:42,082 What's wrong, Lou? 135 00:07:43,957 --> 00:07:45,873 Boss, the president's been shot. 136 00:07:45,957 --> 00:07:47,999 In Dallas. Five minutes ago. 137 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:49,749 Oh, no. 138 00:07:52,707 --> 00:07:53,916 How bad? 139 00:07:54,166 --> 00:07:55,082 There's no word yet, 140 00:07:55,166 --> 00:07:56,764 but they think it's in the head. 141 00:08:03,874 --> 00:08:05,124 Come on. 142 00:08:05,582 --> 00:08:06,957 Napoleon's has a TV set. 143 00:08:08,166 --> 00:08:10,290 Apparently, three bullets were found. 144 00:08:10,374 --> 00:08:13,040 Governor Connally also appeared to have been hit. 145 00:08:13,124 --> 00:08:14,790 The President was rushed by Secret Service 146 00:08:14,874 --> 00:08:16,207 to Parkland Memorial Hospital, 147 00:08:16,291 --> 00:08:17,998 four miles from Dealey Plaza. 148 00:08:18,082 --> 00:08:20,706 We are told a bullet entered the base of the throat, 149 00:08:20,790 --> 00:08:22,416 and came out of the backside, 150 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:24,332 but there is no confirmation. 151 00:08:24,416 --> 00:08:26,416 Blood transfusions are being given. 152 00:08:26,832 --> 00:08:28,999 A priest has administered the last rites. 153 00:08:31,832 --> 00:08:33,458 There's still a chance, damnit. 154 00:08:35,333 --> 00:08:36,957 Come on, Jack. Pull through. 155 00:08:37,041 --> 00:08:38,165 From Dallas, Texas. 156 00:08:38,249 --> 00:08:40,208 The flash, apparently official. 157 00:08:40,540 --> 00:08:42,499 President Kennedy died 158 00:08:42,582 --> 00:08:45,957 at 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. 159 00:08:46,208 --> 00:08:48,873 2:00 Eastern Standard Time. 160 00:08:48,957 --> 00:08:51,208 Some 38 minutes ago. 161 00:08:56,540 --> 00:08:58,040 Vice President Lyndon Johnson 162 00:08:58,124 --> 00:08:59,623 has left the hospital. 163 00:08:59,707 --> 00:09:03,374 Presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly 164 00:09:03,458 --> 00:09:07,749 and become the 36th President of the United States. 165 00:09:08,458 --> 00:09:10,540 He did so much for this country, 166 00:09:10,624 --> 00:09:12,249 for colored people. 167 00:09:12,333 --> 00:09:13,458 Why? 168 00:09:13,832 --> 00:09:14,874 Why? 169 00:09:15,957 --> 00:09:17,124 He's dirty! 170 00:09:17,208 --> 00:09:18,957 Goodbye, you sorry bastard! 171 00:09:19,582 --> 00:09:20,457 Die! 172 00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:23,333 Hey, shut the fuck up! 173 00:09:23,665 --> 00:09:25,916 God, I'm ashamed to be an American today. 174 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:28,748 The President of the United States 175 00:09:28,832 --> 00:09:29,957 is dead. 176 00:09:30,624 --> 00:09:33,082 I have just talked to Father Oscar Hubert, 177 00:09:33,166 --> 00:09:34,964 of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church. 178 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:38,706 He and another priest tell me that the pair of men 179 00:09:38,790 --> 00:09:40,332 had just administered the last rites 180 00:09:40,416 --> 00:09:41,623 to President Kennedy. 181 00:09:41,707 --> 00:09:43,124 Shortly after 12:30, 182 00:09:43,208 --> 00:09:45,665 as the president's motorcade near the freeway entrance 183 00:09:45,749 --> 00:09:48,207 near the park in the westside of Downtown Dallas, 184 00:09:48,291 --> 00:09:49,999 those terrible shots rang out. 185 00:09:50,333 --> 00:09:52,041 The president is dead. 186 00:09:53,124 --> 00:09:55,916 Bullets were coming up over our heads... 187 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:58,957 from that fence up on the knoll. 188 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:01,957 I seen his face when it hit. He just... 189 00:10:03,124 --> 00:10:05,124 His ear blew off, 190 00:10:05,208 --> 00:10:07,082 and he turns this real white. 191 00:10:10,208 --> 00:10:12,374 He kind of flopped over on his stomach... 192 00:10:13,124 --> 00:10:14,416 And um... 193 00:10:15,124 --> 00:10:16,749 with his foot sticking out. 194 00:10:18,540 --> 00:10:19,457 Excuse me. 195 00:10:19,540 --> 00:10:21,416 None of us thought it could happen in America 196 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:23,500 or any place else, and yet... 197 00:10:23,832 --> 00:10:27,082 All this blubbering over that no-count son of a bitch. 198 00:10:27,166 --> 00:10:28,998 They're bawling like they knew the man. 199 00:10:29,082 --> 00:10:30,374 Makes me want to puke. 200 00:10:31,999 --> 00:10:34,540 For God's sake, chief, the president was shot. 201 00:10:34,624 --> 00:10:36,082 A bullshit president. 202 00:10:36,665 --> 00:10:40,249 I don't see anybody crying for all those thousands of Cubans 203 00:10:40,333 --> 00:10:44,333 that bastard condemned to death and torture at Bay of Pigs. 204 00:10:45,041 --> 00:10:46,998 Goddamn peace treaties. 205 00:10:47,082 --> 00:10:49,124 I heard shots from over there. 206 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:52,041 Well, I heard some shots from right over there. 207 00:10:52,208 --> 00:10:54,040 - How many shots? - Uh, I can't... 208 00:10:54,124 --> 00:10:56,707 That's what happens when you let the niggers vote. 209 00:10:57,832 --> 00:11:01,249 They get together with the Jews and the Catholics, 210 00:11:01,333 --> 00:11:03,624 and elect an Irish bleeding heart. 211 00:11:03,999 --> 00:11:06,457 Uh, chief, maybe you had a little too much to drink. 212 00:11:06,540 --> 00:11:07,957 Bullshit. 213 00:11:08,333 --> 00:11:10,166 Here's to the New Frontier. 214 00:11:11,333 --> 00:11:13,790 Camelot in smithereens. 215 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:15,874 I'll drink to that. 216 00:11:21,333 --> 00:11:22,249 A flash bulletin. 217 00:11:22,333 --> 00:11:25,165 Dallas police have just announced that they have a suspect 218 00:11:25,249 --> 00:11:29,457 in the killing of a Dallas police officer, a JD Tippit, 219 00:11:29,540 --> 00:11:31,957 who was shot at 1:15 in Oak Cliff. 220 00:11:32,041 --> 00:11:33,623 That's a suburb of Dallas. 221 00:11:33,707 --> 00:11:35,832 Police are saying there could be a tie-in, here, 222 00:11:35,916 --> 00:11:37,581 to the murder of the president. 223 00:11:37,665 --> 00:11:41,457 The suspect, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, 224 00:11:41,540 --> 00:11:44,416 was arrested by more than a dozen police officers, 225 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:47,832 after a short scuffle at the Texas movie theater in Oak Cliff. 226 00:11:49,540 --> 00:11:51,489 Officer Tippit was killed apparently... 227 00:11:52,832 --> 00:11:55,290 by a revolver, which was found on Oswald. 228 00:11:55,374 --> 00:11:56,457 There is apparently... 229 00:11:56,540 --> 00:11:58,249 They oughta just shoot the bastard! 230 00:11:58,333 --> 00:12:00,540 They should give him a medal for shooting Kennedy! 231 00:12:00,624 --> 00:12:01,706 Oswald! 232 00:12:01,790 --> 00:12:02,832 Oswald, did you fire that rifle? 233 00:12:02,916 --> 00:12:04,040 No, sir, I didn't. 234 00:12:04,124 --> 00:12:05,790 I don't know what I am charged with, 235 00:12:05,874 --> 00:12:07,957 but I emphatically deny these charges. 236 00:12:11,374 --> 00:12:14,291 Well, the kid must've gone nuts, right? 237 00:12:15,416 --> 00:12:17,832 - I said, Oswald must've flipped. - Yeah. 238 00:12:17,916 --> 00:12:19,041 - Right? - Yeah. 239 00:12:19,999 --> 00:12:23,040 Just went ahead and did this crazy thing before anybody could stop him. 240 00:12:23,124 --> 00:12:26,623 I think I'll get out of here. I've got to get home, chief. 241 00:12:26,707 --> 00:12:28,505 What the hell are you talking about? 242 00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:31,333 Yeah, who would ever have thought... 243 00:12:31,665 --> 00:12:35,624 that goofy Oswald kid would pull a stunt like an assassination. 244 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:39,499 Just goes to show, you never can know about some people. 245 00:12:39,582 --> 00:12:42,623 - Am I right, Jack? - Yeah. 246 00:12:42,707 --> 00:12:45,540 - Well, bless my soul. - Huh? 247 00:12:45,624 --> 00:12:48,208 Yeah, all these years I thought you were on my team. 248 00:12:49,166 --> 00:12:51,707 Sometimes, I don't know. Are you kidding? 249 00:12:51,999 --> 00:12:54,540 I couldn't be more serious, Jack. 250 00:12:55,124 --> 00:12:59,082 The little red eyes of yours have me wondering about your loyalty. 251 00:13:07,291 --> 00:13:09,089 Look at that. Look at that lightning. 252 00:13:12,458 --> 00:13:14,749 - Who's been going through my files? - Huh? 253 00:13:14,957 --> 00:13:16,581 You've been going through my files, haven't you? 254 00:13:16,665 --> 00:13:17,916 You little weasel. 255 00:13:18,874 --> 00:13:20,748 You're starting to get paranoid. 256 00:13:20,832 --> 00:13:22,333 You really are! 257 00:13:23,291 --> 00:13:25,249 You were going through all my files. 258 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:26,832 You're a goddamn spy. 259 00:13:26,916 --> 00:13:29,623 Why the hell would I want to look through your files, chief? 260 00:13:29,707 --> 00:13:32,582 I've seen enough here this summer already to write a book. 261 00:13:32,957 --> 00:13:35,249 I always lock my files! 262 00:13:35,333 --> 00:13:37,166 You're the only one here today. 263 00:13:37,790 --> 00:13:40,915 - What do you mean, you bastard? - Huh? 264 00:13:40,999 --> 00:13:42,832 What do you mean, you're going to write a book? 265 00:13:42,916 --> 00:13:45,707 What? No, I mean, well, you know what I mean. 266 00:13:46,374 --> 00:13:49,124 I've seen a lot of strange things here. 267 00:13:49,749 --> 00:13:50,790 Strange people. 268 00:13:51,041 --> 00:13:53,208 You didn't see a goddamn thing! 269 00:13:57,540 --> 00:13:58,957 Goddamn you. 270 00:13:59,540 --> 00:14:00,748 You didn't see a goddamn thing, 271 00:14:00,832 --> 00:14:02,082 you hear me, you little weasel? 272 00:14:02,166 --> 00:14:03,873 You didn't see a goddamn thing! 273 00:14:03,957 --> 00:14:06,124 Full name is Lee Harvey Oswald. 274 00:14:06,374 --> 00:14:07,873 O-S-W-A-L-D. 275 00:14:07,957 --> 00:14:09,457 - Stand back, please. - Did you shoot the president? 276 00:14:09,540 --> 00:14:11,249 I didn't shoot anybody, no, sir. 277 00:14:11,832 --> 00:14:14,124 They have taken me in because of the fact 278 00:14:14,208 --> 00:14:16,665 I have lived in the Soviet Union. 279 00:14:17,166 --> 00:14:19,082 I'm just a patsy! 280 00:14:19,582 --> 00:14:21,749 God, he sure looks like a creep. 281 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:27,041 I protested at that time I was not allowed legal representation... 282 00:14:27,874 --> 00:14:31,623 during that very short and sweet hearing... 283 00:14:31,707 --> 00:14:35,332 I really don't know what this situation is about. 284 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:38,957 Nobody has told me anything, except that I am accused of 285 00:14:39,041 --> 00:14:40,500 murdering a policeman. 286 00:14:40,999 --> 00:14:44,915 I know nothing more than that, and I do request 287 00:14:44,999 --> 00:14:49,332 someone to come forward to give me legal assistance. 288 00:14:49,416 --> 00:14:51,623 Were you ever in the Free Cuba movement 289 00:14:51,707 --> 00:14:52,665 or whatever that it's called? 290 00:14:52,749 --> 00:14:54,747 That's the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. 291 00:14:55,374 --> 00:14:56,499 What did you do in Russia? 292 00:14:56,582 --> 00:14:57,915 And what happened to your eye? 293 00:14:57,999 --> 00:15:01,040 He seems pretty cool to me for a man under pressure like that. 294 00:15:01,124 --> 00:15:02,582 A policeman hit me. 295 00:15:02,749 --> 00:15:04,166 Gives me the willies. 296 00:15:04,416 --> 00:15:07,874 Okay, come on, sugarplums, it's past your bedtimes. 297 00:15:08,208 --> 00:15:09,790 Oh, Mattie, honey. 298 00:15:09,874 --> 00:15:11,999 Get a hold of yourself. 299 00:15:12,333 --> 00:15:13,874 Why, Mr. Jim? 300 00:15:14,999 --> 00:15:16,665 He was a fine man. 301 00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:18,249 Lee Harvey Oswald... 302 00:15:18,333 --> 00:15:19,998 - A fine man. - After a stint in the marines, 303 00:15:20,082 --> 00:15:21,748 he apparently became fascinated 304 00:15:21,832 --> 00:15:22,873 by communism. 305 00:15:22,957 --> 00:15:25,499 He is still believed to be a dedicated Marxist 306 00:15:25,582 --> 00:15:27,748 and a fanatical supporter of Fidel Castro 307 00:15:27,832 --> 00:15:29,832 and ultra left-wing causes. 308 00:15:30,124 --> 00:15:31,915 He spent last summer in New Orleans 309 00:15:31,999 --> 00:15:33,581 and was arrested there in a brawl 310 00:15:33,665 --> 00:15:36,124 with anti-Castro Cuban exiles. 311 00:15:36,208 --> 00:15:39,207 And apparently, Bob, Oswald has been passing out... 312 00:15:39,291 --> 00:15:40,457 Hello, Lou? 313 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:41,873 Yeah, sorry to disturb you this late. 314 00:15:41,957 --> 00:15:43,249 It's all right, I'm watching it, too. 315 00:15:43,333 --> 00:15:44,416 Yeah, a matter of routine, 316 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:46,915 but we better get on this Oswald connection to New Orleans right away. 317 00:15:46,999 --> 00:15:49,249 - Mm-hmm. - I want you to check out his record. 318 00:15:49,333 --> 00:15:51,749 Find any friends or associates from last summer. 319 00:15:52,124 --> 00:15:54,581 Let's meet with the senior assistants and investigators 320 00:15:54,665 --> 00:15:56,332 day after tomorrow, all right? 321 00:15:56,416 --> 00:15:57,790 That'd be on Sunday? 322 00:15:57,874 --> 00:15:59,208 Sunday, yeah, at 11:00. 323 00:15:59,707 --> 00:16:01,555 - All right. - All right. Thanks, Lou. 324 00:16:01,999 --> 00:16:04,124 I would say that, without any doubt, 325 00:16:04,208 --> 00:16:05,249 he is the killer. 326 00:16:05,333 --> 00:16:07,207 The law says beyond a reasonable doubt 327 00:16:07,291 --> 00:16:08,748 and to a moral certainty. 328 00:16:08,832 --> 00:16:10,915 I thought it was a motorcycle backfire, 329 00:16:10,999 --> 00:16:12,706 and I looked over to my left 330 00:16:12,790 --> 00:16:14,998 and a second shot hit him in the face. 331 00:16:15,082 --> 00:16:16,623 Police say the rifle, 332 00:16:16,707 --> 00:16:20,041 a cheap World War ll, Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano... 333 00:16:20,374 --> 00:16:22,521 was ordered from a Chicago mailing house... 334 00:16:22,874 --> 00:16:26,082 and shipped to Oswald's alias, A. Hidell, 335 00:16:26,166 --> 00:16:28,957 at a post office box in March of 1963. 336 00:16:29,041 --> 00:16:30,957 This is the same rifle that was used 337 00:16:31,041 --> 00:16:32,540 to assassinate the president. 338 00:16:33,208 --> 00:16:34,249 That ties it up. 339 00:16:34,416 --> 00:16:35,581 He did what? 340 00:16:35,665 --> 00:16:37,040 Another nut. 341 00:16:37,124 --> 00:16:39,457 Jesus Christ! Anybody can get a rifle in Texas. 342 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:41,249 As far as Oswald's associates, boss, 343 00:16:41,333 --> 00:16:44,124 the one name that keeps popping up is David Ferrie. 344 00:16:44,374 --> 00:16:46,871 Oswald was seen with him several times last summer. 345 00:16:47,790 --> 00:16:48,832 I know David. 346 00:16:49,790 --> 00:16:50,998 Strange character. 347 00:16:51,082 --> 00:16:52,290 Yeah, he's been in trouble before. 348 00:16:52,374 --> 00:16:54,540 Used to be a hot-shot pilot for Eastern Airlines 349 00:16:54,624 --> 00:16:57,499 but got canned after an alleged homosexual incident 350 00:16:57,582 --> 00:16:59,290 - with a 14 year old. - These backyard photos 351 00:16:59,374 --> 00:17:01,832 were found yesterday among Oswald's possessions. 352 00:17:01,916 --> 00:17:02,916 Get Kohlman. 353 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:05,457 He told somebody the Texas trip. 354 00:17:05,540 --> 00:17:07,788 Yesterday, mentioned to somebody about Ferrie. 355 00:17:08,291 --> 00:17:09,332 Find it out. 356 00:17:09,416 --> 00:17:10,706 Did he shoot the president, Marina? 357 00:17:10,790 --> 00:17:12,166 He no shoot anyone. 358 00:17:12,999 --> 00:17:15,249 He good... good man. Good husband. 359 00:17:16,208 --> 00:17:19,749 So it seems David Ferrie drove off on Friday afternoon for Texas. 360 00:17:20,124 --> 00:17:22,748 A source told Kohlman he might have been a getaway pilot for Oswald. 361 00:17:22,832 --> 00:17:24,124 What getaway pilot? 362 00:17:24,291 --> 00:17:26,333 Hold on. Hold your horses. 363 00:17:26,582 --> 00:17:27,999 What kind of source? 364 00:17:28,624 --> 00:17:30,124 The anonymous kind, chief. 365 00:17:30,957 --> 00:17:32,581 I think I remember this guy Ferrie, 366 00:17:32,665 --> 00:17:34,665 speaking at a meeting of some veterans group, 367 00:17:34,749 --> 00:17:36,124 ranting against Castro. 368 00:17:36,291 --> 00:17:37,390 Extreme sort of stuff. 369 00:17:38,458 --> 00:17:39,790 Susie, back up. 370 00:17:39,874 --> 00:17:40,873 They're bringing him out. 371 00:17:40,957 --> 00:17:42,624 - Numa, turn it up. - Yeah. 372 00:17:43,790 --> 00:17:45,207 Here he comes! 373 00:17:45,291 --> 00:17:46,540 Come on, here he comes! Get that stuff! 374 00:17:46,624 --> 00:17:47,773 Come on, let's get him! 375 00:17:50,916 --> 00:17:53,364 Is there anything you want to say in your defense? 376 00:17:53,749 --> 00:17:54,665 Oswald! 377 00:17:55,916 --> 00:17:56,665 What happened? 378 00:17:56,749 --> 00:17:58,298 - He's been shot! - He shot him! 379 00:17:58,749 --> 00:18:00,706 He's been shot! 380 00:18:00,790 --> 00:18:02,439 He shot him on TV! Just shot him! 381 00:18:05,333 --> 00:18:06,582 There's a man with a gun! 382 00:18:06,790 --> 00:18:08,998 - There's absolute panic! - It's the guy in the hat. 383 00:18:09,082 --> 00:18:11,929 Seventy cops in that place. What the hell were they doing? 384 00:18:12,999 --> 00:18:14,416 Well, no trial now. 385 00:18:15,291 --> 00:18:18,374 Looks like somebody just saved the Dallas DA a pile of work. 386 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,896 Pandemonium has broken loose here in the basement of Dallas Police... 387 00:18:22,124 --> 00:18:22,956 Lou. 388 00:18:23,790 --> 00:18:25,916 Lou, let's get David Ferrie in here anyway. 389 00:18:26,916 --> 00:18:28,082 It's wrong. 390 00:18:28,458 --> 00:18:29,665 This is crazy! 391 00:18:44,041 --> 00:18:46,290 Yesterday, in the midst of sorrow, 392 00:18:46,374 --> 00:18:48,166 the business of government went on. 393 00:18:48,582 --> 00:18:51,332 The President meeting with Henry Cabot Lodge, 394 00:18:51,416 --> 00:18:53,581 our ambassador to Vietnam, 395 00:18:53,665 --> 00:18:55,041 and members of his cabinet. 396 00:18:55,291 --> 00:18:57,333 The major subject was Vietnam... 397 00:18:57,665 --> 00:19:00,581 a crisis that does not pause for bereavement. 398 00:19:00,665 --> 00:19:04,457 And from this meeting, came affirmations that the United States 399 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:08,165 would continue its policy of aiding the new government of Vietnam 400 00:19:08,249 --> 00:19:10,999 in its war against the communist insurgents. 401 00:19:16,582 --> 00:19:17,458 Chief? 402 00:19:17,749 --> 00:19:18,832 David Ferrie. 403 00:19:20,707 --> 00:19:21,707 Come on in, Dave. 404 00:19:23,166 --> 00:19:24,215 Thank you for coming. 405 00:19:24,665 --> 00:19:26,114 You remember me, Mr. Garrison? 406 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:28,873 I met you on Carondelet Street, right after your election. 407 00:19:28,957 --> 00:19:30,374 - I congratulated you, remember? - How could I forget? 408 00:19:30,458 --> 00:19:32,208 You make quite a first impression. 409 00:19:32,832 --> 00:19:35,748 And I've heard over the years you're quite a first-rate pilot, Dave. 410 00:19:35,832 --> 00:19:36,623 - Really? - Yeah. 411 00:19:36,707 --> 00:19:39,957 Legend has it you can get in and out of any field, no matter how small. 412 00:19:40,041 --> 00:19:41,790 - Huh. - I'm a bit of a pilot myself. 413 00:19:41,874 --> 00:19:44,624 Flew grasshoppers for the field artillery in the war. 414 00:19:45,749 --> 00:19:47,947 Here, have a seat. Make yourself comfortable. 415 00:19:49,416 --> 00:19:50,874 Mind if I smoke, Mr. Garrison? 416 00:19:51,540 --> 00:19:52,500 How could I? 417 00:19:53,874 --> 00:19:54,623 Dave, as you know, 418 00:19:54,707 --> 00:19:57,165 President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday. 419 00:19:57,249 --> 00:20:00,499 A man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested as a suspect, 420 00:20:00,582 --> 00:20:04,041 and was then murdered, yesterday, by a man named Jack Ruby. 421 00:20:04,707 --> 00:20:07,581 We've heard reports that Oswald spent the summer here in New Orleans, 422 00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:10,413 and we've been advised that you knew Oswald pretty well. 423 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:12,291 I never met anybody named Oswald. 424 00:20:12,665 --> 00:20:14,763 Anybody that told you that has to be crazy. 425 00:20:14,916 --> 00:20:17,040 But you are aware, he served in your Civil Air Patrol unit 426 00:20:17,124 --> 00:20:19,082 when he was a teenager? 427 00:20:19,166 --> 00:20:21,166 No. If he did, I don't remember him. 428 00:20:21,916 --> 00:20:24,082 I mean, there were lots of boys in and out, you know? 429 00:20:24,166 --> 00:20:25,748 Well, I'm sure you've seen this. 430 00:20:25,832 --> 00:20:28,030 Perhaps you knew this man under another name. 431 00:20:30,665 --> 00:20:32,624 No, I never saw him before in my life. 432 00:20:34,333 --> 00:20:37,130 Well that must've been mistaken information we got, then. 433 00:20:37,374 --> 00:20:39,322 Thanks for straightening it out for us. 434 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:43,957 There is one other matter that's come up, Dave. 435 00:20:45,707 --> 00:20:48,082 We were told that you took a trip to Texas... 436 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:50,790 shortly after the assassination on Friday. 437 00:20:50,874 --> 00:20:52,922 Yeah, now that's true. I drove to Houston. 438 00:20:53,041 --> 00:20:54,839 What was so appealing about Houston? 439 00:20:55,582 --> 00:20:57,915 I hadn't been there ice skating in many years and I was with 440 00:20:57,999 --> 00:21:01,457 a couple of young friends and we decided we wanted to go ice skating. 441 00:21:01,540 --> 00:21:03,124 Dave, may I ask why the urge 442 00:21:03,208 --> 00:21:04,957 To go ice skating in Texas happened to strike you 443 00:21:05,041 --> 00:21:08,088 during one of the most violent thunderstorms in recent memory? 444 00:21:09,540 --> 00:21:10,291 Uh 445 00:21:10,416 --> 00:21:12,082 Spur-of-the-moment thing. 446 00:21:12,249 --> 00:21:13,999 - Storm wasn't that bad. - I see. 447 00:21:16,124 --> 00:21:17,323 And where did you drive? 448 00:21:17,707 --> 00:21:18,956 Uh, we went to Houston... 449 00:21:19,540 --> 00:21:21,499 then Saturday night drove to Galveston 450 00:21:21,582 --> 00:21:22,681 and stayed over there. 451 00:21:22,790 --> 00:21:23,832 And then Sunday? 452 00:21:25,208 --> 00:21:27,106 In the morning, we went goose hunting. 453 00:21:28,124 --> 00:21:29,749 You bag any geese on this trip? 454 00:21:30,291 --> 00:21:31,889 I believe the boys got a couple. 455 00:21:31,999 --> 00:21:34,047 But the boys told us they didn't get any. 456 00:21:37,665 --> 00:21:38,998 Come to think of it, they're right. 457 00:21:39,082 --> 00:21:41,040 We got out there, where the geese were, 458 00:21:41,124 --> 00:21:43,721 and there were thousands of them, all over the place. 459 00:21:43,999 --> 00:21:45,581 But, uh, you couldn't approach 'em. 460 00:21:45,665 --> 00:21:47,164 They're a wise bunch of birds. 461 00:21:48,249 --> 00:21:51,581 Your young friends also told us you had no weapons in the car, Dave. 462 00:21:51,665 --> 00:21:54,249 Isn't it a bit difficult to hunt for geese without a shotgun? 463 00:21:54,333 --> 00:21:55,165 Well... 464 00:22:00,082 --> 00:22:01,665 Yes, I remember now. 465 00:22:01,749 --> 00:22:03,832 I'm sorry, Mr. Garrison. I got confused. 466 00:22:04,166 --> 00:22:05,465 We got out near the geese, 467 00:22:05,707 --> 00:22:08,624 and only then did we realize we had forgotten our shotguns. 468 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:10,582 Stupid, right? 469 00:22:11,665 --> 00:22:14,249 Uh, so, of course, we didn't get any geese. 470 00:22:15,416 --> 00:22:17,624 I see, Dave. Well, thank you for your time. 471 00:22:18,582 --> 00:22:20,915 I'm sorry that this has to end inconveniently for you, 472 00:22:20,999 --> 00:22:24,496 but I'm going to have to detain you for further questioning by the FBI. 473 00:22:25,166 --> 00:22:26,166 Why, what's wrong? 474 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:28,916 Dave, I find your story simply not believable. 475 00:22:30,333 --> 00:22:31,165 Really? 476 00:22:31,458 --> 00:22:32,500 Come on. 477 00:22:34,999 --> 00:22:35,999 What part? 478 00:22:56,166 --> 00:22:58,665 Gentlemen, this afternoon the FBI released 479 00:22:58,749 --> 00:23:01,374 David W. Ferrie of New Orleans. 480 00:23:01,458 --> 00:23:04,748 After extensive questioning and a thorough background check, 481 00:23:04,832 --> 00:23:07,706 the Bureau found no evidence that Mr. Ferrie 482 00:23:07,790 --> 00:23:10,082 knew Lee Harvey Oswald, 483 00:23:10,166 --> 00:23:13,999 or has had any connection with the assassination of President Kennedy. 484 00:23:14,416 --> 00:23:17,124 The special agent in charge would like to make clear... 485 00:23:17,874 --> 00:23:20,457 that Mr. Ferrie was brought in for questioning 486 00:23:20,540 --> 00:23:24,082 by the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, not by 487 00:23:24,166 --> 00:23:26,457 - the Federal Bureau of Investigation. - I thought we were on the same side. 488 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:28,499 What the hell business is it of theirs to say that? 489 00:23:28,582 --> 00:23:30,930 Pretty fast, wasn't it? The way they let him go. 490 00:23:31,707 --> 00:23:33,406 They must know something we don't. 491 00:23:34,957 --> 00:23:37,005 So let's get on with our lives, gentlemen. 492 00:23:37,790 --> 00:23:39,540 We got plenty of home-grown crimes 493 00:23:39,624 --> 00:23:40,790 - to prosecute. - President Johnson 494 00:23:40,874 --> 00:23:42,457 has announced the creation of 495 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:44,374 a Blue Ribbon Presidential Commission 496 00:23:44,458 --> 00:23:46,207 - to probe the events in Dallas. - Goodnight. 497 00:23:46,291 --> 00:23:48,165 The Commission will be headed by Chief Justice 498 00:23:48,249 --> 00:23:50,706 of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren, 499 00:23:50,790 --> 00:23:53,124 and is expected to head off several Congressional 500 00:23:53,208 --> 00:23:55,457 and Texas inquiries into the assassination. 501 00:23:55,540 --> 00:23:59,040 On the panel are Allen Dulles, ex-chief of the CIA, 502 00:23:59,124 --> 00:24:00,572 Representative Gerald Ford... 503 00:24:01,540 --> 00:24:02,290 John J. McCloy, 504 00:24:02,374 --> 00:24:04,422 former head of the Chase Manhattan Bank... 505 00:24:06,999 --> 00:24:08,540 Fucking out of control. 506 00:24:08,874 --> 00:24:11,624 All these hippies running around on drugs. 507 00:24:12,208 --> 00:24:13,249 The way young people look, 508 00:24:13,333 --> 00:24:15,790 you can't tell a boy from a girl anymore. 509 00:24:16,082 --> 00:24:17,623 I saw a girl the other day. 510 00:24:17,707 --> 00:24:18,832 She was pregnant. 511 00:24:18,916 --> 00:24:20,665 You could see her whole belly. 512 00:24:21,082 --> 00:24:23,080 And you know what she had painted on it? 513 00:24:23,416 --> 00:24:24,999 "Love Child." 514 00:24:29,374 --> 00:24:31,374 Oh, it's a mess down there, Jim. 515 00:24:32,458 --> 00:24:35,416 We've bitten off more Vietnam than we can possibly chew. 516 00:24:35,832 --> 00:24:39,291 'Course it figures with that polecat Lyndon in the White House. 517 00:24:41,124 --> 00:24:43,623 You know, I sometimes think things have gone downhill 518 00:24:43,707 --> 00:24:45,500 since John Kennedy died, Senator. 519 00:24:46,082 --> 00:24:47,749 Oh, don't get me started on that. 520 00:24:47,999 --> 00:24:51,749 Those Warren Commission fellas were picking gnat shit out of pepper. 521 00:24:52,333 --> 00:24:54,790 Nobody's gonna tell me that kid did the shooting job he did 522 00:24:54,874 --> 00:24:56,208 from that damn bookstore. 523 00:24:56,790 --> 00:24:59,082 - Here you go, Senator Long. - Oh, thank you, honey. 524 00:24:59,166 --> 00:25:02,374 I thought the FBI test-fired the rifle to see if it could be done? 525 00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:05,249 Sure, three experts, and not one of them could do it. 526 00:25:05,874 --> 00:25:08,665 They're telling us that Oswald got off three shots 527 00:25:08,749 --> 00:25:12,457 with world-class precision from a manual bolt-action rifle 528 00:25:12,540 --> 00:25:14,332 in less than six seconds, 529 00:25:14,416 --> 00:25:15,873 and, according to his Marine buddies, 530 00:25:15,957 --> 00:25:17,540 he got Maggie's drawers. 531 00:25:17,957 --> 00:25:18,998 You know what that means? 532 00:25:19,082 --> 00:25:20,166 He wasn't any good. 533 00:25:20,749 --> 00:25:22,873 Average man would be lucky to get two shots off. 534 00:25:22,957 --> 00:25:24,581 And I tell ya, the first shot 535 00:25:24,665 --> 00:25:26,290 would always be the best. 536 00:25:26,374 --> 00:25:28,457 Here, the third shot's perfect. 537 00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:31,540 Then they got that crazy bullet zigzagging all over the place, 538 00:25:31,624 --> 00:25:34,291 so it hits Kennedy and Connally seven times. 539 00:25:34,624 --> 00:25:35,374 Ah. 540 00:25:35,458 --> 00:25:36,540 One pristine bullet? 541 00:25:36,624 --> 00:25:37,999 That dog don't hunt. 542 00:25:41,249 --> 00:25:44,416 You know, something's always bothered me about that from day one, too. 543 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:45,790 Legal representation. 544 00:25:45,874 --> 00:25:48,422 Do you think there were other men involved, Russell? 545 00:25:49,041 --> 00:25:50,623 If I were investigating the case, 546 00:25:50,707 --> 00:25:53,500 I'd round up 100 of the world's best riflemen... 547 00:25:53,999 --> 00:25:56,416 find out which ones were in Dallas that day. 548 00:25:56,749 --> 00:25:57,915 You been duck hunting? 549 00:25:57,999 --> 00:26:00,374 I think Oswald's a good, old-fashioned decoy. 550 00:26:00,458 --> 00:26:02,540 What'd he say? "I'm just a patsy." 551 00:26:02,624 --> 00:26:03,832 You better believe it. 552 00:26:12,540 --> 00:26:13,458 Jim? 553 00:26:14,124 --> 00:26:15,041 Honey? 554 00:26:15,624 --> 00:26:17,500 Dinner's just about ready. 555 00:26:19,416 --> 00:26:21,041 Got a surprise for you tonight. 556 00:26:22,041 --> 00:26:23,291 Tried something new. 557 00:26:25,208 --> 00:26:26,166 Jim? 558 00:26:28,416 --> 00:26:29,749 - Jim? - What? 559 00:26:29,916 --> 00:26:30,874 Dinner. 560 00:26:32,374 --> 00:26:35,748 Smells good, but, honey, do you realize that Oswald was interrogated 561 00:26:35,832 --> 00:26:39,165 for 12 hours after the assassination with no lawyer present, 562 00:26:39,249 --> 00:26:41,957 and nobody... nobody recorded a word of it? 563 00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:44,333 - Huh. - I can't believe it. 564 00:26:44,665 --> 00:26:47,540 A police captain with 30 years experience and a crowd of federal agents 565 00:26:47,624 --> 00:26:49,416 just had to know that with no record 566 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,374 anything that Oswald says is gonna be inadmissible in court. 567 00:26:52,458 --> 00:26:54,332 Well, honey, why don't we talk about it at the dinner table. 568 00:26:54,416 --> 00:26:55,332 It's getting cold. 569 00:26:55,416 --> 00:26:57,540 Jasper, what are you doing in here? 570 00:26:57,624 --> 00:27:00,416 Daddy said it was all right if I was real quiet. 571 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:01,374 Sure, it is. 572 00:27:01,665 --> 00:27:04,706 Honey, if I ever handled a minor felon like that, it'd be all over the papers. 573 00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:07,238 And this is the alleged murderer of the president! 574 00:27:11,624 --> 00:27:13,165 Do you really think so? 575 00:27:13,249 --> 00:27:14,623 Yeah. Again and again, 576 00:27:14,707 --> 00:27:17,165 credible testimony is ignored, 577 00:27:17,249 --> 00:27:20,333 leads are never followed up, its conclusions selective... 578 00:27:20,916 --> 00:27:22,873 there's no index, it's one of the sloppiest, 579 00:27:22,957 --> 00:27:25,874 most disorganized investigations I've ever seen. 580 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:29,332 You know, dozens and dozens of witnesses in Dealey Plaza that day 581 00:27:29,416 --> 00:27:32,040 are saying they heard shots coming from the grassy knoll area 582 00:27:32,124 --> 00:27:35,333 in front of Kennedy, not the book depository behind him... 583 00:27:35,999 --> 00:27:38,290 but it's all broken down and spread around, 584 00:27:38,374 --> 00:27:40,372 and you read it and the point gets lost. 585 00:27:40,874 --> 00:27:42,291 I never did believe it. 586 00:27:43,082 --> 00:27:45,665 Mattie, I'll do the dishes. You take Eb on up. 587 00:27:46,249 --> 00:27:47,124 Night, baby. 588 00:27:47,208 --> 00:27:49,582 Elizabeth, honey, your bedtime, too. 589 00:27:49,790 --> 00:27:51,623 Honey, that was three years ago. 590 00:27:51,707 --> 00:27:53,748 We've all tried so hard to put it out of our minds, 591 00:27:53,832 --> 00:27:55,832 you just keep digging it up again. 592 00:27:56,249 --> 00:27:57,874 You're the DA of New Orleans. 593 00:27:58,374 --> 00:28:02,170 Don't you think the Kennedy assassination is a little bit out of your domain? 594 00:28:02,291 --> 00:28:04,499 I mean all those important people already studied it. 595 00:28:04,582 --> 00:28:07,207 All right, I just can't believe a man as intelligent as Earl Warren 596 00:28:07,291 --> 00:28:09,124 ever read what was in those volumes. 597 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:10,332 Well... 598 00:28:10,416 --> 00:28:12,041 I mean, maybe you're right. 599 00:28:12,582 --> 00:28:14,730 I'll give you one hour to solve the case... 600 00:28:15,124 --> 00:28:17,166 till I can get these kids in bed... 601 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:19,374 and then you're mine, 602 00:28:19,540 --> 00:28:21,888 and Mr. Kennedy will have to wait until morning. 603 00:28:26,832 --> 00:28:28,874 Daddy, look what I drew. 604 00:28:29,665 --> 00:28:31,332 Well that's something, Jasper. What is it? 605 00:28:31,416 --> 00:28:33,623 - It's a rhino in a cage. - Mm-hmm. 606 00:28:33,707 --> 00:28:36,623 - Can I stay up another hour? - I don't think so, son. 607 00:28:36,707 --> 00:28:38,249 - Aw, Papa. - Pickle and Snapper. 608 00:28:38,333 --> 00:28:41,291 My two favorite dancing partners. 609 00:28:41,416 --> 00:28:43,416 All right. Goodnight, doodle bugs. 610 00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:45,790 - Goodnight. - One hour, you hear? 611 00:28:46,291 --> 00:28:48,458 - Hmm? - Some Saturday night date you are. 612 00:28:49,291 --> 00:28:52,998 Mama warned me this would happen if I married such a serious man as you. 613 00:28:53,082 --> 00:28:54,499 - Oh, she did, huh? - Mm-hmm. 614 00:28:54,582 --> 00:28:55,374 Well, when I come up, 615 00:28:55,458 --> 00:28:57,332 I want to show you how Saturday night got invented. 616 00:28:57,416 --> 00:28:58,248 All right? 617 00:29:22,540 --> 00:29:23,957 I sealed off the area, 618 00:29:24,041 --> 00:29:26,838 and I held off the trains until they could be examined... 619 00:29:27,333 --> 00:29:30,790 and there were some transients taken on at least one train. 620 00:29:32,416 --> 00:29:34,998 Mr. Bowers, I believe you already talked to us 621 00:29:35,082 --> 00:29:37,915 about this matter before your deposition, is that correct? 622 00:29:37,999 --> 00:29:39,208 Yes. 623 00:29:39,333 --> 00:29:41,540 Now, is there anything else you told us 624 00:29:41,624 --> 00:29:44,540 that I haven't asked you about that you can think of? 625 00:29:46,082 --> 00:29:47,790 Nothing that I can recall. 626 00:29:48,916 --> 00:29:50,374 Witness is excused. 627 00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:53,957 Well, we got a long freight that was in there. 628 00:29:54,041 --> 00:29:57,038 We pulled some people off there and took them to the station. 629 00:30:00,582 --> 00:30:01,981 Do you mean some transients? 630 00:30:02,624 --> 00:30:03,915 Tramps and hobos. 631 00:30:03,999 --> 00:30:05,498 And were all those questioned? 632 00:30:05,832 --> 00:30:08,207 Yes, sir, they were taken to the station and questioned. 633 00:30:08,291 --> 00:30:09,124 And? 634 00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:11,623 Ask the question, ask the question. 635 00:30:11,707 --> 00:30:14,165 All right, let's go back to that Amos Euins matter. 636 00:30:14,249 --> 00:30:15,124 Uh, yes, sir. 637 00:30:15,790 --> 00:30:19,624 Traffic had been cut off into the area since about 10:00, 638 00:30:19,790 --> 00:30:25,249 but there were three cars that came in during this time, from around noon 639 00:30:25,333 --> 00:30:26,916 till the time of the shooting. 640 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:30,374 The cars circled the parking lot and left, 641 00:30:30,458 --> 00:30:32,416 like they was checking the area. 642 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:38,500 And one of the drivers seemed to have something he was holding up to his mouth. 643 00:30:40,291 --> 00:30:46,500 That last car came in about seven to 10 minutes before the shooting. 644 00:30:46,957 --> 00:30:50,957 It was a white Chevrolet, four-door Impala, 645 00:30:51,041 --> 00:30:52,540 muddy up to the windows. 646 00:30:53,665 --> 00:30:56,457 Um... towards the underpass, 647 00:30:56,540 --> 00:30:57,832 I saw two men. 648 00:30:57,916 --> 00:31:00,416 They were standing behind a picket fence. 649 00:31:00,957 --> 00:31:03,082 They were looking up towards Main and Houston, 650 00:31:03,166 --> 00:31:05,416 following the caravan as it came down. 651 00:31:06,374 --> 00:31:10,582 Uh... one of them was middle-aged, heavyset. 652 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:13,041 The other man was younger. 653 00:31:14,041 --> 00:31:15,040 There were two other men. 654 00:31:15,124 --> 00:31:17,374 They were on the eastern end of the parking lot, 655 00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:19,915 and each of them had uniforms. 656 00:31:19,999 --> 00:31:24,581 At the time of the shooting, there seemed to be some 657 00:31:24,665 --> 00:31:25,874 commotion. 658 00:31:27,291 --> 00:31:29,916 I just am unable to describe... 659 00:31:31,249 --> 00:31:33,165 A flash of light or smoke or 660 00:31:33,249 --> 00:31:34,873 something 661 00:31:34,957 --> 00:31:36,540 which caused me to feel that 662 00:31:36,624 --> 00:31:39,290 something out of the ordinary had occurred there, 663 00:31:39,374 --> 00:31:40,706 on the embankment. 664 00:31:40,790 --> 00:31:41,874 Goddamn. 665 00:31:59,082 --> 00:31:59,916 No! 666 00:32:02,540 --> 00:32:03,373 Jim? 667 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:07,790 - You all right? - Oh, honey, it's incredible. 668 00:32:08,832 --> 00:32:09,832 What? 669 00:32:10,624 --> 00:32:11,790 The whole thing. 670 00:32:12,999 --> 00:32:15,207 A lieutenant colonel testifies that 671 00:32:15,291 --> 00:32:19,374 Lee Oswald was given a Russian language exam as part of his Marine training 672 00:32:19,458 --> 00:32:20,873 only a few months before he defects 673 00:32:20,957 --> 00:32:22,291 to the Soviet Union. 674 00:32:22,790 --> 00:32:24,623 - A Russian exam! - I can't believe it. 675 00:32:24,707 --> 00:32:27,249 Honey, it's 4:30 in the morning! 676 00:32:27,665 --> 00:32:28,581 I have five kids 677 00:32:28,665 --> 00:32:30,915 - gonna be awake in an hour and... - Honey, in all my years in the military, 678 00:32:30,999 --> 00:32:33,696 I never knew a single man who was given a Russian test. 679 00:32:35,082 --> 00:32:37,208 Oswald was a radar operator. He... 680 00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:39,249 He'd have about as much use for... 681 00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:42,124 - For Russian as a cat has for pajamas. - These books 682 00:32:42,208 --> 00:32:44,165 have gotten to your mind, Mr. Garrison. 683 00:32:44,249 --> 00:32:45,165 And then this... this colonel. 684 00:32:45,249 --> 00:32:47,499 - He makes it sound like nothing, he says -I wish you'd stop reading them. 685 00:32:47,582 --> 00:32:49,832 Oswald did badly on his test. He 686 00:32:49,916 --> 00:32:53,249 he got only two more Russian words right than wrong. 687 00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:55,748 Ha! That's like me saying Touchdown here 688 00:32:55,832 --> 00:32:59,207 is not very intelligent because I beat him three games out of five 689 00:32:59,291 --> 00:33:01,124 the last time we played chess. 690 00:33:01,208 --> 00:33:02,790 What? Are you gonna 691 00:33:02,874 --> 00:33:05,499 stay up all night every night, for what? 692 00:33:05,582 --> 00:33:08,957 So you'll be the only man in America that's read all 26 volumes 693 00:33:09,041 --> 00:33:11,988 - of the Warren Report? - Do I have to spell it out for you? 694 00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:15,082 Lee Oswald was no ordinary soldier, he was... 695 00:33:16,208 --> 00:33:17,665 He was probably in military intelligence. 696 00:33:17,749 --> 00:33:19,040 That's why he was trained in Russian. 697 00:33:19,124 --> 00:33:21,082 - Let's go back to sleep. - There's no accident he's in Russia. 698 00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:22,457 Let's go back to sleep. 699 00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:25,374 Goddammit, dear, I've been sleeping for three years! 700 00:33:43,374 --> 00:33:44,458 Morning, boys. 701 00:33:44,874 --> 00:33:46,082 Ready for a walking tour? 702 00:33:46,166 --> 00:33:47,374 7:30 Sunday morning. 703 00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:50,040 It's not exactly fresh blood we're sniffing here, boss. 704 00:33:50,124 --> 00:33:52,041 Old stains, Bill, but just as telling. 705 00:34:00,124 --> 00:34:01,874 531 Lafayette Street. 706 00:34:02,707 --> 00:34:04,832 Remember whose office this was in '63? 707 00:34:06,458 --> 00:34:08,124 Sure, Guy Banister. 708 00:34:08,832 --> 00:34:10,166 Ex-FBI man. 709 00:34:10,624 --> 00:34:11,916 Died couple years ago. 710 00:34:14,333 --> 00:34:16,374 Banister headed the Chicago office. 711 00:34:16,458 --> 00:34:18,705 When he retired, he became a private eye here. 712 00:34:18,999 --> 00:34:20,498 I used to have lunch with him. 713 00:34:20,665 --> 00:34:22,374 John Birch Society, Minutemen. 714 00:34:22,458 --> 00:34:25,332 - Oh yeah, I remember him now. - Slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. 715 00:34:25,416 --> 00:34:26,748 He used to recruit college students 716 00:34:26,832 --> 00:34:29,374 to infiltrate radical organizations on campus. 717 00:34:29,999 --> 00:34:32,624 Headed the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean. 718 00:34:33,582 --> 00:34:34,832 All out of this office. 719 00:34:38,707 --> 00:34:41,005 Come around here, I want to show you something. 720 00:34:45,416 --> 00:34:46,374 See that? 721 00:34:48,874 --> 00:34:50,208 Now, take a look here. 722 00:34:51,041 --> 00:34:52,832 544 Camp Street. 723 00:34:53,832 --> 00:34:55,707 531 Lafayette Street. 724 00:34:56,458 --> 00:34:57,582 Same building, right? 725 00:34:58,416 --> 00:35:00,748 But with different addresses and different entrances, 726 00:35:00,832 --> 00:35:02,381 both going to the same place... 727 00:35:02,790 --> 00:35:04,333 to the office upstairs. 728 00:35:05,333 --> 00:35:06,749 Guess who used this address? 729 00:35:09,291 --> 00:35:10,749 Lee Harvey Oswald. 730 00:35:12,249 --> 00:35:13,874 Now how do we know he was here? 731 00:35:14,458 --> 00:35:15,998 'Cause this office address was stamped 732 00:35:16,082 --> 00:35:17,581 on the pro-Castro leaflets 733 00:35:17,665 --> 00:35:19,416 he was handing out in the summer of '63 734 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:20,790 down on Canal Street. 735 00:35:21,416 --> 00:35:24,040 Now these are the same leaflets they found in his garage in Dallas. 736 00:35:24,124 --> 00:35:25,208 What's this? 737 00:35:25,458 --> 00:35:27,290 What the hell is this doing on this piece of paper? 738 00:35:27,374 --> 00:35:29,457 After the arrest, 544 Camp Street 739 00:35:29,540 --> 00:35:31,290 never appeared on the pamphlets again. 740 00:35:31,374 --> 00:35:32,500 Asshole. 741 00:35:32,749 --> 00:35:36,333 He was arrested that day for fighting with some anti-Castro Cubans... 742 00:35:37,166 --> 00:35:38,499 but actually he had contacted them 743 00:35:38,582 --> 00:35:40,374 a few days earlier as an ex-Marine 744 00:35:40,458 --> 00:35:42,999 trying to join their anti-Castro crusade. 745 00:35:43,624 --> 00:35:45,790 When they heard he was now pro-Castro... 746 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:47,999 well, they paid him a visit. 747 00:35:48,624 --> 00:35:49,832 What is this Fidel shit? 748 00:35:50,082 --> 00:35:51,957 You lied to me, you hypocrite! 749 00:35:52,416 --> 00:35:53,749 Liar! Son of a bitch! 750 00:35:54,582 --> 00:35:55,748 People, do not take this paper. 751 00:35:55,832 --> 00:35:57,458 This is communist propaganda. 752 00:35:57,916 --> 00:36:00,040 Carlos, if you want to hit me, hit me. 753 00:36:00,124 --> 00:36:01,748 Come on, you pinko shit. 754 00:36:01,832 --> 00:36:03,457 Go back to Moscow, communist! 755 00:36:03,540 --> 00:36:05,124 There was no real fight... 756 00:36:05,416 --> 00:36:08,832 and the arresting lieutenant later said he felt it was a staged incident. 757 00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:09,915 Break it up! 758 00:36:09,999 --> 00:36:12,207 In jail, Oswald has a private session 759 00:36:12,291 --> 00:36:14,916 with Special Agent John Quigley of the FBI. 760 00:36:16,208 --> 00:36:17,540 Oswald is released... 761 00:36:17,790 --> 00:36:20,238 and Quigley destroys his notes from the interview. 762 00:36:21,082 --> 00:36:23,879 The arrest gets him a lot of publicity and as a result... 763 00:36:24,333 --> 00:36:26,873 Oswald appears on a local TV debate. 764 00:36:26,957 --> 00:36:29,082 But you... you are a communist, are you not? 765 00:36:29,166 --> 00:36:30,458 Uh, no, Mr. Bringuier. 766 00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:33,124 Uh, I am not a communist. 767 00:36:33,208 --> 00:36:34,499 I'm a Marxist-Leninist. 768 00:36:34,582 --> 00:36:36,957 You are not a communist, but you are a Marxist-Leninist? 769 00:36:37,041 --> 00:36:38,082 What is the difference? 770 00:36:38,166 --> 00:36:39,290 Now, here's another one for you. 771 00:36:39,374 --> 00:36:40,915 What would you say if I told you... 772 00:36:40,999 --> 00:36:44,540 Lee Oswald was trained in the Russian language when he was a Marine? 773 00:36:44,624 --> 00:36:46,790 I'd say he was probably getting intelligence training. 774 00:36:46,874 --> 00:36:48,040 Well, Lou, you were in the Marines. 775 00:36:48,124 --> 00:36:49,290 Who would be running that training? 776 00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:50,916 Office of Naval Intelligence. 777 00:36:51,999 --> 00:36:53,498 Take a look across the street. 778 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:55,374 Post office. 779 00:36:56,166 --> 00:36:59,957 Upstairs in 1963, that was the Office of Naval Intelligence. 780 00:37:00,291 --> 00:37:03,957 And just by coincidence, Banister, before he was FBI, was ONI. 781 00:37:04,624 --> 00:37:06,249 And what's that little saying they have? 782 00:37:06,333 --> 00:37:08,208 "Once ONI, always ONI." 783 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:11,082 Well, he likes working near his old pals. 784 00:37:12,291 --> 00:37:13,124 Bill... 785 00:37:14,540 --> 00:37:17,332 Lou, we are standing in the heart of the United States government's 786 00:37:17,416 --> 00:37:19,749 intelligence community in New Orleans. 787 00:37:20,291 --> 00:37:23,124 That's the FBI there, all right? That's the CIA. 788 00:37:23,291 --> 00:37:24,832 That's the Secret Service. 789 00:37:24,916 --> 00:37:26,041 That's the ONI. 790 00:37:26,208 --> 00:37:27,416 Now, doesn't this seem to you 791 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,957 a rather strange place for a communist to spend his spare time? 792 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:35,957 What you driving at, boss? 793 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:41,339 We're going back into the case, Lou. 794 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:43,790 Murder of the president. 795 00:37:44,249 --> 00:37:46,832 Good Lord, wake me up, I must be dreaming. 796 00:37:46,916 --> 00:37:49,214 No, you're awake, Bill, and I'm deadly serious. 797 00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:51,581 We're going to start by tracking down your anonymous source 798 00:37:51,665 --> 00:37:52,714 from three years ago. 799 00:37:52,999 --> 00:37:55,946 Now how'd you find out David Ferrie drove to Texas that day? 800 00:37:56,291 --> 00:37:57,998 Hell, I can't remember last night, 801 00:37:58,082 --> 00:37:59,790 let alone three years ago, boss. 802 00:38:04,665 --> 00:38:06,748 You're not under cross-examination here, Jack. 803 00:38:06,832 --> 00:38:09,124 What I need is a little clarification about the night 804 00:38:09,208 --> 00:38:11,006 Guy Banister beat you over the head. 805 00:38:11,665 --> 00:38:13,623 Now don't tell me you don't remember that, 806 00:38:13,707 --> 00:38:15,290 all right, 'cause you called our office. 807 00:38:15,374 --> 00:38:17,082 You called our office from your hospital bed, 808 00:38:17,166 --> 00:38:18,864 and you were hopping mad about it. 809 00:38:19,790 --> 00:38:21,124 Now, here's my problem. 810 00:38:21,916 --> 00:38:24,763 You told me you and Guy were good friends for a long time. 811 00:38:24,999 --> 00:38:26,499 More than 10 years. 812 00:38:26,582 --> 00:38:29,380 - And he never hit you before? - No, he never touched me. 813 00:38:30,249 --> 00:38:32,665 Yet on November 22nd, 1963, 814 00:38:32,749 --> 00:38:34,040 the day of the president's murder, 815 00:38:34,124 --> 00:38:36,416 the police report says... 816 00:38:37,540 --> 00:38:40,749 Says he pistol-whipped you with a .357 Magnum. 817 00:38:41,374 --> 00:38:43,957 It also says you had an argument about the phone bill. 818 00:38:44,041 --> 00:38:45,873 Here, take a look at it. 819 00:38:45,957 --> 00:38:48,332 Well, does a simple argument over a phone bill sound like 820 00:38:48,416 --> 00:38:50,041 a believable explanation to you? 821 00:38:53,249 --> 00:38:54,707 There's more to it than that. 822 00:38:56,249 --> 00:38:57,291 How much more? 823 00:38:57,832 --> 00:38:59,581 I don't think I should talk about it. 824 00:38:59,665 --> 00:39:01,790 Well, I'd ask Guy, we were friendly, you know. 825 00:39:01,874 --> 00:39:03,082 Heart attack, wasn't it? 826 00:39:03,582 --> 00:39:05,458 You buy what you read in the papers. 827 00:39:05,624 --> 00:39:06,665 You have other information? 828 00:39:06,749 --> 00:39:08,374 - I didn't say that. - You have other information? 829 00:39:08,458 --> 00:39:11,208 I didn't say that. All I know is that he died suddenly. 830 00:39:11,957 --> 00:39:14,291 Just before the Warren Report came out. 831 00:39:16,249 --> 00:39:17,624 Why did Guy beat you, Jack? 832 00:39:19,999 --> 00:39:23,582 You didn't see a goddamn thing! You didn't see a goddamn thing! 833 00:39:26,124 --> 00:39:27,772 You're the only one in the place! 834 00:39:34,041 --> 00:39:36,166 You didn't see a goddamn thing! 835 00:39:36,790 --> 00:39:39,665 Oh, hell. I guess since Guy's dead, it don't matter no more. 836 00:39:39,749 --> 00:39:41,957 It was about all those 837 00:39:42,041 --> 00:39:45,458 people that was hanging around the office that summer. 838 00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:48,832 See, I was never part of the operation, you know. 839 00:39:48,916 --> 00:39:51,040 I was just there taking care of their private eye work, 840 00:39:51,124 --> 00:39:52,706 you know, as it came in for Guy. 841 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:54,999 Not much did, but that's why I was there. 842 00:39:56,999 --> 00:39:58,832 It was a nuthouse. 843 00:39:59,832 --> 00:40:02,040 All the Cubans coming and going. 844 00:40:02,124 --> 00:40:04,422 I mean, Christ, they all looked the same to me. 845 00:40:05,749 --> 00:40:08,499 You gonna play with this rifle or you gonna pack it? Come on. 846 00:40:08,582 --> 00:40:10,124 Dave Ferrie. 847 00:40:10,291 --> 00:40:11,291 You know about him? 848 00:40:11,749 --> 00:40:13,832 - Yeah, we know Dave. Was he there? - Mmm. 849 00:40:13,916 --> 00:40:15,207 Christ, he practically lived there. 850 00:40:15,291 --> 00:40:16,832 Don't fuck this one up. 851 00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:20,581 See, the whole thing it was 852 00:40:20,665 --> 00:40:22,873 the whole cloak and dagger stuff, you know. 853 00:40:22,957 --> 00:40:25,041 They called it "Operation Mongoose." 854 00:40:26,957 --> 00:40:29,665 Whole idea was they were gonna train these Cuban exiles, you know, 855 00:40:29,749 --> 00:40:31,832 - for another invasion of Cuba. - Mm-hmm. 856 00:40:31,916 --> 00:40:33,124 Why, hell, Banister's office, 857 00:40:33,208 --> 00:40:35,124 that was part of the supply line, you know, 858 00:40:35,208 --> 00:40:36,832 from Dallas through New Orleans to Miami. 859 00:40:36,916 --> 00:40:39,500 They were stockpiling arms, explosives. 860 00:40:39,749 --> 00:40:41,957 All this right under the noses of the intelligence community 861 00:40:42,041 --> 00:40:44,124 - in Lafayette Square? - Yeah, oh yeah. 862 00:40:44,208 --> 00:40:45,748 Everybody knew everybody, you know, 863 00:40:45,832 --> 00:40:47,530 they were all part of the network. 864 00:40:47,874 --> 00:40:50,416 They were all working for the CIA! 865 00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:52,998 You know, pilots, and them Black Operators, 866 00:40:53,082 --> 00:40:55,540 and the... the civilians, and military. 867 00:40:55,624 --> 00:40:58,540 Hell, everybody in those days was running guns somewhere. 868 00:40:59,082 --> 00:41:02,499 Fort Jefferson, Bayou Bluff, Morgan City, you name it. 869 00:41:02,582 --> 00:41:05,416 Oh, McAllen, Texas, yeah, big gun-running operation. 870 00:41:09,665 --> 00:41:12,082 Banister. Now, tell... where... Where does he fit in all this? 871 00:41:12,166 --> 00:41:14,623 He was running his camp up north of Lake Pontchartrain. 872 00:41:14,707 --> 00:41:16,998 You know, Ferrie was doing a lot of the training. 873 00:41:17,082 --> 00:41:18,957 They had a shooting range. 874 00:41:19,166 --> 00:41:22,013 Lot of tropical territory, you know, like you got in Cuba. 875 00:41:22,291 --> 00:41:24,124 Some Americans were trained there, too. 876 00:41:24,208 --> 00:41:27,041 A few. Nazi types, mercenaries. 877 00:41:27,790 --> 00:41:30,333 Ferrie, though, Jesus, he was the craziest. 878 00:41:32,166 --> 00:41:33,499 Anyway, late summer, the whole 879 00:41:33,582 --> 00:41:34,790 the party was over. 880 00:41:34,874 --> 00:41:38,221 'Cause Kennedy didn't want another one of them Bay of Pigs, so he... 881 00:41:38,707 --> 00:41:40,832 he told the FBI, "Shut up the camps," 882 00:41:40,916 --> 00:41:44,249 you know, and confiscate the napalm, C-4, and the stuff like that. 883 00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:45,915 So I think that the G-men, 884 00:41:45,999 --> 00:41:48,040 they were just going through the motions for Washington. 885 00:41:48,124 --> 00:41:52,082 See, their hearts were still with their old FBI buddy Banister. 886 00:41:54,333 --> 00:41:55,208 Oswald? 887 00:41:59,041 --> 00:41:59,873 Yeah. 888 00:42:00,208 --> 00:42:01,873 - Yeah, what? - He was there, too. He was there. 889 00:42:01,957 --> 00:42:04,874 He was there, sometimes meeting with Banister. 890 00:42:05,208 --> 00:42:08,005 Give me an allowance, you know, because I got expenses... 891 00:42:08,166 --> 00:42:09,333 With the door shut. 892 00:42:11,333 --> 00:42:12,416 Other times 893 00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:14,915 you know, shooting the bull with Ferrie, 894 00:42:14,999 --> 00:42:16,665 whatever, but he was there, all right. 895 00:42:16,749 --> 00:42:18,665 Anything more specific, Jack? 896 00:42:19,124 --> 00:42:20,208 It's important. 897 00:42:24,082 --> 00:42:27,040 One time the secretary got upset, I remember. 898 00:42:27,124 --> 00:42:28,416 I can't believe it, Mr. Banister. 899 00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:30,165 Lee Oswald is down on Canal Street 900 00:42:30,249 --> 00:42:32,957 handing out communist leaflets supporting Castro. 901 00:42:38,082 --> 00:42:39,581 It's okay, Delphine. 902 00:42:39,665 --> 00:42:42,291 He's with us, it's okay. 903 00:42:43,416 --> 00:42:46,333 Was anyone else involved at Banister's level? 904 00:42:47,500 --> 00:42:49,957 Oh, yeah. One guy, I don't know. 905 00:42:50,458 --> 00:42:52,249 Big, white hair. 906 00:42:53,166 --> 00:42:54,790 I saw him come in the office once, 907 00:42:54,874 --> 00:42:56,790 but he looked out of place. 908 00:42:56,999 --> 00:42:58,790 You know, like a society guy. 909 00:42:59,291 --> 00:43:01,988 And I can't remember his name, but Oswald was with him. 910 00:43:04,124 --> 00:43:06,540 But he had something to do with money 'cause Banister, you know, 911 00:43:06,624 --> 00:43:07,957 he never kissed anybody's ass... 912 00:43:08,041 --> 00:43:09,124 Ooh, he kissed his. 913 00:43:15,582 --> 00:43:17,249 I don't... uh... 914 00:43:17,333 --> 00:43:18,748 Clay something. 915 00:43:18,832 --> 00:43:20,207 Yeah. That was his name, Clay. 916 00:43:20,291 --> 00:43:21,374 - Clay. - Bertrand? 917 00:43:21,458 --> 00:43:23,040 - Bertrand, yeah! Yeah, that... - Clay Bertrand. 918 00:43:23,124 --> 00:43:24,706 - Clay Bertrand. - Well, I don't know. 919 00:43:24,790 --> 00:43:25,581 I don't know. 920 00:43:25,665 --> 00:43:27,581 - Uh... maybe not. I got to go. - No, that's right. Clay Bertrand. 921 00:43:27,665 --> 00:43:29,124 - No, no. That's right. - No, I got to go. 922 00:43:29,208 --> 00:43:31,755 He was in the Warren Report. He got Oswald a lawyer. 923 00:43:32,624 --> 00:43:35,122 - Was Kennedy ever discussed, Jack? - I don't know. 924 00:43:36,041 --> 00:43:37,790 - The assassination, Jack? - No. 925 00:43:37,874 --> 00:43:38,915 Never. Not with me. 926 00:43:38,999 --> 00:43:40,457 - Look, I've... I got to go. - Hold on. 927 00:43:40,540 --> 00:43:41,748 - That's all I'm gonna say. - Hold on, Jack. 928 00:43:41,832 --> 00:43:44,280 - I've said enough. - Hold on. What's the problem? 929 00:43:44,458 --> 00:43:46,555 - What's the problem? - What's the problem? 930 00:43:47,208 --> 00:43:49,416 Do I have to spell it out for you, Mr. Garrison? 931 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:52,124 Nobody knows what we're talking about, here, Jack. 932 00:43:53,665 --> 00:43:55,582 Oh, you are so naïve. 933 00:44:05,832 --> 00:44:08,165 When'd you first do business with this Bertrand? 934 00:44:08,249 --> 00:44:10,165 Pipe the bimbo in red. 935 00:44:10,249 --> 00:44:12,290 Mm-hmm. Lordy. 936 00:44:12,374 --> 00:44:13,374 Yeah, she's cute all right, 937 00:44:13,458 --> 00:44:14,998 but not half as cute as you, Deano. 938 00:44:15,082 --> 00:44:16,040 Thank you. 939 00:44:16,124 --> 00:44:18,290 You should try a legitimate line of business. 940 00:44:18,374 --> 00:44:20,290 Why are you dancing on my head for, my man? 941 00:44:20,374 --> 00:44:22,416 We been thicker than molasses pie since law school. 942 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:24,207 'Cause you keep conning me, Dean, I read your testimony 943 00:44:24,291 --> 00:44:25,832 - to the Warren Commission... - There you go again! 944 00:44:25,916 --> 00:44:27,332 - Grain of salt! - You tell them the day after 945 00:44:27,416 --> 00:44:28,499 - Two sides to every coin! - The assassination, 946 00:44:28,582 --> 00:44:30,374 you're called on the phone by this Clay Bertrand 947 00:44:30,458 --> 00:44:32,915 and asked to fly to Dallas and be Lee Oswald's lawyer. 948 00:44:32,999 --> 00:44:33,831 Right. 949 00:44:34,665 --> 00:44:36,208 That's pretty important, Dean. 950 00:44:36,916 --> 00:44:38,665 You also told the FBI that, when you met him, 951 00:44:38,749 --> 00:44:39,623 he's six foot two, 952 00:44:39,707 --> 00:44:41,748 then you tell the Commission he's five foot eight. 953 00:44:41,832 --> 00:44:44,330 Now how the hell does a man shrink like that, Dean? 954 00:44:44,582 --> 00:44:47,207 They put the heat on, my man, just like you're doing. 955 00:44:47,291 --> 00:44:49,665 I gave them anything that popped in my cabeza. 956 00:44:49,832 --> 00:44:51,500 Truth is, I never met the dude. 957 00:44:51,790 --> 00:44:54,915 Oh, wonderful. One likes friends that have friends. 958 00:44:54,999 --> 00:44:55,748 Indeed. 959 00:44:55,832 --> 00:44:57,082 I don't know what the cat looks like, 960 00:44:57,166 --> 00:44:59,040 and, furthermore, I don't know where he's at. 961 00:44:59,124 --> 00:45:01,957 All I know is sometimes he sends me some cases. 962 00:45:02,124 --> 00:45:03,374 So one day he's on the phone, 963 00:45:03,458 --> 00:45:05,915 talking to me about going to Dallas, repping Oswald. 964 00:45:05,999 --> 00:45:07,665 Did you ever speak to Oswald in Dallas? 965 00:45:07,749 --> 00:45:08,499 Hell, no. 966 00:45:08,582 --> 00:45:10,332 Like I told that Bertrand cat right off... 967 00:45:10,416 --> 00:45:11,207 Cashew piece? 968 00:45:11,291 --> 00:45:12,290 This ain't my scene, man. 969 00:45:12,374 --> 00:45:14,623 I deal in muni court. I'm a hack in nigger town. 970 00:45:14,707 --> 00:45:17,416 Then how'd the hell did your name get in the Warren Commission, Dean? 971 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:19,790 Like I told to the Washington boys, 972 00:45:19,874 --> 00:45:21,207 Bertrand called that summer 973 00:45:21,291 --> 00:45:23,957 and asked me to help the kid upgrade his Marine discharge. 974 00:45:24,041 --> 00:45:25,873 Well, I was led to believe that, uh, 975 00:45:25,957 --> 00:45:28,499 Mr. Bertrand said that he would take care of any... 976 00:45:28,582 --> 00:45:29,332 Oh, that's fine. 977 00:45:29,416 --> 00:45:30,623 Hello, to whom am I speaking? 978 00:45:30,707 --> 00:45:33,207 I'm Clay Bertrand. Whatever they owe, I guarantee. 979 00:45:33,291 --> 00:45:34,499 There wasn't no conspiracy, Jim. 980 00:45:34,582 --> 00:45:37,915 If there were, why the hell didn't Bobby Kennedy prosecute it as attorney general? 981 00:45:37,999 --> 00:45:39,897 He was his brother, for Christ's sake. 982 00:45:40,540 --> 00:45:43,915 How the fuck all those people could keep a secret like that, I don't know. 983 00:45:43,999 --> 00:45:44,998 It was Oswald. 984 00:45:45,082 --> 00:45:46,623 - He was a fruitcake, you know. - I think we're having 985 00:45:46,707 --> 00:45:47,957 - Hated this country. - A communication problem, Dean. 986 00:45:48,041 --> 00:45:50,040 I know you know who Clay Bertrand is, all right? 987 00:45:50,124 --> 00:45:52,665 Now stop eating that damn crabmeat a minute and listen. 988 00:45:52,749 --> 00:45:54,248 I'm aware of our friendship... 989 00:45:54,916 --> 00:45:57,873 but I want you to know I'm gonna call you in front of the grand jury. 990 00:45:57,957 --> 00:46:00,416 And you lie to the grand jury as you've been lying to me, 991 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:01,998 I'm gonna charge you with perjury. 992 00:46:02,082 --> 00:46:04,957 All right, I took nine judges on right here in New Orleans, Deano. 993 00:46:05,041 --> 00:46:05,873 I beat 'em all. 994 00:46:06,166 --> 00:46:07,874 So am I communicating with you? 995 00:46:09,707 --> 00:46:11,306 Is this off the record, Daddy-o? 996 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:13,249 Good. 997 00:46:13,333 --> 00:46:15,780 In that case, let me sum it up for you real quick. 998 00:46:20,041 --> 00:46:22,249 If I answer that question you keep asking... 999 00:46:23,665 --> 00:46:26,413 if I give you the name of the big enchilada, you know... 1000 00:46:27,832 --> 00:46:29,290 then it's "bon voyage, Deano." 1001 00:46:29,374 --> 00:46:30,374 I mean like permanent. 1002 00:46:30,458 --> 00:46:32,505 I mean like a bullet in my head, you dig? 1003 00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:34,624 You're a mouse fighting a gorilla. 1004 00:46:34,999 --> 00:46:36,797 Kennedy is as dead as that crabmeat. 1005 00:46:37,124 --> 00:46:38,207 The government's still breathing. 1006 00:46:38,291 --> 00:46:40,207 - You wanna line up with a dead man? - Read my lips, Deano. 1007 00:46:40,291 --> 00:46:43,457 Either you dance into the grand jury with the real identity of Clay Bertrand 1008 00:46:43,540 --> 00:46:45,290 or your fat behind is going to the slammer. 1009 00:46:45,374 --> 00:46:46,332 Now, do you dig me? 1010 00:46:46,416 --> 00:46:48,208 You're as crazy as your mama. 1011 00:46:48,790 --> 00:46:50,339 Goes to show it's in the genes. 1012 00:46:50,458 --> 00:46:53,290 You have any idea what you're getting yourself into, Daddy-o? 1013 00:46:53,374 --> 00:46:56,021 The government's gonna jump all over your head, Jimbo, 1014 00:46:56,166 --> 00:46:57,832 and go "cock-a-doodle-doo." 1015 00:46:58,416 --> 00:46:59,582 Good day to you, sir. 1016 00:47:05,291 --> 00:47:08,291 District Attorney Garrison to see Prisoner 5388... 1017 00:47:08,832 --> 00:47:10,582 Ward Block 237B. 1018 00:47:24,249 --> 00:47:27,082 We don't need no gates out there with that swamp. 1019 00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:30,147 Many of 'em gone in there, ain't none of 'em come out. 1020 00:47:36,707 --> 00:47:37,539 Hey, Willie! 1021 00:47:38,082 --> 00:47:38,999 O'Keefe! 1022 00:47:45,041 --> 00:47:46,333 You got visitors here. 1023 00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:48,706 You don't give 'em no trouble now, you hear me boy? 1024 00:47:48,790 --> 00:47:51,537 - How you doing, Mr. Broussard? - Hey, let's go, Willie. 1025 00:48:03,832 --> 00:48:06,180 I want to thank you, Mr. O'Keefe, for this time. 1026 00:48:06,957 --> 00:48:09,082 I ain't got nothin' but time, Mr. Garrison. 1027 00:48:09,416 --> 00:48:11,707 Minutes, hours, days, years of 'em. 1028 00:48:12,208 --> 00:48:14,249 Time just stands still here, 1029 00:48:14,333 --> 00:48:16,707 like a snake sunnin' itself on the road. 1030 00:48:17,082 --> 00:48:18,291 Clay Bertrand, Willie? 1031 00:48:19,540 --> 00:48:20,540 Yeah, Clay. 1032 00:48:22,124 --> 00:48:27,582 I met him sometime in June of '62 at the Masquerade Bar. 1033 00:48:27,957 --> 00:48:31,249 Dave Ferrie took me there, for the express reason to meet him. 1034 00:48:31,333 --> 00:48:32,582 For sexual purposes? 1035 00:48:32,832 --> 00:48:33,707 Well, yeah. 1036 00:48:34,208 --> 00:48:35,582 Did he pay you for this? 1037 00:48:35,790 --> 00:48:37,665 Twenty dollars each time. Hell, ain't no secret. 1038 00:48:37,749 --> 00:48:39,098 That's why I'm in here for. 1039 00:48:39,500 --> 00:48:41,748 Anything else unusual about him you'd be able 1040 00:48:41,832 --> 00:48:43,374 to describe in a court of law? 1041 00:48:43,458 --> 00:48:45,998 I remember he had some kinda thing wrong with his leg. 1042 00:48:46,082 --> 00:48:47,832 He'd limp. You know, don't get me wrong, 1043 00:48:47,916 --> 00:48:49,714 he's not one of those "limp wrists." 1044 00:48:49,916 --> 00:48:52,873 He's a butch John, I mean, you'd meet him on the street, you'd never snap. 1045 00:48:52,957 --> 00:48:54,706 You could play poker with him, 1046 00:48:54,790 --> 00:48:55,873 go fishing with the man, 1047 00:48:55,957 --> 00:48:57,755 you'd never snap in a million years. 1048 00:48:58,208 --> 00:49:00,706 One night we was over at Dave Ferrie's place having a party. 1049 00:49:00,790 --> 00:49:03,916 It was sometime late in the summer of '63. 1050 00:49:05,458 --> 00:49:08,623 There was about nine or 10 people there. Cubans. 1051 00:49:08,707 --> 00:49:11,623 You know, friends of Dave, been doing some stuff in the bush with him. 1052 00:49:11,707 --> 00:49:14,624 Place was a mess, man. Dave's mind was a mess. 1053 00:49:14,790 --> 00:49:18,374 Has all these mice cages all over 'cause he's working on this cure for cancer. 1054 00:49:18,458 --> 00:49:20,040 Viva Cuba libre! 1055 00:49:20,124 --> 00:49:21,772 Dave's smart, though, he's sharp. 1056 00:49:21,874 --> 00:49:23,249 Speaks five languages. 1057 00:49:23,458 --> 00:49:27,999 He knows philosophy, medicine, military history, politics. 1058 00:49:28,624 --> 00:49:30,423 Said he wanted to be a priest but... 1059 00:49:30,707 --> 00:49:32,655 they defrocked him 'cause he was queer. 1060 00:49:32,790 --> 00:49:35,124 And that's where you met Oswald for the first time? 1061 00:49:35,208 --> 00:49:36,873 Yeah, strange guy. 1062 00:49:36,957 --> 00:49:38,249 Dave introduced him as... 1063 00:49:38,333 --> 00:49:39,873 Willie, why don't you say hello to Leon Oswald. 1064 00:49:39,957 --> 00:49:41,156 Hey, how you doing, man? 1065 00:49:42,333 --> 00:49:43,881 What the fuck is he doing here? 1066 00:49:44,458 --> 00:49:45,873 Fuck you, motherfucker! 1067 00:49:45,957 --> 00:49:47,581 Okay, okay, come on, come on, come on. 1068 00:49:47,665 --> 00:49:49,581 Leon's in a bad mood. 1069 00:49:49,665 --> 00:49:51,364 Don't get excited, he's all right. 1070 00:49:51,916 --> 00:49:54,665 Would you say that this "Leon" was actually Lee Harvey Oswald? 1071 00:49:54,749 --> 00:49:55,581 Fuck yeah! 1072 00:49:55,749 --> 00:49:57,623 Hey, man, I got no reason to lie to you. 1073 00:49:57,707 --> 00:49:59,166 I'm already in jail. 1074 00:49:59,749 --> 00:50:00,623 Go on, Willie. 1075 00:50:00,707 --> 00:50:02,040 Finally, they got outta there, 1076 00:50:02,124 --> 00:50:04,540 and I found myself alone with Dave 1077 00:50:04,624 --> 00:50:06,165 and this Leon, 1078 00:50:06,249 --> 00:50:07,332 two of the Cubans, 1079 00:50:07,416 --> 00:50:08,998 and this guy Bertrand. 1080 00:50:09,082 --> 00:50:09,915 Kennedy. 1081 00:50:09,999 --> 00:50:11,124 - Kennedy. - Dave pulled out these clippings 1082 00:50:11,208 --> 00:50:12,623 - Kennedy, fuckin' Kennedy! - He'd been carrying around, you know... 1083 00:50:12,707 --> 00:50:14,040 -He fucked us -He'd been obsessed with Castro 1084 00:50:14,124 --> 00:50:15,332 -in '61 and '62 -And Kennedy for months. 1085 00:50:15,416 --> 00:50:16,915 - And he's fuckin' us now! - He started in again. 1086 00:50:16,999 --> 00:50:18,873 Fuckin' little asswipe closed down the camps, 1087 00:50:18,957 --> 00:50:20,457 took all our C-4, 1088 00:50:20,540 --> 00:50:24,623 took 10,000 fuckin' rounds, 3,000 pounds of gunpowder, 1089 00:50:24,707 --> 00:50:26,165 all our fuckin' weapons! 1090 00:50:26,249 --> 00:50:27,623 I tell ya... 1091 00:50:27,707 --> 00:50:29,207 Shit, you wanna free Cuba? 1092 00:50:29,291 --> 00:50:30,832 You got to whack out the fuckin' Beard. 1093 00:50:30,916 --> 00:50:32,165 Yeah, well, that faggot Kennedy won't let us. 1094 00:50:32,249 --> 00:50:33,790 Our hands are empty, how can we kill him? 1095 00:50:33,874 --> 00:50:36,832 It's a real problem getting at him, Castro has informers on every block. 1096 00:50:36,916 --> 00:50:38,957 Bullshit. They got all kinds of new stuff. 1097 00:50:39,041 --> 00:50:42,249 I can show you dozens of fuckin' poisons. Just stick it in his food. 1098 00:50:42,333 --> 00:50:43,623 He'd die in three days. 1099 00:50:43,707 --> 00:50:44,915 No trace! 1100 00:50:44,999 --> 00:50:46,915 We can put something in his beard, make his beard fall out. 1101 00:50:46,999 --> 00:50:48,915 He'll look fuckin' ridiculous without his beard. 1102 00:50:48,999 --> 00:50:51,623 The real problem is... is that fucking Kennedy. 1103 00:50:51,707 --> 00:50:53,306 He's doing all kinds of deals... 1104 00:50:54,540 --> 00:50:56,500 Khrushchev. Licking his ass. 1105 00:50:58,291 --> 00:51:01,207 An inspired act of God should happen here, okay? 1106 00:51:01,291 --> 00:51:03,039 And put a Texan in the White House! 1107 00:51:05,166 --> 00:51:06,291 Then the Cubans left. 1108 00:51:06,707 --> 00:51:08,706 Dave was drunk now, really drunk. 1109 00:51:08,790 --> 00:51:11,082 He started in on Kennedy again. 1110 00:51:11,166 --> 00:51:12,249 'Cause I will kill. 1111 00:51:12,333 --> 00:51:14,873 Right in the White House, I'll stab him right in his fuckin' heart! 1112 00:51:14,957 --> 00:51:17,040 Somebody got to get rid of this fucker. 1113 00:51:17,124 --> 00:51:17,999 Come on, Dave. 1114 00:51:18,582 --> 00:51:20,374 You ain't never gonna get that son of a bitch. 1115 00:51:20,458 --> 00:51:22,665 No? It won't be long, mark my words. 1116 00:51:22,749 --> 00:51:24,790 That fucker'll get what's coming to him. 1117 00:51:24,874 --> 00:51:26,165 It can be blamed on Castro. 1118 00:51:26,249 --> 00:51:27,665 The whole country'll want to invade Cuba. 1119 00:51:27,749 --> 00:51:29,416 All we got to do is get Kennedy in the open. 1120 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:33,790 David, David, always some harebrained scheme or another. 1121 00:51:34,416 --> 00:51:35,248 Oh! 1122 00:51:36,458 --> 00:51:38,748 What have we here? Let's have some more champagne. 1123 00:51:38,832 --> 00:51:40,290 Shall we? 1124 00:51:40,374 --> 00:51:42,416 What about the Secret Service, the cops? 1125 00:51:43,458 --> 00:51:44,790 If it's planned right, it's no problem. 1126 00:51:44,874 --> 00:51:46,822 Look how close they got with de Gaulle. 1127 00:51:47,166 --> 00:51:49,207 Eisenhower was always riding around in an open top. 1128 00:51:49,291 --> 00:51:51,888 We need three mechanics in three different locations. 1129 00:51:52,582 --> 00:51:54,780 An office building with a high-powered rifle. 1130 00:51:55,790 --> 00:51:57,888 Triangulation of crossfire, that's the key. 1131 00:51:58,707 --> 00:51:59,790 That's the key. 1132 00:51:59,999 --> 00:52:02,873 The diversionary shot gets the Secret Service looking the other way. 1133 00:52:02,957 --> 00:52:04,406 Boom! You get the kill shot. 1134 00:52:05,707 --> 00:52:08,208 The crucial thing is one man has to be sacrificed. 1135 00:52:09,041 --> 00:52:11,374 Then, in the commotion of the crowd, the job gets done. 1136 00:52:11,458 --> 00:52:13,832 The others fly out of the country to someplace with no extradition. 1137 00:52:13,916 --> 00:52:15,665 Why don't we drop this subject 1138 00:52:15,749 --> 00:52:18,332 it's one thing to engage in badinage with all these youngsters, 1139 00:52:18,416 --> 00:52:21,748 but this sort of thing could be so easily misunderstood. 1140 00:52:21,832 --> 00:52:23,416 Ouch! Ow! Ouch! 1141 00:52:23,500 --> 00:52:25,332 I didn't think much about it at the time. 1142 00:52:25,416 --> 00:52:26,706 It's just bullshit, you know. 1143 00:52:26,790 --> 00:52:29,665 Everybody likes to make themselves out to be something more than they are. 1144 00:52:29,749 --> 00:52:32,041 Especially in the homosexual underworld. 1145 00:52:33,333 --> 00:52:34,916 But when they got him, man... 1146 00:52:35,416 --> 00:52:36,749 I got scared... 1147 00:52:37,208 --> 00:52:38,208 Real scared. 1148 00:52:39,124 --> 00:52:40,332 And that's when I got popped. 1149 00:52:40,416 --> 00:52:41,957 You realize the things you're saying, Willie, 1150 00:52:42,041 --> 00:52:43,915 are gonna be attacked by a lot of different people. 1151 00:52:43,999 --> 00:52:46,499 Oh, bring all those motherfuckers on, man! 1152 00:52:46,582 --> 00:52:48,998 Bring their college degrees in here, I got nothin' to hide. 1153 00:52:49,082 --> 00:52:50,040 You can't buy me. 1154 00:52:50,124 --> 00:52:51,540 - They can't buy me. - I don't wanna buy you. 1155 00:52:51,624 --> 00:52:52,873 - I don't even need this damn parole. - Nobody... 1156 00:52:52,957 --> 00:52:55,124 - What are you talking about, parole? - See, this is about the truth coming out. 1157 00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:57,457 You a goddamn liberal, Mr. Garrison. You don't know shit 1158 00:52:57,540 --> 00:52:59,790 'cause you never been fucked in the ass! 1159 00:52:59,874 --> 00:53:02,207 This ain't about justice. You think this is about justice? 1160 00:53:02,291 --> 00:53:03,957 No, this is about order. 1161 00:53:04,041 --> 00:53:05,207 Who rules. 1162 00:53:05,291 --> 00:53:07,040 'Cause, see, fascism is coming back. 1163 00:53:07,124 --> 00:53:10,124 Nobody wants to buy you, no one's promising you a parole, here. 1164 00:53:10,208 --> 00:53:12,206 I want to be perfectly clear about that. 1165 00:53:12,458 --> 00:53:14,041 What I need to know is why. 1166 00:53:14,416 --> 00:53:15,165 All right? 1167 00:53:15,249 --> 00:53:16,916 Why are you telling us this? 1168 00:53:17,333 --> 00:53:19,706 'Cause that motherfucker Kennedy 1169 00:53:19,790 --> 00:53:22,748 stole that motherfucking election, that's why. 1170 00:53:22,832 --> 00:53:23,581 Nixon 1171 00:53:23,665 --> 00:53:26,581 was gonna be one of the great presidents till Kennedy wrecked this country. 1172 00:53:26,665 --> 00:53:28,957 Got niggers all over the place asking for their damn rights. 1173 00:53:29,041 --> 00:53:31,165 Why you think we got all this crime now? 1174 00:53:31,249 --> 00:53:33,873 He promised those motherfuckers too goddamn much, you ask me. 1175 00:53:33,957 --> 00:53:35,665 Revolution's coming, bullshit, man. 1176 00:53:35,749 --> 00:53:37,165 Fascism is coming back. 1177 00:53:37,249 --> 00:53:38,540 I'm gonna tell you this. 1178 00:53:38,665 --> 00:53:41,790 The day that communist son of a bitch died was a great day... 1179 00:53:41,874 --> 00:53:44,291 A great day for this country. 1180 00:53:44,416 --> 00:53:48,499 And I just hate to think that they blame it on some silly fuckin' Oswald. 1181 00:53:48,582 --> 00:53:52,082 Didn't know shit anyway, man. People got to know. 1182 00:53:52,166 --> 00:53:54,014 People got to know why he was killed. 1183 00:53:54,916 --> 00:53:56,623 Because he was 1184 00:53:56,707 --> 00:53:57,749 a communist. 1185 00:53:58,291 --> 00:53:59,416 Go ahead, man. 1186 00:53:59,540 --> 00:54:01,082 You go ahead, you put me on the stand, 1187 00:54:01,166 --> 00:54:02,957 I'll tell the same goddamn story! 1188 00:54:03,041 --> 00:54:04,999 Don't matter fuck all to me! 1189 00:54:06,249 --> 00:54:07,208 All right, Willie. 1190 00:54:07,999 --> 00:54:09,082 Thank you. 1191 00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:10,582 We'll be in touch. 1192 00:54:11,291 --> 00:54:12,291 All right. 1193 00:54:17,665 --> 00:54:20,512 Hey, you know, you're not a bad-looking man, Mr. Garrison. 1194 00:54:20,832 --> 00:54:22,208 Not bad-looking at all. 1195 00:54:22,624 --> 00:54:24,082 I get outta here, I'm gonna come see you. 1196 00:54:24,166 --> 00:54:25,315 We could have some fun! 1197 00:54:26,333 --> 00:54:28,457 None of their testimony's gonna hold up in court, chief. 1198 00:54:28,540 --> 00:54:31,874 Hell, all three of 'em have reputations lower than crocodile piss. 1199 00:54:32,124 --> 00:54:33,624 Does that bother you, Bill? 1200 00:54:35,291 --> 00:54:38,082 I always wondered in court why it is because a woman's a prostitute, 1201 00:54:38,166 --> 00:54:39,832 she has to have bad eyesight. 1202 00:54:40,957 --> 00:54:42,332 Now go find this Clay Bertrand. 1203 00:54:42,416 --> 00:54:43,915 Start by checking around the Quarter. 1204 00:54:43,999 --> 00:54:46,873 And the six of us, with almost no budget and in secret, 1205 00:54:46,957 --> 00:54:49,623 are gonna solve a case that the Warren Commission couldn't solve? 1206 00:54:49,707 --> 00:54:52,082 I didn't pick you because of your legal skill, you know. 1207 00:54:52,166 --> 00:54:53,748 Gee, thanks, boss. 1208 00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:55,281 But because you're a fighter. 1209 00:54:55,458 --> 00:54:57,790 I like a man who's not afraid of bad odds. 1210 00:54:57,957 --> 00:54:59,707 Mr. Garrison, how are you? 1211 00:55:00,041 --> 00:55:00,998 Remember me? 1212 00:55:01,082 --> 00:55:02,457 I surely do. Did you vote for me? 1213 00:55:02,540 --> 00:55:03,665 I certainly did, sir. 1214 00:55:03,749 --> 00:55:06,040 We sang together at the Royal Orleans, remember? 1215 00:55:06,124 --> 00:55:07,457 Yeah, we sang... 1216 00:55:07,540 --> 00:55:10,665 "You're the Cream in My Coffee." 1217 00:55:12,749 --> 00:55:14,915 Mr. Garrison, we haven't seen enough of you lately. 1218 00:55:14,999 --> 00:55:16,249 Been too busy, Paul. 1219 00:55:16,665 --> 00:55:19,165 Elected men, they can't have as much fun as they used to. 1220 00:55:19,249 --> 00:55:20,647 It's always nice to see you. 1221 00:55:20,790 --> 00:55:22,416 Pleasure to serve you, always. 1222 00:55:23,624 --> 00:55:24,998 - Hey, Jim. - How are you? 1223 00:55:25,082 --> 00:55:26,332 - Good seeing you again. - Nice to see you. 1224 00:55:26,416 --> 00:55:27,665 - Hey, Jim. - Al. 1225 00:55:27,749 --> 00:55:29,291 - Jim. - Welcome back, Lou. 1226 00:55:29,916 --> 00:55:30,998 - Paul. - Yes? 1227 00:55:31,082 --> 00:55:32,873 You think I could get a martini? 1228 00:55:32,957 --> 00:55:34,256 Been waiting for you, sir. 1229 00:55:34,916 --> 00:55:35,832 Perfect. 1230 00:55:35,916 --> 00:55:38,414 - Keep that table open for us, will ya? - Yes, sir. 1231 00:55:40,832 --> 00:55:42,706 Find out anything on those hobos? 1232 00:55:42,790 --> 00:55:43,832 Photographer from... 1233 00:55:43,916 --> 00:55:46,464 The Dallas Times Herald got some great shots of 'em. 1234 00:55:47,166 --> 00:55:48,416 Never published. 1235 00:55:50,874 --> 00:55:53,249 Can't say that comes as a surprise anymore. 1236 00:55:54,333 --> 00:55:57,374 They took 'em to the sheriff's office and they let 'em go. 1237 00:55:57,458 --> 00:55:59,582 No record of 'em ever being questioned. 1238 00:55:59,790 --> 00:56:01,207 Take a good look, chief. 1239 00:56:01,291 --> 00:56:03,439 Any of 'em look like the hobos you remember? 1240 00:56:03,957 --> 00:56:05,665 These two look pretty young. 1241 00:56:05,957 --> 00:56:08,416 Not a single frayed collar or cuff, 1242 00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:11,040 new haircuts, fresh shaves, clean hands, 1243 00:56:11,124 --> 00:56:12,416 new shoe leather. 1244 00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:14,291 Well who the hell are they, then? 1245 00:56:15,540 --> 00:56:16,957 - Hi, Susie. - Hello. 1246 00:56:17,041 --> 00:56:19,089 - I'm sorry I'm late. - Come on, sit down. 1247 00:56:21,166 --> 00:56:24,207 This could be it. This could be it. Let's start looking for 'em. 1248 00:56:24,291 --> 00:56:25,873 What about that railroad man, 1249 00:56:25,957 --> 00:56:27,041 Lee Bowers? 1250 00:56:27,333 --> 00:56:29,166 Saw those men at the picket fence. 1251 00:56:30,041 --> 00:56:32,916 Graveyard. Dead. August this year. 1252 00:56:33,082 --> 00:56:34,499 Single car accident 1253 00:56:34,582 --> 00:56:36,873 on an empty road in Midlothian, Texas. 1254 00:56:36,957 --> 00:56:40,249 The doctor said he was in some kind of strange shock when he died. 1255 00:56:40,707 --> 00:56:42,505 We need to find more witnesses, Lou. 1256 00:56:42,957 --> 00:56:45,374 Well, there was Rose Cheramie, a whore. 1257 00:56:45,458 --> 00:56:48,374 She said she was a dope runner for Jack Ruby. 1258 00:56:48,957 --> 00:56:49,873 And 1259 00:56:49,957 --> 00:56:53,082 she said that Ruby knew Oswald for years. 1260 00:56:53,249 --> 00:56:54,540 Can we talk to her? 1261 00:56:55,249 --> 00:56:56,166 She's dead, too. 1262 00:56:56,458 --> 00:56:57,706 - Hit and run. - Oh, mama. 1263 00:57:02,874 --> 00:57:05,374 Why don't we go right to the horse's mouth, chief? 1264 00:57:05,790 --> 00:57:09,124 Jack Ruby's been rotting away in a Dallas jail cell for three years. 1265 00:57:09,208 --> 00:57:10,623 Maybe he's ready to crack. 1266 00:57:10,707 --> 00:57:11,457 Can't do it, Bill. 1267 00:57:11,540 --> 00:57:15,040 If we go to him, our investigation'll hit the front pages by sunrise, all right? 1268 00:57:15,124 --> 00:57:16,832 It'll blow up right in our face. 1269 00:57:17,166 --> 00:57:19,082 Susie, what did you find out on Oswald? 1270 00:57:19,166 --> 00:57:21,706 Uh, negative on his tax records. 1271 00:57:21,790 --> 00:57:22,748 Classified. 1272 00:57:22,832 --> 00:57:25,582 First time I know a DA can't get a tax record. 1273 00:57:26,166 --> 00:57:29,416 So I put together a list of all the CIA files on Oswald 1274 00:57:29,500 --> 00:57:32,040 that were part of the Warren Report and asked for them. 1275 00:57:32,124 --> 00:57:34,458 - There are about 1,200 documents. - Ooh. 1276 00:57:34,832 --> 00:57:36,623 And can't get one of them. 1277 00:57:36,707 --> 00:57:40,291 All classified as secret on the grounds of national security. 1278 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:42,416 They gave me his grammar school records! 1279 00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:45,332 It's a study of his pubic hairs! 1280 00:57:45,416 --> 00:57:47,457 Lonely kid, no father. 1281 00:57:47,540 --> 00:57:49,540 Joins the Marines at 17. 1282 00:57:50,082 --> 00:57:51,581 He learns Russian, 1283 00:57:51,665 --> 00:57:53,581 he acts overtly Marxist, 1284 00:57:53,665 --> 00:57:57,165 but he's stationed at a top-secret air base in Japan, 1285 00:57:57,249 --> 00:58:00,082 where U2 spy flights over Russia originate. 1286 00:58:00,707 --> 00:58:04,706 He's discharged from the Marines, supposedly because his mother's sick. 1287 00:58:04,790 --> 00:58:06,040 Stays home three days, 1288 00:58:06,124 --> 00:58:08,332 then with a 1,500-dollar ticket 1289 00:58:08,416 --> 00:58:11,332 from a 203-dollar bank account, he goes to Moscow. 1290 00:58:11,416 --> 00:58:12,623 Mr. Oswald, do you understand 1291 00:58:12,707 --> 00:58:14,665 the severity of the action that you're about to take? 1292 00:58:14,749 --> 00:58:17,957 Yes, I do, sir, and I am also very familiar... 1293 00:58:19,957 --> 00:58:22,665 I wish to renounce my citizenship, 1294 00:58:22,749 --> 00:58:25,582 and become a Soviet citizen. 1295 00:58:26,124 --> 00:58:27,998 I'm going to make known to them 1296 00:58:28,082 --> 00:58:30,290 all information I have concerning the Marine Corps. 1297 00:58:30,374 --> 00:58:33,957 And he disappears for six weeks, presumably with the KGB. 1298 00:58:34,249 --> 00:58:36,873 Finally they shuttle him to a radio factory in Minsk, 1299 00:58:36,957 --> 00:58:40,291 where he lives as high on the hog as he ever has. 1300 00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:42,665 He's given 5,000 rubles, 1301 00:58:42,749 --> 00:58:45,082 a roomy apartment with a balcony... 1302 00:58:45,582 --> 00:58:47,665 has affairs with local girls. 1303 00:58:47,749 --> 00:58:49,957 Makes sense, he's a spokesman. 1304 00:58:50,041 --> 00:58:52,915 But... but he never writes, speaks, 1305 00:58:52,999 --> 00:58:55,166 or does any propaganda for the Russians. 1306 00:58:55,707 --> 00:58:57,581 He meets Marina 1307 00:58:57,665 --> 00:59:00,165 whose uncle is a colonel in Soviet intelligence, 1308 00:59:00,249 --> 00:59:02,249 at a trade union dance. 1309 00:59:02,582 --> 00:59:04,873 She thinks he's Russian by the way he speaks. 1310 00:59:04,957 --> 00:59:06,624 Six weeks later they marry... 1311 00:59:06,957 --> 00:59:07,789 have a daughter. 1312 00:59:08,291 --> 00:59:10,290 The only explanation for the royal treatment 1313 00:59:10,374 --> 00:59:12,416 can be that he did give them radar secrets, 1314 00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:13,832 or fake secrets. 1315 00:59:13,916 --> 00:59:16,165 Six months after he arrives in Russia, 1316 00:59:16,249 --> 00:59:18,998 Francis Gary Powers ' U2 spy flight 1317 00:59:19,082 --> 00:59:20,748 goes down in Russia. 1318 00:59:20,832 --> 00:59:22,500 That plane was untouchable. 1319 00:59:22,999 --> 00:59:25,832 Powers hinted that Oswald could have given the Russians 1320 00:59:25,916 --> 00:59:27,499 enough data to hit it. 1321 00:59:27,582 --> 00:59:29,457 And as a direct result 1322 00:59:29,540 --> 00:59:32,332 the peace summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower failed. 1323 00:59:32,416 --> 00:59:33,707 I can't help thinking... 1324 00:59:33,957 --> 00:59:37,665 maybe someone in our military didn't want the peace conference to happen. 1325 00:59:37,749 --> 00:59:39,915 - Susie, come on. - Maybe Oswald was a part of that! 1326 00:59:39,999 --> 00:59:42,581 - Susie, you are an assistant DA, remember? - It gets weirder. 1327 00:59:42,665 --> 00:59:44,581 Just stick to what you can prove in court. 1328 00:59:44,665 --> 00:59:45,790 - Facts? You want facts? - Please. 1329 00:59:45,874 --> 00:59:47,457 - Susie, don't get sidetracked. - From 1945 to '59... 1330 00:59:47,540 --> 00:59:50,207 How does he get back to the States? That's the point, all right? 1331 00:59:50,291 --> 00:59:52,665 - Does he have any problems with Uncle Sam? - No! None. 1332 00:59:52,749 --> 00:59:56,165 The State Department issues him a new passport within 48 hours, 1333 00:59:56,249 --> 00:59:58,124 and loans him the money to travel. 1334 00:59:58,832 --> 01:00:01,581 He's never investigated or charged by the Navy 1335 01:00:01,665 --> 01:00:04,207 for revealing classified information. 1336 01:00:04,291 --> 01:00:05,457 Or, as far as we know, 1337 01:00:05,540 --> 01:00:07,207 debriefed by the CIA! 1338 01:00:07,291 --> 01:00:09,332 Son of a bitch should've been prosecuted as a traitor 1339 01:00:09,416 --> 01:00:11,164 the minute he stepped off the boat. 1340 01:00:12,124 --> 01:00:14,249 What about Marina, she have any problems getting out? 1341 01:00:14,333 --> 01:00:15,165 No! None either. 1342 01:00:15,249 --> 01:00:16,249 No, it's bizarre. 1343 01:00:16,333 --> 01:00:19,416 It's next to impossible to get Russian sweethearts out. 1344 01:00:19,500 --> 01:00:22,082 This is a man who has defected once already. 1345 01:00:22,166 --> 01:00:22,915 It's crazy. 1346 01:00:22,999 --> 01:00:24,165 Ordinary people 1347 01:00:24,249 --> 01:00:27,665 they get blacklisted for having leftist affiliations. 1348 01:00:27,749 --> 01:00:29,165 It doesn't add up, does it? 1349 01:00:29,249 --> 01:00:33,040 Next thing we know, he's living in Dallas-Fort Worth October '62 1350 01:00:33,124 --> 01:00:34,165 working six months 1351 01:00:34,249 --> 01:00:36,082 at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall. 1352 01:00:36,166 --> 01:00:40,082 This is a photographic firm that contracts to make maps for the US Army. 1353 01:00:40,749 --> 01:00:44,290 Oswald becomes chummy with the White Russian community of Dallas, 1354 01:00:44,374 --> 01:00:46,540 all rabid anti-communists. 1355 01:00:46,624 --> 01:00:47,457 It's odd. 1356 01:00:47,540 --> 01:00:50,249 His closest friend is an oilman... 1357 01:00:50,665 --> 01:00:52,957 named George de Mohrenschildt, 1358 01:00:53,082 --> 01:00:55,374 who's about 35 years older than Oswald, 1359 01:00:55,458 --> 01:00:58,915 who is only 23 and supposedly broke. 1360 01:00:58,999 --> 01:01:03,249 De Mohrenschildt is a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club, 1361 01:01:03,333 --> 01:01:04,665 speaks five languages, 1362 01:01:04,749 --> 01:01:07,374 and was in French Vichy Intelligence during the war. 1363 01:01:07,458 --> 01:01:08,748 Also rumored to have been 1364 01:01:08,832 --> 01:01:10,374 a Nazi sympathizer. 1365 01:01:10,458 --> 01:01:12,873 I think you really talk like a redneck... 1366 01:01:12,957 --> 01:01:17,665 De Mohrenschildt draws a picture of Oswald as an intellectual, well-read, 1367 01:01:17,749 --> 01:01:18,915 speaks excellent Russian, 1368 01:01:18,999 --> 01:01:21,166 a man who adored JFK. 1369 01:01:23,916 --> 01:01:24,873 Oh. 1370 01:01:24,957 --> 01:01:27,957 I think he's made some mistakes regarding Cuba. 1371 01:01:28,041 --> 01:01:31,124 I think he's doing a pretty good job. 1372 01:01:31,208 --> 01:01:34,706 If he succeeds, in my opinion, I think he'll make a great president. 1373 01:01:34,790 --> 01:01:36,332 - A really handsome one, too. - Yes. 1374 01:01:36,416 --> 01:01:39,374 That's scenery, Susie, now don't get sidetracked. 1375 01:01:39,458 --> 01:01:43,082 This is the same man that, bottom line, nailed Oswald to the Warren Commission 1376 01:01:43,166 --> 01:01:46,457 as a potentially violent man, and linked him to the rifle. 1377 01:01:46,540 --> 01:01:49,957 Well, in that sense, Castro is an experimenter. 1378 01:01:56,041 --> 01:01:57,665 What you got there? 1379 01:01:59,082 --> 01:02:00,749 You have a rifle in there? 1380 01:02:01,832 --> 01:02:02,832 Lee... 1381 01:02:02,916 --> 01:02:03,790 Tell me. 1382 01:02:04,540 --> 01:02:06,332 What are you shooting at? 1383 01:02:06,416 --> 01:02:07,749 Rabbits or fascists? 1384 01:02:07,999 --> 01:02:09,040 I uh... 1385 01:02:09,124 --> 01:02:10,623 - I hunt. - You hunt? 1386 01:02:10,707 --> 01:02:11,457 Mm-hmm. 1387 01:02:11,540 --> 01:02:12,416 Hillbillies. 1388 01:02:12,500 --> 01:02:15,040 We don't know he's CIA, let's circle him very probable. 1389 01:02:15,124 --> 01:02:16,957 - All right. - Call him Oswald's handler. 1390 01:02:17,041 --> 01:02:19,748 The Oswalds are introduced by George de Mohrenschildt 1391 01:02:19,832 --> 01:02:21,832 to Janet and Bill Williams. 1392 01:02:21,916 --> 01:02:23,706 I'm an engineer for Bell Helicopter. 1393 01:02:23,790 --> 01:02:24,998 It's through Janet Williams 1394 01:02:25,082 --> 01:02:27,706 in October '63 1395 01:02:27,790 --> 01:02:29,623 that Lee gets the job at the warehouse 1396 01:02:29,707 --> 01:02:32,458 right smack on Elm Street at the book depository. 1397 01:02:32,874 --> 01:02:35,499 Presumably so he can now exercise his intellect 1398 01:02:35,582 --> 01:02:38,124 stacking school texts at a dollar 25 an hour. 1399 01:02:39,374 --> 01:02:42,624 Marina fights often with Lee about many things. 1400 01:02:45,208 --> 01:02:47,458 His secrecy, their lack of money... 1401 01:02:48,832 --> 01:02:51,124 She says that Lee is not sexually adequate. 1402 01:02:51,416 --> 01:02:53,707 Lee, you'll hurt her! You'll hurt her! 1403 01:02:53,999 --> 01:02:56,249 Lee hits her on several occasions. 1404 01:02:57,333 --> 01:03:00,165 Now, at the age of 24, he rents a small room in Dallas 1405 01:03:00,249 --> 01:03:02,499 under the alias of OH Lee. 1406 01:03:02,582 --> 01:03:04,281 Do you want to look at television? 1407 01:03:04,582 --> 01:03:06,124 Are you all right, Mr. Lee? 1408 01:03:06,458 --> 01:03:07,999 No, thank you. I'm fine. 1409 01:03:09,333 --> 01:03:12,998 All I can find out about the Williams is that their tax returns are classified, 1410 01:03:13,082 --> 01:03:15,915 and that Bill Williams has links through his family 1411 01:03:15,999 --> 01:03:17,165 to the CIA, 1412 01:03:17,249 --> 01:03:19,447 and does classified work for Bell Helicopter. 1413 01:03:20,249 --> 01:03:22,207 Bill's convenient separation from Janet 1414 01:03:22,291 --> 01:03:24,500 allows Marina to move into her house, 1415 01:03:24,665 --> 01:03:27,249 where she suddenly becomes Marina's best friend. 1416 01:03:27,333 --> 01:03:28,540 And, there, 1417 01:03:28,624 --> 01:03:30,957 - Marina and Lee have a second daughter. - I have to go away... 1418 01:03:31,041 --> 01:03:33,207 I have to go away... 1419 01:03:33,291 --> 01:03:34,748 Just for a short while. 1420 01:03:34,832 --> 01:03:37,207 What is the matter with this family? 1421 01:03:37,291 --> 01:03:38,957 I love Lee... 1422 01:03:39,374 --> 01:03:41,915 And I... sorry him. 1423 01:03:41,999 --> 01:03:43,082 You're sorry for him? 1424 01:03:44,416 --> 01:03:45,165 Yes. 1425 01:03:45,249 --> 01:03:45,998 When he's arrested, 1426 01:03:46,082 --> 01:03:48,249 Marina buries him with the public. 1427 01:03:48,333 --> 01:03:51,915 Her description of him is that of a psychotic and violent man. 1428 01:03:51,999 --> 01:03:53,623 I have too much facts, 1429 01:03:53,707 --> 01:03:55,706 and facts tell me 1430 01:03:55,790 --> 01:03:57,998 that Lee shot Kennedy. 1431 01:03:58,082 --> 01:04:00,207 After, they kept her locked away for two months, 1432 01:04:00,291 --> 01:04:01,748 surrounded by federal people, 1433 01:04:01,832 --> 01:04:03,915 in fearing she'd be deported back to Russia. 1434 01:04:03,999 --> 01:04:07,374 All right, the poor woman was probably suffering from nervous exhaustion. 1435 01:04:07,458 --> 01:04:09,124 They taught her how to answer. 1436 01:04:09,624 --> 01:04:12,624 And when they think she's ready, they buy her new dresses, 1437 01:04:12,749 --> 01:04:15,165 polish her appearance, and wheel her out on cue. 1438 01:04:15,249 --> 01:04:17,873 I would like to thank the Warren Commission... 1439 01:04:17,957 --> 01:04:19,905 Now, Oswald was no angel, that's clear. 1440 01:04:20,208 --> 01:04:21,166 But who was he? 1441 01:04:22,041 --> 01:04:23,333 I'm lost, boss. 1442 01:04:23,790 --> 01:04:25,332 What are we saying here? 1443 01:04:25,416 --> 01:04:27,748 We're saying that when Oswald went to Russia, 1444 01:04:27,832 --> 01:04:29,540 he was not a real defector... 1445 01:04:29,957 --> 01:04:32,040 that he was an intelligence agent on some kind of mission 1446 01:04:32,124 --> 01:04:34,540 for our government and remained one till the day he died. 1447 01:04:34,624 --> 01:04:35,706 That's what we're saying. 1448 01:04:35,790 --> 01:04:38,291 Therefore, because Oswald pulled the trigger... 1449 01:04:38,832 --> 01:04:41,748 the intelligence community murdered their own commander in chief? 1450 01:04:41,832 --> 01:04:43,082 Is that what you're saying? 1451 01:04:43,166 --> 01:04:44,624 I'll go you one better, Bill. 1452 01:04:44,999 --> 01:04:47,047 Maybe Oswald didn't even pull the trigger. 1453 01:04:47,458 --> 01:04:51,124 Nitrate tests indicate he hadn't even fired a rifle on November 22nd. 1454 01:04:51,333 --> 01:04:53,124 And on top of that, they didn't even bother to see 1455 01:04:53,208 --> 01:04:55,056 if the rifle had been fired that day. 1456 01:04:55,582 --> 01:04:57,249 He had his palm print on the weapon. 1457 01:04:57,333 --> 01:04:59,041 Well, it went to the FBI, Bill. 1458 01:04:59,500 --> 01:05:01,665 FBI didn't find a goddamn thing. 1459 01:05:02,041 --> 01:05:05,124 It comes back a week later and one guy in the Dallas police department 1460 01:05:05,208 --> 01:05:06,624 suddenly finds a palm print. 1461 01:05:07,374 --> 01:05:10,040 For all we know, it could've been taken off Oswald in the morgue. 1462 01:05:10,124 --> 01:05:11,332 There's no chain of evidence. 1463 01:05:11,416 --> 01:05:15,582 I never could figure out why this guy orders a traceable weapon... 1464 01:05:16,208 --> 01:05:17,581 to this post office box, 1465 01:05:17,665 --> 01:05:19,713 when he can go into any store in Texas... 1466 01:05:20,166 --> 01:05:23,581 give a phony name, and walk out with a rifle which can never be traced. 1467 01:05:23,665 --> 01:05:25,040 To frame him, obviously. 1468 01:05:25,124 --> 01:05:27,499 There's a lot of smoke there, but there's some fire. 1469 01:05:27,582 --> 01:05:29,457 We're talking about our government, here. 1470 01:05:29,540 --> 01:05:32,238 No, we're talking about a crime, Bill. Pure and simple. 1471 01:05:32,582 --> 01:05:36,124 Y'all got to start thinking on a different level, like the CIA does. 1472 01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:38,947 Now we're through the looking glass, here, people. 1473 01:05:39,582 --> 01:05:40,624 White is black. 1474 01:05:41,832 --> 01:05:42,957 And black is white. 1475 01:05:44,333 --> 01:05:46,999 Just maybe, Oswald is exactly what he said he was. 1476 01:05:47,790 --> 01:05:48,622 A patsy. 1477 01:05:54,957 --> 01:05:56,998 It's unbelievable. You were here? 1478 01:05:57,082 --> 01:05:58,166 Yes, sir. 1479 01:05:58,291 --> 01:05:59,707 This is where I was sitting. 1480 01:06:00,082 --> 01:06:03,665 Shots came from near that wooden fence over there... 1481 01:06:04,624 --> 01:06:06,540 near the overpass. 1482 01:06:06,749 --> 01:06:11,082 And I saw a man run from the fence toward those railroad cars. 1483 01:06:11,166 --> 01:06:13,499 I made it very clear to the Warren people 1484 01:06:13,582 --> 01:06:16,749 that one of the shots came from behind that picket fence. 1485 01:06:16,957 --> 01:06:19,499 I heard the report, saw the smoke come out 1486 01:06:19,582 --> 01:06:21,374 six or eight feet above the ground, 1487 01:06:21,458 --> 01:06:23,457 right out from under those trees. 1488 01:06:23,540 --> 01:06:25,623 We, uh, all four of us... 1489 01:06:25,707 --> 01:06:27,124 All railroad men 1490 01:06:27,208 --> 01:06:28,790 seen about the same thing. 1491 01:06:28,999 --> 01:06:31,623 The smoke came from behind the hedge. 1492 01:06:31,707 --> 01:06:33,706 I was standing next to my friend, Mary Moorman, 1493 01:06:33,790 --> 01:06:35,832 who took the photograph when he was killed. 1494 01:06:35,916 --> 01:06:38,249 Um... 1495 01:06:38,333 --> 01:06:41,957 I stepped down to the curb and yelled, "Hey, Mr. President!" 1496 01:06:42,041 --> 01:06:43,749 Look over here! 1497 01:06:45,540 --> 01:06:47,082 And then shots rang out. 1498 01:06:49,249 --> 01:06:51,082 Mary fell to the ground right away. 1499 01:06:51,166 --> 01:06:54,313 She was yelling, "They're shooting, they're shooting, get down!" 1500 01:06:55,500 --> 01:06:56,898 I just stood there watching. 1501 01:06:58,208 --> 01:06:59,500 The driver had stopped. 1502 01:07:00,957 --> 01:07:03,155 I don't know what was wrong with that driver. 1503 01:07:03,540 --> 01:07:04,500 Then... 1504 01:07:05,416 --> 01:07:06,916 out of the corner of my eye... 1505 01:07:08,124 --> 01:07:10,082 I saw a flash of light in the bushes... 1506 01:07:10,999 --> 01:07:12,082 and that last shot... 1507 01:07:13,999 --> 01:07:15,333 Just ripped his head off. 1508 01:07:16,749 --> 01:07:20,748 I looked up and I saw smoke coming from over there, on the knoll. 1509 01:07:20,832 --> 01:07:23,416 We came around here to look for tracks. 1510 01:07:23,790 --> 01:07:26,999 It rained that morning, and we found a bunch. 1511 01:07:27,624 --> 01:07:28,624 Cigarette butts... 1512 01:07:28,874 --> 01:07:31,458 and someone had stood about here. 1513 01:07:37,458 --> 01:07:39,082 That's a good spot, chief. 1514 01:07:40,333 --> 01:07:41,232 For the head shot. 1515 01:07:43,249 --> 01:07:45,166 Everything was just frozen. 1516 01:07:45,999 --> 01:07:48,208 Seemed like people weren't even breathing. 1517 01:07:48,832 --> 01:07:50,580 Like you were looking at a picture. 1518 01:07:53,249 --> 01:07:54,707 Except for this one man. 1519 01:07:55,916 --> 01:07:57,581 I saw this one man 1520 01:07:57,665 --> 01:08:01,873 running from the corner of the book depository over towards the parking lot. 1521 01:08:01,957 --> 01:08:03,655 It was about 11:00 in the morning. 1522 01:08:04,166 --> 01:08:06,832 And I was driving west on Elm Street toward the Triple Underpass 1523 01:08:06,916 --> 01:08:07,957 in a rented car. 1524 01:08:08,333 --> 01:08:09,832 A light blue Valiant. 1525 01:08:10,582 --> 01:08:12,291 I will never forget that day. 1526 01:08:12,624 --> 01:08:16,540 There was quite a bit of traffic and I stopped alongside this green pickup truck. 1527 01:08:16,624 --> 01:08:18,623 And I remember it being very noticeable 1528 01:08:18,707 --> 01:08:21,581 because it had one of its wheels parked up on the side of the curb. 1529 01:08:21,665 --> 01:08:23,713 And then when I saw the gun, I thought... 1530 01:08:24,458 --> 01:08:25,333 Well... 1531 01:08:25,874 --> 01:08:27,772 the Secret Service is not very secret. 1532 01:08:28,249 --> 01:08:31,290 Then the next morning, on Saturday, I went down to the FBI office 1533 01:08:31,374 --> 01:08:33,623 and the agents showed me some photographs 1534 01:08:33,707 --> 01:08:35,623 and I picked out three pictures that looked 1535 01:08:35,707 --> 01:08:37,655 generally like the driver of the truck. 1536 01:08:38,333 --> 01:08:39,416 That's the man. 1537 01:08:39,999 --> 01:08:42,624 You mean you identified Jack Ruby on Saturday? 1538 01:08:42,749 --> 01:08:43,540 That's right. 1539 01:08:43,624 --> 01:08:45,291 The day before he shot Oswald? 1540 01:08:45,582 --> 01:08:47,999 That's right. When I saw him on TV... 1541 01:08:48,665 --> 01:08:49,416 I was shocked. 1542 01:08:49,500 --> 01:08:51,082 I turned to my family and I said, 1543 01:08:51,166 --> 01:08:52,964 "That's the man I saw in the truck." 1544 01:08:54,124 --> 01:08:57,290 But you didn't seem nearly so sure in your statement to the Warren Commission. 1545 01:08:57,374 --> 01:08:58,374 What about these others? 1546 01:08:58,458 --> 01:09:00,156 You said one of them might be him. 1547 01:09:01,582 --> 01:09:04,629 They look a little bit like him, but I'm sure this is the man. 1548 01:09:05,041 --> 01:09:07,540 Well, it was him I was chasing up the grassy knoll. 1549 01:09:09,374 --> 01:09:11,624 I thought maybe our guys had shot back. 1550 01:09:11,749 --> 01:09:13,665 And maybe we got one of them. 1551 01:09:13,749 --> 01:09:15,665 When I got up to the parking lot... 1552 01:09:16,082 --> 01:09:19,458 all I saw were railroad workers and Dallas' finest. 1553 01:09:21,041 --> 01:09:22,832 Secret Service, ma'am. You're coming with us. 1554 01:09:22,916 --> 01:09:25,165 I am not! I don't know you. We got to find this shooter! 1555 01:09:25,249 --> 01:09:27,540 I said, you're coming with us, and I want those pictures in your pocket. 1556 01:09:27,624 --> 01:09:29,165 I don't have any, son of a bitch! 1557 01:09:29,249 --> 01:09:31,416 - He put a hurt on me but good. - Just smile and keep walking. 1558 01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:34,290 But they musta been watching the whole thing 'cause they knew everything 1559 01:09:34,374 --> 01:09:36,124 Mary and I had done all day. 1560 01:09:36,624 --> 01:09:39,706 'Cause I guess I wasn't too hard to find, wearing that red raincoat. 1561 01:09:39,790 --> 01:09:41,638 How many shots did you say you heard? 1562 01:09:41,957 --> 01:09:43,374 Four to six. 1563 01:09:43,707 --> 01:09:44,957 That's impossible! 1564 01:09:45,916 --> 01:09:47,291 You heard echoes. 1565 01:09:47,999 --> 01:09:48,957 Echoes! 1566 01:09:49,874 --> 01:09:53,457 We have three bullets and three shots that came from the book depository. 1567 01:09:53,540 --> 01:09:55,082 That's all we're willing to say. 1568 01:09:55,166 --> 01:09:56,041 No, sir. 1569 01:09:56,500 --> 01:09:59,749 I saw a man shooting from over there behind that fence. 1570 01:09:59,999 --> 01:10:01,581 Now what are you going to do about that? 1571 01:10:01,665 --> 01:10:03,207 You got to go out there and get him! 1572 01:10:03,291 --> 01:10:04,665 We have that taken care of. 1573 01:10:04,957 --> 01:10:08,653 You only heard three shots, and you're not to talk about this with anybody. 1574 01:10:09,333 --> 01:10:10,832 No one. Do you understand me? 1575 01:10:11,124 --> 01:10:11,998 Which is strange, 1576 01:10:12,082 --> 01:10:14,790 'cause it's less than 20 minutes after the assassination. 1577 01:10:14,874 --> 01:10:15,832 Get her out of here. 1578 01:10:15,916 --> 01:10:18,665 I knew something was crooked as a dog's hind leg. 1579 01:10:18,916 --> 01:10:19,749 Sure enough... 1580 01:10:19,957 --> 01:10:23,540 When I read my testimony as published by the Warren Commission, 1581 01:10:23,624 --> 01:10:25,915 it was a fabrication from start to finish. 1582 01:10:25,999 --> 01:10:29,249 Well, that's what bothers me, Mr. Garrison, is they've been altered. 1583 01:10:29,333 --> 01:10:30,500 My statements. 1584 01:10:31,374 --> 01:10:33,124 See, this one here says... 1585 01:10:33,208 --> 01:10:35,748 "Mercer could not identify any of the photographs 1586 01:10:35,832 --> 01:10:37,790 "as being identical with the person that she had observed 1587 01:10:37,874 --> 01:10:40,082 slouched over the wheel of the green Ford pickup truck." 1588 01:10:40,166 --> 01:10:41,124 Well, that is not true. 1589 01:10:41,208 --> 01:10:44,405 I never said any such thing, I recognized him and I told them so. 1590 01:10:44,749 --> 01:10:46,207 Let's take your time, be sure. 1591 01:10:46,291 --> 01:10:47,207 I'm sure. 1592 01:10:47,291 --> 01:10:49,290 And then here on the Dallas sheriff's report, 1593 01:10:49,374 --> 01:10:51,332 this is really strange. 1594 01:10:51,416 --> 01:10:54,957 You see that notarized signature right there at the bottom of each page? 1595 01:10:55,041 --> 01:10:56,249 That is not my signature. 1596 01:10:56,333 --> 01:10:59,679 And there never was any notary present during any of my questioning. 1597 01:11:01,540 --> 01:11:04,082 Mrs. Mercer, as a former FBI man, it's... 1598 01:11:05,832 --> 01:11:07,624 It's difficult to accept this. 1599 01:11:08,874 --> 01:11:11,540 Beverly, tell Mr. Garrison about the Carousel Club. 1600 01:11:13,957 --> 01:11:14,832 Okay. 1601 01:11:17,916 --> 01:11:19,915 Well, I used to go over there a lot to see Jack, 1602 01:11:19,999 --> 01:11:22,347 and especially my friend Jada, who danced there. 1603 01:11:22,624 --> 01:11:26,333 It was the real swinging spot in town. Everybody came. 1604 01:11:26,874 --> 01:11:30,208 Businessmen, politicians from Austin, LBJ's friends. 1605 01:11:30,749 --> 01:11:32,706 Dallas was a slowpokin' town back then! 1606 01:11:32,790 --> 01:11:34,207 I mean you chewed toothpicks, 1607 01:11:34,291 --> 01:11:36,915 played dominoes, spit, dated policemen, 1608 01:11:36,999 --> 01:11:38,790 but Jack, that was exciting. 1609 01:11:38,874 --> 01:11:40,416 There were always cops there. 1610 01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:41,998 Jack liked them around 1611 01:11:42,082 --> 01:11:44,249 even though he used to throw out the drunks himself. 1612 01:11:44,333 --> 01:11:46,873 He was kind of a violent-tempered man, actually. 1613 01:11:46,957 --> 01:11:47,957 Hey, how are ya! 1614 01:11:48,041 --> 01:11:50,706 You know, everybody in those days knew Jack was in the mob. 1615 01:11:50,790 --> 01:11:52,040 Hey, sweetheart! 1616 01:11:52,124 --> 01:11:53,540 Cops back then 1617 01:11:53,624 --> 01:11:54,998 - they were bad. - Hey, Tippit. 1618 01:11:55,082 --> 01:11:57,579 They'd shake you down for the money in your pocket. 1619 01:11:57,665 --> 01:11:59,040 You know, there was this one case... 1620 01:11:59,124 --> 01:12:01,207 Yeah, um, Beverly, what about Lee? 1621 01:12:01,291 --> 01:12:02,998 - Beverly, come over here! - Well... 1622 01:12:03,082 --> 01:12:06,124 One time I came in, and Jack introduced me to these two guys. 1623 01:12:06,208 --> 01:12:07,124 - Hi! - Hi, baby. 1624 01:12:07,208 --> 01:12:08,873 He says, "Beverly, I'd like you to meet my friend, Lee." 1625 01:12:08,957 --> 01:12:10,499 I want you to meet my friend, Lee Oswald. 1626 01:12:10,582 --> 01:12:13,291 I don't remember the other guy's name... 1627 01:12:13,665 --> 01:12:16,082 but he was a weird-looking guy. 1628 01:12:16,458 --> 01:12:18,290 He had these eyebrows. 1629 01:12:18,374 --> 01:12:20,166 He kinda looked like a buzzard! 1630 01:12:21,500 --> 01:12:22,457 Well... 1631 01:12:22,540 --> 01:12:25,998 Lee didn't make much of an impression. He was... um... 1632 01:12:26,082 --> 01:12:28,207 Well, he really wasn't very good-looking, 1633 01:12:28,291 --> 01:12:30,581 and he didn't look like he had any money. 1634 01:12:30,665 --> 01:12:34,333 And he was in a bad mood, so I didn't pay him much mind. 1635 01:12:36,082 --> 01:12:39,416 You know, I may not remember a name, but I always remember a face. 1636 01:12:41,208 --> 01:12:44,205 Then a couple weeks later when I saw him on the television... 1637 01:12:44,832 --> 01:12:46,874 I screamed, "My God! That's him!" 1638 01:12:47,749 --> 01:12:49,166 "That's Jack's friend!" 1639 01:12:51,041 --> 01:12:52,665 Will you testify, Beverly? 1640 01:12:55,041 --> 01:12:56,249 I don't think so. 1641 01:12:56,333 --> 01:12:58,930 Now I thought when we came here, we had an agreement. 1642 01:13:02,041 --> 01:13:04,499 I don't want to become another statistic, like her. 1643 01:13:04,582 --> 01:13:06,581 We could call you in, Beverly, we could call you in. 1644 01:13:06,665 --> 01:13:09,916 If they can kill the President of the United States... 1645 01:13:11,707 --> 01:13:15,333 do you think they're gonna think twice about a two-bit showgirl like me? 1646 01:13:21,458 --> 01:13:23,805 I understand the pressure you're under, Beverly. 1647 01:13:24,582 --> 01:13:26,231 Don't think for a minute I don't. 1648 01:13:27,665 --> 01:13:28,874 We both do. 1649 01:13:34,665 --> 01:13:36,790 Mr. Chief Justice... 1650 01:13:36,916 --> 01:13:40,790 You understand that I cannot tell the truth here, in Dallas? 1651 01:13:41,582 --> 01:13:44,579 There are people here who do not want me to tell the truth... 1652 01:13:45,082 --> 01:13:46,706 who don't want me to have a retrial? 1653 01:13:46,790 --> 01:13:50,333 Mr. Ruby, I don't see why you don't just tell us now. 1654 01:13:50,582 --> 01:13:52,416 My life is in danger! 1655 01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:54,998 If you request that I go back to Washington with you, 1656 01:13:55,082 --> 01:13:57,829 that is if you want to hear further testimony from me... 1657 01:13:58,582 --> 01:14:00,165 can you do that, can you take me with you? 1658 01:14:00,249 --> 01:14:04,748 No, that could not be done. There would be no safe place for you. 1659 01:14:04,832 --> 01:14:07,416 We're not law enforcement officers. 1660 01:14:08,416 --> 01:14:11,790 Mr. Ruby, there's a great deal at stake in this matter. 1661 01:14:12,749 --> 01:14:14,706 See, if I am eliminated 1662 01:14:14,790 --> 01:14:19,249 there won't be any way of knowing any bit of the truth pertaining to my situation. 1663 01:14:20,999 --> 01:14:23,207 And, consequently, a whole new form of government 1664 01:14:23,291 --> 01:14:25,082 is going to take over this country. 1665 01:14:25,749 --> 01:14:26,582 Yeah! 1666 01:14:26,999 --> 01:14:29,790 And I know that I won't live to see you some other time. 1667 01:14:30,790 --> 01:14:32,165 'Cause I want to tell the truth, 1668 01:14:32,249 --> 01:14:35,124 and then... I want to leave this world. 1669 01:14:37,874 --> 01:14:41,374 The Zapruder film establishes three shots in 5.6 seconds. 1670 01:14:42,416 --> 01:14:44,166 Here. 1671 01:14:44,624 --> 01:14:45,832 I'm Oswald. 1672 01:14:47,041 --> 01:14:47,873 Time me. 1673 01:14:49,458 --> 01:14:50,416 Go. 1674 01:14:56,041 --> 01:14:56,873 Time? 1675 01:14:56,999 --> 01:14:58,665 Between six and seven seconds. 1676 01:14:58,749 --> 01:15:00,124 And that's without really aiming. 1677 01:15:00,208 --> 01:15:04,004 The key is the second and third shots came almost right on top of each other. 1678 01:15:04,707 --> 01:15:05,874 It takes a minimum... 1679 01:15:06,957 --> 01:15:09,665 2.3 seconds to recycle this thing. 1680 01:15:09,957 --> 01:15:12,205 The other problem is there was a tree there... 1681 01:15:12,458 --> 01:15:14,249 blocking the first two shots 1682 01:15:14,333 --> 01:15:16,832 at the time they occur in the Zapruder film. 1683 01:15:17,208 --> 01:15:19,457 Didn't J. Edgar Hoover say something about that? 1684 01:15:19,540 --> 01:15:21,040 The leaves had fallen off in November? 1685 01:15:21,124 --> 01:15:23,500 It was a Texas Live Oak, chief. 1686 01:15:24,082 --> 01:15:26,230 It sheds its leaves the first week of March. 1687 01:15:27,124 --> 01:15:30,374 You take this Carcano, the world's worst shoulder weapon, 1688 01:15:30,458 --> 01:15:33,749 and you try to hit a moving target at 88 yards... 1689 01:15:34,333 --> 01:15:36,873 through heavy foliage. No way. 1690 01:15:36,957 --> 01:15:37,999 Here. 1691 01:15:39,957 --> 01:15:42,332 FBI tried two sets of tests. 1692 01:15:42,416 --> 01:15:45,790 Not one of their sharpshooters could match Oswald's performance. 1693 01:15:45,874 --> 01:15:47,082 Not one. 1694 01:15:47,208 --> 01:15:49,707 And Oswald was, at best, a medium shot. 1695 01:15:50,291 --> 01:15:52,416 The scope was defective on it, too. 1696 01:15:52,957 --> 01:15:55,749 I mean this is the whole essence of the case to me. 1697 01:15:56,208 --> 01:15:58,124 The guy couldn't do the shooting. 1698 01:15:59,124 --> 01:16:00,374 Nobody could. 1699 01:16:00,790 --> 01:16:03,333 And they sold this lemon to the American public. 1700 01:16:05,624 --> 01:16:08,472 The Zapruder film was the proof they didn't count on, Lou. 1701 01:16:09,082 --> 01:16:10,580 We got to get our hands on it. 1702 01:16:12,374 --> 01:16:15,582 That means we have to subpoena Time-Life. 1703 01:16:16,582 --> 01:16:18,081 Let me ask you something, Lou. 1704 01:16:18,790 --> 01:16:21,041 Why not just shoot Kennedy coming up Houston? 1705 01:16:21,416 --> 01:16:23,416 There's plenty of time. 1706 01:16:24,374 --> 01:16:25,374 He's out in the open. 1707 01:16:25,458 --> 01:16:27,249 I know, I keep asking myself the same thing. 1708 01:16:27,333 --> 01:16:28,249 It's a frontal shot. 1709 01:16:28,333 --> 01:16:30,207 Even if you miss him for the first shot, 1710 01:16:30,291 --> 01:16:32,165 if he accelerates, you still got him for the second shot. 1711 01:16:32,249 --> 01:16:34,846 Now, the only reason for waiting to get him on Elm... 1712 01:16:35,291 --> 01:16:38,458 is you got him in a triangulated crossfire, all right? 1713 01:16:39,082 --> 01:16:41,916 You put a team there, down at the fence, 1714 01:16:42,041 --> 01:16:44,874 for a frontal shot, flat, low trajectory. 1715 01:16:45,208 --> 01:16:50,040 Put a third team down here, in this building, here, on a low floor, 1716 01:16:50,124 --> 01:16:53,171 when Kennedy gets to the kill zone there, it's a turkey shoot. 1717 01:16:56,249 --> 01:16:57,458 How many men? 1718 01:16:57,790 --> 01:16:58,707 Okay. 1719 01:16:59,124 --> 01:17:00,540 One shooter, 1720 01:17:00,624 --> 01:17:03,624 one spotter on a radio, maybe three teams. 1721 01:17:05,749 --> 01:17:09,545 I'd say these were professional riflemen, too, chief, they're serious people. 1722 01:17:10,041 --> 01:17:10,916 Hunters. 1723 01:17:13,208 --> 01:17:14,291 Patient. 1724 01:17:16,249 --> 01:17:18,624 Takes skill to kill with a rifle, chief. 1725 01:17:21,749 --> 01:17:24,998 You got to figure, that's why there's been no execution of a chief executive 1726 01:17:25,082 --> 01:17:26,500 with one in 200 years. 1727 01:17:29,500 --> 01:17:30,957 Three... 1728 01:17:31,874 --> 01:17:32,832 Two... 1729 01:17:34,540 --> 01:17:35,416 One... 1730 01:17:45,249 --> 01:17:47,208 Main Street's over there, right? 1731 01:17:48,041 --> 01:17:50,538 Original parade route on the way to the Trade Mart. 1732 01:17:51,665 --> 01:17:52,998 Its too far, right? 1733 01:17:53,082 --> 01:17:54,166 Too far. 1734 01:17:54,458 --> 01:17:57,707 Impossible shot, so they change the parade route... 1735 01:17:58,500 --> 01:17:59,540 bring him down here, 1736 01:17:59,624 --> 01:18:01,623 moving at a normal 25 miles per hour. 1737 01:18:01,707 --> 01:18:04,790 They knew the motorcade would have to slow down to about 10 miles per hour 1738 01:18:04,874 --> 01:18:06,581 to make that turn there, 1739 01:18:06,665 --> 01:18:08,114 and that's where you got him. 1740 01:18:15,624 --> 01:18:17,915 Who do you think changed the parade route, Lou? 1741 01:18:17,999 --> 01:18:18,915 Beats me. 1742 01:18:18,999 --> 01:18:21,540 Secret Service, city officials, Dallas police. 1743 01:18:21,999 --> 01:18:23,947 You know who the mayor was at the time? 1744 01:18:24,082 --> 01:18:25,166 Earle Cabell. 1745 01:18:25,749 --> 01:18:27,207 Guess who his brother is. 1746 01:18:27,291 --> 01:18:28,208 Who? 1747 01:18:28,707 --> 01:18:30,582 - General Charles Cabell. - Who? 1748 01:18:30,957 --> 01:18:32,790 Deputy Director of the CIA. 1749 01:18:32,874 --> 01:18:36,082 Kennedy fired him in '61 because of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. 1750 01:18:37,249 --> 01:18:39,846 Moved back to the Pentagon, called Kennedy a traitor. 1751 01:18:40,624 --> 01:18:42,166 When he came to New Orleans... 1752 01:18:42,458 --> 01:18:45,790 to address the Foreign Policy Association, you know who introduced him? 1753 01:18:45,874 --> 01:18:46,749 Who? 1754 01:18:47,124 --> 01:18:48,873 Our friend, Clay Shaw. 1755 01:18:48,957 --> 01:18:50,705 And the Warren Commission call him? 1756 01:18:50,790 --> 01:18:52,915 His boss was the one on the Warren Commission 1757 01:18:52,999 --> 01:18:55,165 who handled all the leads to the intelligence community. 1758 01:18:55,249 --> 01:18:56,457 Allen Dulles? 1759 01:18:56,540 --> 01:18:58,624 Head of the CIA since '53. 1760 01:18:59,540 --> 01:19:00,999 Kennedy fired them both. 1761 01:19:02,416 --> 01:19:04,665 Cabell was his deputy for nine years. 1762 01:19:05,707 --> 01:19:09,082 Talk about the fox investigating the chicken coop. 1763 01:19:10,874 --> 01:19:12,722 Now we'll have to subpoena them both. 1764 01:19:25,624 --> 01:19:26,998 Clay Bertrand? 1765 01:19:27,082 --> 01:19:29,957 Sure, I know him. Comes around the Quarter. 1766 01:19:30,041 --> 01:19:32,581 Who is he, Joe? I've been to all the bars, 1767 01:19:32,665 --> 01:19:34,166 nobody wants to talk. 1768 01:19:35,333 --> 01:19:36,957 Why should they talk to you? 1769 01:19:38,500 --> 01:19:42,291 I told your uncle I never met a lawman who wasn't a punk. 1770 01:19:46,291 --> 01:19:47,790 He's a big-shot businessman. 1771 01:19:47,874 --> 01:19:51,208 I seen him on the TV news a lot, with all the other big shots. 1772 01:19:52,082 --> 01:19:53,916 The guy's a fag, you know. 1773 01:19:54,416 --> 01:19:55,749 Goes by another name. 1774 01:19:56,333 --> 01:19:57,540 What's the other name? 1775 01:19:58,500 --> 01:20:00,874 Shaw. Clay Shaw. 1776 01:20:01,458 --> 01:20:03,124 Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw? 1777 01:20:04,208 --> 01:20:06,249 The guy who used to run the International Trade Mart? 1778 01:20:06,333 --> 01:20:10,291 Yeah, what's the big mystery? Everybody down here knows the guy. 1779 01:20:11,749 --> 01:20:13,916 Then, why does he call himself Bertrand? 1780 01:20:14,082 --> 01:20:16,500 Who gives a shit what he calls himself. 1781 01:20:17,249 --> 01:20:19,124 Hey, what about that grand jury thing? 1782 01:20:19,208 --> 01:20:21,082 You think you're gonna give us a little help on that? 1783 01:20:21,166 --> 01:20:23,333 I hope so. We could use it. 1784 01:20:23,790 --> 01:20:25,207 Your hunch was right, boss. 1785 01:20:25,291 --> 01:20:27,665 But it's even spookier than we thought. 1786 01:20:27,832 --> 01:20:30,082 Starting in September '63 on, 1787 01:20:30,166 --> 01:20:32,832 two months before the assassination, 1788 01:20:32,916 --> 01:20:36,124 there are sightings of Oswald all over Dallas, 1789 01:20:36,208 --> 01:20:37,249 buying ammunition... 1790 01:20:38,416 --> 01:20:39,706 Jasper, cut it out! 1791 01:20:39,790 --> 01:20:42,915 ...getting a telescopic sight fixed, going to rifle ranges. 1792 01:20:42,999 --> 01:20:43,957 Early November, 1793 01:20:44,041 --> 01:20:47,040 at a Dallas downtown Lincoln-Mercury dealership, 1794 01:20:47,124 --> 01:20:49,416 where he tells the salesman, Albert Bogard, 1795 01:20:49,500 --> 01:20:50,998 Let's take it out for a test drive. 1796 01:20:51,082 --> 01:20:52,332 ...despite the fact he has no license, 1797 01:20:52,416 --> 01:20:54,915 and, from what Marina says, doesn't know how to drive, 1798 01:20:54,999 --> 01:20:57,957 he hits the curves like AJ Foyt at the Indy 500. 1799 01:20:58,124 --> 01:21:00,832 Bogard later told his boss he drove like a madman. 1800 01:21:00,916 --> 01:21:05,540 Hey, 300 bucks down now, Mr. Oswald, you can drive outta here. 1801 01:21:05,624 --> 01:21:06,540 What? 1802 01:21:07,124 --> 01:21:08,500 For this heap? 1803 01:21:08,624 --> 01:21:12,582 No honest, working man can afford to buy a car in this goddamn country anymore. 1804 01:21:12,749 --> 01:21:15,082 Maybe I'll have to go to Russia and buy a car. 1805 01:21:15,166 --> 01:21:18,499 Really dumb dialogue, like he's trying to draw attention to himself. 1806 01:21:18,582 --> 01:21:20,499 - Yeah, maybe you should. - A real moron. He walks out. 1807 01:21:20,582 --> 01:21:22,832 Salesman remembers him as about 5'7" 1808 01:21:22,916 --> 01:21:26,291 but we know from Oswald's draft card that he was actually 5'11". 1809 01:21:26,582 --> 01:21:28,832 Other witnesses see him on several separate days 1810 01:21:28,916 --> 01:21:30,540 at different firing ranges. 1811 01:21:30,624 --> 01:21:32,873 And one time, November 9th, 1812 01:21:32,957 --> 01:21:34,290 he decides he needs to practice 1813 01:21:34,374 --> 01:21:36,124 on the target of the guy next to him. 1814 01:21:36,208 --> 01:21:40,457 I didn't pay two bits for a target just to have someone else shoot at it. 1815 01:21:40,540 --> 01:21:43,749 Hey, I'm sorry, buddy. 1816 01:21:44,790 --> 01:21:48,082 I thought I was shooting at that son-of-a-bitch Kennedy. 1817 01:21:49,124 --> 01:21:51,706 About as subtle as a cockroach crawling across a white rug. 1818 01:21:51,790 --> 01:21:54,499 Then he shows up at Silvia Odio's, 1819 01:21:54,582 --> 01:21:58,124 a Cuban lady in Dallas working in the anti-Castro underground. 1820 01:21:58,291 --> 01:22:01,540 The two Cubans introduce him as Leon Oswald. 1821 01:22:03,166 --> 01:22:05,207 - Because he is a friend of ours! - Something about the men bothers her. 1822 01:22:05,291 --> 01:22:09,082 About 48 hours later, one of the Cubans calls her back. 1823 01:22:09,166 --> 01:22:11,581 What did you think of Leon Oswald last night? 1824 01:22:11,665 --> 01:22:13,207 I don't care, I don't know Oswald. 1825 01:22:13,291 --> 01:22:14,374 You know what he said to us? 1826 01:22:14,458 --> 01:22:17,581 He said, "You Cubans don't have any guts, 'cause Kennedy should have been killed 1827 01:22:17,665 --> 01:22:19,998 after the Bay of Pigs, and some Cubans should have done it." 1828 01:22:20,082 --> 01:22:21,915 It's like he's giving her information 1829 01:22:21,999 --> 01:22:23,706 - she doesn't even ask for. - Why did you tell me this? 1830 01:22:23,790 --> 01:22:25,998 She's scared, doesn't see them again 1831 01:22:26,082 --> 01:22:29,290 till she sees Oswald's picture in the paper. 1832 01:22:29,374 --> 01:22:33,165 But the Warren Commission says that Silvia has bad eyesight 1833 01:22:33,249 --> 01:22:36,581 because they have Oswald in Mexico at this time, 1834 01:22:36,665 --> 01:22:38,165 trying to get back into Cuba. 1835 01:22:38,249 --> 01:22:42,124 The CIA has a camera outside the Cuban Embassy 1836 01:22:42,208 --> 01:22:44,333 and they say that this... 1837 01:22:44,874 --> 01:22:47,957 is Oswald in Mexico. Now... 1838 01:22:48,082 --> 01:22:51,998 If this is Oswald, it must be our third Oswald. 1839 01:22:52,082 --> 01:22:54,499 It's interesting, the extent to which the Warren Commission went 1840 01:22:54,582 --> 01:22:56,041 to make him a communist. 1841 01:22:56,707 --> 01:22:58,915 I'm beginning to think the whole point of the Mexican episode 1842 01:22:58,999 --> 01:23:02,166 was to lay the blame at Fidel Castro's door. 1843 01:23:02,832 --> 01:23:04,332 I mean, if Oswald, or someone 1844 01:23:04,416 --> 01:23:06,957 purporting to be Oswald, had gotten into Cuba... 1845 01:23:07,208 --> 01:23:09,166 come back, then killed the president... 1846 01:23:10,374 --> 01:23:13,457 The American public once again would've supported a Cuban invasion. 1847 01:23:13,540 --> 01:23:16,540 I even have doubts about this photo, boss. 1848 01:23:16,624 --> 01:23:19,082 This pretty much convicted Oswald 1849 01:23:19,166 --> 01:23:23,124 in the public's mind, but Oswald told Captain Fritz during his interrogation 1850 01:23:23,208 --> 01:23:25,706 - that the photo was fake. - This is not me. 1851 01:23:25,790 --> 01:23:28,040 That came from Janet Williams' garage. 1852 01:23:28,124 --> 01:23:29,499 Well, I never saw this picture! 1853 01:23:29,582 --> 01:23:32,499 That is my face, but my face has been super-imposed. 1854 01:23:32,582 --> 01:23:34,124 The rest of the picture is not me at all, 1855 01:23:34,208 --> 01:23:35,623 and I have done a lot of photographic work, 1856 01:23:35,707 --> 01:23:37,832 and that picture was made by someone else! 1857 01:23:37,957 --> 01:23:40,166 I took this picture to two experts. 1858 01:23:40,790 --> 01:23:43,333 Look at the way the shadows on the nose... 1859 01:23:43,624 --> 01:23:45,873 fall in a straight line like it's high noon, 1860 01:23:45,957 --> 01:23:47,873 but the shadow down here on the ground reads more like 1861 01:23:47,957 --> 01:23:49,623 late afternoon or early morning. 1862 01:23:49,707 --> 01:23:51,165 It's not the same time. 1863 01:23:51,249 --> 01:23:53,873 Also, look at the crop marks across the chin. 1864 01:23:53,957 --> 01:23:56,957 It seems like this head is pasted onto somebody else's body, 1865 01:23:57,041 --> 01:23:59,291 implicating him with the rifle and the gun. 1866 01:23:59,624 --> 01:24:03,166 So who the hell are you, Alex Hidell or Lee Oswald? 1867 01:24:06,500 --> 01:24:08,416 Well, you're the policeman, you work it out. 1868 01:24:08,500 --> 01:24:11,457 Now it gets positively spooky. 1869 01:24:11,540 --> 01:24:16,499 In January, 1961 in New Orleans at the Bolton-Ford dealership, 1870 01:24:16,582 --> 01:24:19,249 when the Oswald we know is in Russia... 1871 01:24:19,999 --> 01:24:23,416 there's a man using the name "Oswald" to buy trucks 1872 01:24:23,500 --> 01:24:25,249 for the Friends of Democratic Cuba. 1873 01:24:25,333 --> 01:24:27,082 Salesman never sees him again, 1874 01:24:27,166 --> 01:24:29,457 but guess who's on the articles of incorporation 1875 01:24:29,540 --> 01:24:31,748 of the Friends for Democratic Cuba? 1876 01:24:31,832 --> 01:24:32,665 Who? 1877 01:24:32,749 --> 01:24:34,124 Guy Banister. 1878 01:24:34,208 --> 01:24:36,832 Banister has someone 1879 01:24:36,916 --> 01:24:39,374 using the name "Oswald" to buy the trucks. 1880 01:24:39,540 --> 01:24:43,790 Hoover, at the FBI, writes a memo dated June of 1960, 1881 01:24:43,874 --> 01:24:47,706 that someone could be using Oswald's passport and identity. 1882 01:24:47,790 --> 01:24:50,416 Goddamn, they put Oswald together from day one! 1883 01:24:50,500 --> 01:24:52,581 Like some dummy corporation in the Bahamas, 1884 01:24:52,665 --> 01:24:54,500 you just move him around a board. 1885 01:24:55,166 --> 01:24:56,500 Anybody want to quit? 1886 01:24:58,208 --> 01:25:00,500 All right, dumb question. Put your hands down. 1887 01:25:02,208 --> 01:25:03,291 Hey, Bill. 1888 01:25:03,540 --> 01:25:05,082 I found Clay Bertrand. 1889 01:25:05,540 --> 01:25:06,290 Who? 1890 01:25:06,374 --> 01:25:08,665 Grab your socks and hose and pull. 1891 01:25:08,957 --> 01:25:11,040 Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw. 1892 01:25:11,124 --> 01:25:12,499 - Damn. - Shaw? 1893 01:25:12,582 --> 01:25:13,832 Director of the Trade Mart? 1894 01:25:13,916 --> 01:25:15,457 - Former director of the Trade Mart. - Oh, my God. 1895 01:25:15,540 --> 01:25:16,540 That's incredible. 1896 01:25:16,624 --> 01:25:18,540 Can you get some sworn statements? 1897 01:25:18,957 --> 01:25:21,582 Now, that's going to be tough. Nobody is talking. 1898 01:25:22,582 --> 01:25:24,748 I think we should have him in for a little chat. 1899 01:25:24,832 --> 01:25:27,249 Oh, honey, I hate for him to get dragged into this. 1900 01:25:27,333 --> 01:25:30,873 He's done so much for the city, with all that restoration in the Quarter. 1901 01:25:30,957 --> 01:25:33,082 Remember, we saw him at the Bali Ha'i fundraiser? 1902 01:25:33,166 --> 01:25:35,124 He seems like such a nice man. 1903 01:25:35,208 --> 01:25:36,999 Honey, it'll be off the record. 1904 01:25:37,249 --> 01:25:38,832 I'll bring him in on a Sunday. 1905 01:25:40,790 --> 01:25:42,957 Quiet, little chat between gentlemen. 1906 01:25:59,790 --> 01:26:01,457 In heavy fighting in Vietnam today, 1907 01:26:01,540 --> 01:26:03,581 seven more American soldiers died, 1908 01:26:03,665 --> 01:26:04,915 and 23 were wounded. 1909 01:26:04,999 --> 01:26:08,082 The body count for this week now stands at 67 Americans 1910 01:26:08,166 --> 01:26:10,832 and 626 enemy soldiers killed in action. 1911 01:26:10,916 --> 01:26:11,665 Liz? 1912 01:26:11,749 --> 01:26:13,706 President Johnson, meanwhile, said he regretted 1913 01:26:13,790 --> 01:26:16,290 there is no end in sight to the war in Vietnam. 1914 01:26:16,374 --> 01:26:18,124 Five-hundred thousand American troops 1915 01:26:18,208 --> 01:26:19,290 - Out here, honey! - Are now fighting... 1916 01:26:19,374 --> 01:26:20,582 We face more cost... 1917 01:26:21,374 --> 01:26:24,624 more loss... and more agony. 1918 01:26:24,749 --> 01:26:27,416 Come on outside and help the kids hunt for Easter eggs! 1919 01:26:27,500 --> 01:26:29,998 Oh, honey, that's the kids' job, all right? 1920 01:26:30,082 --> 01:26:32,540 You know I don't like these tribal rituals, anyway. 1921 01:26:32,624 --> 01:26:35,082 Besides, I told you I'm talking to Clay Shaw this morning. 1922 01:26:35,166 --> 01:26:38,124 Honey, we're going to Antoine's with the kids, like we do every year. 1923 01:26:38,208 --> 01:26:40,165 No, I told you I was talking to Shaw. 1924 01:26:40,249 --> 01:26:42,832 Well, why in the world did you do it in the middle of Easter Sunday? 1925 01:26:42,916 --> 01:26:45,499 'Cause when I scheduled it, I didn't realize it was a holiday. 1926 01:26:45,582 --> 01:26:47,332 For Pete's sakes, honey, look at the calendar! 1927 01:26:47,416 --> 01:26:48,957 Liz, honey, you were there, why didn't you say something? 1928 01:26:49,041 --> 01:26:50,889 You said a Sunday, not Easter Sunday. 1929 01:26:50,999 --> 01:26:52,540 Clay Shaw is important. 1930 01:26:52,624 --> 01:26:53,832 And we're not. 1931 01:26:53,916 --> 01:26:55,208 I didn't say that, Liz. 1932 01:26:56,540 --> 01:26:57,665 I didn't say that. 1933 01:26:58,665 --> 01:27:01,957 You're missing most of your life, and you don't even know it, honey. 1934 01:27:02,041 --> 01:27:04,540 The kids are missing out, too. 1935 01:27:04,624 --> 01:27:06,165 -You're not the only one making -Look, I'll rush, 1936 01:27:06,249 --> 01:27:08,499 - sacrifices around here. - And I'll be there by 2:00, I promise. 1937 01:27:08,582 --> 01:27:09,582 Okay? Now... 1938 01:27:09,874 --> 01:27:11,665 You just go ahead without me. 1939 01:27:21,291 --> 01:27:23,873 Mr. Garrison, what can I do for you on Easter Sunday? 1940 01:27:23,957 --> 01:27:26,332 I'm sorry, Mr. Shaw, to interrupt this holiday, 1941 01:27:26,416 --> 01:27:28,706 but I feel this is a conversation we might better have 1942 01:27:28,790 --> 01:27:30,838 out of the everyday bustle in this office. 1943 01:27:31,124 --> 01:27:32,706 I'm not sure I understand. 1944 01:27:32,790 --> 01:27:34,706 Well, in an investigation we're conducting, 1945 01:27:34,790 --> 01:27:37,165 your name has come up a number of times. 1946 01:27:37,249 --> 01:27:38,790 I wouldn't imagine where. 1947 01:27:38,874 --> 01:27:41,999 We recently talked to a number of men who claim to know you. 1948 01:27:42,749 --> 01:27:44,540 Are you acquainted with a David Logan? 1949 01:27:44,624 --> 01:27:46,416 Uh, no. Never heard of him. 1950 01:27:47,500 --> 01:27:48,624 A Perry Russo? 1951 01:27:48,749 --> 01:27:49,665 No. 1952 01:27:50,832 --> 01:27:52,082 A Willie O'Keefe? 1953 01:27:53,916 --> 01:27:56,214 No, I don't believe I know anyone by that name. 1954 01:27:56,582 --> 01:28:00,291 Mr. O'Keefe told us he met you at the Masquerade Bar, down in the Quarter. 1955 01:28:01,249 --> 01:28:02,540 And several evenings later, 1956 01:28:02,624 --> 01:28:05,249 You had him over for dinner at your apartment on Dauphine Street. 1957 01:28:05,333 --> 01:28:06,290 Do you recall that? 1958 01:28:06,374 --> 01:28:08,291 Of course not. I don't know this man. 1959 01:28:09,540 --> 01:28:10,832 Be still my heart. 1960 01:28:11,208 --> 01:28:13,790 Obviously then, I wouldn't have him over for dinner. 1961 01:28:13,874 --> 01:28:16,041 Hope you like squab. 1962 01:28:17,500 --> 01:28:19,165 - Champagne? - Yeah. 1963 01:28:19,249 --> 01:28:23,249 Perhaps a few more details about the evening will refresh your memory. 1964 01:28:29,624 --> 01:28:32,874 Mr. O'Keefe told us dinner was served by a uniformed waiter. 1965 01:28:33,082 --> 01:28:34,166 A colored man. 1966 01:28:34,957 --> 01:28:37,915 He particularly remembered that you sat at one end and he at the other, 1967 01:28:37,999 --> 01:28:41,624 which he found rather unusual because the table was so long. 1968 01:28:42,416 --> 01:28:43,748 How was your mousse? 1969 01:28:43,832 --> 01:28:46,180 Does that bring back memories of Willie O'Keefe? 1970 01:28:46,333 --> 01:28:47,374 Not at all. 1971 01:28:48,249 --> 01:28:52,581 But on the other hand, I do have a lovely Chippendale dining table 1972 01:28:52,665 --> 01:28:56,416 and I often have a friend over sitting at one end, while I sit at the other. 1973 01:28:56,500 --> 01:29:00,332 It's precisely the point of a long dining table. 1974 01:29:00,416 --> 01:29:03,082 The splendor of the meal adds to the enjoyment of it. 1975 01:29:03,624 --> 01:29:05,748 I would imagine that a uniformed waiter helps. 1976 01:29:05,832 --> 01:29:07,124 It adds a taste of elegance, 1977 01:29:07,208 --> 01:29:09,999 for which I must confess a weakness, now and then. 1978 01:29:10,790 --> 01:29:12,249 I call him Smedley. 1979 01:29:13,166 --> 01:29:14,623 Real name is Frankie Jenkins, 1980 01:29:14,707 --> 01:29:18,041 but I could hardly imagine anything more uncouth during dinner... 1981 01:29:18,374 --> 01:29:22,041 than my turning toward the kitchen and hollering "Frankie!" 1982 01:29:27,291 --> 01:29:29,332 Where is all this leading to, Mr. Garrison? 1983 01:29:29,416 --> 01:29:31,749 After dinner, you paid him to have sex. 1984 01:29:35,124 --> 01:29:36,916 That is absolute nonsense. 1985 01:29:38,041 --> 01:29:42,374 The Quarter is filled with vivid imaginations, my dear Mr. Garrison. 1986 01:29:42,458 --> 01:29:44,416 Grimy young hoodlums, who will say and do 1987 01:29:44,500 --> 01:29:46,374 - anything, as you well know. - In the course of that night, 1988 01:29:46,458 --> 01:29:49,457 Mr. O'Keefe told us that a man named David Ferrie stopped by the house 1989 01:29:49,540 --> 01:29:51,374 along with another young man. 1990 01:29:53,166 --> 01:29:54,916 - Who? - David Ferrie. 1991 01:29:55,208 --> 01:29:58,374 No, I don't believe I know anyone by that name. 1992 01:29:58,458 --> 01:30:01,957 Course never having met Mr. O'Keefe I could hardly have met Mr. Ferrie. 1993 01:30:10,333 --> 01:30:12,291 Here you go. Here you go. 1994 01:30:15,249 --> 01:30:17,706 You're mine, Mary. You're mine. 1995 01:30:17,790 --> 01:30:20,665 The four of you partied early into the morning hours. 1996 01:30:20,999 --> 01:30:22,707 Look at this picture. 1997 01:30:23,582 --> 01:30:26,529 I'm sure I've never met anyone of such a bizarre appearance. 1998 01:30:30,624 --> 01:30:32,332 Come here, bitch! 1999 01:30:32,416 --> 01:30:34,915 Come here! 2000 01:30:34,999 --> 01:30:36,249 The only way you get this 2001 01:30:36,333 --> 01:30:37,706 is do exactly what I say. 2002 01:30:37,790 --> 01:30:39,290 I'm the man, don't ever forget it! 2003 01:30:39,374 --> 01:30:40,916 You want it? You want it? 2004 01:30:41,208 --> 01:30:43,581 Does the name Clay Bertrand mean anything to you? 2005 01:30:43,665 --> 01:30:46,207 - Clay Bertrand... Clay Bertrand. - Clay Bertrand. 2006 01:30:46,291 --> 01:30:48,207 I believe there was a man with a name similar to that, 2007 01:30:48,291 --> 01:30:50,706 worked over at the Chamber of Commerce. Is that the man you had in mind? 2008 01:30:50,790 --> 01:30:51,999 No, it was not. 2009 01:30:53,458 --> 01:30:55,915 Mr. Shaw, can you identify this man? 2010 01:30:55,999 --> 01:30:56,748 Naturally. 2011 01:30:56,832 --> 01:31:00,165 Are you claiming, Mr. Garrison, that Mr. Oswald also had dinner with me? 2012 01:31:00,249 --> 01:31:03,290 Mr. Shaw, have you ever met Lee Harvey Oswald? 2013 01:31:03,374 --> 01:31:07,207 You really have me consorting with a sordid cast of characters. 2014 01:31:07,291 --> 01:31:09,458 - Just answer the question. - Of course not. 2015 01:31:10,416 --> 01:31:12,207 Such a pity, that assassination. 2016 01:31:12,291 --> 01:31:14,581 In fact, I admired President Kennedy. 2017 01:31:14,665 --> 01:31:17,623 A man of true panache, wife of impeccable taste. 2018 01:31:17,707 --> 01:31:19,416 - I'm hungry! - Well, why don't we just go ahead 2019 01:31:19,500 --> 01:31:21,832 and order without your daddy, I don't think he'll mind. 2020 01:31:21,916 --> 01:31:23,416 I want a Shirley Temple! 2021 01:31:23,582 --> 01:31:25,930 - Oh, kids, put your water guns away. - Me, too! 2022 01:31:26,624 --> 01:31:29,082 When's Daddy coming, Mama? 2023 01:31:29,291 --> 01:31:30,790 Soon, he's coming soon. 2024 01:31:30,874 --> 01:31:34,374 He's really sorry he couldn't start with us, but he promised he'd be here. 2025 01:31:34,458 --> 01:31:37,374 Daddy never keeps his promises. 2026 01:31:37,458 --> 01:31:39,500 I'm bored! 2027 01:31:41,458 --> 01:31:44,540 Mr. Shaw, this is an Italian newspaper article saying you were 2028 01:31:44,624 --> 01:31:47,621 a member of the Board of Centro Mondo Commerciale in Italy... 2029 01:31:48,374 --> 01:31:52,623 that this company was a creature of the CIA for the transfer of funds in Italy 2030 01:31:52,707 --> 01:31:55,208 for illegal political-espionage activity. 2031 01:31:55,749 --> 01:31:59,665 It says that this company was expelled from Italy for those activities. 2032 01:31:59,832 --> 01:32:01,457 I'm well aware of that asinine article. 2033 01:32:01,540 --> 01:32:05,124 I'm thinking very seriously of suing that rag of a newspaper. 2034 01:32:05,208 --> 01:32:07,873 It also says that this company is linked to the Schlumberger Tool Company, 2035 01:32:07,957 --> 01:32:09,165 here in Houma, Louisiana, 2036 01:32:09,249 --> 01:32:11,873 which helped provide arms to David Ferrie and his Cubans. 2037 01:32:11,957 --> 01:32:13,665 Mr. Garrison, you're reaching. 2038 01:32:13,832 --> 01:32:14,664 Am I? 2039 01:32:14,874 --> 01:32:18,665 I'm an international businessman. The Trade Mart, which I founded, 2040 01:32:18,749 --> 01:32:21,748 is America's commercial pipeline to Latin America. 2041 01:32:21,832 --> 01:32:23,416 I trade everywhere. 2042 01:32:23,500 --> 01:32:24,998 I am accused 2043 01:32:25,082 --> 01:32:27,291 as are all businessmen, of all things. 2044 01:32:27,416 --> 01:32:31,748 I somehow go about my business, make money, help society the best I can, 2045 01:32:31,832 --> 01:32:34,208 and try to promote free trade in this world. 2046 01:32:34,333 --> 01:32:35,540 Mr. Shaw... 2047 01:32:35,832 --> 01:32:39,379 have you ever been a contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency? 2048 01:32:43,665 --> 01:32:44,999 And if I were... 2049 01:32:45,916 --> 01:32:47,790 Mr. Garrison, do you believe... 2050 01:32:48,208 --> 01:32:49,916 I would be here today... 2051 01:32:50,333 --> 01:32:52,374 talking to somebody like you? 2052 01:32:55,916 --> 01:32:56,957 No. 2053 01:32:58,124 --> 01:32:59,957 People like you don't have to, I guess. 2054 01:33:00,041 --> 01:33:00,998 May I go? 2055 01:33:01,082 --> 01:33:03,874 People like you, they just walk between the raindrops. 2056 01:33:04,874 --> 01:33:05,790 May I go? 2057 01:33:08,249 --> 01:33:09,291 Yes. 2058 01:33:17,582 --> 01:33:20,332 Regardless of what you may think of me, Mr. Garrison, 2059 01:33:20,416 --> 01:33:23,040 I am a patriot first and foremost. 2060 01:33:23,124 --> 01:33:24,998 I've spent half my life in the United States military 2061 01:33:25,082 --> 01:33:27,082 serving and defending this great country, Mr. Shaw, 2062 01:33:27,166 --> 01:33:28,748 and you're the first person I ever met 2063 01:33:28,832 --> 01:33:31,332 who considered it an act of patriotism to murder his own president. 2064 01:33:31,416 --> 01:33:33,706 Now, just a minute, sir. You are way out of line. 2065 01:33:33,790 --> 01:33:37,387 I'm sorry, Mr. Shaw, it's getting late. That's all the questions we have. 2066 01:33:37,500 --> 01:33:40,332 Thank you for your honesty and for coming in today. 2067 01:33:40,416 --> 01:33:42,832 I enjoyed meeting with you gentlemen. 2068 01:33:43,249 --> 01:33:46,041 And you, Miss Cox. It was most pleasant. 2069 01:33:51,582 --> 01:33:53,290 I wish to extend to each of you, 2070 01:33:53,374 --> 01:33:56,665 and to each of your families, my best wishes for a happy Easter. 2071 01:34:05,333 --> 01:34:07,749 "One may smile and smile and be a villain." 2072 01:34:09,333 --> 01:34:11,208 Goddammit, we got one of 'em. 2073 01:34:12,249 --> 01:34:13,291 Did you see that? 2074 01:34:29,957 --> 01:34:31,874 - Hi, honey. - Hi. 2075 01:34:35,999 --> 01:34:38,665 - Tough day. - Daddy, where you been? 2076 01:34:39,790 --> 01:34:41,208 My sympathies. 2077 01:34:41,374 --> 01:34:44,832 Liz, I'm really sorry, but the meeting took much longer than expected. 2078 01:34:45,124 --> 01:34:46,416 Just a second, Jasper. 2079 01:34:46,665 --> 01:34:49,957 We waited for hours, Jim! 2080 01:34:51,500 --> 01:34:52,957 Honey, you could've telephoned. 2081 01:34:53,041 --> 01:34:55,748 I know, I don't know what to say, except I'm sorry, all right? 2082 01:34:55,832 --> 01:34:57,916 I just don't have rabbits on my mind. 2083 01:34:58,582 --> 01:34:59,623 You know what I think? 2084 01:34:59,707 --> 01:35:00,581 Daddy? 2085 01:35:00,665 --> 01:35:03,712 I think you care more about John Kennedy than your own family! 2086 01:35:03,916 --> 01:35:06,581 All day, the kids are asking, "Where's Daddy?" 2087 01:35:06,665 --> 01:35:08,706 What am I supposed to tell your kids, Jim! 2088 01:35:08,790 --> 01:35:10,207 - Papa? - I don't know what to tell them. 2089 01:35:10,291 --> 01:35:11,706 How about the truth? 2090 01:35:11,790 --> 01:35:13,957 I'm doing my job to make sure they can grow up in a country, 2091 01:35:14,041 --> 01:35:15,332 - Papa? - Where justice won't be an arcane, 2092 01:35:15,416 --> 01:35:17,706 vanished idea they read about in history books. 2093 01:35:17,790 --> 01:35:19,207 - Oh, that sounds real dandy. - Like the dinosaurs, 2094 01:35:19,291 --> 01:35:21,165 - or the lost continent of Atlantis. - But it doesn't replace a husband 2095 01:35:21,249 --> 01:35:22,790 or a father on Easter Sunday. 2096 01:35:23,166 --> 01:35:25,041 Well, it's gonna get worse, Liz. 2097 01:35:37,707 --> 01:35:39,040 Do you know who killed President Kennedy? 2098 01:35:39,124 --> 01:35:40,706 Was there a conspiracy here in New Orleans? 2099 01:35:40,790 --> 01:35:43,249 - Excuse me, gentlemen. - I don't know what you're talking about. 2100 01:35:43,333 --> 01:35:44,749 Get out of here! 2101 01:35:45,082 --> 01:35:47,665 Watch out! Watch out! 2102 01:35:49,624 --> 01:35:52,124 Congratulations, boss, you're page one. 2103 01:35:52,416 --> 01:35:53,165 And it ain't pretty. 2104 01:35:53,249 --> 01:35:55,082 It says we've spend more than 8,000 dollars 2105 01:35:55,166 --> 01:35:56,915 on unexplained travel and investigative 2106 01:35:56,999 --> 01:35:59,540 expenses in a period since November 1966. 2107 01:35:59,624 --> 01:36:00,540 Goddamn! 2108 01:36:00,999 --> 01:36:02,290 They went to the public records. 2109 01:36:02,374 --> 01:36:05,291 They got the vouchers that we requested for withdrawals. 2110 01:36:05,416 --> 01:36:07,207 Shaw must've gotten them on our tail. 2111 01:36:07,291 --> 01:36:09,790 It could've been Ferrie, Martin, Andrews, any of 'em. 2112 01:36:09,874 --> 01:36:10,623 Dammit! 2113 01:36:10,707 --> 01:36:14,540 We didn't talk to Ruby 'cause of them and they're on our asses for a measly 8,000! 2114 01:36:14,624 --> 01:36:16,540 They hunted down the news, it's their business. 2115 01:36:16,624 --> 01:36:19,332 Well, you'd at least think they'd attempt to understand what we're trying to do! 2116 01:36:19,416 --> 01:36:21,963 Well, getting angry doesn't accomplish a damn thing! 2117 01:36:24,374 --> 01:36:26,041 Son of a bitch. 2118 01:36:26,707 --> 01:36:29,005 Well, this changes everything, now, doesn't it? 2119 01:36:29,333 --> 01:36:30,416 What do you mean? 2120 01:36:32,124 --> 01:36:33,041 Well... 2121 01:36:33,208 --> 01:36:36,707 Either we pull out now, or we go through some heavy flack together. 2122 01:36:39,665 --> 01:36:43,707 Bear in mind, each of you, this may affect the rest of your careers, your lives. 2123 01:36:44,916 --> 01:36:47,166 If any one of you want to pull out now... 2124 01:36:47,458 --> 01:36:50,374 I assure you I will bear no ill feelings towards that person 2125 01:36:50,458 --> 01:36:52,916 and will reassign you to regular duties. 2126 01:36:56,208 --> 01:36:57,249 There it is, then. 2127 01:36:57,916 --> 01:36:58,873 Thank you. 2128 01:36:58,957 --> 01:37:00,456 That means a great deal to me. 2129 01:37:04,041 --> 01:37:08,333 I'm giving this office 6,000 dollars from my National Guard savings account, 2130 01:37:08,500 --> 01:37:09,916 so we can continue. 2131 01:37:10,874 --> 01:37:13,957 I'll make speeches where I can and pick up additional money. 2132 01:37:14,458 --> 01:37:16,207 Mr. Garrison, what shall I tell them? 2133 01:37:16,291 --> 01:37:17,665 They're piling up outside the door. 2134 01:37:17,749 --> 01:37:20,581 They want a statement, the phones are going crazier than bugs on a cake. 2135 01:37:20,665 --> 01:37:23,665 Neither confirm, deny, nor discuss, Sharon. 2136 01:37:25,374 --> 01:37:27,333 Goodbye, ladies, gentlemen. 2137 01:37:29,124 --> 01:37:31,873 I'm going home to where I can get a decent day's work done. 2138 01:37:31,957 --> 01:37:34,040 Mr. Garrison's own silence on the subject 2139 01:37:34,124 --> 01:37:35,957 has raised some interesting questions. 2140 01:37:36,041 --> 01:37:38,207 With taxpayer money, has he uncovered 2141 01:37:38,291 --> 01:37:39,832 some valuable new evidence... 2142 01:37:40,166 --> 01:37:42,082 or is he merely saving the information 2143 01:37:42,166 --> 01:37:44,863 which will gain, for him, exposure at a national level? 2144 01:37:47,540 --> 01:37:48,623 Yeah? 2145 01:37:48,707 --> 01:37:50,623 Did your office plant that garbage in the fuckin' paper? 2146 01:37:50,707 --> 01:37:52,832 - Who is this? - You know exactly who the fuck this is! 2147 01:37:52,916 --> 01:37:54,207 - Dave? - Yeah, you got it. 2148 01:37:54,291 --> 01:37:55,124 Listen... 2149 01:37:55,208 --> 01:37:57,332 Since you're the only straight shooter in that fuckin' office, 2150 01:37:57,416 --> 01:37:59,416 I'd like a fuckin' answer from you. Did you plant it? 2151 01:37:59,500 --> 01:38:00,873 Dave, you think we're out of our minds? 2152 01:38:00,957 --> 01:38:02,416 The whole building's been a zoo since that broke. 2153 01:38:02,500 --> 01:38:04,457 We can't get a thing done. Reporters crawling everywhere. 2154 01:38:04,540 --> 01:38:05,581 You think we want that? 2155 01:38:05,665 --> 01:38:07,290 Somebody planted that fuckin' story! 2156 01:38:07,374 --> 01:38:10,165 Somebody tipped off the press I'm one of fuckin' Garrison's suspects. 2157 01:38:10,249 --> 01:38:12,416 I can't... I can't go home! 2158 01:38:12,500 --> 01:38:13,665 The fuckin' maggots are everywhere! 2159 01:38:13,749 --> 01:38:15,457 Do you know what you've done to me? 2160 01:38:15,540 --> 01:38:16,873 Calm down, Dave, what? 2161 01:38:16,957 --> 01:38:19,581 From here on, I am a fuckin' dead man. 2162 01:38:19,665 --> 01:38:21,082 - A dead man! - What are you talking about? 2163 01:38:21,166 --> 01:38:23,706 Dave, you even weren't mentioned in the story. Don't jump to conclusions. 2164 01:38:23,790 --> 01:38:27,166 Look, meet me in the lobby of the Fontainebleau in 20 minutes. 2165 01:38:27,540 --> 01:38:30,374 I guarantee you the boss will protect you. 2166 01:38:30,458 --> 01:38:32,665 He likes you, he likes your mind. 2167 01:38:36,416 --> 01:38:39,207 I guess, you know, I just don't know who to trust anymore, you know? 2168 01:38:39,291 --> 01:38:44,249 I suppose I could use a pot of hot coffee and a few packs of Luckies. 2169 01:38:45,124 --> 01:38:46,790 So you got anything new in the investigation? 2170 01:38:46,874 --> 01:38:48,040 Who you scared of, Dave? 2171 01:38:48,124 --> 01:38:49,416 Me? Everybody. 2172 01:38:49,832 --> 01:38:52,208 Agency, mob, Cubans. 2173 01:38:52,749 --> 01:38:55,041 That's it, follow the Cubans. Check 'em out. 2174 01:38:55,749 --> 01:38:57,374 Here, Miami, Dallas. 2175 01:38:58,500 --> 01:39:00,873 Check out a guy named Eladio del Valle. 2176 01:39:00,957 --> 01:39:04,166 He used to be my paymaster when I flew missions into Cuba. 2177 01:39:04,582 --> 01:39:06,832 He's somewhere in Miami. You're on the right track. 2178 01:39:06,916 --> 01:39:08,581 Hey, hey! Don't be writing this down. 2179 01:39:08,665 --> 01:39:11,416 I ain't cooperating here with no one. What's going on here? 2180 01:39:11,500 --> 01:39:14,166 There's a death warrant for me! Don't you get it? 2181 01:39:14,707 --> 01:39:15,623 Damn! 2182 01:39:15,707 --> 01:39:17,540 Wait a minute, you ain't bugged, are you? 2183 01:39:17,624 --> 01:39:20,416 Son of a bitch, Lou. Are you? 2184 01:39:20,500 --> 01:39:21,332 Dave. 2185 01:39:21,416 --> 01:39:23,249 I always play square. No bugs. 2186 01:39:23,333 --> 01:39:26,416 I'd love you to go on the record, but I'm in no hurry. 2187 01:39:26,500 --> 01:39:27,416 Whenever you're ready. 2188 01:39:27,500 --> 01:39:29,665 I haven't slept since that shit article come out. 2189 01:39:29,749 --> 01:39:31,581 Why'd you guys have to go and get me involved with this? 2190 01:39:31,665 --> 01:39:34,082 Did we get you involved or did Clay Shaw, Dave? 2191 01:39:34,166 --> 01:39:35,832 Cocksuckin' faggot! 2192 01:39:35,916 --> 01:39:38,114 - He got me by the balls. - What do you mean? 2193 01:39:38,500 --> 01:39:40,665 You know, photographs, compromising stuff. 2194 01:39:40,874 --> 01:39:43,458 And he'll use 'em, too. The Agency plays for keeps. 2195 01:39:43,957 --> 01:39:46,873 I knew Oswald. He was in my Civil Air Patrol unit. 2196 01:39:46,957 --> 01:39:49,706 I taught him everything. He was a "wannabe," you know? 2197 01:39:49,790 --> 01:39:52,207 Nobody really liked him 'cause they thought he was a snitch. 2198 01:39:52,291 --> 01:39:53,457 I treated him good. 2199 01:39:53,540 --> 01:39:56,665 He'd talk about his kid, you know, really wanted her to grow up with a chance, but... 2200 01:39:56,749 --> 01:39:57,832 What's this? 2201 01:39:57,916 --> 01:39:59,166 What's going on here? 2202 01:40:02,874 --> 01:40:04,273 Ain't nobody coming in here. 2203 01:40:04,500 --> 01:40:06,458 Just room service. 2204 01:40:07,832 --> 01:40:09,165 Black, black... just give it to me. 2205 01:40:09,249 --> 01:40:09,998 Black. 2206 01:40:10,082 --> 01:40:11,249 Shit. 2207 01:40:11,333 --> 01:40:12,790 My neck is killing me. 2208 01:40:12,874 --> 01:40:14,623 I got cancer, I've had it for years. 2209 01:40:14,707 --> 01:40:17,082 I been working with mice, you know, trying to find a cure. 2210 01:40:17,166 --> 01:40:19,458 Did you ever work for the CIA? 2211 01:40:19,916 --> 01:40:23,512 You make it sound like some remote fuckin' experience in ancient history. 2212 01:40:23,665 --> 01:40:25,874 Man, you don't leave the Agency. 2213 01:40:26,665 --> 01:40:28,665 Once you're in, they got you for life. 2214 01:40:29,249 --> 01:40:30,040 Shaw? 2215 01:40:30,124 --> 01:40:31,998 Shaw? Shaw's an "untouchable." 2216 01:40:32,082 --> 01:40:33,124 Highest clearance. 2217 01:40:33,208 --> 01:40:36,374 Shaw, Oswald, the Cubans... all Agency. 2218 01:40:37,416 --> 01:40:38,333 What about Ruby? 2219 01:40:41,790 --> 01:40:43,458 Jack? Jack was a pimp. 2220 01:40:43,707 --> 01:40:45,457 He was a bagman for the Dallas mob. 2221 01:40:45,540 --> 01:40:48,488 He used to run guns to Castro when he was still on our side. 2222 01:40:48,999 --> 01:40:51,249 We almost had Castro with us, then we tried to whack him. 2223 01:40:51,333 --> 01:40:53,082 Everybody's flipping sides all the time. 2224 01:40:53,166 --> 01:40:55,040 It's fun and games, man, fun and games. 2225 01:40:55,124 --> 01:40:57,207 What about the mob, Dave? How do they figure in this? 2226 01:40:57,291 --> 01:40:58,665 They're Agency, too, man. 2227 01:40:58,749 --> 01:41:00,748 CIA and the mafia working together, 2228 01:41:00,832 --> 01:41:02,165 trying to whack out the Beard. 2229 01:41:02,249 --> 01:41:04,457 Mutual interests. They been doing it for years! 2230 01:41:04,540 --> 01:41:06,665 There's more to this than you could dream! 2231 01:41:06,749 --> 01:41:08,998 Check out something called "Mongoose." 2232 01:41:09,082 --> 01:41:10,458 "Operation Mongoose." 2233 01:41:10,582 --> 01:41:12,582 Government, Pentagon stuff. 2234 01:41:12,999 --> 01:41:14,207 They're in charge. 2235 01:41:14,291 --> 01:41:17,500 But who the fuck pulls whose chain? Who the fuck knows. 2236 01:41:17,707 --> 01:41:20,790 "Oh, what a deadly web we weave when we practice to deceive." 2237 01:41:20,874 --> 01:41:22,124 Then who killed the president? 2238 01:41:22,208 --> 01:41:24,706 Oh, man, why don't you fuckin' stop it! 2239 01:41:24,790 --> 01:41:25,540 Shit! 2240 01:41:25,624 --> 01:41:26,499 Who did... 2241 01:41:26,582 --> 01:41:28,540 This is too fuckin' big for you, you know that? 2242 01:41:28,624 --> 01:41:31,374 This is... who did the president? Who killed Kennedy? 2243 01:41:31,458 --> 01:41:32,499 Fuck, man! 2244 01:41:32,582 --> 01:41:33,706 It's a mystery! 2245 01:41:33,790 --> 01:41:36,832 It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! 2246 01:41:36,916 --> 01:41:39,613 The fuckin' shooters don't even know! Don't you get it? 2247 01:41:39,999 --> 01:41:41,208 Fuck, man! 2248 01:41:41,957 --> 01:41:43,374 I can't keep talking like this. 2249 01:41:43,458 --> 01:41:45,041 They're gonna fuckin' kill me! 2250 01:41:45,333 --> 01:41:47,208 I'm gonna fuckin' die! 2251 01:41:51,374 --> 01:41:52,416 Son of a bitch! 2252 01:41:52,500 --> 01:41:54,208 It's all right, David. 2253 01:41:55,999 --> 01:41:58,041 I don't know what happened. 2254 01:41:58,916 --> 01:42:00,124 Fuck! 2255 01:42:06,665 --> 01:42:09,208 All I wanted in the world... 2256 01:42:11,208 --> 01:42:13,749 Was to be a Catholic priest... 2257 01:42:14,500 --> 01:42:16,124 live in a monastery, 2258 01:42:16,208 --> 01:42:17,999 pray, serve God. 2259 01:42:19,374 --> 01:42:21,582 I had one fuckin'... 2260 01:42:22,916 --> 01:42:25,166 One terrible fuckin' weakness! 2261 01:42:25,582 --> 01:42:27,582 And they defrocked me! 2262 01:42:31,374 --> 01:42:34,624 Then I started to lose everything. 2263 01:42:36,540 --> 01:42:37,957 It's gonna be okay, Dave. 2264 01:42:38,374 --> 01:42:41,920 You just talk to us on the record and we'll protect you, I guarantee it. 2265 01:42:47,790 --> 01:42:49,458 They'd get to you, too. 2266 01:42:50,957 --> 01:42:52,500 They'll destroy you. 2267 01:42:54,540 --> 01:42:56,082 They're untouchable, man. 2268 01:42:59,500 --> 01:43:03,166 I'm so fuckin' exhausted, I can't see straight. 2269 01:43:14,500 --> 01:43:16,082 Out of here! 2270 01:43:16,458 --> 01:43:17,790 Oh, Lord. 2271 01:43:17,874 --> 01:43:19,499 A little early for Mardi Gras, isn't it? 2272 01:43:19,582 --> 01:43:21,706 Paris Match, largest magazine in France. 2273 01:43:21,790 --> 01:43:25,374 My name is Bulgarinov, I am with Literaturnaya Gazeta of Moscow. 2274 01:43:25,458 --> 01:43:27,957 Victoria Taylor, British Private Eye. 2275 01:43:28,458 --> 01:43:31,332 Do you know who shot the president? Mr. Garrison is too busy... 2276 01:43:31,416 --> 01:43:32,207 Boss, I'm telling you, 2277 01:43:32,291 --> 01:43:34,748 something or somebody is putting tremendous heat on David Ferrie. 2278 01:43:34,832 --> 01:43:37,665 If we sit on our behinds any longer, I don't think the guy's gonna hold on. 2279 01:43:37,749 --> 01:43:38,957 Look at this bullshit! 2280 01:43:39,041 --> 01:43:40,499 He keeps changing what he says. 2281 01:43:40,582 --> 01:43:42,915 We can't possibly call him to a grand jury. 2282 01:43:42,999 --> 01:43:44,290 Susie, watch the language, would you please? 2283 01:43:44,374 --> 01:43:46,623 My instinct is that Ferrie is gonna keep on deteriorating, 2284 01:43:46,707 --> 01:43:48,873 and we'll end up getting more out of him when he finally cracks. 2285 01:43:48,957 --> 01:43:50,082 Oh, bullshit! Now, if you start to... 2286 01:43:50,166 --> 01:43:51,915 If we call him in now, he might freeze up 2287 01:43:51,999 --> 01:43:53,540 and we'll lose the best shot we ever had. 2288 01:43:53,624 --> 01:43:55,581 You guys don't get it, do you? He can't go down any further. 2289 01:43:55,665 --> 01:43:57,374 We got to protect him full time. 2290 01:43:57,458 --> 01:43:59,623 We don't have enough funds to protect anybody full time. 2291 01:43:59,707 --> 01:44:01,706 I know what you're going through with Ferrie, Lou, all right? 2292 01:44:01,790 --> 01:44:03,041 We'll talk tomorrow. 2293 01:44:03,458 --> 01:44:04,874 I got a plane to catch. 2294 01:44:05,208 --> 01:44:06,624 Going to Washington. 2295 01:44:06,916 --> 01:44:07,749 Washington? 2296 01:44:07,916 --> 01:44:11,706 Yeah, an interesting lead says he's closely connected to these events, 2297 01:44:11,790 --> 01:44:13,165 but he won't come down here. 2298 01:44:13,249 --> 01:44:16,748 I'm onto Ferrie's Cuban paymaster, Eladio del Valle, in Miami. 2299 01:44:16,832 --> 01:44:19,581 I tell ya, I need more men. I got to get him in, boss. 2300 01:44:19,665 --> 01:44:21,416 I can't even pull the teams to watch Ferrie. 2301 01:44:21,500 --> 01:44:23,082 Listen, I gave this man my word. 2302 01:44:23,166 --> 01:44:24,748 This is our case! 2303 01:44:24,832 --> 01:44:27,374 - Hold it! Hold it! - For God's sake, Numa... 2304 01:44:28,291 --> 01:44:29,749 I got something to show you. 2305 01:44:30,291 --> 01:44:32,706 I think you'll find it very interesting. 2306 01:44:32,790 --> 01:44:34,039 Numa, what is that thing? 2307 01:44:35,166 --> 01:44:37,581 Williams found this in your office. 2308 01:44:37,665 --> 01:44:40,332 We think the conference room is also bugged, maybe the phones. 2309 01:44:40,416 --> 01:44:42,165 We're gonna have to debug the whole place. 2310 01:44:42,249 --> 01:44:44,873 Bugging the DA's office! This is outrageous! 2311 01:44:44,957 --> 01:44:46,207 Mr. Ivon, it's for you. It's urgent. 2312 01:44:46,291 --> 01:44:48,873 You can believe what you want to, but we're gonna have to be more careful. 2313 01:44:48,957 --> 01:44:51,665 All these new volunteers, I mean, any one of them could be... 2314 01:44:51,749 --> 01:44:54,332 Okay, Numa, you handle it, all right? I don't have... 2315 01:44:54,416 --> 01:44:56,214 I don't have time for this nonsense. 2316 01:44:58,291 --> 01:44:59,374 Well, we... 2317 01:44:59,458 --> 01:45:02,333 We've obviously got the bastards worried now. 2318 01:45:04,540 --> 01:45:06,500 I'm coming to Washington. 2319 01:45:12,041 --> 01:45:13,624 Dave Ferrie's dead. 2320 01:45:14,500 --> 01:45:16,997 Found his body at his apartment a couple hours ago. 2321 01:45:42,458 --> 01:45:43,706 What's it look like, Nick? 2322 01:45:43,790 --> 01:45:46,957 I don't see any violence, Jim. Heart attack, maybe an aneurysm. 2323 01:45:47,416 --> 01:45:49,040 Looks like natural causes. 2324 01:45:49,124 --> 01:45:51,372 This is addressed to no one, and no signature. 2325 01:45:51,832 --> 01:45:54,790 "To leave this life is, for me, a sweet prospect. 2326 01:45:55,041 --> 01:45:57,165 I find nothing in it that is desirable, 2327 01:45:57,249 --> 01:46:00,249 and on the other hand, everything that is loathsome." 2328 01:46:00,832 --> 01:46:02,208 Goes on and on. 2329 01:46:02,749 --> 01:46:07,124 "Daily we are propagandized more and more by the rising crime wave." 2330 01:46:07,749 --> 01:46:09,749 Pretty flowery for Dave Ferrie. 2331 01:46:31,208 --> 01:46:32,416 Proloid? 2332 01:46:34,749 --> 01:46:37,291 Yeah, I took it once for a low thyroid condition. 2333 01:46:38,166 --> 01:46:40,041 It raises the metabolism, Lou. 2334 01:46:41,790 --> 01:46:45,290 Did David Ferrie strike you as the kind of person with a low metabolism? 2335 01:46:45,374 --> 01:46:48,249 Hardly, I'd say the opposite. Hypertension. 2336 01:46:49,333 --> 01:46:52,581 You know, Ferrie was the only one to express any kind of remorse 2337 01:46:52,665 --> 01:46:53,874 about the whole thing. 2338 01:46:55,665 --> 01:46:57,249 I think it got him killed. 2339 01:46:57,707 --> 01:46:59,540 Lou? Boss? 2340 01:46:59,624 --> 01:47:01,457 More bad news from Miami. 2341 01:47:01,540 --> 01:47:04,790 They found Ferrie's Cuban friend, Eladio del Valle, today. 2342 01:47:05,082 --> 01:47:07,623 Hacked to death with a machete in his car. 2343 01:47:07,707 --> 01:47:11,082 He was tortured, shot in the heart at point-blank range, 2344 01:47:11,166 --> 01:47:12,998 and his skull was split open with an axe. 2345 01:47:13,082 --> 01:47:14,706 Now, ain't that the devil's piss. 2346 01:47:14,790 --> 01:47:18,249 Found another note, same thing, no name, no signature. 2347 01:47:18,333 --> 01:47:22,957 "When you receive this, I will be quite dead, so no answer will be possible. 2348 01:47:23,041 --> 01:47:25,165 - I offered you love, and all I got..." - Jesus. 2349 01:47:25,249 --> 01:47:27,540 They must've been hard pressed to come up with that one. 2350 01:47:27,624 --> 01:47:29,273 Nick, can I have a word with you? 2351 01:47:30,124 --> 01:47:32,665 What would happen if a man suffering from hypertension 2352 01:47:32,749 --> 01:47:35,124 were to take an entire bottle of Proloid? 2353 01:47:35,208 --> 01:47:36,374 He'd die pretty quick, 2354 01:47:36,458 --> 01:47:39,455 either a heart storm or a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. 2355 01:47:39,540 --> 01:47:40,540 Uh-huh. 2356 01:47:40,624 --> 01:47:43,291 Can you ascertain if there's Proloid in his system? 2357 01:47:43,790 --> 01:47:45,540 Not in a routine autopsy. 2358 01:47:45,749 --> 01:47:49,165 But if we looked at the spinal fluid, there might be a high level of iodine, 2359 01:47:49,249 --> 01:47:51,040 but it's difficult to know. 2360 01:47:51,124 --> 01:47:52,291 What you thinking, Jim? 2361 01:47:54,208 --> 01:47:55,748 I don't know, it doesn't make sense, Nick. 2362 01:47:55,832 --> 01:47:57,581 I mean, the man's afraid of dying, 2363 01:47:57,665 --> 01:48:00,582 then he kills himself in a way that leaves no trace? 2364 01:48:02,249 --> 01:48:04,665 But he leaves two unsigned suicide notes? 2365 01:48:05,208 --> 01:48:08,041 If it's a suicide, I seen weirder, Jim. 2366 01:48:08,790 --> 01:48:11,998 The fact is he's gone, chief, and so is our case. 2367 01:48:12,082 --> 01:48:13,832 Unless we go for Shaw now. 2368 01:48:13,916 --> 01:48:17,291 With whose testimony? Willie O'Keefe, a male prostitute? 2369 01:48:17,665 --> 01:48:20,623 Jack Martin, a drunk? Vernon Bundy, a dope fiend? 2370 01:48:20,707 --> 01:48:22,499 Shaw's got respect, Lou. 2371 01:48:22,582 --> 01:48:24,957 Newspaper editors, the American Bar Association... 2372 01:48:25,041 --> 01:48:25,873 I agree with Bill. 2373 01:48:25,957 --> 01:48:27,706 - We haven't got the goods yet! - We wait... 2374 01:48:27,790 --> 01:48:29,957 Shaw's gonna get whacked. Now, how many corpses is it gonna take 2375 01:48:30,041 --> 01:48:32,040 before you lawyers figure out what's going on? 2376 01:48:32,124 --> 01:48:34,521 You watch your mouth! Ferrie did this to himself. 2377 01:48:34,874 --> 01:48:36,333 Where you going, boss? 2378 01:48:36,458 --> 01:48:39,832 I don't know, Bill. I just don't know. 2379 01:48:44,333 --> 01:48:46,281 - Hey, Bill! - Hey, where you at, Frank? 2380 01:48:46,665 --> 01:48:50,540 You're wasting your time here. Big Jim gave strict orders, no FBI allowed. 2381 01:48:50,624 --> 01:48:52,374 - It's you I want to talk to, Bill. - No, no. 2382 01:48:52,458 --> 01:48:54,748 Boss would fry me in hog fat if he knew I talked to you. 2383 01:48:54,832 --> 01:48:56,457 Your boss got a serious problem, Bill. 2384 01:48:56,540 --> 01:48:57,581 Real serious. 2385 01:48:57,665 --> 01:48:59,540 We know what's been going on over at your office. 2386 01:48:59,624 --> 01:49:01,040 Yeah, I guess you do. 2387 01:49:01,124 --> 01:49:03,457 You've got nothin', Bill. I'm talking as a friend now. 2388 01:49:03,540 --> 01:49:05,124 You're riding on the Titanic. 2389 01:49:05,208 --> 01:49:08,124 Time to jump off before you get destroyed along with Garrison. 2390 01:49:08,208 --> 01:49:09,623 Frank, I don't want to hear this. 2391 01:49:09,707 --> 01:49:11,957 We're talking about your career, here, Bill, your life. 2392 01:49:12,041 --> 01:49:13,291 You're a young guy. 2393 01:49:13,790 --> 01:49:15,332 We know you're working that Castro thing. 2394 01:49:15,416 --> 01:49:16,864 - No, I'm not. - Yes, you are. 2395 01:49:16,957 --> 01:49:19,332 Look we know Oswald didn't pull that trigger. 2396 01:49:19,416 --> 01:49:20,458 Castro did. 2397 01:49:21,374 --> 01:49:23,082 But if that comes out, there's gonna be a war, boy. 2398 01:49:23,166 --> 01:49:24,832 Millions of people are gonna die. 2399 01:49:24,916 --> 01:49:27,332 And that's a hell of a lot more important than Jim Garrison. 2400 01:49:27,416 --> 01:49:29,665 Goddammit, look at me when I talk to you! 2401 01:49:29,749 --> 01:49:31,416 - You're goddamn too self-opinionated... - I can't, I can't! 2402 01:49:31,500 --> 01:49:32,500 Shut up! Shut up! 2403 01:49:33,124 --> 01:49:35,873 If you got a brain in that thick skull of yours, you'll listen to me. 2404 01:49:35,957 --> 01:49:37,582 You listen real hard. 2405 01:49:38,416 --> 01:49:39,624 Now, get in the car. 2406 01:50:01,458 --> 01:50:02,707 Jim Garrison? 2407 01:50:04,291 --> 01:50:05,249 Yes. 2408 01:50:06,291 --> 01:50:07,832 I'm glad you came. 2409 01:50:07,916 --> 01:50:09,957 Sorry about the precautions. 2410 01:50:10,041 --> 01:50:12,582 Well, I just hope it was worth my while, Mr... 2411 01:50:13,749 --> 01:50:15,847 I could give you a false name, but I won't. 2412 01:50:16,291 --> 01:50:17,582 Just call me "X." 2413 01:50:19,082 --> 01:50:22,249 I've already been warned by the Agency, Mr. Whoever, so 2414 01:50:22,333 --> 01:50:24,416 if this is another type of threat, I don't... 2415 01:50:24,500 --> 01:50:26,416 I'm not with the Agency, Mr. Garrison. 2416 01:50:27,291 --> 01:50:30,874 And I assume if you've come this far, what I have to say interests you. 2417 01:50:31,291 --> 01:50:34,687 But I'm not going to name names, or tell you who or what I represent. 2418 01:50:35,166 --> 01:50:36,832 Except to say you're close. 2419 01:50:38,416 --> 01:50:39,916 Closer than you think. 2420 01:50:40,916 --> 01:50:41,957 Okay? 2421 01:50:43,749 --> 01:50:46,458 Everything I'm gonna tell you is classified top secret. 2422 01:50:47,500 --> 01:50:49,291 I was a soldier, Mr. Garrison. 2423 01:50:49,540 --> 01:50:50,582 Two wars. 2424 01:50:51,249 --> 01:50:53,540 I was one of those secret guys in the Pentagon 2425 01:50:53,624 --> 01:50:56,957 that supplies the military hardware, planes, bullets, rifles... 2426 01:50:57,500 --> 01:50:59,707 for what we call "Black Operations." 2427 01:51:00,291 --> 01:51:01,416 "Black Ops." 2428 01:51:01,500 --> 01:51:05,374 Assassinations, coup d'états, rigging elections, propaganda, psych warfare, 2429 01:51:05,458 --> 01:51:06,374 and so forth. 2430 01:51:06,790 --> 01:51:10,333 World War ll, I was in Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia. 2431 01:51:10,957 --> 01:51:13,665 I helped evacuate part of the Nazi intelligence apparatus 2432 01:51:13,749 --> 01:51:15,298 just before the end of the war. 2433 01:51:15,416 --> 01:51:18,166 We used those guys in the fight against the communists. 2434 01:51:18,458 --> 01:51:23,291 In Italy '48, stole the elections. France '49, broke the strikes. 2435 01:51:23,707 --> 01:51:28,041 Overthrew Quirino in the Philippines, Arbenz in Guatemala, Mossadegh in Iran. 2436 01:51:28,333 --> 01:51:32,749 We were in Vietnam in '54, Indonesia '58, Tibet '59. 2437 01:51:33,291 --> 01:51:34,874 Got the Dalai Lama out. 2438 01:51:35,957 --> 01:51:36,916 We were good. 2439 01:51:37,707 --> 01:51:38,916 Very good. 2440 01:51:39,874 --> 01:51:42,790 Then we get into the Cuban thing. Not so good. 2441 01:51:42,874 --> 01:51:46,332 Set up all the bases for the invasion supposed to take place in October '62. 2442 01:51:46,416 --> 01:51:47,290 Mm-hmm. 2443 01:51:47,374 --> 01:51:50,540 Khrushchev sent the missiles to resist the invasion, Kennedy didn't invade, 2444 01:51:50,624 --> 01:51:53,124 and we were standing out there with our dicks in the wind. 2445 01:51:53,208 --> 01:51:55,999 A lot of pissed-off people, Mr. Garrison. 2446 01:51:56,458 --> 01:51:57,500 You understand? 2447 01:51:58,208 --> 01:51:59,707 I'll come to that later. 2448 01:52:00,333 --> 01:52:02,665 So... 1963. 2449 01:52:03,249 --> 01:52:06,208 I spent much of September '63 2450 01:52:06,416 --> 01:52:09,374 working on the Kennedy plan for getting all US personnel 2451 01:52:09,458 --> 01:52:12,374 out of Vietnam by the end of 1965. 2452 01:52:12,749 --> 01:52:15,832 This plan was one of the strongest, most important papers issued 2453 01:52:15,916 --> 01:52:17,207 from the Kennedy White House. 2454 01:52:17,291 --> 01:52:19,832 His National Security Action Memo 263 2455 01:52:19,916 --> 01:52:22,374 ordered home the first 1,000 troops for Christmas. 2456 01:52:22,999 --> 01:52:24,207 But then in November, 2457 01:52:24,291 --> 01:52:27,374 One week after the murder of Vietnamese President Diem in Saigon, 2458 01:52:27,458 --> 01:52:29,957 and two weeks before the assassination of our president, 2459 01:52:30,041 --> 01:52:31,999 a strange thing happened to me. 2460 01:52:40,249 --> 01:52:40,999 Colonel. 2461 01:52:41,124 --> 01:52:44,121 Excuse me, I got a note saying you wanted to see me, General? 2462 01:52:44,333 --> 01:52:45,249 I do indeed. 2463 01:52:45,832 --> 01:52:47,624 You are going to the South Pole. 2464 01:52:48,582 --> 01:52:49,416 I am? 2465 01:52:49,624 --> 01:52:50,374 You are. 2466 01:52:50,458 --> 01:52:53,332 Dr. Mooney's got the details, I want you to check with him. 2467 01:52:53,416 --> 01:52:55,041 Have yourself a nice vacation. 2468 01:52:55,540 --> 01:52:58,416 I was sent by my superior officer, we'll call him "Y"... 2469 01:52:58,790 --> 01:53:01,749 I was sent by General Y to the South Pole... 2470 01:53:02,500 --> 01:53:05,999 as the military escort for a group of international VIPs. 2471 01:53:06,749 --> 01:53:09,749 I was on my way back, in New Zealand... 2472 01:53:10,790 --> 01:53:12,374 when the president was killed. 2473 01:53:14,166 --> 01:53:15,082 Now... 2474 01:53:15,166 --> 01:53:19,082 Oswald was charged at 7 p.m. Dallas time with Tippit's murder. 2475 01:53:19,166 --> 01:53:23,124 That's 2:00 in the afternoon of the next day, New Zealand time. 2476 01:53:23,208 --> 01:53:24,290 But already 2477 01:53:24,374 --> 01:53:26,290 their papers had the entire history 2478 01:53:26,374 --> 01:53:29,207 of this unknown 24-year-old man, Oswald, 2479 01:53:29,291 --> 01:53:32,581 studio picture, detailed biographical data, Russian information, 2480 01:53:32,665 --> 01:53:35,623 and were pretty sure of the fact that he killed the president alone, 2481 01:53:35,707 --> 01:53:37,416 although it took them four more hours 2482 01:53:37,500 --> 01:53:40,197 before they even charged him with that crime in Dallas. 2483 01:53:42,458 --> 01:53:43,874 It felt to me as if... 2484 01:53:45,374 --> 01:53:47,581 well, a cover story was being put out, 2485 01:53:47,665 --> 01:53:49,208 like we would in a Black Op. 2486 01:53:50,374 --> 01:53:52,790 Anyway, after I came back... 2487 01:53:53,416 --> 01:53:54,748 I asked myself, 2488 01:53:54,832 --> 01:53:58,790 why was I, the chief of special ops, selected to travel to the South Pole 2489 01:53:58,874 --> 01:54:02,124 at that time to do a job that any number of others could have done? 2490 01:54:02,208 --> 01:54:04,374 And I wondered if it could've been because... 2491 01:54:04,458 --> 01:54:07,082 One of my routine duties, if I had been in Washington, 2492 01:54:07,166 --> 01:54:09,623 would've been to arrange for additional security in Texas. 2493 01:54:09,707 --> 01:54:11,540 So I decided to check it out, 2494 01:54:11,624 --> 01:54:13,082 and sure enough, I found out 2495 01:54:13,166 --> 01:54:16,457 that someone had told the 112th Military Intelligence Group 2496 01:54:16,540 --> 01:54:20,166 at 4th Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston to "stand down" that day 2497 01:54:20,374 --> 01:54:23,832 over the protests of the unit commander, Colonel Reich. 2498 01:54:23,916 --> 01:54:24,957 I believe it's a mistake. 2499 01:54:25,041 --> 01:54:28,290 Now this is significant because it is standard operating procedure, 2500 01:54:28,374 --> 01:54:31,082 especially in a known hostile city like Dallas, 2501 01:54:31,166 --> 01:54:32,832 to supplement the Secret Service. 2502 01:54:32,916 --> 01:54:35,082 I mean, even if we had not allowed the bubbletop 2503 01:54:35,166 --> 01:54:36,665 to be removed from the limousine, 2504 01:54:36,749 --> 01:54:41,082 we would've placed at least 100 to 200 agents on the sidewalk, without question. 2505 01:54:41,458 --> 01:54:43,082 I mean, only a month before in Dallas, 2506 01:54:43,166 --> 01:54:45,706 UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was spit on and hit. 2507 01:54:45,790 --> 01:54:47,249 - Right, yeah. - There had already been several attempts 2508 01:54:47,333 --> 01:54:48,706 on de Gaulle's life in France. 2509 01:54:48,790 --> 01:54:50,748 We would have arrived days ahead of time, 2510 01:54:50,832 --> 01:54:52,832 studied the route, checked all the buildings, 2511 01:54:52,916 --> 01:54:55,748 never would've allowed all those wide-open empty windows overlooking Dealey. 2512 01:54:55,832 --> 01:54:56,581 Never! 2513 01:54:56,665 --> 01:54:58,665 We'd've had our own snipers covering the area. 2514 01:54:58,749 --> 01:55:01,082 The minute a window went up, they'd have been on the radio. 2515 01:55:01,166 --> 01:55:02,290 We'd've been watching the crowd, 2516 01:55:02,374 --> 01:55:04,665 packages, rolled-up newspapers, coat over an arm, 2517 01:55:04,749 --> 01:55:07,207 never would have let a man open an umbrella along the way. 2518 01:55:07,291 --> 01:55:10,082 Never would've allowed that limousine to slow down to 10 miles an hour, 2519 01:55:10,166 --> 01:55:12,763 much less take that unusual curve at Houston and Elm. 2520 01:55:13,500 --> 01:55:16,581 You would have felt an Army presence in the streets that day, 2521 01:55:16,665 --> 01:55:18,290 but none of this happened. 2522 01:55:18,374 --> 01:55:22,040 It was a violation of the most basic protection codes we have. 2523 01:55:22,124 --> 01:55:25,500 And it is the best indication of a massive plot in Dallas. 2524 01:55:27,166 --> 01:55:28,999 Now who could've best done this? 2525 01:55:29,333 --> 01:55:31,623 Black Ops, Mr. Garrison. People in my business. 2526 01:55:31,707 --> 01:55:34,915 People like my superior officer could've called Colonel Reich and said 2527 01:55:34,999 --> 01:55:38,332 "Look, we have another unit coming from so and so providing security. 2528 01:55:38,416 --> 01:55:40,457 You'll stand down." I mean, that day, in fact, 2529 01:55:40,540 --> 01:55:43,040 there were some individual Army Intelligence people in Dallas 2530 01:55:43,124 --> 01:55:45,165 I'm still trying to figure out who and why. 2531 01:55:45,249 --> 01:55:46,998 But they weren't protecting the client. 2532 01:55:47,082 --> 01:55:48,416 And, of course, Oswald. 2533 01:55:48,665 --> 01:55:51,749 Army Intel had a "Harvey Lee Oswald" on file... 2534 01:55:52,082 --> 01:55:54,291 but all those files have been destroyed. 2535 01:55:54,665 --> 01:55:55,915 Many strange things were happening, 2536 01:55:55,999 --> 01:55:58,957 and your Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with them. 2537 01:56:01,082 --> 01:56:03,499 We had the entire cabinet on a trip to the Far East. 2538 01:56:03,582 --> 01:56:06,706 We had one third of a combat division returning from Germany 2539 01:56:06,790 --> 01:56:10,041 in the air above the United States at the time of the shooting. 2540 01:56:10,624 --> 01:56:14,499 At 12:34 p.m., the entire telephone system went out in Washington 2541 01:56:14,582 --> 01:56:16,165 for a solid hour, 2542 01:56:16,249 --> 01:56:18,290 and on the plane back to Washington, 2543 01:56:18,374 --> 01:56:21,581 word was radioed from the White House Situations Room to Lyndon Johnson 2544 01:56:21,665 --> 01:56:23,665 that one individual performed the assassination. 2545 01:56:23,749 --> 01:56:26,165 Does that sound like a bunch of coincidences to you, Mr. Garrison? 2546 01:56:26,249 --> 01:56:27,040 No. 2547 01:56:27,124 --> 01:56:28,124 Not for one moment. 2548 01:56:29,041 --> 01:56:32,540 The cabinet was out of the country to get their perceptions out of the way. 2549 01:56:32,624 --> 01:56:34,623 Troops were in the air for possible riot control. 2550 01:56:34,707 --> 01:56:36,998 The telephones didn't work to keep the wrong stories from spreading 2551 01:56:37,082 --> 01:56:38,832 if anything went wrong with the plan. 2552 01:56:38,916 --> 01:56:40,416 Nothing was left to chance. 2553 01:56:40,749 --> 01:56:43,707 He could not be allowed to escape alive. 2554 01:56:46,665 --> 01:56:49,313 Well, I never thought things were the same after that. 2555 01:56:50,582 --> 01:56:51,832 Vietnam started for real. 2556 01:56:51,916 --> 01:56:53,499 There was an air of... 2557 01:56:53,582 --> 01:56:54,416 I don't know, 2558 01:56:54,500 --> 01:56:56,915 make-believe in the Pentagon and the CIA. 2559 01:56:56,999 --> 01:56:59,082 Those of us who'd been in secret ops since the beginning 2560 01:56:59,166 --> 01:57:01,214 knew the Warren Commission was fiction... 2561 01:57:01,832 --> 01:57:03,500 but there was something... 2562 01:57:03,874 --> 01:57:05,124 something deeper. 2563 01:57:05,500 --> 01:57:06,540 Uglier. 2564 01:57:06,624 --> 01:57:09,998 I knew Allen Dulles very well, I briefed him many a time in his house. 2565 01:57:10,082 --> 01:57:12,790 But for the life of me, I still can't figure out why he was appointed 2566 01:57:12,874 --> 01:57:14,165 to investigate Kennedy's death. 2567 01:57:14,249 --> 01:57:15,582 The man who had fired him. 2568 01:57:15,916 --> 01:57:19,166 Dulles, by the way, was General Y's benefactor. 2569 01:57:21,374 --> 01:57:23,041 I get out in '64. 2570 01:57:23,665 --> 01:57:25,333 Resigned my commission. 2571 01:57:27,124 --> 01:57:30,416 I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment. 2572 01:57:31,832 --> 01:57:32,999 Is that why? 2573 01:57:33,874 --> 01:57:35,623 That's the real question, isn't it? 2574 01:57:35,707 --> 01:57:36,539 "Why?" 2575 01:57:36,916 --> 01:57:40,540 The "how" and the "who" is just scenery for the public. 2576 01:57:41,124 --> 01:57:44,374 Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the mafia... 2577 01:57:44,707 --> 01:57:46,540 keeps them guessing like some kind of parlor game, 2578 01:57:46,624 --> 01:57:49,671 prevents them from asking the most important question: "Why?" 2579 01:57:49,957 --> 01:57:51,706 Why was Kennedy killed? 2580 01:57:51,790 --> 01:57:53,082 Who benefitted? 2581 01:57:53,374 --> 01:57:55,082 Who has the power to cover it up? 2582 01:57:55,582 --> 01:57:56,624 Who? 2583 01:57:59,874 --> 01:58:01,707 In 1961... 2584 01:58:02,874 --> 01:58:04,040 right after the Bay of Pigs... 2585 01:58:04,124 --> 01:58:06,222 Very few people know about this, all right? 2586 01:58:06,957 --> 01:58:11,790 I participated in drawing up National Security Action Memos 55, 56, 57. 2587 01:58:11,874 --> 01:58:13,374 - General? - These are crucial documents, 2588 01:58:13,458 --> 01:58:16,540 classified top secret, but basically in them... 2589 01:58:16,624 --> 01:58:19,249 Kennedy instructed General Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 2590 01:58:19,333 --> 01:58:20,748 that from here on forward, 2591 01:58:20,832 --> 01:58:23,581 the Joint Chiefs of Staff would be wholly responsible 2592 01:58:23,665 --> 01:58:26,458 for all covert paramilitary action in peacetime. 2593 01:58:26,874 --> 01:58:29,416 This basically ended the reign of the CIA. 2594 01:58:29,624 --> 01:58:32,040 Splintered it, as JFK promised he would, 2595 01:58:32,124 --> 01:58:33,374 into a thousand pieces, 2596 01:58:33,458 --> 01:58:36,623 and now he was ordering the military to help him do it. 2597 01:58:36,707 --> 01:58:37,874 This was unprecedented! 2598 01:58:38,124 --> 01:58:39,540 I can't tell you 2599 01:58:39,624 --> 01:58:42,873 the shock waves that this sent along the corridors of power in Washington. 2600 01:58:42,957 --> 01:58:45,706 This and, of course, the firing of Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, 2601 01:58:45,790 --> 01:58:47,239 and General Charles Cabell... 2602 01:58:47,624 --> 01:58:50,832 all of them sacred cows in Intel since World War ll. 2603 01:58:51,458 --> 01:58:53,458 You got some very upset people here. 2604 01:58:54,665 --> 01:58:57,623 Kennedy's directives were never really implemented because of 2605 01:58:57,707 --> 01:58:59,916 bureaucratic resistance... 2606 01:59:00,707 --> 01:59:02,500 but one of the results was... 2607 01:59:02,999 --> 01:59:06,540 the Cuban operation was turned over to my department... 2608 01:59:07,166 --> 01:59:08,957 as "Operation Mongoose." 2609 01:59:09,832 --> 01:59:12,166 Mongoose was pure Black Ops. 2610 01:59:12,416 --> 01:59:15,665 It was secretly based in the south campus of Miami University, 2611 01:59:15,874 --> 01:59:18,707 which was the largest domestic CIA station... 2612 01:59:19,124 --> 01:59:21,821 budgeted annually over hundreds of millions of dollars. 2613 01:59:22,166 --> 01:59:25,208 Three hundred agents, 7,000 select Cubans... 2614 01:59:25,749 --> 01:59:28,082 50 fake business fronts for laundering money. 2615 01:59:28,540 --> 01:59:30,999 They waged non-stop war against Castro. 2616 01:59:31,166 --> 01:59:33,916 Industrial sabotage, crop burning, the works. 2617 01:59:34,208 --> 01:59:36,832 And all of this came under the control of General Y. 2618 01:59:37,249 --> 01:59:40,082 All he did was take the rules of covert warfare he'd used abroad, 2619 01:59:40,166 --> 01:59:41,914 and brought them into this country. 2620 01:59:41,999 --> 01:59:44,447 Now he had the people, the equipment, the bases... 2621 01:59:44,957 --> 01:59:46,249 and the motivation. 2622 01:59:46,582 --> 01:59:49,374 And don't underestimate the budget cuts that Kennedy called for 2623 01:59:49,458 --> 01:59:50,916 in March of '63 either. 2624 01:59:51,458 --> 01:59:56,623 Nearly 52 military installations in 25 states, 21 overseas bases. 2625 01:59:56,707 --> 01:59:57,957 You're talking big money. 2626 01:59:58,291 --> 02:00:00,915 You know how many helicopters have been lost in Vietnam? 2627 02:00:00,999 --> 02:00:01,916 Hmm? 2628 02:00:02,582 --> 02:00:04,916 Nearly 3,000 so far. 2629 02:00:05,249 --> 02:00:08,208 Who makes them? Bell Helicopter. Who owns Bell? 2630 02:00:08,665 --> 02:00:11,540 Well, Bell was nearly bankrupt when the First National Bank of Boston 2631 02:00:11,624 --> 02:00:15,249 approached the CIA about developing the helicopter for Indochina usage. 2632 02:00:15,333 --> 02:00:16,957 How about the F-111 fighters? 2633 02:00:17,291 --> 02:00:19,916 General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Texas. Who owns that? 2634 02:00:20,249 --> 02:00:22,596 Find out the defense budget since the war began. 2635 02:00:22,874 --> 02:00:25,249 Seventy-five going on 100 billion. 2636 02:00:25,540 --> 02:00:27,988 Nearly 200 billion will be spent before it's over. 2637 02:00:28,874 --> 02:00:30,874 In 1949, it was 10 billion. 2638 02:00:30,999 --> 02:00:33,166 No war, no money. 2639 02:00:33,957 --> 02:00:38,999 The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. 2640 02:00:39,582 --> 02:00:43,582 The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers. 2641 02:00:43,874 --> 02:00:46,721 And Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term. 2642 02:00:46,957 --> 02:00:50,665 He wanted to call off the moon race in favor of cooperation with the Soviets. 2643 02:00:50,749 --> 02:00:53,124 He signed a treaty with the Soviets to ban nuclear testing, 2644 02:00:53,208 --> 02:00:56,040 he refused to invade Cuba in 1962, 2645 02:00:56,124 --> 02:00:58,166 and he set out to withdraw from Vietnam. 2646 02:00:59,916 --> 02:01:03,832 But all of that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963. 2647 02:01:04,665 --> 02:01:09,082 As early as 1961 they knew Kennedy was not going to go to war in Southeast Asia. 2648 02:01:09,458 --> 02:01:13,165 Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, 2649 02:01:13,249 --> 02:01:16,748 but it has no face, yet everybody in the loop knows. 2650 02:01:16,832 --> 02:01:18,499 You can forget about your combat troops. 2651 02:01:18,582 --> 02:01:22,333 He told McNamara he is gonna pull out the goddamned advisors! 2652 02:01:23,249 --> 02:01:28,082 He fucked us in Laos, and now, he is gonna fuck us in goddamn Vietnam! 2653 02:01:28,208 --> 02:01:31,255 He won't implement it before the election, he can't afford to. 2654 02:01:31,500 --> 02:01:33,873 I hear the NSC meeting was a real barn-burner. 2655 02:01:33,957 --> 02:01:37,457 I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Heads are gonna roll everywhere. 2656 02:01:37,540 --> 02:01:39,040 Did you hear what Lemnitzer did? 2657 02:01:39,124 --> 02:01:39,957 What happened? 2658 02:01:40,041 --> 02:01:43,540 Kennedy tried to rub Lem's nose in shit, saying if we didn't go into Cuba, 2659 02:01:43,624 --> 02:01:48,124 which is so close, why should we go into Vietnam, which is so far away. 2660 02:01:48,208 --> 02:01:51,165 Son of a bitch, there he goes again. He's got his hands on the chicken switch. 2661 02:01:51,249 --> 02:01:55,207 Anyway, Lem said that the Chiefs still think we oughta go into Cuba. 2662 02:01:55,291 --> 02:01:57,707 Money's at stake. Big money. 2663 02:01:57,999 --> 02:01:59,790 Hundred billion dollars. 2664 02:02:00,333 --> 02:02:03,499 Kennedy brothers target voting districts for those defense dollars. 2665 02:02:03,582 --> 02:02:05,165 They give TFX fighter contracts 2666 02:02:05,249 --> 02:02:07,957 only to those counties that are gonna make a difference in '64. 2667 02:02:08,041 --> 02:02:10,873 And the people in the loop, they fight back. Their way. 2668 02:02:10,957 --> 02:02:13,790 We have to control the intelligence from Saigon. 2669 02:02:13,874 --> 02:02:17,624 Well, just don't let McNamara start sticking his damn nose in this thing! 2670 02:02:17,999 --> 02:02:21,957 Every time he goes over to Saigon on some fuckin' fact-finding mission, 2671 02:02:22,041 --> 02:02:25,166 he comes back and just scares the shit out of the president! 2672 02:02:25,416 --> 02:02:29,416 Now I want Max Taylor on him night and day, like a fly on shit. 2673 02:02:30,249 --> 02:02:34,416 Now you control McNamara, then you control Kennedy. 2674 02:02:34,540 --> 02:02:36,124 I think it started like that... 2675 02:02:36,374 --> 02:02:37,748 in the wind. 2676 02:02:37,832 --> 02:02:41,249 Defense contractors, big oil bankers. Just conversations, nothing more. 2677 02:02:41,333 --> 02:02:45,665 Then, a call is made, maybe to someone like my superior officer, General Y. 2678 02:02:45,957 --> 02:02:48,290 - Yeah? - We're going. 2679 02:02:48,374 --> 02:02:49,832 We need your help. 2680 02:02:49,916 --> 02:02:54,374 - When? - In the fall, probably in the South. 2681 02:02:54,500 --> 02:02:57,499 - We want you to come up with a plan. - I can do that. 2682 02:02:57,582 --> 02:03:00,999 Everything is cellularized. No one has said, "He must die." 2683 02:03:01,291 --> 02:03:04,999 There's been no vote, nothing's on paper, there's no one to blame. 2684 02:03:05,124 --> 02:03:07,624 It's as old as the crucifixion. 2685 02:03:07,790 --> 02:03:09,916 Or the military firing squad. 2686 02:03:10,291 --> 02:03:13,665 Five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty. 2687 02:03:13,916 --> 02:03:16,040 Because everyone in the power structure who knows anything 2688 02:03:16,124 --> 02:03:17,790 has a plausible deniability. 2689 02:03:17,916 --> 02:03:21,874 There are no compromising connections, except at the most secret point. 2690 02:03:22,665 --> 02:03:26,082 But what's paramount, is that it must succeed, no matter how many die, 2691 02:03:26,166 --> 02:03:30,207 no matter how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side. 2692 02:03:30,291 --> 02:03:34,624 And never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. 2693 02:03:34,874 --> 02:03:36,957 That is a coup d'état. 2694 02:03:40,957 --> 02:03:43,624 Kennedy announces the Texas trip in September. 2695 02:03:44,082 --> 02:03:47,748 At that moment, second Oswalds start popping up all over Dallas, 2696 02:03:47,832 --> 02:03:50,416 where they have the mayor and the cops in their pocket. 2697 02:03:50,500 --> 02:03:52,748 General Y flies in the assassins. 2698 02:03:52,832 --> 02:03:56,374 Maybe from the special camp we keep outside Athens, Greece. 2699 02:03:56,707 --> 02:03:57,665 Pros. 2700 02:03:57,749 --> 02:04:01,249 Maybe locals, Cubans, mafia hire. Separate teams. 2701 02:04:01,749 --> 02:04:05,500 Does it really matter who shot from what rooftop? 2702 02:04:07,208 --> 02:04:09,165 Part of the scenery, right? 2703 02:04:09,249 --> 02:04:13,665 I keep thinking about that day, Tuesday, the 26th of November. 2704 02:04:13,749 --> 02:04:15,623 The day after they buried Kennedy. 2705 02:04:15,707 --> 02:04:20,040 Gentlemen, I want you to know, I'm not gonna let Vietnam go like China did. 2706 02:04:20,124 --> 02:04:21,957 I'm personally committed. 2707 02:04:22,041 --> 02:04:24,082 And I'm not gonna take one soldier outta there 2708 02:04:24,166 --> 02:04:26,624 till they know we mean business in Asia. 2709 02:04:26,790 --> 02:04:30,290 Lyndon Johnson signs National Security Memo 273, 2710 02:04:30,374 --> 02:04:32,915 which essentially reverses Kennedy's new withdrawal policy 2711 02:04:32,999 --> 02:04:35,873 and gives the green light to covert action against North Vietnam, 2712 02:04:35,957 --> 02:04:37,915 which provoked the Gulf of Tonkin incident. 2713 02:04:37,999 --> 02:04:41,416 Just get me elected, I'll give you your damn war. 2714 02:04:43,124 --> 02:04:44,374 In that document... 2715 02:04:45,916 --> 02:04:47,166 lay the Vietnam War. 2716 02:04:51,291 --> 02:04:52,707 I don't... I can't... 2717 02:04:53,082 --> 02:04:56,578 I can't believe it. They killed him because he wanted to change things? 2718 02:04:57,999 --> 02:04:59,249 In our time? 2719 02:04:59,333 --> 02:05:01,290 - They been doing it all through history. - In our country? 2720 02:05:01,374 --> 02:05:05,166 Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison. Politics is power, nothing more. 2721 02:05:05,916 --> 02:05:07,748 Oh, don't take my word for it. Don't believe me. 2722 02:05:07,832 --> 02:05:09,790 Do your own work, your own thinking. 2723 02:05:11,916 --> 02:05:13,749 The size of this is... 2724 02:05:14,166 --> 02:05:15,582 beyond me. 2725 02:05:16,291 --> 02:05:17,500 Testify? 2726 02:05:17,749 --> 02:05:19,082 - Me? - Testify. 2727 02:05:20,874 --> 02:05:22,291 No chance in hell. 2728 02:05:22,916 --> 02:05:25,623 No, I'd be arrested and gagged. 2729 02:05:25,707 --> 02:05:28,624 Maybe sent to an institution, maybe worse. You, too. 2730 02:05:29,624 --> 02:05:31,374 I can give you the background. 2731 02:05:31,458 --> 02:05:33,790 You have to find the foreground, the little things. 2732 02:05:33,874 --> 02:05:34,623 Keep digging. 2733 02:05:34,707 --> 02:05:37,790 Remember, you're the only person to bring a trial in the murder of John Kennedy. 2734 02:05:37,874 --> 02:05:39,832 That's important, it's historic. 2735 02:05:40,749 --> 02:05:41,916 I haven't yet. 2736 02:05:42,999 --> 02:05:45,500 I don't have much of a case. 2737 02:05:46,540 --> 02:05:48,416 You don't have a choice anymore. 2738 02:05:48,749 --> 02:05:52,458 You've become a significant threat to the national security structure. 2739 02:05:52,790 --> 02:05:55,790 They would've killed you already, but you got a lot of light on you. 2740 02:05:55,874 --> 02:05:57,957 Instead, they're trying to destroy your credibility. 2741 02:05:58,041 --> 02:06:00,339 They already have in many circles in this town. 2742 02:06:00,582 --> 02:06:01,540 Be honest. 2743 02:06:02,166 --> 02:06:04,582 Your only chance is to come up with a case. 2744 02:06:04,790 --> 02:06:06,665 Something, anything. 2745 02:06:07,124 --> 02:06:10,166 Make arrests, stir the shitstorm. 2746 02:06:10,374 --> 02:06:13,540 Hope to reach a point of critical mass that'll start a chain reaction 2747 02:06:13,624 --> 02:06:14,874 of people coming forward. 2748 02:06:15,041 --> 02:06:16,639 Then, the government will crack. 2749 02:06:17,124 --> 02:06:20,082 Remember, fundamentally people are suckers for the truth... 2750 02:06:20,582 --> 02:06:22,749 and the truth is on your side, bubba. 2751 02:06:30,041 --> 02:06:31,500 I just hope you get a break. 2752 02:07:17,500 --> 02:07:20,332 Mr. Shaw, sir, you are under arrest, 2753 02:07:20,416 --> 02:07:23,332 charged with conspiracy and entering an agreement with other persons 2754 02:07:23,416 --> 02:07:26,124 for the specific purpose of committing the crime of murder 2755 02:07:26,208 --> 02:07:27,873 of President John F. Kennedy. 2756 02:07:27,957 --> 02:07:30,005 We have a warrant to search the premises. 2757 02:07:31,124 --> 02:07:33,222 It is my duty to inform you at this time... 2758 02:07:33,832 --> 02:07:36,040 You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney. 2759 02:07:36,124 --> 02:07:37,873 Name. First, middle, and last. 2760 02:07:37,957 --> 02:07:39,500 Clay Lavergne Shaw. 2761 02:07:41,957 --> 02:07:42,957 Address? 2762 02:07:43,041 --> 02:07:46,082 1313 Dauphine Street, New Orleans. 2763 02:07:46,208 --> 02:07:47,540 Mr. Shaw! 2764 02:07:47,624 --> 02:07:49,249 Ever use any aliases? 2765 02:07:49,582 --> 02:07:50,916 Clay Bertrand. 2766 02:07:57,582 --> 02:07:59,706 Mr. Clark, are you aware of the charges 2767 02:07:59,790 --> 02:08:02,082 filed by District Attorney Garrison? 2768 02:08:02,208 --> 02:08:04,555 Yes, Mr. Shaw was included in our investigation. 2769 02:08:05,166 --> 02:08:06,623 There was no connection found. 2770 02:08:06,707 --> 02:08:08,374 - At all. - Why did the FBI investigate him? 2771 02:08:08,458 --> 02:08:12,040 And why, if they did, is his name not mentioned once 2772 02:08:12,124 --> 02:08:14,790 in the entire 26 volumes of the Warren Report, 2773 02:08:14,874 --> 02:08:16,749 even it if is to clear his name? 2774 02:08:17,999 --> 02:08:20,040 I doubt this attorney general would qualify 2775 02:08:20,124 --> 02:08:20,957 for my staff. 2776 02:08:21,041 --> 02:08:25,915 Mr. Garrison has presented absolutely nothing publicly 2777 02:08:25,999 --> 02:08:28,291 which would contradict our findings. 2778 02:08:29,416 --> 02:08:34,998 I know of no fact which would refute the Commission's conclusion 2779 02:08:35,082 --> 02:08:38,332 that Lee Oswald was the lone killer. 2780 02:08:38,416 --> 02:08:40,499 What's your reaction to the chief justice's statement? 2781 02:08:40,582 --> 02:08:42,500 Well, I congratulate Mr. Shaw. 2782 02:08:42,749 --> 02:08:45,706 Most defendants have to wait for trial before they're allowed to produce 2783 02:08:45,790 --> 02:08:49,873 sacred cows like the chief justice of the land as a character witness, 2784 02:08:49,957 --> 02:08:53,665 who is, of course, not under oath and free from the laws of perjury. 2785 02:08:56,166 --> 02:08:58,998 You realize that you're damaging the credibility of the country, 2786 02:08:59,082 --> 02:09:00,832 - possibly destroying it? - Let me ask you... 2787 02:09:00,916 --> 02:09:04,540 Let me ask you, is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people? 2788 02:09:04,624 --> 02:09:06,249 Huh? 2789 02:09:06,333 --> 02:09:09,706 It has become a dangerous country, sir, when you cannot trust anyone anymore, 2790 02:09:09,790 --> 02:09:11,339 when you cannot tell the truth. 2791 02:09:13,082 --> 02:09:15,874 I say, let justice be done, though the heavens fall! 2792 02:09:22,500 --> 02:09:26,124 The JFK conspiracy, the case of Jim Garrison. 2793 02:09:26,500 --> 02:09:29,957 Honey, this is all about you! 2794 02:09:30,041 --> 02:09:34,165 A team of reporters has learned that District Attorney Jim Garrison 2795 02:09:34,249 --> 02:09:39,124 and his staff have intimidated, bribed, and even drugged witnesses 2796 02:09:39,208 --> 02:09:41,290 in their attempt to prove a conspiracy 2797 02:09:41,374 --> 02:09:46,582 involving New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw in the murder of John F. Kennedy. 2798 02:09:47,416 --> 02:09:48,915 John Chancler 2799 02:09:48,999 --> 02:09:50,832 was a cellmate of Willie O'Keefe's 2800 02:09:50,916 --> 02:09:51,790 at Angola... 2801 02:09:51,874 --> 02:09:55,499 He said he'd be cut loose, if he copped to the DA's office. 2802 02:09:55,582 --> 02:09:57,249 I sent him up for burglary. 2803 02:09:58,333 --> 02:10:00,749 And there's his old buddy Miguel Torres. 2804 02:10:01,749 --> 02:10:03,374 We sent him up, too. 2805 02:10:03,458 --> 02:10:05,749 They wanted me to say Shaw was Bertrand. 2806 02:10:05,999 --> 02:10:07,748 They said they'd get me a pardon. 2807 02:10:07,832 --> 02:10:09,374 Janet Williams 2808 02:10:09,458 --> 02:10:12,082 comments on Willie O'Keefe's descriptions 2809 02:10:12,166 --> 02:10:13,540 of having met Oswald. 2810 02:10:13,957 --> 02:10:15,207 Was he a homosexual? 2811 02:10:15,291 --> 02:10:18,207 That's not the Lee I knew. Absolutely not. 2812 02:10:18,291 --> 02:10:21,790 I think Mr. O'Keefe must have seen someone he thought was Lee Oswald. 2813 02:10:21,874 --> 02:10:23,040 I didn't talk to nobody 2814 02:10:23,124 --> 02:10:24,165 after the assassination. 2815 02:10:24,249 --> 02:10:26,124 I was on drugs at the hospital. 2816 02:10:26,249 --> 02:10:30,040 Like I told the FBI, that call was a figment of my imagination. 2817 02:10:30,124 --> 02:10:32,322 Personally, I think he's quite ill, mentally. 2818 02:10:32,624 --> 02:10:36,665 With one half of his mind, he is able to go out and fabricate evidence... 2819 02:10:36,916 --> 02:10:39,998 then by some osmosis, he is able to convince the other half 2820 02:10:40,082 --> 02:10:41,706 that the fabrication is the truth. 2821 02:10:41,790 --> 02:10:43,165 Well, I wouldn't worry about it, Liz. 2822 02:10:43,249 --> 02:10:46,458 There's only about 20, 30 million people watching this tonight. 2823 02:10:48,749 --> 02:10:52,458 Guess my reputation's all right with the people watching Laugh-In. 2824 02:10:52,790 --> 02:10:56,374 ...because in some way, Mr. Garrison is indebted 2825 02:10:56,458 --> 02:10:58,207 and tied to the mob? 2826 02:10:58,291 --> 02:11:00,540 The more one looks at Jim Garrison, 2827 02:11:00,624 --> 02:11:03,957 the more one finds he has destroyed reputations, 2828 02:11:04,041 --> 02:11:06,124 spread fear and suspicion, 2829 02:11:06,208 --> 02:11:10,374 and, worst of all, exploited this nation's sorrow and doubt. 2830 02:11:10,458 --> 02:11:13,416 -Jim Garrison has said, quote: -You wanna be in bed with us? 2831 02:11:13,500 --> 02:11:15,165 - Sleep with me tonight? - "Let justice be done, 2832 02:11:15,249 --> 02:11:16,873 though the heavens fall." 2833 02:11:16,957 --> 02:11:19,582 He seeks the truth, so do we. 2834 02:11:31,624 --> 02:11:34,249 What Dr. Martin Luther King called his beautiful dream, 2835 02:11:34,333 --> 02:11:37,874 expressed so dramatically during the 1963 March on Washington, 2836 02:11:38,041 --> 02:11:41,416 was shattered tonight in Memphis, Tennessee by an assassin's bullet. 2837 02:11:41,500 --> 02:11:44,873 Police seem to think that the single shot came from across the street. 2838 02:11:44,957 --> 02:11:47,040 They say that they have found a Browning automatic rifle, 2839 02:11:47,124 --> 02:11:48,581 fitted with a marksman's scope, 2840 02:11:48,665 --> 02:11:49,582 on a sidewalk. 2841 02:11:50,624 --> 02:11:53,249 I'll get it! 2842 02:11:53,333 --> 02:11:54,457 Hello? 2843 02:11:54,540 --> 02:11:57,290 Hello, is this Jim Garrison's daughter? 2844 02:11:57,374 --> 02:11:58,374 Yes. 2845 02:11:58,458 --> 02:12:00,082 Virginia or Elizabeth? 2846 02:12:00,374 --> 02:12:01,416 Virginia. 2847 02:12:01,500 --> 02:12:04,040 Virginia, you're a lucky little girl. 2848 02:12:04,124 --> 02:12:06,416 Your daddy has entered you in a beauty contest. 2849 02:12:06,500 --> 02:12:08,957 Would you like to be in a beauty contest? 2850 02:12:09,458 --> 02:12:10,665 - I don't know. - My God! 2851 02:12:10,749 --> 02:12:13,706 My God, what have they done? 2852 02:12:13,790 --> 02:12:16,124 - Yes. Uh-huh. - It's lynchin' time. 2853 02:12:16,624 --> 02:12:18,374 It's lynchin' time. 2854 02:12:18,832 --> 02:12:20,374 That sounds fun. 2855 02:12:21,041 --> 02:12:22,416 And you get off from school 2856 02:12:22,500 --> 02:12:24,374 - Honey, who are you talking to? - ...at 3:00 everyday? 2857 02:12:24,458 --> 02:12:26,790 Okay, Virginia, that's all I need to know. 2858 02:12:26,874 --> 02:12:29,665 Mommy, I'm gonna be in a beauty contest! 2859 02:12:30,041 --> 02:12:31,957 Who is this? Who is this?! 2860 02:12:32,957 --> 02:12:34,416 Hello? 2861 02:12:34,500 --> 02:12:37,540 Jim, did you enter Virginia in a beauty contest? 2862 02:12:37,624 --> 02:12:40,416 A man just called, he wanted to know everything, her height, her weight... 2863 02:12:40,500 --> 02:12:41,706 It's some crackpot. 2864 02:12:41,790 --> 02:12:43,957 Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis, today. 2865 02:12:44,041 --> 02:12:45,706 Honey, your daughter's life's just been threatened! 2866 02:12:45,790 --> 02:12:49,082 Just a crank making calls, happens a dozen times a day at the office. 2867 02:12:49,166 --> 02:12:51,748 Our home, Jim! A kidnapper, a murderer, who knows! 2868 02:12:51,832 --> 02:12:53,457 Jesus Christ, Liz, only cowards make crank calls! 2869 02:12:53,540 --> 02:12:55,374 - How do you know? - All right? Nothing's gonna happen. 2870 02:12:55,458 --> 02:12:57,790 How do you even know what goes on in this house anymore! 2871 02:12:57,874 --> 02:12:59,998 You're too busy making speeches! 2872 02:13:00,082 --> 02:13:00,832 Liz... 2873 02:13:00,916 --> 02:13:03,165 Getting every crazed Klansman in Louisiana after us! 2874 02:13:03,249 --> 02:13:04,957 - Get a hold of yourself. - I'm leaving! I'm taking the kids, 2875 02:13:05,041 --> 02:13:06,332 - Come on, come on! - And I'm leaving! 2876 02:13:06,416 --> 02:13:08,499 I can't stand it anymore! 2877 02:13:08,582 --> 02:13:10,499 - The government wants you to be scared. - You and your government. 2878 02:13:10,582 --> 02:13:13,207 The government wants everybody to be scared to speak out. 2879 02:13:13,291 --> 02:13:14,748 - What's the matter with you? - They count on it. 2880 02:13:14,832 --> 02:13:18,029 - Don't you have any feelings? - There's nothing to be scared of. 2881 02:13:19,540 --> 02:13:20,999 Your own daughter! 2882 02:13:21,749 --> 02:13:23,500 What kind of man are you? 2883 02:13:27,374 --> 02:13:30,332 I'll take them up to my mother's if it makes you feel any better, all right? 2884 02:13:30,416 --> 02:13:31,165 You spend a week. 2885 02:13:31,249 --> 02:13:33,207 - What's a week gonna do? - I'll change the locks, the phone lines, 2886 02:13:33,291 --> 02:13:36,333 I'll even get a bodyguard. Just get a hold of yourself. 2887 02:13:36,500 --> 02:13:37,915 Honey, before this Kennedy thing, 2888 02:13:37,999 --> 02:13:40,581 nothing mattered in this world more than your children. 2889 02:13:40,665 --> 02:13:43,665 The other night Jasper tried to talk to you, you didn't even notice he was there. 2890 02:13:43,749 --> 02:13:45,748 He came to me bawling his little eyes out. 2891 02:13:45,832 --> 02:13:47,082 - I promise, all right? - He's sensitive, honey. 2892 02:13:47,166 --> 02:13:49,249 - I promise I'll make more time for Jasper. - He needs more from you. 2893 02:13:49,333 --> 02:13:51,040 Is it such a chore? 2894 02:13:51,124 --> 02:13:53,416 -Goddammit, if I said I'll spend more time -I don't understand you! 2895 02:13:53,500 --> 02:13:55,290 With him, I'll spend more time with him, all right? 2896 02:13:55,374 --> 02:13:57,998 I cannot fight you and the whole world too, Liz! 2897 02:13:58,082 --> 02:14:00,957 I'm not fighting you, I'm trying to reach you! 2898 02:14:01,124 --> 02:14:03,832 - You've changed. - Of course, I've changed! 2899 02:14:04,790 --> 02:14:06,124 My eyes have opened. 2900 02:14:06,832 --> 02:14:09,581 And once they're open, believe me, what used to look normal seems insane. 2901 02:14:09,665 --> 02:14:12,999 And now King. Don't you think this has something to do with that? 2902 02:14:13,540 --> 02:14:14,748 Can't you see? 2903 02:14:14,832 --> 02:14:16,290 I don't wanna see, goddammit! 2904 02:14:16,374 --> 02:14:18,749 I'm tired. I've had enough! 2905 02:14:19,333 --> 02:14:20,957 You're ruining this man Shaw's life, 2906 02:14:21,041 --> 02:14:23,332 you're attacking him because he's a homosexual! 2907 02:14:23,416 --> 02:14:25,249 That's not why I'm attacking him! 2908 02:14:25,333 --> 02:14:28,707 Did you ever for once stop to consider what he was feeling? 2909 02:14:30,916 --> 02:14:32,748 You don't believe me? Hmm? 2910 02:14:32,832 --> 02:14:36,279 - Oh, I don't know anymore! - All this time and you never believed me! 2911 02:14:36,665 --> 02:14:40,665 I just want to raise our children and live a normal life! 2912 02:14:40,749 --> 02:14:42,540 I want my life back! 2913 02:14:43,500 --> 02:14:45,124 Well so do I, goddammit! 2914 02:14:45,874 --> 02:14:47,665 I had a life, too, you know. 2915 02:14:48,124 --> 02:14:51,920 But you just can't bury your head in the sand like some goddamn ostrich, Liz! 2916 02:14:52,374 --> 02:14:55,207 It's not about our well-being, all right? It's not about our two cars, 2917 02:14:55,291 --> 02:14:57,124 and our TVs and your kitchen! 2918 02:14:58,749 --> 02:15:02,165 It's about our kids growing up in a shithole of lies, and I'm angry about it! 2919 02:15:02,249 --> 02:15:04,291 And my life is fucked because of it. 2920 02:15:04,458 --> 02:15:07,665 And if you can see it that way, Liz, you'll see that your life is fucked, too. 2921 02:15:07,749 --> 02:15:10,165 You never talked to me this way before, Jim Garrison. 2922 02:15:10,249 --> 02:15:12,082 If you don't want to support me, fine, I can understand that. 2923 02:15:12,166 --> 02:15:14,416 But don't start making threats about taking the children. 2924 02:15:14,500 --> 02:15:16,290 I'm not making any threats, I'm leaving you! 2925 02:15:16,374 --> 02:15:18,957 - I'm taking the kids and I'm leaving! - Go on, then, fine. Get out! 2926 02:15:19,041 --> 02:15:21,332 - I am! - Go hide somewhere, join the rest of them. 2927 02:15:21,416 --> 02:15:22,915 - I am! - They'll tell you I'm crazy. 2928 02:15:22,999 --> 02:15:25,540 You'll get plenty of people to tell you I'm crazy! 2929 02:15:27,416 --> 02:15:30,662 You won't have any problems filling out your divorce papers on me! 2930 02:15:31,790 --> 02:15:33,707 But somebody's got to try, goddammit. 2931 02:15:34,540 --> 02:15:35,790 Somebody. 2932 02:15:40,166 --> 02:15:42,249 Are we going away, Daddy? 2933 02:15:49,624 --> 02:15:50,832 I don't know, Jasper. 2934 02:15:52,166 --> 02:15:53,957 Because of Kennedy? 2935 02:15:54,249 --> 02:15:56,749 Are the same people gonna kill us, Papa? 2936 02:15:57,374 --> 02:15:58,208 No, Jasper. 2937 02:15:59,582 --> 02:16:01,749 Nobody's gonna kill us. 2938 02:16:02,374 --> 02:16:03,707 I'm scared. 2939 02:16:04,540 --> 02:16:07,874 I don't like it when you and Mommy fight. 2940 02:16:10,291 --> 02:16:12,189 I know, I don't like it either, honey. 2941 02:16:13,416 --> 02:16:15,749 Why do we have to leave? 2942 02:16:16,166 --> 02:16:18,416 Don't you love us anymore? 2943 02:16:19,249 --> 02:16:22,957 Daddy... Daddy loves both of you, okay? 2944 02:16:24,707 --> 02:16:27,804 And there's nothing wrong with feeling a little scared, Jasper. 2945 02:16:28,291 --> 02:16:31,374 Telling the truth can be a scary thing sometimes. 2946 02:16:32,208 --> 02:16:35,208 It scared President Kennedy, and he was a brave man. 2947 02:16:36,458 --> 02:16:38,916 But if you let yourself be too scared... 2948 02:16:39,291 --> 02:16:42,165 then you let the bad guys take over the country, don't you? 2949 02:16:42,249 --> 02:16:43,998 Yeah. 2950 02:16:44,082 --> 02:16:45,916 Then everybody gets scared. 2951 02:16:46,624 --> 02:16:48,706 Stay with Mom, Papa. 2952 02:16:48,790 --> 02:16:50,124 Please? 2953 02:16:57,249 --> 02:16:59,040 Damn. Here's another one. 2954 02:16:59,124 --> 02:17:02,332 The US Attorney in Washington declines to serve our subpoena 2955 02:17:02,416 --> 02:17:05,416 on Allen Dulles, Charles Cabell, CIA Director Richard Helms... 2956 02:17:05,500 --> 02:17:06,874 Any FBI agent we named. 2957 02:17:07,082 --> 02:17:09,430 Well, what do you expect from a pig but a grunt. 2958 02:17:09,916 --> 02:17:12,457 Without them, it's going to be near impossible, chief, 2959 02:17:12,540 --> 02:17:14,332 to prove Shaw's connection to the CIA. 2960 02:17:14,416 --> 02:17:15,957 What the hell is going on? 2961 02:17:16,041 --> 02:17:19,374 Never before has an extradition request from this office been refused. 2962 02:17:19,458 --> 02:17:21,665 We haven't tried to get Julia Ann Mercer in here. 2963 02:17:21,749 --> 02:17:23,165 No, she could get hurt. 2964 02:17:23,249 --> 02:17:24,124 What? 2965 02:17:24,208 --> 02:17:26,249 If you believe what's happened to these other people, no. 2966 02:17:26,333 --> 02:17:28,249 Yeah, but she's the best damn witness we have! 2967 02:17:28,333 --> 02:17:31,624 I just don't want to do it, that's all. Now, what else? 2968 02:17:32,665 --> 02:17:34,364 Well, you got your hate mail here. 2969 02:17:34,582 --> 02:17:36,707 And your fan mail here. 2970 02:17:37,333 --> 02:17:41,665 The bad news is that the IRS requested an audit of your income from this office. 2971 02:17:42,957 --> 02:17:44,905 Well, I expected that two months ago... 2972 02:17:45,291 --> 02:17:46,839 and they're wasting their time. 2973 02:17:49,540 --> 02:17:53,208 The bad news is the National Guard just asked me to resign after 18 years. 2974 02:17:55,041 --> 02:17:56,706 Well, maybe that's the good news. 2975 02:17:56,790 --> 02:17:58,707 Never was as good as combat, anyway. 2976 02:17:59,832 --> 02:18:00,999 But this is. 2977 02:18:02,500 --> 02:18:04,198 Bill, any more on Oswald and Shaw? 2978 02:18:04,374 --> 02:18:05,998 Uh, yeah, yeah. 2979 02:18:06,082 --> 02:18:08,957 They were seen together in Clinton in early September. 2980 02:18:09,500 --> 02:18:13,249 The Civil Rights Movement was running a voters ' registration drive. 2981 02:18:13,749 --> 02:18:17,290 Rumor is Shaw, a local boy, was working on some arms deal 2982 02:18:17,374 --> 02:18:19,500 to discredit the civil rights movement. 2983 02:18:20,082 --> 02:18:22,915 Nobody really knows what they were doing there, but 2984 02:18:22,999 --> 02:18:25,166 hell, they stood out like cotton balls. 2985 02:18:25,416 --> 02:18:27,749 I got whites and coloreds saw 'em, but... 2986 02:18:28,166 --> 02:18:31,790 last time I checked, there was nothing illegal with registering to vote. 2987 02:18:32,500 --> 02:18:36,416 We still got the negro junkie, Vernon Bundy, 2988 02:18:36,500 --> 02:18:39,397 who saw 'em talkin' at the seawall near Lake Pontchartrain. 2989 02:18:39,582 --> 02:18:42,748 But, hell, it's tough, boss, nobody wants to talk about Shaw. He's... 2990 02:18:42,832 --> 02:18:44,457 You keep saying... see, you keep saying that! 2991 02:18:44,540 --> 02:18:46,040 - You're not digging! - I keep saying what? 2992 02:18:46,124 --> 02:18:47,332 - You're not digging deep enough. - I'm not digging? 2993 02:18:47,416 --> 02:18:50,332 You do my job, I'll do your job! 2994 02:18:50,416 --> 02:18:53,540 I think Clinton is a breakthrough, now, all right? 2995 02:18:54,249 --> 02:18:56,873 Now, Shaw denies ever knowing Ferrie or Oswald, right? 2996 02:18:56,957 --> 02:18:57,790 Right. 2997 02:18:57,874 --> 02:18:59,622 All right, that proves he's a liar. 2998 02:19:01,624 --> 02:19:02,748 Keep on it, Bill. 2999 02:19:02,832 --> 02:19:04,165 This is interesting. 3000 02:19:04,249 --> 02:19:07,957 Oswald went to see the FBI two weeks before the assassination. 3001 02:19:08,041 --> 02:19:10,207 Can I see Special Agent Hosty, please? 3002 02:19:10,291 --> 02:19:12,124 I'm sorry, he's not in. Can someone else help you? 3003 02:19:12,208 --> 02:19:16,581 It seems Special Agent Hosty made three visits to Janet Williams ' house, 3004 02:19:16,665 --> 02:19:18,290 supposedly to keep an eye on Marina. 3005 02:19:18,374 --> 02:19:19,290 He left a note. 3006 02:19:19,374 --> 02:19:22,706 Hosty told a Dallas newspaperman that it was a warning to him 3007 02:19:22,790 --> 02:19:26,290 to stop questioning Marina at home when Oswald was not present. 3008 02:19:26,374 --> 02:19:31,124 She was not a citizen, so possibly he was threatening to deport her back to Russia. 3009 02:19:31,540 --> 02:19:33,790 But what the note really said no one knows. 3010 02:19:34,333 --> 02:19:35,998 - Hosty tore it up, -Get rid of it! 3011 02:19:36,082 --> 02:19:37,748 - And flushed it down the toilet. - Get rid of it, Hosty. 3012 02:19:37,832 --> 02:19:39,249 This is just speculation, people, but 3013 02:19:39,333 --> 02:19:43,291 what if the note was describing the assassination attempt on JFK? 3014 02:19:49,208 --> 02:19:50,707 Come on, people, think! 3015 02:19:51,124 --> 02:19:53,249 That's the only reason to destroy it. 3016 02:19:53,916 --> 02:19:57,812 Because if it was any kind of threat, like Hosty said, they would've kept it... 3017 02:19:58,291 --> 02:20:02,037 'cause it makes their case against the "angry, lone nut" that much stronger. 3018 02:20:02,874 --> 02:20:04,748 Remember the New Orleans meeting with Agent Quigley 3019 02:20:04,832 --> 02:20:06,041 the day he got arrested? 3020 02:20:06,458 --> 02:20:09,290 There, again, Quigley destroyed the notes from the interview. 3021 02:20:09,374 --> 02:20:13,170 I think we can raise the possibility that Oswald not only was an informant... 3022 02:20:14,166 --> 02:20:17,665 but that he may well have been the original source we have for the telex 3023 02:20:17,749 --> 02:20:19,291 dated November 17th... 3024 02:20:19,582 --> 02:20:23,749 warning of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22nd. 3025 02:20:25,957 --> 02:20:29,290 William Walter, the night clerk on duty in the FBI office here, 3026 02:20:29,374 --> 02:20:30,623 he gave me a copy of this, 3027 02:20:30,707 --> 02:20:33,249 said it went all over the country, nothing was done, 3028 02:20:33,333 --> 02:20:35,040 and the motorcade went ahead on schedule. 3029 02:20:35,124 --> 02:20:36,873 And this wasn't even mentioned in the Warren Report. 3030 02:20:36,957 --> 02:20:39,165 Determined that a militant revolutionary group 3031 02:20:39,249 --> 02:20:41,499 may attempt to assassinate President Kennedy 3032 02:20:41,582 --> 02:20:43,748 on his proposed trip to Dallas, Texas. 3033 02:20:43,832 --> 02:20:46,458 Shortly after the assassination, Walter says... 3034 02:20:46,957 --> 02:20:49,873 that the telex was removed from all the files in all the cities, 3035 02:20:49,957 --> 02:20:52,249 as an obvious embarrassment to the Bureau. 3036 02:20:53,916 --> 02:20:56,613 I believe Oswald was sending information through Hosty. 3037 02:20:56,874 --> 02:20:58,623 I have a hunch that, from the get go, 3038 02:20:58,707 --> 02:21:03,249 Oswald had infiltrated this group, probably Cubans, right-wing extremists. 3039 02:21:03,333 --> 02:21:05,748 He was told to be at the book depository 3040 02:21:05,832 --> 02:21:09,040 that day by his handlers, to either prevent the assassination 3041 02:21:09,124 --> 02:21:10,374 or to take part in it. 3042 02:21:10,916 --> 02:21:12,124 I mean, they coulda told him anything, 3043 02:21:12,208 --> 02:21:14,082 either they were gonna close down the plotters 3044 02:21:14,166 --> 02:21:15,416 that day, 3045 02:21:15,500 --> 02:21:19,374 or they were gonna simulate an attack on Kennedy to whip up public opinion 3046 02:21:19,458 --> 02:21:22,604 so that Kennedy would have to reverse his policies on communism. 3047 02:21:23,624 --> 02:21:25,790 It doesn't really matter what they told him. 3048 02:21:25,874 --> 02:21:27,706 He was under orders. 3049 02:21:27,790 --> 02:21:29,208 He was a foot soldier. 3050 02:21:29,500 --> 02:21:30,749 And, uh... 3051 02:21:32,333 --> 02:21:33,582 You can't miss. 3052 02:21:33,749 --> 02:21:35,416 He is a dead duck. 3053 02:21:36,249 --> 02:21:37,416 I don't buy it, chief. 3054 02:21:37,874 --> 02:21:40,041 Why would the FBI cover it up? 3055 02:21:40,333 --> 02:21:44,166 A telex that disappears from every single FBI office in this country? 3056 02:21:44,540 --> 02:21:45,790 There's a word, Bill. 3057 02:21:46,208 --> 02:21:46,957 Orders. 3058 02:21:47,041 --> 02:21:48,165 Or a cover up! 3059 02:21:48,249 --> 02:21:52,374 Jesus, Bill, don't you have enough proof of the FBI's complicity yet? 3060 02:21:52,458 --> 02:21:54,873 Maybe I have a little more respect for this country's institutions... 3061 02:21:54,957 --> 02:21:56,082 - My God! - Than you do, Susie! 3062 02:21:56,166 --> 02:21:57,457 How much more do you need? 3063 02:21:57,540 --> 02:22:00,332 You tell me how the hell you gonna keep a conspiracy going on between 3064 02:22:00,416 --> 02:22:03,665 the mob, the CIA, the FBI, and Army Intelligence, 3065 02:22:03,749 --> 02:22:05,457 and who the hell knows what else, 3066 02:22:05,540 --> 02:22:07,790 when you know for a fact you can't keep a secret in this room 3067 02:22:07,874 --> 02:22:09,082 between 12 people. 3068 02:22:09,624 --> 02:22:11,291 We got leaks everywhere! 3069 02:22:11,458 --> 02:22:14,499 I mean, we are going to trial here, y'all! 3070 02:22:14,582 --> 02:22:16,790 What the hell do we really got? 3071 02:22:16,874 --> 02:22:20,249 Oswald, Ruby, Banister, Ferrie are dead! 3072 02:22:20,582 --> 02:22:23,374 Shaw, I mean maybe he's an agent, I don't know, 3073 02:22:23,458 --> 02:22:26,957 but as a covert operator in my book he is wide open for blackmail 3074 02:22:27,041 --> 02:22:28,540 'cause of his homosexuality. 3075 02:22:28,624 --> 02:22:31,832 Shaw's our toehold, Bill. Now, I don't know exactly what he is or where he fits, 3076 02:22:31,916 --> 02:22:33,124 and I don't really care. 3077 02:22:33,333 --> 02:22:36,207 I do know he's lying through his teeth and I'm not gonna let go of him. 3078 02:22:36,291 --> 02:22:39,290 Yeah, and for those reasons, you're going to trial against Clay Shaw, chief? 3079 02:22:39,374 --> 02:22:40,957 Well, you're gonna lose! 3080 02:22:41,166 --> 02:22:44,207 We should be investigating our mafia leads here in New Orleans. 3081 02:22:44,291 --> 02:22:47,687 Now, I can buy that a hell of a lot easier than I can the government. 3082 02:22:48,582 --> 02:22:52,333 Ruby is all mob, knows Oswald, sets him up. 3083 02:22:52,790 --> 02:22:56,832 Hoffa, Trafficante, Marcello, they hire some guns to do Kennedy... 3084 02:22:57,124 --> 02:23:01,082 and the government doesn't want to open up a whole can of worms there because 3085 02:23:01,166 --> 02:23:03,707 it used the mob to try to get to Castro. 3086 02:23:04,374 --> 02:23:07,873 You know, Castro being assassinated by the mob, by us, 3087 02:23:07,957 --> 02:23:09,957 it sounds pretty wild to John Q. Citizen. 3088 02:23:10,124 --> 02:23:13,124 So they close the book on JFK. 3089 02:23:14,208 --> 02:23:15,665 Makes perfect sense to me. 3090 02:23:15,749 --> 02:23:18,596 I don't doubt their involvement, Bill, but at a low level. 3091 02:23:18,832 --> 02:23:20,082 - Oh, come on! - Could the mob 3092 02:23:20,166 --> 02:23:21,749 change the parade route, Bill? 3093 02:23:22,291 --> 02:23:24,832 Or eliminate the protection for the president? 3094 02:23:25,374 --> 02:23:28,333 Could the mob send Oswald to Russia and get him back? 3095 02:23:28,916 --> 02:23:31,623 Could the mob get the FBI, the CIA, and the Dallas police 3096 02:23:31,707 --> 02:23:33,165 to make a mess of the investigation? 3097 02:23:33,249 --> 02:23:36,845 I mean, could the mob get the Warren Commission appointed to cover it up? 3098 02:23:37,500 --> 02:23:38,957 Could the mob wreck the autopsy? 3099 02:23:39,041 --> 02:23:41,998 I mean, could the mob influence the national media to go to sleep? 3100 02:23:42,082 --> 02:23:45,790 And since when has the mob used anything but .38s for hits up close? 3101 02:23:47,374 --> 02:23:51,120 The mob wouldn't have the guts or the power for something of this magnitude. 3102 02:23:51,832 --> 02:23:53,665 Assassins need payrolls... 3103 02:23:54,374 --> 02:23:56,291 schedules, times, orders. 3104 02:23:57,416 --> 02:24:00,040 This was a military-style ambush from start to finish. 3105 02:24:00,124 --> 02:24:03,499 This was a coup d'état with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings. 3106 02:24:03,582 --> 02:24:06,416 Oh, okay, so now you're saying Lyndon Johnson was involved? 3107 02:24:06,500 --> 02:24:08,332 - Huh? The President of the United States? - I know this, Bill. 3108 02:24:08,416 --> 02:24:11,790 Lyndon Johnson got one billion dollars for his Texas friends, Brown and Root, 3109 02:24:11,874 --> 02:24:14,499 to dredge Cam Ranh Bay for the military in Vietnam. 3110 02:24:14,582 --> 02:24:15,540 - That's just for openers. - Boss! 3111 02:24:15,624 --> 02:24:17,748 Are you calling the president a murderer? 3112 02:24:17,832 --> 02:24:21,029 If I'm so far from the truth, why is the FBI bugging our offices? 3113 02:24:21,124 --> 02:24:24,041 Huh? Why are our witnesses being bought off and murdered? 3114 02:24:24,540 --> 02:24:28,207 Why are federal agencies blocking our extraditions and subpoenas, 3115 02:24:28,291 --> 02:24:29,873 - when we were never blocked before? - I don't know! 3116 02:24:29,957 --> 02:24:33,207 I don't... maybe there's some rogue element in the government or something. 3117 02:24:33,291 --> 02:24:34,790 - Oh, come on! - With a full-blown conspiracy 3118 02:24:34,874 --> 02:24:35,749 to cover it up? 3119 02:24:36,874 --> 02:24:38,916 You ever read your Shakespeare, Bill? 3120 02:24:40,291 --> 02:24:42,249 Yeah, I do. 3121 02:24:43,416 --> 02:24:44,624 Julius Caesar. 3122 02:24:45,665 --> 02:24:48,707 "Brutus and Cassius, they, too, are honorable men." 3123 02:24:49,749 --> 02:24:51,082 Who killed Caesar? 3124 02:24:52,166 --> 02:24:53,957 Ten, 12 senators. 3125 02:24:54,374 --> 02:24:56,999 All's it takes is one Judas, Bill. 3126 02:24:57,124 --> 02:24:59,040 A few people on the inside. 3127 02:24:59,124 --> 02:25:00,457 Pentagon, CIA... 3128 02:25:00,540 --> 02:25:02,333 This is Louisiana, chief. 3129 02:25:02,749 --> 02:25:05,458 I mean, how the hell do you know who your daddy is? 3130 02:25:05,707 --> 02:25:08,207 'Cause your mama told you so. 3131 02:25:08,291 --> 02:25:10,957 You are way out there taking a crap in the wind, boss, 3132 02:25:11,041 --> 02:25:14,582 and I, for one, am not going along on this one! 3133 02:25:23,874 --> 02:25:26,291 Chief, I've had my doubts all along about Bill. 3134 02:25:27,333 --> 02:25:28,957 Been fighting us all along. 3135 02:25:30,582 --> 02:25:32,165 Well, we need him back. 3136 02:25:32,249 --> 02:25:35,416 Boss, Broussard wasted a whole damn month trying to prove that mob boys, 3137 02:25:35,500 --> 02:25:38,540 like Jack Ruby and Brading, are hooked up with Hunt Oil. 3138 02:25:38,624 --> 02:25:39,581 I don't trust the guy. 3139 02:25:39,665 --> 02:25:43,582 I will not hear this, gentlemen. Now, I value Bill as much as any person here. 3140 02:25:45,166 --> 02:25:49,458 I think it's time we all made room for someone else's ideas, including me. 3141 02:25:50,458 --> 02:25:53,205 Maybe Oswald is what everyone says he is and I'm just... 3142 02:25:53,874 --> 02:25:55,458 I'm just plain dumb about it. 3143 02:25:56,082 --> 02:25:58,832 I've seen him copying files, leaving here late at night. 3144 02:25:58,916 --> 02:25:59,998 I just plain don't trust... 3145 02:26:00,082 --> 02:26:01,332 Maybe you two didn't hear what I said. 3146 02:26:01,416 --> 02:26:04,249 Now, I said I will not tolerate infighting among the staff! 3147 02:26:04,333 --> 02:26:07,416 I'm afraid I cannot work with Bill Broussard anymore. 3148 02:26:08,790 --> 02:26:10,588 Are you giving me an ultimatum, Lou? 3149 02:26:10,832 --> 02:26:11,790 What? 3150 02:26:12,166 --> 02:26:13,873 Are you giving me an ultimatum? 3151 02:26:13,957 --> 02:26:16,005 Well, if that's what you want to call it. 3152 02:26:18,416 --> 02:26:20,763 You know, I never thought it would come to this. 3153 02:26:24,208 --> 02:26:25,249 I guess I am. 3154 02:26:26,790 --> 02:26:29,687 Well, I will not have any damned ultimatums put to me, Lou. 3155 02:26:29,999 --> 02:26:31,624 I'll accept your resignation. 3156 02:26:35,416 --> 02:26:36,707 Well, you sure got it. 3157 02:26:42,333 --> 02:26:45,041 You are one stubborn son of a bitch. 3158 02:26:47,416 --> 02:26:49,314 And you're making a hell of a mistake. 3159 02:26:56,665 --> 02:26:59,208 Boss, aren't you being a little hard? 3160 02:27:00,624 --> 02:27:02,500 No, I don't think I am, Susie. 3161 02:27:03,916 --> 02:27:05,208 Anyone else? 3162 02:27:10,458 --> 02:27:13,500 And now, Jerry, here's Jim Garrison, 3163 02:27:13,665 --> 02:27:16,500 the District Attorney of New Orleans, Louisiana. 3164 02:27:31,333 --> 02:27:33,416 Welcome, District Attorney Garrison. 3165 02:27:33,707 --> 02:27:37,165 So, you're investigating the murder of President Kennedy. 3166 02:27:37,249 --> 02:27:40,499 You know, I must say, we have heard some strange things 3167 02:27:40,582 --> 02:27:42,540 coming out of your office in New Orleans. 3168 02:27:42,624 --> 02:27:46,290 First we heard that the Cuban exiles killed the president. 3169 02:27:46,374 --> 02:27:47,665 Then, the mob. 3170 02:27:47,999 --> 02:27:51,581 Now your latest theory seems to be that the CIA, 3171 02:27:51,665 --> 02:27:54,249 and the FBI, and the Pentagon, 3172 02:27:54,333 --> 02:27:55,623 and the White House, 3173 02:27:55,707 --> 02:27:59,749 all combined in some elaborate conspiracy to kill John Kennedy. 3174 02:27:59,874 --> 02:28:01,124 Let me ask you, 3175 02:28:01,208 --> 02:28:03,623 is there anyone besides Lee Harvey Oswald 3176 02:28:03,707 --> 02:28:06,291 who you think didn't conspire to kill the president? 3177 02:28:09,500 --> 02:28:11,333 Let's just say this, Jerry. 3178 02:28:12,249 --> 02:28:13,832 I've stopped beating my wife. 3179 02:28:16,041 --> 02:28:19,238 Maybe you should ask Lyndon Johnson. We know he has some answers. 3180 02:28:22,624 --> 02:28:26,333 Now, there have been a number of reports in reputable news media... 3181 02:28:26,707 --> 02:28:29,041 Time, Newsweek, our own NBC... 3182 02:28:29,416 --> 02:28:34,249 that you've gone way beyond the legal means available to a prosecutor, 3183 02:28:34,333 --> 02:28:37,374 that you've intimidated... even drugged... witnesses, 3184 02:28:37,458 --> 02:28:38,499 bribed them, 3185 02:28:38,582 --> 02:28:40,624 urged them to commit perjury. 3186 02:28:41,291 --> 02:28:42,540 Do you have a response to this? 3187 02:28:42,624 --> 02:28:45,821 Your faith in the veracity of the major media is touching, Jerry. 3188 02:28:46,124 --> 02:28:49,082 It indicates that the Age of Innocence is not yet over. 3189 02:28:49,166 --> 02:28:50,623 But ask yourself... 3190 02:28:50,707 --> 02:28:55,665 If we'd learned on November 22nd, 1963 that the Premier of Russia had been shot 3191 02:28:55,749 --> 02:28:58,998 from a Moscow office building by a lonely, capitalist sympathizer, 3192 02:28:59,082 --> 02:29:03,332 who, himself, was then liquidated by a patriotic Muscovite within 48 hours 3193 02:29:03,416 --> 02:29:05,165 while surrounded by armed police, 3194 02:29:05,249 --> 02:29:07,998 I think it would be pretty apparent to any free-thinking person 3195 02:29:08,082 --> 02:29:12,249 that a coup d'état and a transfer of power had just taken place in the Soviet Union. 3196 02:29:12,333 --> 02:29:14,540 And we would not be asking questions 3197 02:29:14,624 --> 02:29:16,790 or attacking Jim Garrison or his record. 3198 02:29:16,874 --> 02:29:19,040 We would, in a free-thinking society, 3199 02:29:19,124 --> 02:29:21,665 be asking hard questions about why he was killed 3200 02:29:21,749 --> 02:29:23,499 and what forces were opposed to him. 3201 02:29:23,582 --> 02:29:27,249 Jim, you know, there are some people who might say you're paranoid. 3202 02:29:27,500 --> 02:29:29,040 Maybe I'd better show you some pictures, 3203 02:29:29,124 --> 02:29:32,540 so you can begin to understand what it is I'm talking about. 3204 02:29:34,249 --> 02:29:35,416 These are arrests. 3205 02:29:35,500 --> 02:29:37,999 Now, these arrests were photographed... 3206 02:29:38,582 --> 02:29:40,040 minutes after the assassination. 3207 02:29:40,124 --> 02:29:42,124 Now, they were never shown to the American public. 3208 02:29:42,208 --> 02:29:44,332 Jim, I'm sorry, these pictures can't show up on TV. 3209 02:29:44,416 --> 02:29:46,290 - Well, sure they can. - No, I'm sorry, they can't. 3210 02:29:46,374 --> 02:29:47,291 No, the... 3211 02:29:47,624 --> 02:29:50,022 - The camera can pick these up. - Jim, I'm sorry. 3212 02:29:50,582 --> 02:29:53,915 They can't. We have libel laws, you know. 3213 02:29:53,999 --> 02:29:57,581 Those men you just saw were arrested in Dallas minutes after the assassination. 3214 02:29:57,665 --> 02:29:59,291 They were never seen again. 3215 02:29:59,416 --> 02:30:00,832 No record of arrest... 3216 02:30:01,124 --> 02:30:03,748 - no mugshot, no fingerprint. - Jim, hold that thought. 3217 02:30:03,832 --> 02:30:05,165 -We're gonna be back, - They got away... 3218 02:30:05,249 --> 02:30:06,082 Right after these commercials. 3219 02:30:06,166 --> 02:30:07,291 Who were they? 3220 02:30:15,582 --> 02:30:16,415 Chief! 3221 02:30:18,041 --> 02:30:20,082 Bill, what the hell are you doing here? 3222 02:30:20,374 --> 02:30:21,832 I'm sorry about the other day, chief. 3223 02:30:21,916 --> 02:30:24,014 I didn't mean to walk out on you like that. 3224 02:30:25,416 --> 02:30:27,999 Bill, you came all the way to tell me the obvious? 3225 02:30:28,582 --> 02:30:29,916 No, boss, look. 3226 02:30:30,124 --> 02:30:32,581 I just got word there's gonna be an attempt to kill you 3227 02:30:32,665 --> 02:30:34,613 somewhere between here and New Orleans. 3228 02:30:34,832 --> 02:30:38,291 A mob guy was brought down by Shaw from Canada. 3229 02:30:38,458 --> 02:30:39,957 This is serious, chief. 3230 02:30:40,041 --> 02:30:42,165 You're gonna need a bodyguard tonight in Phoenix. 3231 02:30:42,249 --> 02:30:43,332 Bill, when you were in the Army, 3232 02:30:43,416 --> 02:30:45,748 did you have a chance to find out what an order meant? 3233 02:30:45,832 --> 02:30:46,581 - Hmm? - Yes. 3234 02:30:46,665 --> 02:30:49,207 You happen to remember my ordering everyone on the staff not to participate 3235 02:30:49,291 --> 02:30:52,249 in passing on these endless rumors about how somebody is gonna be killed? 3236 02:30:52,333 --> 02:30:53,665 Yes, I do, boss, but this... 3237 02:30:53,749 --> 02:30:54,832 No, there is no "but." 3238 02:30:54,916 --> 02:30:57,540 There is no "but" in a military situation, Broussard! 3239 02:30:58,041 --> 02:31:00,988 I don't appreciate your dumping this paranoid garbage on me. 3240 02:31:01,249 --> 02:31:03,623 And I don't appreciate your inability to follow a simple order, 3241 02:31:03,707 --> 02:31:06,748 especially when it means I'm personally gonna end up paying for your flight 3242 02:31:06,832 --> 02:31:07,831 back to New Orleans. 3243 02:31:09,082 --> 02:31:10,582 Let's get you a ticket. 3244 02:31:12,208 --> 02:31:13,249 Boss, I'm sorry. 3245 02:31:13,333 --> 02:31:15,481 - I'm just looking out for you. - Thank you. 3246 02:31:15,790 --> 02:31:16,957 Get a receipt. 3247 02:32:04,500 --> 02:32:06,165 Come on, come on. He's out of here. 3248 02:32:06,249 --> 02:32:07,790 Jim, where are you going? 3249 02:32:08,208 --> 02:32:09,707 It's me, Samuel. 3250 02:32:17,166 --> 02:32:17,957 Hey! 3251 02:32:18,041 --> 02:32:21,488 - How long were you in that restroom? - None of your goddamn business. 3252 02:33:11,291 --> 02:33:12,915 Jim, bad news, 3253 02:33:12,999 --> 02:33:14,082 Bill's turned. 3254 02:33:14,166 --> 02:33:16,665 I think he's given everything we've got to the feds. 3255 02:33:16,749 --> 02:33:19,207 We studied the memos and there was nothing there, chief. 3256 02:33:19,291 --> 02:33:20,207 Nothing. 3257 02:33:20,291 --> 02:33:23,832 We went to confront him and the landlady said the son of a bitch just took off. 3258 02:33:23,916 --> 02:33:25,790 Left everything. 3259 02:33:25,874 --> 02:33:27,623 It's unbelievable. I'm sorry. 3260 02:33:27,707 --> 02:33:30,124 Mattie, could you get Mr. Garrison a drink, please? 3261 02:33:30,208 --> 02:33:32,040 Something sure scared him. 3262 02:33:32,124 --> 02:33:35,581 Well, Bill doesn't scare that easy. Somebody got to his thinking. 3263 02:33:35,665 --> 02:33:37,374 He was never that good a thinker. 3264 02:33:37,458 --> 02:33:38,957 He sure fooled us. 3265 02:33:39,874 --> 02:33:41,749 No, no, Numa, don't turn it down. 3266 02:33:41,957 --> 02:33:44,040 Turn it up, I want to see this. 3267 02:33:44,124 --> 02:33:46,290 Well, you know what's happening, he's winning. 3268 02:33:46,374 --> 02:33:48,916 Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota. 3269 02:33:49,291 --> 02:33:50,582 He'll never make it. 3270 02:33:51,957 --> 02:33:53,790 If he wins, they'll kill him. 3271 02:33:54,208 --> 02:33:55,665 He'll stop the war. 3272 02:33:57,333 --> 02:33:59,780 They'll kill him before they let him be president. 3273 02:34:03,082 --> 02:34:04,499 Thank you, Mattie. 3274 02:34:04,582 --> 02:34:08,082 Boss, with Broussard, they have everything. 3275 02:34:08,291 --> 02:34:10,706 All our witnesses, our strategies for the trial. 3276 02:34:10,790 --> 02:34:12,581 We got to double check his work. 3277 02:34:12,665 --> 02:34:15,458 There could be false leads. We can't go to trial. 3278 02:34:15,832 --> 02:34:17,082 We don't have a prayer! 3279 02:34:17,166 --> 02:34:18,207 I don't think so, Al. 3280 02:34:18,291 --> 02:34:20,291 I have to agree with Al, boss. 3281 02:34:20,916 --> 02:34:23,291 This is not one we're gonna come out on. 3282 02:34:23,500 --> 02:34:26,347 You remember the Hemingway story, The Old Man and the Sea? 3283 02:34:27,665 --> 02:34:30,707 The old fisherman manages to catch this great fish... 3284 02:34:31,208 --> 02:34:33,790 a fish so huge that he has to tie it to the side of the boat 3285 02:34:33,874 --> 02:34:35,333 in order to get it back in. 3286 02:34:35,582 --> 02:34:37,431 But by the time it reached the shore, 3287 02:34:37,582 --> 02:34:40,458 the fish had long since been picked apart by sharks. 3288 02:34:44,333 --> 02:34:46,165 Nothing was left but the skeleton. 3289 02:34:46,249 --> 02:34:47,998 And that's what's gonna happen to us. 3290 02:34:48,082 --> 02:34:50,249 Then what'd we go to all this trouble for, boss? 3291 02:34:50,333 --> 02:34:51,665 It's a means to an end. 3292 02:34:52,416 --> 02:34:54,291 Now, this war has two fronts. 3293 02:34:55,707 --> 02:34:57,665 In a court of law, we hope, against the odds, 3294 02:34:57,749 --> 02:35:00,082 to nail Clay Shaw on a conspiracy charge. 3295 02:35:00,166 --> 02:35:04,207 In the court of public opinion, it could take another 25, 30 years 3296 02:35:04,291 --> 02:35:06,041 for the truth to come out. 3297 02:35:08,333 --> 02:35:10,630 But at least we're gonna strike the first blow. 3298 02:35:12,665 --> 02:35:14,291 What if you're wrong? 3299 02:35:18,500 --> 02:35:20,707 I never thought for a second I was, honey. 3300 02:35:20,874 --> 02:35:22,582 Liz. 3301 02:35:24,707 --> 02:35:26,374 Will you come to the trial? 3302 02:35:28,166 --> 02:35:29,665 I don't think so. 3303 02:35:38,333 --> 02:35:40,040 CBS News has projected 3304 02:35:40,124 --> 02:35:43,499 Senator Robert Kennedy the winner of the crucial California primary. 3305 02:35:43,582 --> 02:35:45,748 And that is what has been going on within the United States 3306 02:35:45,832 --> 02:35:47,780 over the period of the last three years 3307 02:35:47,999 --> 02:35:49,790 the division, the violence... 3308 02:35:50,416 --> 02:35:52,832 the disenchantment with our society, 3309 02:35:52,916 --> 02:35:54,957 the divisions, whether it's between blacks and whites, 3310 02:35:55,041 --> 02:35:56,989 between the poor and the more affluent, 3311 02:35:57,082 --> 02:35:59,665 or between age groups or on the war in Vietnam, 3312 02:35:59,749 --> 02:36:02,332 that we can start to work together. We are a great country, 3313 02:36:02,416 --> 02:36:05,165 an unselfish country, and a compassionate country. 3314 02:36:05,249 --> 02:36:08,208 And I intend to make that my basis for running... 3315 02:36:28,249 --> 02:36:29,957 Senator Kennedy has been shot! 3316 02:36:30,249 --> 02:36:34,095 We don't know how serious it is, but we do know Senator Kennedy has been shot! 3317 02:36:36,416 --> 02:36:38,832 Get the gun! Get the gun! 3318 02:36:40,333 --> 02:36:41,874 Stay away from the gun! 3319 02:37:13,582 --> 02:37:15,165 They killed him, honey. 3320 02:37:15,249 --> 02:37:16,707 Hmm? 3321 02:37:17,665 --> 02:37:21,166 He won, and they killed Robert Kennedy. 3322 02:37:22,249 --> 02:37:24,540 - No. - They shot him down. 3323 02:37:25,540 --> 02:37:28,540 Oh, my God. 3324 02:37:31,500 --> 02:37:33,500 Both of them? 3325 02:37:33,749 --> 02:37:35,999 Both brothers? 3326 02:37:40,540 --> 02:37:42,208 You were right. 3327 02:37:44,082 --> 02:37:45,540 It hasn't ended. 3328 02:37:53,540 --> 02:37:55,124 For the first time... 3329 02:37:57,166 --> 02:37:59,082 I feel really scared. 3330 02:38:11,707 --> 02:38:14,665 I wish I could've loved you more. 3331 02:38:16,874 --> 02:38:21,707 Sometimes I feel like I didn't ever love you... 3332 02:38:22,500 --> 02:38:24,665 or the children enough. 3333 02:38:26,749 --> 02:38:29,249 I'm sorry. 3334 02:39:11,500 --> 02:39:12,999 Please rise. 3335 02:39:13,124 --> 02:39:15,040 Oyez, oyez, oyez! 3336 02:39:15,124 --> 02:39:18,499 The Criminal District Court for Orleans Parish, Section H, 3337 02:39:18,582 --> 02:39:19,916 is now in session. 3338 02:39:20,458 --> 02:39:23,374 Honorable Judge Edward A. Haggerty, Junior presiding. 3339 02:39:23,707 --> 02:39:24,874 Please be seated. 3340 02:39:29,916 --> 02:39:31,332 That's Clay Bertrand. 3341 02:39:31,416 --> 02:39:33,416 That's the man I saw at David Ferrie's. 3342 02:39:33,500 --> 02:39:35,500 That's who you say you saw... 3343 02:39:36,500 --> 02:39:38,500 a confessed homosexual... 3344 02:39:39,208 --> 02:39:42,082 convicted of pandering and solicitation... 3345 02:39:42,540 --> 02:39:45,041 a man who has lied about everything... 3346 02:39:45,416 --> 02:39:47,665 and now wants to be taken at his word. 3347 02:39:47,749 --> 02:39:50,832 It was that man right there. Yes, sir. 3348 02:39:50,999 --> 02:39:53,500 He was at the Pontchartrain wall... 3349 02:39:53,874 --> 02:39:56,124 with the man who shot the president. 3350 02:39:57,208 --> 02:40:00,082 I remember him 'cause of his limp. 3351 02:40:00,166 --> 02:40:02,998 A heroin addict, injecting himself at the wall, 3352 02:40:03,082 --> 02:40:05,500 barely conscious of his surroundings. 3353 02:40:05,665 --> 02:40:06,832 Is that the man? 3354 02:40:06,999 --> 02:40:08,540 That was the man, right there. 3355 02:40:08,874 --> 02:40:11,124 He dropped Oswald off on the voters' line. 3356 02:40:11,500 --> 02:40:14,581 I remember 'cause they were the only white strangers around that morning. 3357 02:40:14,665 --> 02:40:18,500 That big, black Cadillac of his made me think they might be FBI. 3358 02:40:21,999 --> 02:40:26,166 Said he was a representative of one International Trade Mart in New Orleans. 3359 02:40:26,458 --> 02:40:29,249 More than five years ago, for two minutes. 3360 02:40:29,665 --> 02:40:32,082 It's fair to say you could be mistaken. 3361 02:40:32,166 --> 02:40:34,290 It was just a figment of my imagination. 3362 02:40:34,374 --> 02:40:37,374 The cat's stewing you, the oyster's shucking you, I told him. 3363 02:40:37,458 --> 02:40:40,166 You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho. 3364 02:40:41,166 --> 02:40:44,457 Bertrand is not Shaw, scout's honor, and you can tell him I said so. 3365 02:40:44,540 --> 02:40:46,082 Objection, your Honor. This office has won 3366 02:40:46,166 --> 02:40:49,290 a conviction of perjury against Dean Andrews on this matter. 3367 02:40:49,374 --> 02:40:51,582 Exception taken. That case is on appeal. 3368 02:40:52,790 --> 02:40:53,957 Mr. Goldberg... 3369 02:40:54,458 --> 02:40:57,457 you claim that you met David Ferrie and Clay Shaw on a vacation trip 3370 02:40:57,540 --> 02:40:59,623 from your accounting business in New York. 3371 02:40:59,707 --> 02:41:00,790 You had drinks... 3372 02:41:01,208 --> 02:41:04,457 and, under the influence, discussed killing Kennedy, is that not so? 3373 02:41:04,540 --> 02:41:05,623 Yes, I did. 3374 02:41:05,707 --> 02:41:07,998 Is it not also true that you fingerprinted your daughter 3375 02:41:08,082 --> 02:41:10,333 when she went to Louisiana State University? 3376 02:41:10,665 --> 02:41:11,707 Yes, sir, I did. 3377 02:41:11,916 --> 02:41:14,790 And is it not also true that you fingerprinted her when she returned 3378 02:41:14,874 --> 02:41:15,957 at the end of the semester? 3379 02:41:16,041 --> 02:41:17,333 Yes, I did. 3380 02:41:17,665 --> 02:41:18,582 Why? 3381 02:41:19,041 --> 02:41:22,338 Well, I wanted to make sure that she was the same girl I sent away. 3382 02:41:25,749 --> 02:41:28,082 He was one of Broussard's witnesses, chief. 3383 02:41:28,166 --> 02:41:30,374 He was totally sane when we took his affidavit. 3384 02:41:30,458 --> 02:41:34,416 Your Honor, we call police officer Aloysius Habighorst to the stand. 3385 02:41:35,082 --> 02:41:37,706 I'm going to have to ask the jury to leave the courtroom. 3386 02:41:37,790 --> 02:41:39,040 Gentlemen, will you please rise 3387 02:41:39,124 --> 02:41:40,273 - What? - And follow me? 3388 02:41:40,458 --> 02:41:42,040 Name. First, middle, and last. 3389 02:41:42,124 --> 02:41:43,706 Clay Lavergne Shaw. 3390 02:41:43,790 --> 02:41:45,873 The defendant did not have his lawyer present when asked! 3391 02:41:45,957 --> 02:41:48,207 Jesus, Ed, from time immemorial, it's been standard booking procedure 3392 02:41:48,291 --> 02:41:50,540 - to ask an alias, you know that! - I call 'em as I see 'em! 3393 02:41:50,624 --> 02:41:52,572 - Ever use any aliases? - Clay Bertrand. 3394 02:41:55,249 --> 02:41:57,665 There's no constitutional requirement that says a lawyer 3395 02:41:57,749 --> 02:41:59,416 - has to be present for routine questions! - I'm ruling it inadmissible! 3396 02:41:59,500 --> 02:42:02,646 - I'm ruling it inadmissible. - Well, hell, Ed, that's our case! 3397 02:42:02,874 --> 02:42:05,374 If that's your case, you didn't have a case. 3398 02:42:05,665 --> 02:42:08,748 I wouldn't believe anything Habighorst said, anyway. 3399 02:42:08,832 --> 02:42:10,665 I can't believe you're saying this in the courtroom. 3400 02:42:10,749 --> 02:42:13,249 Well, I am saying it. Bring in the jury. 3401 02:42:17,124 --> 02:42:18,166 Oswald? 3402 02:42:19,374 --> 02:42:20,206 No, I did not. 3403 02:42:20,540 --> 02:42:22,499 Ever called Dean Andrews? 3404 02:42:22,582 --> 02:42:23,957 No, I did not. 3405 02:42:25,166 --> 02:42:27,457 And have you ever met David Ferrie? 3406 02:42:27,540 --> 02:42:28,624 No. 3407 02:42:28,874 --> 02:42:30,082 Wouldn't even know what he looked like, 3408 02:42:30,166 --> 02:42:32,613 if it hadn't been for the pictures I'd been shown. 3409 02:42:33,874 --> 02:42:35,998 Did you ever use the alias Clay Bertrand? 3410 02:42:36,082 --> 02:42:36,957 No. 3411 02:42:37,458 --> 02:42:38,540 I did not. 3412 02:42:39,500 --> 02:42:41,166 Thank you, Mr. Shaw. 3413 02:42:44,582 --> 02:42:47,957 Well, a very great actor has just given us a great performance, Your Honor, 3414 02:42:48,041 --> 02:42:50,124 but we are nowhere closer to the truth. 3415 02:42:51,166 --> 02:42:54,040 Let it be noted that my office is charging Clay Shaw 3416 02:42:54,124 --> 02:42:57,832 with outright perjury on the 15 answers he has given in this courtroom today, 3417 02:42:57,916 --> 02:43:00,082 not one word of truth having escaped his lips... 3418 02:43:00,166 --> 02:43:02,333 You're out of order, Jim Boy, now sit down! 3419 02:43:11,249 --> 02:43:14,374 To prove there was a conspiracy involving Clay Shaw... 3420 02:43:14,916 --> 02:43:17,249 we must first prove that there was more than one man 3421 02:43:17,333 --> 02:43:18,916 involved in the assassination. 3422 02:43:20,041 --> 02:43:21,290 To do that 3423 02:43:21,374 --> 02:43:24,620 we must look at the Zapruder film, which my office has subpoenaed. 3424 02:43:25,582 --> 02:43:27,790 The American public has not seen that... 3425 02:43:29,916 --> 02:43:32,040 The American public has not seen that film 3426 02:43:32,124 --> 02:43:35,670 because it has been kept locked away in a vault for the last five years, 3427 02:43:35,832 --> 02:43:38,166 in the Time-Life Building in New York City. 3428 02:43:39,374 --> 02:43:40,832 There's a reason for that. 3429 02:43:42,458 --> 02:43:43,582 Watch. 3430 02:44:33,665 --> 02:44:35,874 Picture speaks a thousand words, doesn't it. 3431 02:44:37,832 --> 02:44:40,829 The Warren Commission thought they had an open-and-shut case. 3432 02:44:40,957 --> 02:44:42,624 Three bullets, one assassin. 3433 02:44:43,832 --> 02:44:47,499 But two unpredictable things happened that day that made it virtually impossible. 3434 02:44:47,582 --> 02:44:51,207 One, the eight-millimeter home movie taken by Abraham Zapruder 3435 02:44:51,291 --> 02:44:53,139 while standing near the grassy knoll. 3436 02:44:53,540 --> 02:44:54,332 And two, 3437 02:44:54,416 --> 02:44:56,290 the third wounded man, James Tague, 3438 02:44:56,374 --> 02:44:57,790 who was nicked by a fragment 3439 02:44:57,957 --> 02:45:00,166 while standing near the Triple Underpass. 3440 02:45:00,749 --> 02:45:04,458 The time frame of 5.6 seconds established by the Zapruder film, 3441 02:45:04,624 --> 02:45:07,249 left no possibility of a fourth shot. 3442 02:45:07,540 --> 02:45:09,249 So the shot or fragment 3443 02:45:09,333 --> 02:45:11,749 that left a superficial wound on Tague's cheek... 3444 02:45:12,082 --> 02:45:13,748 had to come from one of the three bullets 3445 02:45:13,832 --> 02:45:16,082 fired from the sixth floor of the depository. 3446 02:45:17,166 --> 02:45:18,665 That leaves just two bullets. 3447 02:45:19,540 --> 02:45:22,887 And we know one of them was the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy. 3448 02:45:24,874 --> 02:45:26,832 So, now, a single bullet remains. 3449 02:45:26,916 --> 02:45:29,665 A single bullet now has to account for the remaining 3450 02:45:29,749 --> 02:45:31,597 seven wounds in Kennedy and Connally. 3451 02:45:32,416 --> 02:45:35,581 But rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, 3452 02:45:35,665 --> 02:45:38,832 the Warren Commission chose to endorse the theory put forth 3453 02:45:38,916 --> 02:45:41,623 by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Specter, 3454 02:45:41,707 --> 02:45:45,458 one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people. 3455 02:45:46,707 --> 02:45:49,333 We've come to know it as the "magic bullet" theory. 3456 02:45:49,957 --> 02:45:51,499 The magic bullet 3457 02:45:51,582 --> 02:45:55,707 enters the President's back, headed downward at an angle of 17 degrees. 3458 02:45:56,416 --> 02:45:58,082 It then moves upward, 3459 02:45:58,166 --> 02:46:01,416 in order to leave Kennedy's body from the front of his neck... 3460 02:46:01,707 --> 02:46:02,999 wound number two... 3461 02:46:03,790 --> 02:46:06,374 where it waits 1.6 seconds, 3462 02:46:06,458 --> 02:46:09,124 presumably in midair, where it turns right... 3463 02:46:09,624 --> 02:46:10,665 then left... 3464 02:46:11,082 --> 02:46:13,416 right, then left, 3465 02:46:13,500 --> 02:46:16,957 and continues into Connally's body at the rear of his right armpit, 3466 02:46:17,124 --> 02:46:18,416 wound number three. 3467 02:46:19,082 --> 02:46:20,873 The bullet then heads downward, 3468 02:46:20,957 --> 02:46:24,499 at an angle of 27 degrees, shattering Connally's fifth rib, 3469 02:46:24,582 --> 02:46:26,999 and exiting from the right side of his chest, 3470 02:46:27,208 --> 02:46:28,416 wound number four. 3471 02:46:29,082 --> 02:46:30,749 The bullet then turns right... 3472 02:46:31,249 --> 02:46:34,166 and reenters Connally's body at his right wrist... 3473 02:46:34,416 --> 02:46:35,790 would number five. 3474 02:46:36,416 --> 02:46:38,249 Shattering the radius bone... 3475 02:46:38,500 --> 02:46:41,707 the bullet then exits Connally's wrist, wound number six, 3476 02:46:41,832 --> 02:46:43,873 makes a dramatic U-turn, 3477 02:46:43,957 --> 02:46:46,706 and buries itself into Connally's left thigh, 3478 02:46:46,790 --> 02:46:49,999 wound number seven, from which it later falls out... 3479 02:46:50,291 --> 02:46:52,957 and is found in almost "pristine" condition... 3480 02:46:53,458 --> 02:46:56,124 on a stretcher in a corridor of Parkland Hospital. 3481 02:46:59,124 --> 02:47:00,291 That's some bullet. 3482 02:47:02,208 --> 02:47:05,416 Anyone who's been in combat will tell you never in the history of gunfire 3483 02:47:05,500 --> 02:47:07,790 has there been a bullet this ridiculous. 3484 02:47:09,041 --> 02:47:11,040 Yet the government says it can prove it, 3485 02:47:11,124 --> 02:47:13,749 with some fancy physics in a nuclear laboratory. 3486 02:47:14,416 --> 02:47:15,707 Course they can. 3487 02:47:16,124 --> 02:47:19,374 Theoretical physics can prove that an elephant can hang from a cliff 3488 02:47:19,458 --> 02:47:21,249 with his tail tied to a daisy. 3489 02:47:22,624 --> 02:47:24,665 But use your eyes, your common sense. 3490 02:47:25,374 --> 02:47:28,207 The Army Wound Ballistics experts at Edgewood Arsenal 3491 02:47:28,291 --> 02:47:29,916 fired some comparison bullets. 3492 02:47:30,249 --> 02:47:32,582 Not one of them looked anything like this. 3493 02:47:34,291 --> 02:47:36,707 Take a look at CE 856... 3494 02:47:37,416 --> 02:47:41,624 an identical bullet fired through the wrist of a human cadaver. 3495 02:47:42,707 --> 02:47:45,707 Just one of the bones smashed by the magic bullet. 3496 02:47:46,749 --> 02:47:48,374 Seven wounds, gentlemen. 3497 02:47:48,749 --> 02:47:51,624 Tough skin, dense bones. 3498 02:47:53,291 --> 02:47:55,581 This single bullet explanation 3499 02:47:55,665 --> 02:47:59,374 is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of a lone assassin. 3500 02:48:00,249 --> 02:48:01,499 And once you conclude 3501 02:48:01,582 --> 02:48:04,873 the magic bullet could not create all seven of those wounds, 3502 02:48:04,957 --> 02:48:07,915 you have to conclude that there was a fourth shot 3503 02:48:07,999 --> 02:48:09,291 and a second rifleman. 3504 02:48:10,874 --> 02:48:12,722 And if there was a second rifleman... 3505 02:48:13,416 --> 02:48:14,582 Then, by definition... 3506 02:48:14,916 --> 02:48:17,040 there had to be a conspiracy, 3507 02:48:17,124 --> 02:48:19,957 which we believe involves the accused Clay Shaw. 3508 02:48:21,041 --> 02:48:24,540 Fifty-one witnesses, gentlemen of the jury, thought they heard shots 3509 02:48:24,665 --> 02:48:26,499 coming from the grassy knoll, 3510 02:48:26,582 --> 02:48:29,540 which is to the right and front of the president. 3511 02:48:30,707 --> 02:48:32,333 Key witnesses that day... 3512 02:48:33,124 --> 02:48:35,665 Charles Brehm, a combat vet. 3513 02:48:36,041 --> 02:48:39,249 - Right behind, Jean Hill and Mary Moorman. - Hey, Mr. President! 3514 02:48:39,333 --> 02:48:43,706 SM Holland, Richard Dodd, James Simmons standing on the overpass. 3515 02:48:43,790 --> 02:48:46,874 JC Price, overlooking the whole Plaza. 3516 02:48:47,458 --> 02:48:51,457 William Newman, father of two children, who hit the deck 3517 02:48:51,540 --> 02:48:54,249 on the north side of Elm. 3518 02:48:54,333 --> 02:48:55,999 Abraham Zapruder. 3519 02:49:12,665 --> 02:49:15,665 Each of these key witnesses has no doubt whatsoever 3520 02:49:15,749 --> 02:49:18,458 one or more shots came from behind the picket fence. 3521 02:49:19,999 --> 02:49:23,124 Twenty-six trained medical personnel at Parkland Hospital 3522 02:49:23,208 --> 02:49:25,957 saw, with their own eyes, the back of the president's head 3523 02:49:26,041 --> 02:49:27,333 blasted out! 3524 02:49:29,291 --> 02:49:30,374 Dr. Peters. 3525 02:49:31,749 --> 02:49:33,915 There was a large, seven-centimeter opening 3526 02:49:33,999 --> 02:49:36,290 in the right occipitoparietal area. 3527 02:49:36,374 --> 02:49:39,790 A considerable portion of the brain was missing there. 3528 02:49:40,707 --> 02:49:44,207 Almost a fifth or possibly a quarter of the back of the head 3529 02:49:44,291 --> 02:49:45,748 had been blasted out, 3530 02:49:45,832 --> 02:49:48,290 - along with the underlying brain tissue. - Father, what is the proper time to 3531 02:49:48,374 --> 02:49:51,040 declare one dead for the last rites? 3532 02:49:51,124 --> 02:49:53,082 There was also a large fragment of skull 3533 02:49:53,166 --> 02:49:55,249 attached to a flap of scalp. 3534 02:49:55,333 --> 02:49:59,540 The exit hole in the rear of his head measured about 120 millimeters, 3535 02:49:59,624 --> 02:50:01,332 or five inches across. 3536 02:50:01,416 --> 02:50:04,124 Not one of the civilian doctors who examined the president 3537 02:50:04,208 --> 02:50:05,499 at Parkland Hospital 3538 02:50:05,582 --> 02:50:08,665 regarded his throat wound as anything but a wound of entry. 3539 02:50:09,832 --> 02:50:13,179 But then the body was illegally moved to Washington for the autopsy. 3540 02:50:13,500 --> 02:50:15,290 Because when a coup d'état has occurred, 3541 02:50:15,374 --> 02:50:16,873 - Hold it! - There's a big difference 3542 02:50:16,957 --> 02:50:18,957 between an autopsy that is performed 3543 02:50:19,041 --> 02:50:20,207 -by civilian doctors, -You're not taking him! 3544 02:50:20,291 --> 02:50:23,138 And one that is performed by military doctors under order. 3545 02:50:25,041 --> 02:50:28,249 The departure of Air Force One from Love Field that Friday afternoon 3546 02:50:28,333 --> 02:50:31,457 was not so much a takeoff as it was a getaway 3547 02:50:31,540 --> 02:50:33,290 with the newly sworn in president. 3548 02:50:33,374 --> 02:50:34,706 Objection, Your Honor. 3549 02:50:34,790 --> 02:50:35,623 Sustained. 3550 02:50:35,707 --> 02:50:36,623 On the plane, of course, 3551 02:50:36,707 --> 02:50:38,665 Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt was announced 3552 02:50:38,749 --> 02:50:41,290 by the White House Situation Room to all passengers 3553 02:50:41,374 --> 02:50:44,124 before any kind of investigation had started... 3554 02:50:44,624 --> 02:50:47,290 the "angry, lone nut" solution beginning to take its shape. 3555 02:50:47,374 --> 02:50:49,040 Objection, Your Honor! 3556 02:50:49,124 --> 02:50:50,208 Sustained. 3557 02:50:50,458 --> 02:50:53,874 Mr. Garrison, will you please bottle the acid! 3558 02:50:55,916 --> 02:50:58,040 The three Bethesda Naval Hospital doctors 3559 02:50:58,124 --> 02:51:00,748 picked by the military left something to be desired 3560 02:51:00,832 --> 02:51:04,500 insomuch as none of them had any experience with combat gunfire wounds. 3561 02:51:04,832 --> 02:51:07,665 Through their autopsy, we've been able to justify eight wounds 3562 02:51:07,749 --> 02:51:09,041 from just two bullets. 3563 02:51:09,582 --> 02:51:11,540 Three to Kennedy, five to Connally... 3564 02:51:11,999 --> 02:51:14,374 - Look what I found on the floor. - One of them being the magic bullet. 3565 02:51:14,458 --> 02:51:15,998 - FBI? - Here. 3566 02:51:16,082 --> 02:51:19,749 Colonel Finck, are you saying someone told you not to dissect the neck? 3567 02:51:20,208 --> 02:51:23,255 I was told that the family wanted the examination of the head. 3568 02:51:23,916 --> 02:51:25,124 Oh, Christ. 3569 02:51:25,208 --> 02:51:26,998 Looks like half his brain is gone. 3570 02:51:27,082 --> 02:51:27,998 Let's weigh it. 3571 02:51:28,082 --> 02:51:29,665 653 grams. 3572 02:51:29,749 --> 02:51:31,957 As a pathologist, it was your obligation 3573 02:51:32,041 --> 02:51:34,707 to explore all possible causes of death, was it not? 3574 02:51:34,832 --> 02:51:36,249 I had the cause of death. 3575 02:51:36,333 --> 02:51:40,041 Your Honor, I would ask you to direct the witness to answer my question. 3576 02:51:40,790 --> 02:51:43,748 Why did Colonel Finck not dissect the track of the bullet wound? 3577 02:51:43,832 --> 02:51:46,416 - Obvious tracheotomy... - Well, I heard Dr. Humes stating that... 3578 02:51:46,500 --> 02:51:50,082 That's enough, that's enough. It's duly noted. 3579 02:51:50,458 --> 02:51:51,873 Okay, let's check the back, gentlemen. 3580 02:51:51,957 --> 02:51:53,124 All right. 3581 02:51:54,665 --> 02:51:58,312 There's a considerable amount of spinal fluid coming out of his right ear. 3582 02:51:59,874 --> 02:52:02,207 I can feel the end of the wound with my finger. 3583 02:52:02,291 --> 02:52:04,208 That won't be necessary, Commander. 3584 02:52:07,041 --> 02:52:09,139 - Watch the ear, watch the ear. - Yes, sir. 3585 02:52:09,790 --> 02:52:12,374 Shot in the back. Cheap crime. 3586 02:52:12,540 --> 02:52:15,374 - He said... - Who's in charge, here? 3587 02:52:15,916 --> 02:52:17,041 I am. 3588 02:52:18,291 --> 02:52:19,749 I don't remember his name. 3589 02:52:20,333 --> 02:52:22,374 You must understand it was quite crowded. 3590 02:52:22,458 --> 02:52:24,249 And when you are called, in circumstances like that, 3591 02:52:24,333 --> 02:52:26,249 to look at the wound of the president, who is dead, 3592 02:52:26,333 --> 02:52:29,290 you don't look around a lot to ask people for their names and who they are. 3593 02:52:29,374 --> 02:52:31,165 But you were a qualified pathologist. 3594 02:52:31,249 --> 02:52:33,790 Was this Army general a qualified pathologist? 3595 02:52:33,874 --> 02:52:35,832 No. 3596 02:52:35,916 --> 02:52:37,790 No, but you took his orders? 3597 02:52:37,874 --> 02:52:38,790 Yes. 3598 02:52:38,874 --> 02:52:41,040 - So he was directing the autopsy? - No. 3599 02:52:41,124 --> 02:52:43,124 - No? - No, no, because there were others. 3600 02:52:43,208 --> 02:52:44,374 There were others? 3601 02:52:44,458 --> 02:52:46,458 There were others. There were admirals. 3602 02:52:46,707 --> 02:52:48,207 - Oh, there were admirals. - Oh, yes. 3603 02:52:48,291 --> 02:52:51,290 And when you are a lieutenant colonel in the Army, you just follow orders. 3604 02:52:51,374 --> 02:52:56,165 It is not our business to discuss this with anyone outside this room. 3605 02:52:56,249 --> 02:52:59,249 As I recall it was Admiral Kenney, the surgeon general of the Navy. 3606 02:52:59,333 --> 02:53:02,333 We were specifically told not to discuss the case. 3607 02:53:05,374 --> 02:53:08,832 A lot of people that day were deciding what was private, 3608 02:53:08,916 --> 02:53:11,166 none of the American people's business. 3609 02:53:11,790 --> 02:53:13,832 The chief pathologist, Commander Humes, 3610 02:53:13,916 --> 02:53:17,208 by his own admission voluntarily burned his autopsy notes. 3611 02:53:17,916 --> 02:53:20,499 President Johnson orders the blood-soaked limousine, 3612 02:53:20,582 --> 02:53:22,124 filled with bullet holes and clues, 3613 02:53:22,208 --> 02:53:24,374 to be immediately washed and rebuilt. 3614 02:53:24,458 --> 02:53:27,665 He sends John Connally's bloody suit right to the cleaners... 3615 02:53:28,458 --> 02:53:32,665 The Justice Department denied this office access to the autopsy photos. 3616 02:53:33,624 --> 02:53:35,082 And when we finally get a court order 3617 02:53:35,166 --> 02:53:38,332 to examine President Kennedy's brain in the National Archives, 3618 02:53:38,416 --> 02:53:41,762 in the hopes of finding from which direction the bullet came from 3619 02:53:41,999 --> 02:53:43,998 we're told by the government 3620 02:53:44,082 --> 02:53:45,499 your government 3621 02:53:45,582 --> 02:53:48,333 that the president's brain has disappeared. 3622 02:53:51,624 --> 02:53:53,124 That's not all that's disappeared, gentlemen. 3623 02:53:53,208 --> 02:53:55,374 With it, I think, the concept of justice. 3624 02:53:55,458 --> 02:53:56,748 Objection, Your Honor! 3625 02:53:56,832 --> 02:53:59,790 Not only has Mr. Garrison insulted the federal government, 3626 02:53:59,874 --> 02:54:02,874 - but he is also introducing... - Overruled! Overruled! 3627 02:54:09,082 --> 02:54:11,249 So what really happened that day? 3628 02:54:11,790 --> 02:54:14,500 Let's just for a moment speculate, shall we? 3629 02:54:14,957 --> 02:54:17,915 We have the epileptic seizure around 12:15 p.m., 3630 02:54:17,999 --> 02:54:19,165 distracting the police, 3631 02:54:19,249 --> 02:54:22,196 making it easier for the shooters to move into their places. 3632 02:54:22,790 --> 02:54:24,790 The epileptic later vanished, 3633 02:54:24,874 --> 02:54:27,166 never checking into the hospital. 3634 02:54:28,041 --> 02:54:30,790 The A Team gets on the sixth floor of the depository. 3635 02:54:31,374 --> 02:54:34,040 Now, they were refurbishing the floors in the depository that week, 3636 02:54:34,124 --> 02:54:36,999 which allowed unknown workmen in and out of the building. 3637 02:54:38,249 --> 02:54:41,500 They move quickly into position, just minutes before the shooting. 3638 02:54:41,999 --> 02:54:44,832 The second spotter on the radio talking to the two other teams 3639 02:54:44,916 --> 02:54:48,374 has the best overall view, "the God spot." 3640 02:54:48,458 --> 02:54:49,873 B Team, 3641 02:54:49,957 --> 02:54:53,790 one rifleman and one spotter with a headset and access to the building, 3642 02:54:53,874 --> 02:54:56,416 moves into the low floor of the Dal-Tex Building. 3643 02:54:57,832 --> 02:55:01,457 The third team, the C Team, moves in behind the picket fence 3644 02:55:01,540 --> 02:55:02,790 above the grassy knoll, 3645 02:55:02,874 --> 02:55:06,082 where the shooter and the spotter are first seen by the late Lee Bowers 3646 02:55:06,166 --> 02:55:07,864 in the watchtower of the railyard. 3647 02:55:08,291 --> 02:55:10,416 They have the best position of all. 3648 02:55:10,790 --> 02:55:14,249 Kennedy is close and on a flat, low trajectory. 3649 02:55:14,707 --> 02:55:16,623 Part of this team is a coordinator, 3650 02:55:16,707 --> 02:55:19,249 who's flashed security credentials at several people, 3651 02:55:19,333 --> 02:55:21,957 chasing them out of the parking lot area. 3652 02:55:22,041 --> 02:55:26,332 Probably two to three more men are down in the crowd on Elm. 3653 02:55:26,416 --> 02:55:30,416 Ten to 12 men, three teams, three shooters. 3654 02:55:30,500 --> 02:55:34,874 The triangulation of fire Clay Shaw and David Ferrie discussed two months before. 3655 02:55:35,416 --> 02:55:37,957 They've walked the Plaza. 3656 02:55:38,041 --> 02:55:39,957 They know every inch. 3657 02:55:41,832 --> 02:55:45,749 They've calibrated their sights, they've practiced on moving targets. 3658 02:55:46,665 --> 02:55:48,166 They're ready. 3659 02:55:48,916 --> 02:55:52,249 Kennedy's motorcade makes a turn from Main onto Houston. 3660 02:55:52,957 --> 02:55:55,916 It's gonna be a turkey shoot. 3661 02:55:56,790 --> 02:55:58,832 They don't shoot him coming up Houston, 3662 02:55:58,916 --> 02:56:02,665 which is the easiest shot for a single shooter in the book depository! 3663 02:56:02,790 --> 02:56:03,957 They wait. 3664 02:56:04,041 --> 02:56:07,291 They wait till he gets to the killing zone between three rifles. 3665 02:56:07,790 --> 02:56:11,665 Kennedy makes the final turn from Houston onto Elm, 3666 02:56:11,749 --> 02:56:12,665 slowing down 3667 02:56:12,749 --> 02:56:15,623 to some 11 miles an hour. 3668 02:56:15,707 --> 02:56:19,707 The shooters across Dealey Plaza tighten, taking their aim... 3669 02:56:21,291 --> 02:56:23,416 Waiting for the radio to say, 3670 02:56:23,500 --> 02:56:25,249 "green, green!" 3671 02:56:25,333 --> 02:56:27,707 Or "abort, abort!" 3672 02:56:33,957 --> 02:56:35,582 The first shot rings out. 3673 02:56:36,916 --> 02:56:39,874 Sounding like a backfire, it misses the car completely. 3674 02:56:40,291 --> 02:56:43,957 Frame 161, Kennedy stops waving as he hears something. 3675 02:56:44,041 --> 02:56:46,624 Connally's head turns slightly to the right. 3676 02:56:46,999 --> 02:56:51,165 Frame 193, the second shot hits Kennedy in the throat from the front. 3677 02:56:51,249 --> 02:56:52,790 Frame 225, 3678 02:56:52,874 --> 02:56:55,332 the president emerging from behind the road sign. 3679 02:56:55,416 --> 02:56:59,012 You can see that he's obviously been hit, raising his arms to his throat. 3680 02:56:59,208 --> 02:57:01,790 The third shot, frame 232, 3681 02:57:01,874 --> 02:57:05,416 hits Kennedy in the back, pulling him downward and forward. 3682 02:57:05,832 --> 02:57:09,040 Connally, you will notice, shows no signs at all of being hit. 3683 02:57:09,124 --> 02:57:10,832 He is visibly holding his Stetson, 3684 02:57:10,916 --> 02:57:13,249 which is impossible if his wrist has been shattered. 3685 02:57:13,333 --> 02:57:15,124 Connally is turning here now. 3686 02:57:15,291 --> 02:57:17,790 Frame 238, the fourth shot. 3687 02:57:17,874 --> 02:57:19,082 It misses Kennedy, 3688 02:57:19,166 --> 02:57:21,291 and takes Connally in the back. 3689 02:57:21,458 --> 02:57:24,166 This is the shot that proves there were two rifles. 3690 02:57:24,374 --> 02:57:27,665 Connally yells out, "My God, they're going to kill us all!" 3691 02:57:27,957 --> 02:57:31,457 Somewhere around this time now, another shot that misses the car completely 3692 02:57:31,540 --> 02:57:32,790 strikes James Tague 3693 02:57:32,874 --> 02:57:34,499 down by the underpass. 3694 02:57:34,582 --> 02:57:36,540 The car brakes. 3695 02:57:36,624 --> 02:57:38,332 The sixth and fatal shot, 3696 02:57:38,416 --> 02:57:41,957 frame 313, takes Kennedy in the head from the front. 3697 02:57:43,707 --> 02:57:45,790 This is the key shot. 3698 02:57:45,874 --> 02:57:48,707 The president going back and to his left... 3699 02:57:49,124 --> 02:57:51,124 shot from the front and right... 3700 02:57:52,124 --> 02:57:55,040 totally inconsistent with the shot from the depository. 3701 02:57:55,124 --> 02:57:59,416 Again, back and to the left. 3702 02:58:00,582 --> 02:58:02,874 Back... and to the left. 3703 02:58:04,041 --> 02:58:06,249 Back... and to the left. 3704 02:58:07,166 --> 02:58:09,707 Back... and to the left. 3705 02:58:11,416 --> 02:58:12,916 So what happens then? 3706 02:58:15,582 --> 02:58:16,957 Pandemonium. 3707 02:58:19,582 --> 02:58:21,957 Get the hell out of here... 3708 02:58:26,957 --> 02:58:29,874 The shooters quickly disassemble their various weapons, 3709 02:58:30,082 --> 02:58:32,082 all except the Oswald rifle. 3710 02:58:43,041 --> 02:58:46,998 Patrolman Joe Smith rushes into the parking lot behind the picket fence. 3711 02:58:47,082 --> 02:58:48,290 He smells gunpowder. 3712 02:58:48,374 --> 02:58:50,873 The character produced credentials from his pocket 3713 02:58:50,957 --> 02:58:52,805 that showed him to be Secret Service. 3714 02:58:53,500 --> 02:58:54,790 Let's see your ID. 3715 02:58:55,166 --> 02:58:56,665 - You see anybody else up here? - No. 3716 02:58:56,749 --> 02:58:57,540 Keep looking! 3717 02:58:57,624 --> 02:58:59,249 So I accepted that, and let him go 3718 02:58:59,333 --> 02:59:00,581 and continued to search. 3719 02:59:00,665 --> 02:59:03,862 But I regretted it, 'cause this guy looked like an auto mechanic. 3720 02:59:04,624 --> 02:59:06,915 He had on a sports shirt and pants, 3721 02:59:06,999 --> 02:59:08,790 but he had dirty fingernails. 3722 02:59:10,458 --> 02:59:13,457 Afterwards it didn't ring true, but at the time 3723 02:59:13,540 --> 02:59:15,500 we were so pressed for time. 3724 02:59:16,500 --> 02:59:19,749 Yet all Secret Servicemen in Dallas that day are accounted for. 3725 02:59:20,374 --> 02:59:23,207 None were on foot in Dealey Plaza before or after the shooting, 3726 02:59:23,291 --> 02:59:27,624 till Dallas Secret Service Chief Forrest Sorrels returned at 12:55. 3727 02:59:28,374 --> 02:59:31,999 At least 12 other individuals were taken into custody by Dallas police. 3728 02:59:32,999 --> 02:59:34,582 No record of their arrests. 3729 02:59:34,790 --> 02:59:38,499 Men acting like hobos were being pulled off trains, 3730 02:59:38,582 --> 02:59:41,082 marched through Dealey Plaza, photographed, 3731 02:59:41,166 --> 02:59:43,364 and yet there is no record for their arrests. 3732 02:59:43,500 --> 02:59:45,998 Men identifying themselves as Secret Service agents 3733 02:59:46,082 --> 02:59:47,624 were all over the place! 3734 02:59:48,166 --> 02:59:50,082 But who was impersonating them? 3735 02:59:50,500 --> 02:59:52,333 And where was Lee Harvey Oswald? 3736 02:59:52,790 --> 02:59:54,249 Around 12:15, 3737 02:59:54,333 --> 02:59:56,623 on her way out of the building to see the motorcade, 3738 02:59:56,707 --> 03:00:00,249 secretary Carolyn Arnold sees Oswald in the second floor snack room, 3739 03:00:00,333 --> 03:00:02,707 where he said he went for a Coke. 3740 03:00:03,166 --> 03:00:05,957 He was in a booth on the right side of the room. 3741 03:00:06,041 --> 03:00:06,790 Um... 3742 03:00:06,874 --> 03:00:08,540 He was by himself, as usual, 3743 03:00:08,624 --> 03:00:10,540 and appeared to be having his lunch. 3744 03:00:10,916 --> 03:00:13,749 I didn't speak to him, but I recognized him clearly. 3745 03:00:14,249 --> 03:00:16,332 At the same time, Bonnie Ray Williams 3746 03:00:16,416 --> 03:00:18,082 is supposedly eating his chicken lunch 3747 03:00:18,166 --> 03:00:19,332 on the sixth floor. 3748 03:00:19,416 --> 03:00:22,458 He's there until 12:15, maybe 12:20. 3749 03:00:23,082 --> 03:00:24,540 He sees nobody. 3750 03:00:25,166 --> 03:00:27,207 Arnold Rowland's down on the street, he's looking up, 3751 03:00:27,291 --> 03:00:29,790 he sees two men in the sixth floor window... 3752 03:00:30,041 --> 03:00:33,499 presumably after Bonnie Ray Williams had finished his lunch and left. 3753 03:00:33,582 --> 03:00:34,915 John Powell, 3754 03:00:34,999 --> 03:00:37,790 a prisoner on the sixth floor of the Dallas county jail, sees them. 3755 03:00:37,874 --> 03:00:39,457 Quite a few of us guys saw them. 3756 03:00:39,540 --> 03:00:41,665 Everybody was hollering and yelling and all that. 3757 03:00:41,749 --> 03:00:43,582 We thought they was security guys. 3758 03:00:44,082 --> 03:00:45,540 If Oswald was the assassin, 3759 03:00:45,624 --> 03:00:49,071 he was certainly pretty nonchalant about moving himself into position. 3760 03:00:49,374 --> 03:00:52,874 Later, he told Dallas police he was in the second-floor snack room. 3761 03:00:53,208 --> 03:00:56,458 Probably told to wait there by his handler for a phone call. 3762 03:00:58,166 --> 03:00:59,832 But the phone call never came. 3763 03:01:00,665 --> 03:01:03,249 A maximum 90 seconds after Kennedy is shot, 3764 03:01:03,416 --> 03:01:05,499 patrolman Marrion Baker runs into Oswald 3765 03:01:05,582 --> 03:01:07,131 in that second-floor lunchroom. 3766 03:01:07,291 --> 03:01:08,416 Hey, you! 3767 03:01:08,832 --> 03:01:10,540 Do you know this man? Is he an employee? 3768 03:01:10,624 --> 03:01:11,790 Yes, he is. 3769 03:01:11,874 --> 03:01:13,416 The president's been shot! 3770 03:01:13,582 --> 03:01:15,457 But what the Warren Commission would have us believe 3771 03:01:15,540 --> 03:01:19,208 is that after firing three bolt-action shots in 5.6 seconds... 3772 03:01:19,540 --> 03:01:23,582 Oswald then leaves three cartridges neatly side by side in the firing nest... 3773 03:01:24,208 --> 03:01:26,040 wipes the rifle clear of fingerprints, 3774 03:01:26,124 --> 03:01:29,249 stashes the rifle on the other side of the loft... 3775 03:01:29,999 --> 03:01:32,165 sprints down five flights of stairs, 3776 03:01:32,249 --> 03:01:34,623 past witnesses Victoria Adams and Sandra Styles, 3777 03:01:34,707 --> 03:01:35,874 who never see him... 3778 03:01:36,707 --> 03:01:38,124 then shows up, cool and calm, 3779 03:01:38,208 --> 03:01:40,555 on the second floor in front of Patrolman Baker. 3780 03:01:42,500 --> 03:01:45,290 All this within a maximum of 90 seconds of the shooting. 3781 03:01:45,374 --> 03:01:46,332 Hey, you! 3782 03:01:46,416 --> 03:01:48,457 Do you know this man? Is he an employee? 3783 03:01:48,540 --> 03:01:50,748 Yes, he is. The president's been shot! 3784 03:01:50,832 --> 03:01:52,166 Is he out of breath? 3785 03:01:52,832 --> 03:01:55,249 According to Baker, absolutely not. 3786 03:01:55,916 --> 03:01:58,040 Assuming he is the sole assassin, 3787 03:01:58,124 --> 03:02:01,082 Oswald is now free to escape from the building. 3788 03:02:01,166 --> 03:02:05,458 The longer he delays, the more chance the building will be sealed by police. 3789 03:02:06,458 --> 03:02:07,374 Is he guilty? 3790 03:02:07,458 --> 03:02:10,082 Does he walk out the nearest staircase? 3791 03:02:10,790 --> 03:02:13,540 No, he buys a Coke. 3792 03:02:13,874 --> 03:02:15,790 And at a slow pace, 3793 03:02:15,874 --> 03:02:18,581 spotted by Mrs. Reid on the second floor, 3794 03:02:18,665 --> 03:02:21,124 he strolls out the more distant front exit, 3795 03:02:21,208 --> 03:02:22,915 where the cops have gathered. 3796 03:02:22,999 --> 03:02:26,040 Oddly, considering that three shots have been fired from there, 3797 03:02:26,124 --> 03:02:29,291 nobody seals the book depository for 10 more minutes. 3798 03:02:29,500 --> 03:02:32,333 Oswald slips out, as do several other employees. 3799 03:02:32,749 --> 03:02:35,374 Of course, when he realized something had gone wrong 3800 03:02:35,458 --> 03:02:37,156 and the president had been killed, 3801 03:02:37,333 --> 03:02:38,916 he knew there was a problem. 3802 03:02:39,665 --> 03:02:41,706 He may even have known he was the patsy. 3803 03:02:41,790 --> 03:02:43,207 An intuition, maybe. 3804 03:02:43,291 --> 03:02:45,957 The president killed, in spite of his warning. 3805 03:02:46,041 --> 03:02:47,957 The phone call that never came. 3806 03:02:48,041 --> 03:02:51,624 Perhaps, fear now came to Oswald for the very first time. 3807 03:02:52,957 --> 03:02:56,249 So Oswald returns to his rooming house around 1 p.m., 3808 03:02:56,333 --> 03:02:58,623 a half hour after the assassination. 3809 03:02:58,707 --> 03:03:00,790 A man shot the president! 3810 03:03:00,874 --> 03:03:03,749 He puts on his jacket, grabs his .38 revolver, 3811 03:03:03,916 --> 03:03:05,832 and leaves at 1:04. 3812 03:03:06,374 --> 03:03:07,790 Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper, 3813 03:03:07,874 --> 03:03:11,207 says she heard two beeps on a car horn, that two uniformed cops 3814 03:03:11,291 --> 03:03:13,207 pulled up to the house where Oswald was in his room, 3815 03:03:13,291 --> 03:03:14,999 like it was a signal or something. 3816 03:03:15,957 --> 03:03:18,290 Officer Tippit is shot between 1:10 3817 03:03:18,374 --> 03:03:20,540 and 1:15, about a mile away. 3818 03:03:20,624 --> 03:03:23,249 And though no one actually saw him walking or jogging, 3819 03:03:23,333 --> 03:03:26,082 the government says Oswald covered that distance. 3820 03:03:26,166 --> 03:03:27,457 Now, giving the government 3821 03:03:27,540 --> 03:03:28,748 -the benefit of the doubt, -Sir? 3822 03:03:28,832 --> 03:03:30,249 - Excuse me, sir? - Oswald would have had to jog 3823 03:03:30,333 --> 03:03:31,957 a mile in six to 11 minutes 3824 03:03:32,041 --> 03:03:33,457 and then commit the murder, 3825 03:03:33,540 --> 03:03:34,873 then reverse his direction 3826 03:03:34,957 --> 03:03:37,873 and walk three-fifths of a mile to the Texas Theatre 3827 03:03:37,957 --> 03:03:40,624 and arrive sometime before 1:30. 3828 03:03:45,999 --> 03:03:48,665 It's also a useful conclusion, after all. 3829 03:03:48,749 --> 03:03:50,457 Why else would Oswald kill Tippit? 3830 03:03:50,540 --> 03:03:52,207 Unless he'd just shot the president, 3831 03:03:52,291 --> 03:03:54,207 and feared arrest? 3832 03:03:54,291 --> 03:03:55,540 Domingo Benavides... 3833 03:03:57,707 --> 03:03:59,605 The closest witness to the shooting... 3834 03:03:59,916 --> 03:04:03,832 refused to identify Oswald as the killer and was never taken to a lineup. 3835 03:04:05,291 --> 03:04:07,688 Acquilla Clemons saw the killer with another man, 3836 03:04:07,874 --> 03:04:10,124 and says they went off in separate directions. 3837 03:04:10,208 --> 03:04:13,999 Mrs. Clemons was never taken to a lineup or to the Warren Commission. 3838 03:04:14,540 --> 03:04:15,623 At the scene of the crime, 3839 03:04:15,707 --> 03:04:18,540 Officer JM Poe marks the shells with his initials 3840 03:04:18,624 --> 03:04:21,291 to record the chain of evidence. 3841 03:04:21,458 --> 03:04:24,416 Those initials are not on the three cartridge cases, 3842 03:04:24,500 --> 03:04:26,597 which the Warren Commission present to him. 3843 03:04:26,957 --> 03:04:31,249 As early as 12:44, only 14 minutes after the assassination... 3844 03:04:31,500 --> 03:04:34,665 the police radio put out a description matching Oswald's size 3845 03:04:34,749 --> 03:04:36,207 and build. 3846 03:04:36,291 --> 03:04:39,332 Oswald is next seen by a shoe salesman, Johnny Brewer, 3847 03:04:39,416 --> 03:04:41,458 lurking along Jefferson Avenue. 3848 03:04:41,999 --> 03:04:43,249 Oswald is scared. 3849 03:04:43,333 --> 03:04:46,458 He begins to realize the full implications of this thing. 3850 03:04:46,832 --> 03:04:50,832 He goes into the Texas Theatre, possibly his prearranged meeting point, 3851 03:04:50,916 --> 03:04:53,124 but though he has 14 dollars in his pocket... 3852 03:04:53,458 --> 03:04:55,707 he does not buy the 75-cent ticket. 3853 03:04:55,832 --> 03:04:58,207 And Brewer has the cashier call the police. 3854 03:04:58,291 --> 03:05:00,832 In response to the cashier's call, 3855 03:05:00,916 --> 03:05:03,665 at least 30 officers in a fleet of patrol cars 3856 03:05:03,749 --> 03:05:05,540 descend on the movie theater. 3857 03:05:05,665 --> 03:05:09,207 Now, this has to be the most remarkable example of police intuition 3858 03:05:09,291 --> 03:05:11,207 since the Reichstag fire. 3859 03:05:11,291 --> 03:05:14,540 And I don't buy it. They knew. 3860 03:05:14,624 --> 03:05:17,082 Someone knew Oswald was going to be there. 3861 03:05:18,291 --> 03:05:20,416 Brewer helpfully leads the cops into the theater 3862 03:05:20,500 --> 03:05:22,790 and from the stage points Oswald out. 3863 03:05:22,874 --> 03:05:23,749 There he is. 3864 03:05:36,041 --> 03:05:37,989 Sir, can I get you to stand up, please? 3865 03:05:38,124 --> 03:05:39,707 This is it! 3866 03:05:41,624 --> 03:05:43,333 Kill the president, will you? 3867 03:05:44,832 --> 03:05:46,916 I am not resisting arrest! 3868 03:05:47,166 --> 03:05:49,249 I am not resisting arrest! 3869 03:05:49,333 --> 03:05:51,082 The police have their man. 3870 03:05:51,624 --> 03:05:53,915 It's already been decided 3871 03:05:53,999 --> 03:05:54,957 in Washington. 3872 03:05:55,458 --> 03:05:58,082 By the time he is brought out from the theater, 3873 03:05:58,166 --> 03:06:00,458 a large crowd is waiting to scream at him. 3874 03:06:00,790 --> 03:06:04,457 Lee Oswald must've felt like Josef K in Kafka's The Trial. 3875 03:06:04,540 --> 03:06:06,957 He's never told the reasons for his arrest, 3876 03:06:07,041 --> 03:06:10,249 he doesn't know the unseen forces ranging against him. 3877 03:06:10,500 --> 03:06:12,623 By the time he reached police headquarters, 3878 03:06:12,707 --> 03:06:14,458 he is booked for murdering Tippit. 3879 03:06:14,582 --> 03:06:16,416 No legal counsel is provided, 3880 03:06:16,500 --> 03:06:18,832 no record made of the long questioning. 3881 03:06:18,916 --> 03:06:21,499 By the time the sun rises the next morning, 3882 03:06:21,582 --> 03:06:23,874 he is booked for murdering the president. 3883 03:06:24,291 --> 03:06:26,665 The whole country, fueled by the media, 3884 03:06:26,749 --> 03:06:28,208 assumes he is guilty. 3885 03:06:29,041 --> 03:06:31,165 Under the guise of a patriotic nightclub owner 3886 03:06:31,249 --> 03:06:35,207 out to spare Jackie Kennedy from having to testify at a trial, 3887 03:06:35,291 --> 03:06:37,873 Jack Ruby is shown into an underground garage 3888 03:06:37,957 --> 03:06:40,749 by one of his inside men on the Dallas police force... 3889 03:06:41,665 --> 03:06:43,457 and when he is ready, Lee Harvey Oswald 3890 03:06:43,540 --> 03:06:45,706 is brought out like a sacrificial lamb 3891 03:06:45,790 --> 03:06:48,500 and nicely disposed of, as an enemy of the people. 3892 03:06:48,624 --> 03:06:49,540 Oswald! 3893 03:07:07,458 --> 03:07:09,416 Who grieves for Lee Harvey Oswald? 3894 03:07:10,333 --> 03:07:13,208 Buried in a cheap grave under the name "Oswald"? 3895 03:07:14,458 --> 03:07:15,916 Nobody. 3896 03:07:22,999 --> 03:07:23,998 Within minutes, 3897 03:07:24,082 --> 03:07:27,999 false statements and press leaks about Lee Oswald circulate the globe. 3898 03:07:28,916 --> 03:07:32,113 The Official Legend is created and the media takes it from there. 3899 03:07:33,665 --> 03:07:35,832 The glitter of official lies and the epic splendor 3900 03:07:35,916 --> 03:07:37,873 of the thought-numbing funeral of JFK 3901 03:07:37,957 --> 03:07:41,166 confuse the eye and confound the understanding. 3902 03:07:42,333 --> 03:07:44,290 Hitler always said 3903 03:07:44,374 --> 03:07:47,749 "the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." 3904 03:07:49,082 --> 03:07:52,457 Lee Harvey Oswald, a crazed, lonely man who wanted attention 3905 03:07:52,540 --> 03:07:55,332 and got it by killing a president, was only the first 3906 03:07:55,416 --> 03:07:57,166 in a long line of patsies. 3907 03:07:57,916 --> 03:07:59,915 In later years, Bobby Kennedy, 3908 03:07:59,999 --> 03:08:01,499 Martin Luther King, men whose 3909 03:08:01,582 --> 03:08:03,581 commitment to change and peace 3910 03:08:03,665 --> 03:08:07,312 would make them dangerous to men who are committed to war, would follow... 3911 03:08:07,790 --> 03:08:10,665 also killed by such lonely, crazed men... 3912 03:08:11,665 --> 03:08:14,124 men who remove our guilt by making murder 3913 03:08:14,208 --> 03:08:16,041 a meaningless act of a loner. 3914 03:08:17,291 --> 03:08:19,249 We have all become Hamlets in our country, 3915 03:08:19,333 --> 03:08:21,623 children of a slain father-leader, 3916 03:08:21,707 --> 03:08:23,832 whose killers still possess the throne. 3917 03:08:24,582 --> 03:08:28,290 The ghost of John F. Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder 3918 03:08:28,374 --> 03:08:30,166 at the heart of the American dream. 3919 03:08:30,790 --> 03:08:33,040 He forces on us the appalling questions: 3920 03:08:33,124 --> 03:08:34,790 Of what is our Constitution made? 3921 03:08:35,874 --> 03:08:38,332 What is our citizenship, and more, our lives worth? 3922 03:08:38,416 --> 03:08:40,416 What is the future of a democracy, 3923 03:08:40,500 --> 03:08:42,665 where a president can be assassinated under 3924 03:08:42,749 --> 03:08:44,832 conspicuously suspicious circumstances, 3925 03:08:44,916 --> 03:08:47,790 while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles? 3926 03:08:49,208 --> 03:08:52,748 How many more political murders, disguised as heart attacks, 3927 03:08:52,832 --> 03:08:53,998 suicides, 3928 03:08:54,082 --> 03:08:55,623 cancers, drug overdoses, 3929 03:08:55,707 --> 03:08:58,374 how many airplane and car crashes will occur 3930 03:08:58,458 --> 03:09:00,665 before they are exposed for what they are? 3931 03:09:02,665 --> 03:09:05,416 "Treason doth never prosper," wrote an English poet. 3932 03:09:06,500 --> 03:09:07,540 What's the reason? 3933 03:09:08,665 --> 03:09:10,963 Well, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 3934 03:09:12,166 --> 03:09:14,763 The American public has yet to see the Zapruder film. 3935 03:09:15,665 --> 03:09:16,582 Why? 3936 03:09:17,291 --> 03:09:20,623 The American public has yet to see the real X-rays and photographs 3937 03:09:20,707 --> 03:09:21,457 of the autopsy. 3938 03:09:21,540 --> 03:09:22,707 Why? 3939 03:09:23,540 --> 03:09:26,790 There are hundreds of documents that could help prove this conspiracy. 3940 03:09:26,874 --> 03:09:29,749 Why are they being withheld or burned by the government? 3941 03:09:30,999 --> 03:09:33,290 Each time my office, or you, the people, 3942 03:09:33,374 --> 03:09:35,748 have asked those questions, demanded crucial evidence, 3943 03:09:35,832 --> 03:09:38,040 the answer from on high has always been 3944 03:09:38,124 --> 03:09:39,540 "national security." 3945 03:09:40,749 --> 03:09:42,623 What kind of "national security" do we have 3946 03:09:42,707 --> 03:09:44,705 when we have been robbed of our leaders? 3947 03:09:45,416 --> 03:09:47,915 What "national security" permits the removal 3948 03:09:47,999 --> 03:09:50,706 of fundamental power from the hands of the American people 3949 03:09:50,790 --> 03:09:54,437 and validates the ascendancy of invisible government in the United States? 3950 03:09:55,874 --> 03:09:57,290 That kind of "national security," 3951 03:09:57,374 --> 03:09:59,332 gentlemen of the jury, is when it smells like it, 3952 03:09:59,416 --> 03:10:01,333 feels like it, and looks like it... 3953 03:10:02,041 --> 03:10:03,582 you call it what it is. 3954 03:10:04,249 --> 03:10:05,500 Fascism. 3955 03:10:07,749 --> 03:10:09,957 I submit to you that what took place 3956 03:10:10,041 --> 03:10:12,748 on November 22nd, 1963 3957 03:10:12,832 --> 03:10:14,082 was a coup d'état. 3958 03:10:15,249 --> 03:10:17,706 Its most direct and tragic result 3959 03:10:17,790 --> 03:10:21,624 was a reversal of President Kennedy's commitment to withdraw from Vietnam. 3960 03:10:23,082 --> 03:10:28,124 A war is the biggest business in America, worth 80 billion dollars a year. 3961 03:10:28,999 --> 03:10:31,790 President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy 3962 03:10:31,874 --> 03:10:34,915 that was planned in advance at the highest levels of our government, 3963 03:10:34,999 --> 03:10:38,665 and it was carried out by fanatical and disciplined Cold Warriors 3964 03:10:38,749 --> 03:10:42,207 in the Pentagon and CIA's covert operations apparatus, 3965 03:10:42,291 --> 03:10:44,916 among them Clay Shaw here before you. 3966 03:10:45,707 --> 03:10:47,540 It was a public execution. 3967 03:10:47,624 --> 03:10:50,374 And it was covered up by like-minded individuals 3968 03:10:50,458 --> 03:10:52,040 in the Dallas Police Department, 3969 03:10:52,124 --> 03:10:54,207 the Secret Service, the FBI, 3970 03:10:54,291 --> 03:10:56,290 and the White House, all the way up to 3971 03:10:56,374 --> 03:10:59,665 including J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson, 3972 03:10:59,749 --> 03:11:02,124 whom I consider accomplices after the fact. 3973 03:11:02,790 --> 03:11:06,832 The assassination reduced the president to a transient official. 3974 03:11:07,374 --> 03:11:08,998 His job, his assignment, 3975 03:11:09,082 --> 03:11:13,290 is to speak as often as possible of this nation's desire for peace 3976 03:11:13,374 --> 03:11:16,040 while he acts as a business agent in the Congress 3977 03:11:16,124 --> 03:11:18,571 for the military and their hardware manufacturers. 3978 03:11:20,540 --> 03:11:22,582 Now, some people say I'm crazy. 3979 03:11:24,249 --> 03:11:27,416 Southern caricature seeking higher office. 3980 03:11:29,291 --> 03:11:32,790 Well, there is a simple way to determine if I am paranoid. 3981 03:11:32,874 --> 03:11:35,457 Let's ask the two men who have profited the most from the assassination: 3982 03:11:35,540 --> 03:11:37,706 Your former president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 3983 03:11:37,790 --> 03:11:39,665 and your new president, Richard Nixon, 3984 03:11:39,749 --> 03:11:41,832 to release the 51 CIA documents 3985 03:11:41,916 --> 03:11:44,416 pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. 3986 03:11:45,291 --> 03:11:47,040 Or the secret CIA memo 3987 03:11:47,124 --> 03:11:49,748 on Oswald's activities in Russia that was destroyed 3988 03:11:49,832 --> 03:11:51,124 while being photocopied. 3989 03:11:51,665 --> 03:11:53,582 All these documents are yours... 3990 03:11:54,166 --> 03:11:56,416 the people's property. You pay for it. 3991 03:11:57,500 --> 03:12:00,748 But because the government considers you children who might be too disturbed 3992 03:12:00,832 --> 03:12:02,749 or distressed to face this reality... 3993 03:12:03,540 --> 03:12:06,333 or because you might possibly lynch those involved... 3994 03:12:07,249 --> 03:12:10,416 you cannot see these documents for another 75 years. 3995 03:12:11,374 --> 03:12:13,416 I'm in my early 40s... 3996 03:12:14,249 --> 03:12:17,290 so I'll have shuffled off this mortal coil by then, 3997 03:12:17,374 --> 03:12:19,873 but I'm already telling my eight-year-old son 3998 03:12:19,957 --> 03:12:21,832 to keep himself physically fit... 3999 03:12:22,582 --> 03:12:24,915 so that one glorious September morning 4000 03:12:24,999 --> 03:12:26,581 in the year 2038, 4001 03:12:26,665 --> 03:12:28,748 he can walk into the National Archives 4002 03:12:28,832 --> 03:12:31,916 and find out what the CIA and the FBI knew! 4003 03:12:33,208 --> 03:12:34,623 They may even push it back, then. 4004 03:12:34,707 --> 03:12:36,915 Hell, it may become a generational affair, 4005 03:12:36,999 --> 03:12:39,332 with questions passed down father to son, 4006 03:12:39,416 --> 03:12:40,540 mother to daughter. 4007 03:12:40,624 --> 03:12:42,540 That someday, somewhere 4008 03:12:42,624 --> 03:12:44,749 someone may find out the damn truth. 4009 03:12:45,500 --> 03:12:46,624 We better. 4010 03:12:47,790 --> 03:12:50,249 We better, or we might, just as well, build ourselves 4011 03:12:50,333 --> 03:12:51,915 another government 4012 03:12:51,999 --> 03:12:54,290 like the Declaration of Independence says to, 4013 03:12:54,374 --> 03:12:56,374 when the old one ain't working, just... 4014 03:12:56,458 --> 03:12:58,333 Just a little farther out West. 4015 03:12:59,999 --> 03:13:01,999 An American naturalist wrote: 4016 03:13:02,333 --> 03:13:05,333 "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country... 4017 03:13:05,790 --> 03:13:07,124 against its government." 4018 03:13:09,291 --> 03:13:11,239 I would hate to be in your shoes today. 4019 03:13:12,166 --> 03:13:13,249 You have a lot to think about. 4020 03:13:13,333 --> 03:13:16,679 You've seen much hidden evidence the American public has never seen. 4021 03:13:18,041 --> 03:13:20,389 You know, going back to when we were children... 4022 03:13:21,333 --> 03:13:23,915 I think that most of us in this courtroom thought that 4023 03:13:23,999 --> 03:13:26,208 justice came into being automatically... 4024 03:13:27,208 --> 03:13:28,957 that virtue was its own reward, that... 4025 03:13:29,041 --> 03:13:30,832 That good would triumph over evil. 4026 03:13:32,500 --> 03:13:35,166 But as we get older, we know this just isn't true. 4027 03:13:36,249 --> 03:13:38,957 Individual human beings have to create justice, 4028 03:13:39,041 --> 03:13:40,500 and this is not easy... 4029 03:13:41,790 --> 03:13:44,749 because the truth often poses a threat to power... 4030 03:13:45,374 --> 03:13:48,582 and one often has to fight power at great risk to themselves. 4031 03:13:49,082 --> 03:13:50,874 People like SM Holland... 4032 03:13:51,582 --> 03:13:52,790 Lee Bowers... 4033 03:13:53,416 --> 03:13:55,290 Jean Hill, Willie O'Keefe. 4034 03:13:55,374 --> 03:13:58,021 They've all taken that risk. They've all come forward. 4035 03:13:59,082 --> 03:14:02,457 I have here some 8,000 dollars in these letters sent... 4036 03:14:02,540 --> 03:14:04,832 Sent to my office from all over the country. 4037 03:14:05,333 --> 03:14:08,581 Quarters, dimes, dollar bills from housewives, 4038 03:14:08,665 --> 03:14:11,500 plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, invalids. 4039 03:14:12,707 --> 03:14:16,124 These are people who cannot afford to send money but do. 4040 03:14:16,957 --> 03:14:18,999 These are the ones who drive the cabs... 4041 03:14:19,624 --> 03:14:20,915 who nurse in the hospitals, 4042 03:14:20,999 --> 03:14:23,540 who see their kids go to Vietnam. 4043 03:14:24,999 --> 03:14:25,832 Why? 4044 03:14:27,500 --> 03:14:28,790 Because they care. 4045 03:14:29,916 --> 03:14:31,832 Because they want to know the truth. 4046 03:14:32,874 --> 03:14:34,832 Because they want their country back. 4047 03:14:34,916 --> 03:14:36,916 Because it still belongs to us... 4048 03:14:37,500 --> 03:14:40,946 as long as the people have the guts to fight for what they believe in. 4049 03:14:43,874 --> 03:14:46,165 The truth is the most important value we have 4050 03:14:46,249 --> 03:14:48,249 because if the truth does not endure... 4051 03:14:49,374 --> 03:14:51,082 if the government murders truth, if it... 4052 03:14:51,166 --> 03:14:54,165 If we cannot respect the hearts of these people, then this is 4053 03:14:54,249 --> 03:14:56,790 not the country in which I was born in, and it is certainly not 4054 03:14:56,874 --> 03:14:58,572 the country that I want to die in. 4055 03:15:00,208 --> 03:15:01,623 Tennyson wrote: 4056 03:15:01,707 --> 03:15:03,665 "Authority forgets a dying king." 4057 03:15:05,707 --> 03:15:08,124 This was never more true than for John F. Kennedy, 4058 03:15:08,208 --> 03:15:12,124 whose murder was probably one of the most terrible moments 4059 03:15:12,208 --> 03:15:13,749 in the history of our country. 4060 03:15:16,957 --> 03:15:20,624 You the people, the jury system, sitting in judgement on Clay Shaw... 4061 03:15:22,707 --> 03:15:24,457 represent the hope 4062 03:15:24,540 --> 03:15:27,041 of humanity against government power. 4063 03:15:28,333 --> 03:15:30,166 In discharging your duty... 4064 03:15:30,874 --> 03:15:32,499 in bringing the first conviction 4065 03:15:32,582 --> 03:15:34,374 in this house of cards 4066 03:15:34,458 --> 03:15:36,082 against Clay Shaw... 4067 03:15:36,790 --> 03:15:40,790 "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." 4068 03:15:41,999 --> 03:15:43,374 Do not forget... 4069 03:15:44,249 --> 03:15:45,790 your dying king. 4070 03:15:47,500 --> 03:15:48,832 Show this world... 4071 03:15:49,624 --> 03:15:52,832 that this is still a government of the people, for the people... 4072 03:15:53,374 --> 03:15:54,624 and by the people. 4073 03:15:56,957 --> 03:15:58,915 Nothing, as long as you live, 4074 03:15:58,999 --> 03:16:00,665 will ever be more important. 4075 03:16:04,249 --> 03:16:05,665 It's up to you. 4076 03:16:28,707 --> 03:16:30,832 Has the jury reached a verdict? 4077 03:16:31,500 --> 03:16:32,790 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 4078 03:16:32,874 --> 03:16:35,124 Please hand the verdict to the clerk. 4079 03:16:44,874 --> 03:16:47,333 Will the defendant please rise? 4080 03:16:51,291 --> 03:16:53,458 The clerk will now read the verdict. 4081 03:16:54,291 --> 03:16:58,333 New Orleans, Louisiana. March 1st, 1969. 4082 03:16:58,999 --> 03:17:02,457 We, the jury, find the defendant, Clay Shaw, 4083 03:17:02,540 --> 03:17:04,208 not guilty. 4084 03:17:10,333 --> 03:17:12,081 - Thank you, thank you. - Wonderful. 4085 03:17:14,249 --> 03:17:15,540 Congratulations! 4086 03:17:15,665 --> 03:17:17,264 We're gonna go fishing tomorrow! 4087 03:17:25,665 --> 03:17:27,124 We believe there was a conspiracy, 4088 03:17:27,208 --> 03:17:30,416 but whether Clay Shaw was a part of it is another kettle of fish. 4089 03:17:30,500 --> 03:17:32,041 There's Jim! There's Jim! 4090 03:17:33,874 --> 03:17:36,457 Mr. Garrison, the American media is reporting this 4091 03:17:36,540 --> 03:17:38,374 as a full vindication of the Warren Commission. 4092 03:17:38,458 --> 03:17:39,749 Do you agree? 4093 03:17:41,041 --> 03:17:44,332 All I think it proves is you cannot run an investigation, 4094 03:17:44,416 --> 03:17:47,873 in the light of day, even questioning the intelligence operations 4095 03:17:47,957 --> 03:17:49,082 of the United States government. 4096 03:17:49,166 --> 03:17:50,540 We understand that the morning paper 4097 03:17:50,624 --> 03:17:52,998 will call for your resignation, that you're unfit to hold office, 4098 03:17:53,082 --> 03:17:54,957 that you've ruined Clay Shaw's reputation. 4099 03:17:55,041 --> 03:17:56,748 Mr. Garrison, are you gonna resign? 4100 03:17:56,832 --> 03:17:57,748 Hell, no. 4101 03:17:57,832 --> 03:17:59,041 I'm gonna run again. 4102 03:17:59,500 --> 03:18:01,040 And I'm gonna win, thank you. 4103 03:18:01,124 --> 03:18:03,082 Who do you plan to persecute next, Mr. Garrison? 4104 03:18:03,166 --> 03:18:05,748 If it takes me 30 years to nail every one of the assassins, 4105 03:18:05,832 --> 03:18:08,832 then I will continue this investigation for 30 years. 4106 03:18:09,458 --> 03:18:12,416 I owe that not only to Jack Kennedy, but to the country. 4107 03:18:12,500 --> 03:18:14,832 Hey, there's Clay! There's Clay Shaw! 4108 03:18:14,916 --> 03:18:16,957 Mr. Shaw, how does it feel to be acquitted? 4109 03:18:17,041 --> 03:18:18,873 It's been exhausting, I must say. 4110 03:18:18,957 --> 03:18:20,249 What will you do now, Mr. Shaw? 4111 03:18:20,333 --> 03:18:22,331 I should go home and cook some étouffée. 4112 03:18:26,916 --> 03:18:28,873 Do you think Garrison will be back for a second round? 4113 03:18:28,957 --> 03:18:30,124 I'm sure he will. 4113 03:18:31,305 --> 03:19:31,831