J. Edgar: The Most Powerful Man in the World Page #10

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Let me tell you, if you ever denigrate me

in front of my staff again...

I'll have you railroaded out of your

profession. Understand?

I apologize, sir.

Tell me something.

What do you have for energy?

We have diet medications

which tend to give a boost.

So I could lose a few pounds

and have more energy as well?

Wouldn't worry about your weight, sir.

Lt's solid weight.

Hmm.

Schedule a daily visit.

Yes, sir.

They're giving King the Nobel Prize.

Can you believe it?

The degenerates and radicals

are being lifted up internationally.

Lt's like it's 1920 all over again.

Don't.

When he finds out

that we have this audiotape...

that we know the truth

about his character...

he's going to decline the award,

Clyde, believe me.

President Johnson...

Wait.

- Clyde.

- Wait.

You're gonna have to learn to enunciate.

I can't seem to understand you.

We have no legal tools.

You see, our laws have not kept pace...

with the improved tactics

of today's criminals.

I'm gonna do this for you.

What's your idea?

Well, we have friends in the press, right?

We plant stories with them to ensure...

that the activities of suspected

radicals see the light of day.

They'll trace it.

Well, only if it's true.

See, it's called counterintelligence,

Clyde.

The more untrue the story,

the more dramatic the impact.

Now, I'm going to send

the hotel recording...

along with a personal letter

the day before he gets the Nobel Prize.

And if he accepts the award,

we'll send the tape straight to the press.

Are you sure that you want to be involved

with that kind of surveillance?

Well, that's why the letter

won't be from me.

It'll be a fictitious letter

from one of his own.

Then there can be no room for error.

I'm not sure that we could ensu...

I cannot understand what

you're saying, Clyde. Please.

Come on now. Learn to speak up.

Now, listen, I'm gonna need you

in the office tomorrow. No time to relent.

I can't.

Yes, you can.

Now eat.

You'd think after all this time

she'd be able to cook my egg correctly.

What exactly are in these shots?

Oh, it's just vitamins...

a little extra pick-me-up.

"Look into your heart.

You know you are a complete fraud and a

great liability to all of us Negroes."

I said "us," Miss Gandy, "us," not "the."

You're a Negro now, sir?

Write every word as I say it,

is that understood?

Now, "White people in this country

have enough frauds of their own...

but they do not

have one at this time...

that is anywhere near your equal.

- I repeat..."

- Sir, what is this exercise?

Miss Gandy, I am not going to entertain

questions during my dictation, now write.

"I repeat, you are a colossal fraud

and an evil, vicious one, at that!

You do not believe in God. You do not

believe in any personal moral principles!"

Sir, may I ask who this

will be addressed to...

The question is not to whom,

Miss Gandy, not to whom...

but from whom and it is not from

this office, is that understood?

"You have turned out to be not a leader...

but a dissolute, abnormal,

moral imbecile.

There's only one thing left to do

and you know what that is.

There's but one way out,

and you better take it...

before your filthy, abnormal,

fraudulent self is bared to this nation."

Did you get everything?

- Edgar.

- Type it up.

Type it up.

I understand that you work for our

PR department, is that correct?

For two years now, sir.

Then you are familiar

with my earlier work...

against Edward Clarke

and his Ku Klux Klan, are you not?

Yes, sir.

He was arrested for a violation

of the white slave traffic act...

for crossing state lines

to have an affair with a white woman.

Ls that correct, sir?

That is correct. lt was the strongest law

at my disposal at the time.

I'll have you know

that I'm very proud of that work.

Miss Gandy told me that you stopped

with Bruno Hauptmann's arrest.

- Would you like to start there?

- Yes, yes, I think we shall.

Mr. Hauptmann was brought to trial...

on January 2nd, 1935.

H.L. Mencken called this

the biggest story since the resurrection.

From the looks of things,

this may be bigger.

Well, you see, no two saws

make the same markings.

This saw from Bruno Hauptmann's

tool chest makes markings identical...

to those found on the ladder

used in the crime.

In the ransom note

and Mr. Hauptmann's writings...

he wrote the word "anyding"

for "anything", uh, "gut" for "good"...

"boad" for "boat,"

and notice the inverted capital N's.

And the Y's that look like J's.

Mr. Lindbergh, you

said you heard a voice...

in the cemetery that night.

Yes, very clearly.

A voice,

to the best of my belief...

calling Dr. Condon in a foreign accent.

"Hey, doctor."

Since that time...

have you heard the same voice?

Yes, l have.

Whose voice was it that you heard

in the cemetery that night...

saying, "Hey, doctor"?

That was Hauptmann's voice.

But did he act alone?

He never confessed,

but what sociopath ever does?

The evidence was clear.

He was indicted for murder in the

first degree while perpetrating a burglary.

In New Jersey,

that is punishable by death.

Mr. Hauptmann...

you've had an opportunity

in this courtroom today...

to tell the whole truth.

Have you told the truth?

I told the truth already.

And the statements...

to District Attorney Foley.

Did you tell him the truth?

To a certain extent.

To a certain extent you didn't

tell him the truth. ls that right?

This board that was found

in your closet, S-204...

has these numbers written on it.

Lt's a little blurred now, isn't it?

Looks like it.

Between are some words.

Lt looks like Decatur and Sedgwick.

You see that?

You know what that means, don't you?

That address on there?

Not exactly.

lt is the address and telephone number

of Dr. Condon...

the man who paid the ransom...

written in your writing,

found on a board in your closet.

Mr. Hoover, the doctor's here to see you.

Following Dr. King's historic speech...

many said that day brought about a new

awakening in the conscience of the nation.

Others called it a national disgrace.

In the long history of man's cruelty

to man, this was a day of hope.

L have a dream...

that one day...

this nation will rise up...

and live out the true meaning

of its creeds.

A man's legacy is determined by where

the story ends, Agent Owens.

Let's think about that tonight

and make a decision tomorrow.

Ls this about a man's legacy?

Or an institution's reputation?

The two are connected, Agent Owens.

One invented the other and vice versa.

Good day to you.

Yes, sir.

We the jury find the defendant,

Bruno Richard Hauptmann...

guilty of murder in the first degree.

Your Honor,

l ask for immediate sentencing.

According to the law of this state...

l rule that Mr. Bruno Hauptmann

suffer death...

at the time and place

and in the manner provided by law.

lt's death for Hauptmann!

The trial of the century...

the criminal shamed,

the FBI cemented as the public hero.

That's our, that's our ending, agent.

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