Executive Action Page #7

you boys will get a break on it.

You always have. Haven't you, now?

- Wait, wait.

- Just one more question.

In Washington, a silent crowd

has gathered outside the White House...

...on this grim and somber Saturday,

maintaining a patient vigil...

...while high government officials

and ambassadors of many nations...

Stan? Jack Ruby.

Have you gotten any word when they're

gonna transfer him to the county jail?

Yeah? Okay.

Why do you think

he would want to kill the president?

Was it...?

The only thing I do is take the evidence,

present it to jury...

...and I don't pass on why he did it

or anything else.

We're just asked to prove that he did it,

which I think we have.

How many cases

have you been involved in...

...where the death penalty is involved?

Since I've been district attorney...

...I've asked the death penalty

in 24 cases.

- How many times have you attained it?

- Twenty-three.

There is Lee Oswald.

There is the prisoner

being led out by Captain Fritz.

He's been shot. He's been shot.

Lee Oswald has been shot.

There's the man with a-

It's absolute panic.

Absolute panic here in the basement

of Dallas Police Headquarters.

Detectives have their guns drawn.

Oswald has been shot.

- Did you see it?

- No.

Get them out of the way.

Try to keep the press off.

Please clear the way.

- Stand back.

- All right.

As for what kind of charges,

I can't tell you that.

Would you be willing to say it was,

with all this evidence-

That it is now beyond

a reasonable doubt at all...

...that Oswald was the killer

of President Kennedy?

I would say that, without any doubt,

he's the killer.

The law says, beyond a reasonable

doubt and to a moral certainty.

Which there's no question that he was

the killer of President Kennedy.

- That case is closed in your mind.

- As far as Oswald's concerned, yes.

It's so unlikely, I don't see

how anyone can believe it.

Everyone will believe it.

They wanna believe it.

They have to.

People, the government, everyone.

Even his brother?

He's the attorney general,

for God's sake.

True.

But he's not thinking

as attorney general tonight.

He's grieving for a murdered brother.

By the time his grief subsides,

all the power will have passed.

It'll be too late.

Yes?

That's right.

Hold the body there.

Make arrangements in the morning.

That's right. Thank you. Good night.

That was Tim.

James Farrington...

...heart attack.

Parkland Hospital.

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