JFK Page #30

"OSWALD"

Let's take it out for a test drive.

The salesman, Bogard, is hesitant. "Oswald" doesn't look

like he's got a dime to his name.

"OSWALD"

(SENSING BOGARD'S HESITANCY)

Hey, I got a lotta money coming in

the next two weeks.

In the next scene we see the car, driven by "Oswald", zooming

up the ramp and disappearing onto the freeway.

SUSIE (V.O.)

...despite the fact he has no license

and from what marina says, does not

know how to drive, he hits the curves

like Mario Andretti at the Indy 500.

Bogard later told his boss he drove

"like a madman."

Resume the scene at the dealership.

BOGARD:

Three hundred bucks down, Mr. Oswald,

you can drive outta here with it.

"Oswald", unhappy, starts to leave.

"OSWALD"

Who you kidding! For this heap?

Forget it... No honest working man

can afford a car anymore in the

goddamn country! Maybe I'll have to

go back to Russia to buy a car...

SUSIE (V.O.)

... really dumb dialogue like he's

trying to draw attention to himself.

A real moron. He walks out. The

salesman remembers him as about 5'7",

but we know from his draft card he

was about 5'11"...

LOU:

...several witnesses see him on

several separate days at different

firing ranges.

FLASHBACK TO a Dallas firing range in 1963.

LOU:

...one time, November 9, he decides

he needs to practice on the target

of the guy next to him. Says

something really dumb to the guy,

who says Oswald was a great shot.

MAN:

Hey, watcha doing, boy... that's my

target.

"OSWALD"

Hey, sorry, buddy. I just thought

it was that sonofabitch Kennedy,

y'know. I couldn't help myself.

(laughs)

JIM:

(in present)

...about as subtle as a cockroach

crawling across a white rug.

SUSIE:

I'll go you one better, Lou. He

shows up at Silvia Odio's, a Cuban

lady in Dallas working in the anti-

Castro underground - remember that

name, a solid witness. The two Cubans

introduce him as "Leon Oswald".

FLASHBACK TO the corridor of Silvia Odio's apartment in Dallas

on a night in 1963. Oswald drags behind two Cubans - one is

"the Bull", heavyset with a scar over his left eye, who we

saw at the Canal Street incident, and the other, "the Indian",

is quiet and cold. The men ring the doorbell and talk to a

concerned Silvia as Oswald hangs back, watching, in the

shadows. The men give her intimate information about her

father, who is imprisoned in Cuba. The men chatter ad lib

in Spanish.

SUSIE:

...the Cubans want Silvia, whose

parents are political prisoners in

Cuba, to help them raise money to

assassinate Castro. Something about

the men bothers her. She tells them

she doesn't want anything to do with

violence... about 48 hours later one

of the Cubans calls her back...

We see a shot of Silvia on the phone in her apartment intercut

with a shot of "the Bull" in a gas station phone booth, on a

night in 1963.

THE BULL:

(on the phone, in

Spanish)

This guy Leon Oswald's great, he's

kinda nut... he told us we don't

any guts, us Cubans, cause Kennedy

should've been whacked after the Bay

of Pigs, and some Cubans should've

done that, it's easy to do, he says -

you know he's a Marine, an expert

shooter...

Silvia Odio is surprised to hear this information volunteered.

"The Bull's" eyes are on "Oswaldo", outside the booth with

"the Indian". They're hanging out, talking to a mystery

man, an Anglo.

SUSIE:

It's like he's giving her information

she doesn't even ask for. She's

scared, doesn't see them again till

she sees Oswald's picture in the

paper. But the Warren Commission

says she has bad eyesight because

they have Oswald in Mexico at this

time, trying to get back into Cuba.

The Cubans think he's a double agent

so they won't take him. The CIA has

a camera outside the Cuban Embassy

and says this is Oswald in Mexico.

(hands over a picture)

You figure it.

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