Executive Action Page #5

Ten days from now,

if they hear you described...

...they must say,

"Oh, yes, I saw him. He was here. "

- Do you understand?

- I've got it.

It's equally important

that we set him up planning the event.

He owns a rifle with a scope,

but he's never used it.

Give him visibility in a gun shop.

We'll provide you a rifle similar to his.

We also want to see him practicing.

Can't you arrange to borrow his rifle?

That's programmed for later

when we're certain he won't miss it.

Let's do some more homework.

That does not mean, however,

that I'm a Communist.

What is the difference

between the two?

There is a great deal of difference,

such as several American parties...

...in several countries are based

on Marxism, such as Ghana.

Ghana. Certain countries have

characteristics of a socialist system...

...such as Great Britain

with its socialized medicine.

These, then, are the differences between

an outright Communist country...

...and countries which adhere

to leftist or Marxist principles.

In your work

with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee...

...what are you advocating?

We advocate restoration

of diplomatic trade...

...and tourists relations with Cuba.

Hi there.

Now, what can I do for you?

Well, could you drill this

to mount a telescopic sight?

- Sure can.

- How soon?

I'm gonna need it any day now.

Well, be ready in a couple of days.

Fine.

What's the name?

Lee Harvey Oswald.

- Good.

- Thanks.

Garage.

Got it. I'll let you know.

Chris.

All yours.

It's a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano.

Jesus Christ, the Italians

stopped making this in 1941.

That's 22 years ago.

Let's go.

She's a real fine piece of weaponry,

isn't she?

The Italians in World War ll called it...

...the rifle that never hurt anybody

on purpose.

The bolt sticks,

it's got a two-stage trigger...

...and the scope is off 0.02 to the left

and it has a 9.5-inch drop.

- Well, can you adjust to it?

- Oh, sure.

I'm gonna need a hell of a lot more

practice before countdown.

That's one hell of a buy, friend...

...in case you're looking

for first-class transportation.

- Won't cost you an arm and a leg.

- How much?

Nineteen ninety-five.

Radio, heater, whitewalls included.

Well, if it's such a hell of a buy,

why haven't you sold it?

Only been here

the last couple of days.

Bullshit.

I saw this car on the lot last Monday.

What you saw here last Monday

was the same model...

...but it wasn't this car.

- What did you get for it?

- Hundred dollars more than I'm asking.

Jesus. You mean you'd do that

to some poor dumb Texas burr picker?

What the hell are you

talking about Texas like that for?

Because if I was a doctor...

...and I wanted

to give the world an enema...

...I'd stick the nozzle

right here in Dallas, Texas.

Before I kick you in the ass, can you

tell me a better place than Texas?

Yeah, Russia. They make a car

called the Volga that would-

You Communist bastard, get out of here.

Get off my lot.

Who the hell do you think you are,

anyway?

The name's Oswald. Lee Oswald.

If you ever learn how to spell, you can

have a lot of fun trying to write it down.

It will come in handy at the right time,

to leak to the press.

The face doesn't look enough like him

to pass muster with me.

Get a picture of the sponsor himself

and tip it in. Can do?

- Apple pie.

- Tim.

Give him a pistol with a holster.

And a telescopic sight

for the rifle too.

- Everything in order?

- So far.

Hey, buddy, you're firing

at the wrong target.

That's my target.

Hey, mister,

you're firing at my target.

Hey, would you mind?

Just fire at your own.

Why don't you take a flying screw

at the moon and charge it to me?

I'll be glad to, you son of a b*tch.

You just tell me your name.

Lee Oswald.

Hey, Ralph!

Outside the Dallas municipal auditorium,

a large number of pickets...

...gave U.N. ambassador Adlai Stevenson

a hot reception last night...

...when he came to give a speech

in honor of United Nations Day.

And the audience inside

wasn't a bit more friendly.

Surely, my friend,

I don't have to come from lllinois...

...to teach Texas manners, do I?

But I do hope all the pickets

will come in and sit down-

Go home.

- because I believe in

the forgiveness of sin...

...and the redemption of ignorance.

Stevenson told friends that he was

going to advise President Kennedy...

...not to make

that forthcoming trip to Dallas...

...because of the hostile atmosphere

in that city.

Do you see your position?

Yeah, behind that fence on top.

Okay, let's take her down.

"On November 22nd, the only important

officials remaining in Washington...

...will be McNamara

and Robert Kennedy.

The secretaries of state, treasury,

interior, commerce and labor...

...will be in the air en route to Tokyo.

The president and vice president

will be in Dallas. "

To confuse matters and give your men

as much time as possible...

...a code will be removed

from the Tokyo-bound cabinet plane...

...and the Washington telephone system

will suffer a temporary blackout.

- That will help.

- Secret Service are under orders...

...to stay with the president

no matter what happens.

Once they get him to the hospital,

they'll probably filter back.

But for at least a half-hour,

you should be entirely free of them.

I'll have six men with Secret Service

credentials in Dealey Plaza.

Their insignia for this trip, incidentally,

is double white bars on red.

I forgot to mention that

the chief of the White House detail...

...has decided to stay in Washington.

Good.

Now to the intelligence agencies.

In going through

Oswald's address book...

...our contact man came across

the name and telephone number...

...of somebody called Fred Hastings.

Now, Hastings is an FBl man

working out of the Dallas office.

You know him?

Oswald has his telephone number?

I was about to mention Mr. Hastings.

He's visited Mrs. Oswald once

and her landlady twice...

...since the first of the month.

He knows that Oswald works

in the book depository.

And we must assume he also knows...

...that the president's motorcade

will pass the book depository.

Yet neither the local

nor the Washington office of the FBl...

...has reported that

to the Secret Service.

What about other Oswald files?

The Office of Naval Intelligence

is watching him.

The CIA regularly monitors his mail.

No one has reported anything

to the Secret Service.

They don't even know

that Lee Harvey Oswald exists.

His name appears nowhere

in their files.

Let's have a drink.

Dallas has one of the highest

murder rates.

In two years, the Secret Service

has established 149 threats...

...against Kennedy's life

from Texas alone.

Yet they send him into hostile territory

with no more protection...

...than you and I would arrange

for a favorite dog.

What would you say if I told you

that as of November 8...

...Secret Service files

find not one individual...

...in the entire

Fort Worth-Dallas territory...

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