JFK Page #29

FERRIE:

(pacing, hyper)

No problem if it's planned right.

Look how close they got with de

Gaulle. Eisenhower was always riding

around in an open top. I know

somebody who actually went up and

touched Eisenhower once. We need to

have three mechanics at three

different locations. An office

building with a high-powered rifle.

Triangulation of crossfire is the

key. You get the diversionary shot

gets the Secret Service looking one

way - Boom! You get the kill shot.

The crucial thing is one man has to

be sacrificed, then in the commotion

of the crowd the job gets done and

the others fly out of the country to

someplace with no extradition. I

could do that myself. I could fly

to Mexico, and then Brazil.

Oswald listens, playing with his rifle. Bertrand suddenly

turns cold, flashing a look at Ferrie.

BERTRAND:

Why don't we drop this subject...

it's one thing to engage in badinage

with these youngsters, but this sort

of thing could be so easily

misunderstood.

(he squeezes Ferrie)

FERRIE:

Ouch!

O'KEEFE (V.O.)

I didn't think much about it at the

time. Just bullshit, y'know,

everybody likes to make themselves

out to be something more than they

are. Specially in the homosexual

underworld. But then when they got

him

(merging to the present)

I got real scared, y'know. Real

scared. And that's when I got popped.

BACK TO the prison work area. Jim and O'Keefe continue

talking.

JIM:

Willie, are you willing to repeat

your statements under sodium

pentothal? Under the supervision of

a doctor?

O'KEEFE

F***, yeah! I told you so. And you

can tell'em all I told you so.

JIM:

You realize the things you're saying,

Willie, are going to be attacked by

a lot of different people.

O'KEEFE

Bring on all the motherfuckers!

Bring their college degrees in here!

I got nuthin' to hide. They can't

buy me. You can't buy me. I don't

even need the parole. This is about

the truth coming out. You're a

goddamn liberal, Mr. Garrison, you

don't know sh*t, cause you never

been f***ed in the ass. Fascism is

here now, Facism is...

JIM:

No one's trying to buy you, Willie.

It's important to know why you're

telling us this.

O'KEEFE

(pauses)

You wanna know why? 'Cause that

mother f***er Kennedy stole that

f***in' election, that's why! Nixon

was gonna be one of the great

Presidents 'til Kennedy wrecked this

f***in' country. Got n*ggers all

over the f***in' place asking for

their rights, where do you think we

got all this f***in' crime now, 'cause

Kennedy promised 'em too damned much.

Revolution comin'. Fascism's coming

back. I tell ya this - the day that

Communist sumbitch died was a great

day for this country. I jes' hate

to think they're blaming it on some

silly f***in' Oswald who didn't know

sh*t anyway. People should know why

that sumbitch was killed. 'Cause he

was a Communist. Put me on the stand,

go ahead, I'll tell the same goddamn

story, I'm proud of it, don't matter

f*** all to me, things don't change.

As he talks, Jim shares a sickened look with Bill. Whatever

truth he may be telling is necessarily compromised by an

attitude that could be destroyed in court.

GARRISON HOME - NIGHT(1967)

Jim, Lou, Al, Susie, and Numa sit around the table having an

after hours conference. The kids run in and out of the room,

playing. Susie is doing the talking, showing new paperwork

and photos.

SUSIE:

Your hunch was right, boss, but it's

even spookier than we thought.

Starting in September '63 on, two

months before the assassination,

there are sightings of Oswald all

over Dallas, buying ammunition,

getting a telescopic sight fixed,

going to rifle ranges... Early

November, a Dallas downtown Lincoln-

Mercury dealership where he tells

the salesman Albert Bogard...

FLASHBACK TO the Lincoln-Mercury dealership. Oswald is

deliberately kept in half or three quarter shots - a mystery

figure. He kicks the tires on a used red Mercury Comet,

cocky.

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