JFK Page #23

We see Marina and Oswald in bed at night in the Williams'

house, in a tender scene. Oswald says goodbye to his child.

TIME CUT TO Oswald living in a boarding house. It is at

night, and he sits in his room alone. The housekeeper,

Earlene Roberts, heavyset, white, in her 60's, comes in and

asks him if he wants to watch some TV with her. He declines.

SUSIE:

When he's arrested, Marina buries

him with the public. Her description

of him is that of a psychotic and

violent man.

FLASHBACK TO Marina on TV, a different person from before.

MARINA:

I do not want to believe, but I have

too much facts.. tell me that Lee

shot Kennedy.

JIM (V.O.)

Yeah, after, they take her to Six

Flags Inn in Arlington, prepare her

for the interviews, teach her how

she should answer - and after two

months and 46 interviews, she has a

nervous breakdown.

(flashback)

Oswald was no angel, that's clear,

but who was he?

BACK TO Antoine's Restaurant.

BILL:

I'm lost, boss. What are we saying

here?

JIM:

We're saying that when Oswald went

to Russia, he was not a real defector,

that he was an intelligence agent on

some kind of mission for our

government and he remained one till

the day he died, that's what we're

saying.

BILL:

And therefore because Oswald pulled

the trigger, the intelligence

community murdered their own commander

in chief. That's what you're saying!

JIM:

I'll go you one better! Maybe Oswald

didn't even pull the trigger, Bill.

The nitrate test indicates he didn't

even fire a rifle on November 22nd.

And on top of that, they didn't even

bother to check if the rifle had

been fired that day.

BILL:

He had his palm print on the weapon.

JIM:

It went to the goddamn FBI and they

didn't find a goddamn thing. It

comes back a week later and one guy

in the Dallas police department

suddenly finds a palm print which

for all I know he could've taken off

Oswald at the morgue. There's no

chain of evidence, Bill. And what

about the tow guns actually seen in

the Depository? One an Enfield

photographed by a newsman and the

other a Mauser, described by Deputy

Weitzman... Maybe, just maybe, Lee

Oswald was exactly what he said he

was Bill - "a patsy". Take it at

face value. Lou, Susie, I'm going

with my gut here. He's got an alias

of Hidell to buy the rifle, "O.H.

Lee" to rent the room, right? What's

in a name, right? In intelligence,

they're assumed to be fake. A name

is sort of like a postbox number, a

code - several different people can

use the same name, right? Then why

can't somebody be using Oswald's

name?

We see blank faces around the table.

BILL:

But why?

JIM:

To frame him, obviously. You got to

get in your minds how the hell spooks

think, Bill! They're not ordinary

crooks.

LOU:

I never could figure out why this

guy orders a traceable weapon to

that post office box when you can go

into any store in Texas, give a phony

name and walk out with a cheap rifle

which can never be traced.

JIM:

Unless he or someone else wants him

to get caught. Maybe he never ordered

the weapon, Lou. Somebody else did.

It was picked up at the post office

early morning when Oswald's time

sheet shows him clocked in at his

job. Lou, come alive. These things

are not adding up.

BILL:

I still have to question what the

legal basis is that supports this,

boss. Susie's stuff is colorful,

but...

JIM:

Let's start making some assumptions

about the man. Why would he leave a

path as big as Lee Harvey Oswald's?

This is not a thin trail, gentlemen,

it is a very wide one. Who found

the evidence? Who set him up? Lou,

Bill, Susie, I want you to go back

and check all the sightings of Oswald

in Dallas, New Orleans and Mexico in

the summer and fall of '63 - see if

it's the same guy.

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