JFK Page #31

Jim looks at the famous photo... the camera closes in on a

heavyset man who looks nothing like Oswald. Liz has come

back in and overhears.

AL:

If this is Oswald, it must be our

third Oswald.

JIM:

The interesting thing is the extent

to which the Warren Commission went

to make him a Communist. They got

almost 150 pages and 130 exhibits of

the report on this Mexico trip and

the picture doesn't even match. I'm

beginning to think the point of the

Mexican episode was to lay the blame

at Castro's door. If Oswald, or

someone purporting to be Oswald, had

gotten into Cuba, come back, then

killed the President, the American

public once again would've screamed

for a Cuban invasion...

Susie picks up the famous Life magazine cover shot of Oswald

holding a rifle in his backyard.

SUSIE:

I even have doubts about this photo,

boss. It pretty much convicted Oswald

in the public mind. Well, according

to Captain Fritz, Oswald told him

during his interrogation the photo

was fake.

FLASHBACK TO the Dallas Homicide Office in 1963. Oswald is

being interrogated by Will Fritz, Dallas Homicide Chief, who

shows him the original of the photo from the Williams garage.

OSWALD:

That's not me.

FRITZ:

It came from Janet William's garage.

OSWALD:

Well, I never saw that picture. It

is my face, but my face has been

super-imposed - the rest of the

picture is not me at all. I've done

a lot of photographic work, and that

picture was made by someone else.

FRITZ:

So who the hell are you? Alex Hidell

or Oswald?

OSWALD:

Well, you're the policeman, you work

it out.

SUSIE:

(in the present)

Oswald, who worked for Jaggars-Chiles-

Stovall, did know spy photography

pretty well. I took this picture to

two experts. Look at the way the

shadows on the nose fall in a straight

line like it's high noon. But the

shadow here on the ground reads like

late afternoon or early morning.

It's not the same time. Also look

at the crop marks across the chin.

It seems like his head is pasted on

somebody else's body implicating him

with this rifle and gun.

We see a blowup of the photo - the shadows, the crop mark.

SUSIE:

And of the two newspapers in his

hands, one is Leninist, the other

Trotskyite. Any genuine Socialist

would know they hate each other's

politics!

FRENCH QUARTER - SAME NIGHT(1967)

Broussard walks past a jazz wake leaving the cemetery - black

flambeurs carry torches, people sing "When the Saints Go

Marching in". Bill is with a local gambler type.

MOBSTER:

Clay Bertrand? Sure I know him. He

comes around the Quarter.

BILL:

Who is he, Joe? I've been to every

bar, no one wants to talk.

MOBSTER:

I told your uncle I never met a lawman

who wasn't a punk. You too, Bill,

even if you're family. He's a big

shot businessman. I seen him on the

TV news a lot with all the other big

shots. A fag, you know. Goes by

another name down here.

BILL:

(excited)

What's the other name?

MOBSTER:

Shaw. Clay Shaw.

BILL:

(stunned)

Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw? The guy

who used to run the International

Trade Mart?

MOBSTER:

Yeah, what's the big mystery?

Everybody down here knows the guy.

BILL:

So why does he call himself Bertrand?

MOBSTER:

Who gives a sh*t what he calls

himself?

BACK AT GARRISON'S HOME -(1967)

SUSIE:

...now it gets positively spooky.

In January, 1961 - in New Orleans,

at the Bolton Ford Dealership - when

the Oswald we know is in Russia -

there is a man using the name "Oswald"

to buy trucks for the Friends of

Democratic Cuba. The salesman never

saw him again, but guess who's on

the articles of incorporation of the

Friends of Democratic Cuba? Guy

Banister.

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others)

Banister has someone using the name

"Oswald" to buy the trucks. Hoover,

at the FBI, writes a memo dated June,

1960, that there could be someone

using Oswald's passport and identity.

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