JFK Page #22

AL:

Where'd you get all this Nazi stuff?

SUSIE:

(hands him a file)

Read it. They called it "Project

Paperclip."

JIM (V.O.)

This is the guy that keeps turning

up in colonial countries and each

time something strange happens.

Coup d'etats, presidents overthrown.

He shows up on a "walking tour" of

Guatemala's Cuban invasion camps

just before the Bay of Pigs invasion.

If we don't know he's CIA, let's

circle him very probable - Oswald's

handler.

We see Oswald and de Mohrenschildt talking with the others

and a magazine cover with J.F.K. the subject of discussion.

OSWALD:

I think he's made some mistakes on

Cuba, but he's doing a pretty good

job. If he succeeds, in my opinion,

he'll be a great President. And a

really attractive one too - open

features, great head of hair...

(laughs)

SUSIE (V.O.)

De Mohrenschildt draws a picture of

Oswald as an intellectual, well read,

speaks excellent Russian, a man who

adored J.F.K.

JIM:

That's scenery. Don't get

sidetracked. This is the man, bottom

line, who nailed Oswald to the Warren

Commission as a potentially violent

man, and linked him to the rifle.

TIME CUT TO Oswald's apartment on a different day in 1963.

George de Mohrenschildt points out a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle

in the closet, turns to Lee.

GEORGE:

So, Lee, what are you taking a potshot

at this week - rabbits or fascists?

Lee's look is sickly. He freezes up.

RESUME scene of White Russian gathering in Oswald's apartment.

SUSIE:

The only Russian that suspects Oswald

of still being a Communist is Anna

Meller. But her Russian friend tells

her "he's checked" with the local

FBI and was told Oswald is all right.

Anna Meller, one of the guests, glances at a copy of Das

Kapital in a pile of books, and talks to another Russian man

about it... Talking now to Lee and Marina are Janet and Bill

Williams, a mid-American couple in their late twenties,

freshly minted.

SUSIE:

The Oswalds are introduced by George

de Mohrenschildt to Janet and Bill

Williams. It's through Janet Williams

in October '63 that Lee gets the

warehouse job, right smack on Elm

Street at the Book Depository, which

is owned by another oilman with ties

to defense and military intelligence.

JIM (V.O.)

Presumably so he can now exercise

his intellect stacking school texts

at $1.25 an hour.

We see Oswald and another man in the Texas School Book

Depository in 1963. They are hauling and stacking school

textbooks - an obviously lower-level job for Oswald after

the map factory. We cut ahead to empty graphics of the sealed

off area, the window site, the cafeteria.

SUSIE (V.O.)

All I can find out about the Williams'

is their tax returns are classified

and that Bill Williams, a descendant

of the Cabots of Massachusetts, has

links through his family and United

Fruit to the CIA and does classified

work for Bell Helicopter which

requires a security clearance - so

what is Oswald, a defector, doing

visiting his wife in his house?

Williams has a relationship at Bell

with General Walter Dornberger,

another one of the Nazis we brought

in after the War for our missile

program. He used slave labor to

build the V-2 Rockets for Hitler

before Bell needed him.

JIM:

I wonder about the Williams'. Just

where did the first description of

Oswald come from at 12:44? No one

knows. They claimed it was Brennan's,

but his description came after 1

P.M. Who called? Somehow the FBI's

been tapping the Williams' and picks

up a call between Bell Helicopter

and Janet's phone, an unidentified

voice saying "We both know who's

responsible." Who called? Why's

the Bureau been tapping them?

We see the interior of the Williams' home in Irving on a day

in 1963.

SUSIE (V.O.)

His wife, Janet Williams, studied

Russian in college and her father

worked for the Agency for

International Development, which

works hand in hand with the CIA.

She suddenly becomes Marina's best

friend. Marina fights often with

Lee about many things - his secrecy,

the lack of money. She says Lee is

not sexually adequate. Lee hits her

on several occasions. Bill Williams'

convenient separation from Janet

allows Janet to invite Marina to

move into her house in Irving. There

Marina and Lee have a second daughter -

while Lee, now 24, stores his

belongings in Janet's garage and

rents a small room in Dallas under

an alias of "O.H. Lee".

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