JFK Page #12

JIM:

You know, something always bothered

me about that from day one, and I

can't put my finger on it.

LONG:

If I were investigatin', I'd round

up the 100 best riflemen in the world

and find out which ones were in Dallas

that day. You been duck hunting? I

think Oswald was a good old-fashioned

decoy. What'd he say? "I'm just a

patsy." Out of the mouth of babes

y'ask me.

JIM:

You think there were other men

involved, Russell?

Russell looks at Jim quizzically and laughs.

LONG:

Hell, you're the District Attorney.

You read the Warren Report - and

then you tell me you're satisfied

Lee Oswald shot the President all by

his lonesome.

JIM:

Russell, honestly you sound like one

of those kooky critics spreading

paranoia like prairie fire. I just

can't believe the Chief Justice of

the United States would put his name

on something that wasn't true.

LONG:

(to the stewardess)

Honey, another one of these. This

one's as weak as cricket pee-pee.

Yessir, you mark my words, Jim,

Vietnam's gonna cost Johnson '68 and

it's gonna put that other varmint

Nixon in - then watch your hide,

'cause there ain't no offramps on a

freeway to Hell!

GARRISON'S STUDY - NIGHT(1966)

The study is lined with bookshelves up to the ceiling; we

see photos of family, a chess set. Jim, smoking his pipe,

reads in a red leather chair from one of the 26 thick Warren

Commission volumes piled all over the place. Liz enters.

Jasper, now 7, draws on a piece of paper on the floor at

Jim's feet.

LIZ:

Jim, dinner's just about ready...

I've got a surprise for you... tried

something new... Jim? Jim, dinner.

JIM:

(lost in thought)

Mmmmm... sure smells good... but

Egghead, do you realize Oswald was

interrogated for twelve hours after

the assassination, with no lawyer

present, and nobody recorded a word

of it? I can't believe it. A police

captain with 30 years experience and

a crowd of Federal agents just had

to know that with no record anything

that Oswald said would be inadmissible

in court.

LIZ:

Come on now, we'll talk about it at

the table, dinner's getting cold.

(to Jasper)

What are you doing in here?

JASPER:

Daddy said it was all right if I was

real quiet.

JIM:

(rising to dinner)

Sure it is. Freckle Face, if I ever

handled a minor felon like that,

it'd be all over the papers. I'd

catch hell. And this is the alleged

murderer of the President?

GARRISON DINING ROOM - (1966)

Two-year-old Elizabeth watches "Crusader Rabbit" on TV as

the new one-year-old sits in diapers with Liz at one end of

the dinner table. Jim sits at the other end. There are

five kids now, ages 7, 5, 4, 2 and 1... and Mattie, the

housekeeper. Dinner's finished, they pass plates, the

children horse around... the boxer dog, Touchdown, begs for

a piece of the action. Jim, not a big eater, feeds him ice

cream.

JIM:

Again and again they ignore credible

testimony, leads are never followed

up, its conclusions are selective,

there's no index, it's one of the

sloppiest, most disorganized

investigations I've ever seen. Dozens

and dozens of witnesses in Dealey

Plaza that day are saying they heard

shots coming from the Grassy Knoll

area in front of Kennedy and not the

Book Depository behind him, but it's

all broken down and spread around

and you read it and the point gets

lost.

MATTIE:

I never did believe it either!

LIZ:

(politely listening)

Uh huh... Mattie, I'll do the dishes,

you take Be up now. And Elizabeth,

too, your bedtime, honey.

ELIZABETH JR.

Nahhhh! I don't wanna go to bed!

LIZ:

Honey, that was three years ago - we

all tried so hard to put that out of

our minds, why are you digging it up

again? You're the D.A. of New

Orleans. Isn't the Kennedy

assassination a bit outside your

domain? I mean all those important

people already studied it.

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