JFK Page #55

JIM:

Earle Cabell. And guess who his

brother is?

LOU:

Who?

JIM:

General Charles Cabell. Deputy

Director of the CIA. Fired by Kennedy

in '61 because of the Bay of Pigs

fiasco, he moved back to the Pentagon,

called Kennedy a "traitor". When he

came to New Orleans to address the

Foreign Policy Association, you know

who introduced him? Our friend Clay

Shaw.

LOU:

The Warren Commission call him?

JIM:

(shaking his head)

His boss was the one on the Warren

Commission who handled all the leads

to the intelligence community.

LOU:

Allen Dulles?

JIM:

(he nods)

Head of the CIA since '53. Kennedy

fired them both. Cabell was his

deputy for nine years.

(sickened)

Talk about the fox investigating the

chicken coop. Now we'll have to

subpoena them, Lou.

LOU:

They're gonna love you, chief.

Lou walks to another window in the empty Book Depository

where Oswald supposedly did his dirty deed and looks out

over the plaza, with all its ghosts. Jim and Lou are two

men - with only two men's power. A terrible aloneness

pervades their minds.

JIM:

Maybe we should just call it a day,

Lou. Go home. While we're still a

little behind. We got two people

killed, maybe more we never thought

about.

LOU:

You never got anyone killed, boss.

Their actions killed them years

before. If we stopped now, it'd be

even more wrong.

FLASHBACK TO 1963 - the sixth floor of the Texas School Book

Depository - the same place Jim and Lou are now. Jim looks

around and sees one shooter and one spotter with a lunchbox

radio, in repairman clothes. Jim is watching. Neither of

these men is Oswald. We hear the sounds of the motorcade

below. The shooter pulls the trigger on the Carcano. A

loud frightening sound snaps Jim back to the present.

JIM:

(in present)

Subpoena them, Lou - Dulles, the

Cabells, Time-Life... the whole damned

lot of 'em!

GARRISON'S OFFICE - 9 MONTHS LATER - 1968

We see another smoke-filled conference of assistants.

Paperwork is stacked in the corners almost to the ceiling;

there are coffee cups and doughnuts on desks. The

disorganization and lack of resources are apparent. The

staff working on this project now numbers some eleven people,

and there are some new investigators and assistants. We

sense that the trial is drawing closer.

AL:

The U.S. Attorney in Washington

"declines" to serve our subpoena on

Allen Dulles, Charles Cabell, CIA

Director Richard Helms, or any FBI

agent we named.

JIM:

Well, what do you expect from a pig

but a grunt.

AL:

Without them, it's going to be near

impossible, chief, to prove Shaw's

connection to the CIA. We got the

same problem with the governors.

All of them. Reagan in California

won't give us Brading, Ohio refuses

Orville Townsend, Texas on Arcacha,

and Nebraska on Sandra Moffet.

BILL:

What the hell is going on? Never

before has an extradition request

from this office been refused.

AL:

We haven't tried to get Julia Anne

Mercer in?

JIM:

No, she could get hurt. If you

believe what's happening to these

other people.

NUMA:

She's the best damn witness we have!

JIM:

I just don't want to do it. What

else?

Numa is opening another stack of letters. The dollar bills

keep coming. He points to two giant stacks of mail.

NUMA:

Hate mail here. Fan mail here. The

bad news is the IRS has just requested

an audit on your income from this

office.

JIM:

(he snorts)

I expected that two months ago, and

they're wasting their time... The

bad news is the National Guard has

just asked me to resign after 18

years.

(we see his hurt)

Well, maybe that's good news - it

was never as good as combat, but

this is. Bill, any more on Oswald

and Shaw?

BILL:

Yeah. They were seen together in

Clinton in early September. The

Civil Rights Movement was running a

voter registration drive.

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