JFK Page #56

BILL:

...rumor is Shaw, a local boy, was

working on some arms deal to discredit

the civil rights movement. No one

really knows what they were doing

there, but everyone sure saw 'em.

They stood out like cottonballs. I

got whites and blacks saw 'em, but

last time I checked there was nothing

illegal with registering to vote.

We still got the Negro junkie, Vernon

Bundy, saw 'em talkin' at the seawall

near Lake Pontchartrain. But it's

tough, boss - no one wants to talk

about Shaw. He's...

LOU:

(back to present)

You know you keep saying that.

BILL:

Keep saying what?

LOU:

You're not digging.

JIM:

I think Clinton is a breakthrough.

Shaw denies he knows Ferrie or Oswald.

Is that right? It proves he's a

liar. Keep on it, Bill.

(a look from Lou)

SUSIE:

This is interesting - are you ready

for this? Oswald went to see the

FBI two weeks before the

assassination. It seems Special

Agent Hosty made three routine visits

to his house, supposedly to keep an

eye on Marina Oswald.

FLASHBACK TO Dallas FBI Office in 1963. Oswald is at the

counter addressing the female receptionist.

OSWALD:

I want to see Special Agent Hosty.

RECEPTIONIST:

I'm sorry, he's not in. Can someone

else help you?

OSWALD:

Can I use a pen?

SUSIE (V.O.)

He left a note. Hosty told a Dallas

newspaperman it was a warning to him

to stop questioning Marina at their

home when Oswald was not present.

She was not a citizen, so possibly

he was threatening to deport her

back to Russia.

TIMECUT TO FBI James Hosty confronting his agitated superior,

FBI Agent Shanklin in one of his cubicles.

SUSIE:

But what the note really said no one

knows because his boss Shanklin told

Hosty...

SHANKLIN:

(reading the note)

Oswald's dead now. There's no trial.

Get rid of it. I don't even want

this in the office. Get rid of it,

Hosty.

(he gives it back to

Hosty)

SUSIE (V.O.)

Hosty tore it up and flushed it down

the toilet. Waggoner Carr, the

Attorney General of Texas, says he

had evidence from the Dallas Sheriff's

office that Oswald had been employed

as an undercover informant for the

FBI at a salary of $200 a month,

beginning more than a year before

the murder.

JIM:

(in present)

This is just speculation, people,

but what if the note was describing

the assassination attempt on J.F.K.?

(the staff seem

surprised by the

thought)

Come on guys, think - that's the

only reason to destroy it, because

if it was any kind of threat, like

Hosty said, they would've kept it

'cause it makes their case against

the "angry lone nut" stronger!

Remember the New Orleans meeting

with Agent Quigley the day he got

busted?

FLASHBACK TO Oswald, under arrest, meeting with Quigley.

JIM:

...there again Quigley destroyed the

notes of the meeting. I think we

can raise the possibility that Oswald

not only was an informant but that

he may well have been the original

source for the telex we have dated

November 17 warning of the Kennedy

assassination in Dallas on November

22.

Holds up the telex. We see a close-up: "URGENT TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR."

JIM:

William Walter, the night clerk on

duty here in the FBI office, gave me

a copy of this. It went all over

the country. Nothing was done, and

the motorcade went ahead on schedule -

and this wasn't even mentioned in

the Warren Report! Read it, Al.

AL (V.O.)

"Threat to assassinate President

Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, November

22-23. Information received by the

Bureau has determined that a militant

revolutionary group may attempt to

assassinate President Kennedy on his

proposed trip to Dallas, Texas, etc,

etc..."

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