JFK Page #13

JIM:

I can't believe a man as intelligent

as Earl Warren ever read what's in

those volumes.

LIZ:

Well maybe you're right, Jim. I'll

give you one hour to solve the case...

until the kids are in bed.

(rising, she puts her

arms around him from

behind and kisses

his ear)

Then you're mine and Mr. Kennedy can

wait 'til morning. Come on, everybody

say goodnight to Daddy.

JASPER:

(showing his drawing)

Dad, look what I drew.

JIM:

(rising)

That's something, Jasper. What is

it?

JASPER:

A rhinoceros. Can I stay up another

hour?

Virginia and Snapper each get one of Jim's shoes as he dances

with them, holding one with each hand.

JIM:

(dancing)

Pickle and Snapper, my two favorite

dancing partners.

As the children dance, they fall off Jim's feet, laughing

and giggling. He throws each in the air and kisses them.

JIM:

Goodnight, my doodle bugs.

KIDS:

Goodnight, Daddy.

Liz comes over, smiling. Jim takes her in his arms.

LIZ:

One hour, y'hear? Some Saturday

night date you are.

(sighs)

Mama warned me this would happen if

I married such a serious man.

JIM:

Oh, she did, huh? When I come up

I'll show you how Saturday night got

invented.

GARRISON STUDY - LATER THAT NIGHT(1966)

The clock on mantelpiece reads 3 A.M. Jim is alone, smoking

his pipe.

In the stillness, his mind crawls all over the place. The

camera closes on the thickly-worded pages of the Warren

Report.

FLASHBACK TO the Warren Commission hearing room in Dallas,

1964. We hear thin, echoey sound as the attorneys question

some of the witnesses.

The overall effect is vague and confusing, as is much of the

Warren Report. A Mr. Ball is questioning Lee Bowers, the

switchman in the railroad yard. Bowers, in his early 40's,

has a trustworthy, working-man face and a crew cut.

BOWERS:

I sealed off the area, and I held

off the trains until they could be

examined, and there was some

transients taken on at least one

train.

ATTORNEY:

Mr. Bowers... is there anything else

you told me I haven't asked you about

that you can think of?

BOWERS:

Nothing that I can recall.

ATTORNEY:

Witness is excused.

Jim, upset, reads on... Another witness, Sgt. D.V. Harkness

of the Dallas Police responds to a second attorney.

SGT. HARKNESS

Well we got a long freight that was

in there, and we pulled some people

off of there and took them to the

station.

We see another FLASHBACK - to the Dallas rail yards on the

day of the assassination. Three hoboes are being pulled off

the freight by the Dallas policemen.

ATTORNEY (V.O.)

You mean some transients?

SGT. HARKNESS (V.O.)

Tramps and hoboes.

ATTORNEY (V.O.)

Were all those questioned?

FLASHBACK TO Dealey Plaza an hour or less after the

assassination. The three hoboes are marched by shotgun-toting

policemen to the Sheriff's office at Dealey Plaza. We note

that they do not look much like hoboes.

SGT. HARKNESS (V.O.)

Yes, sir, they were taken to the

station and questioned.

JIM:

(astounded)

And?

(writes "incomplete")

ATTORNEY (V.O.)

(switching subjects)

I want to go back to this Amos Euins.

(voices dribble off)

BOWERS (V.O.)

Yes sir, traffic had been cut off

into the area since about 10, but

there were three cars came in during

this time from around noon till the

time of the shooting... the cars

circled the parking lot, and left

like they were checking the area,

one of the drivers seemed to have

something he was holding to his

mouth... the last car came in about

7 to 10 minutes before the shooting,

a white Chevrolet, 4-door Impala,

muddy up to the windows.

The camera's point of view is now from the railroad tower

near Dealey Plaza. We are fourteen feet off the ground,

overlooking the parking lot behind the Grassy Knoll. The

shot includes this last car circling in the lot.

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