Killing Kennedy Page #4

Synopsis: Based on Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's best seller comes this shocking thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin. As John F. Kennedy (Lowe) rises to become U.S. president, a former Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of history is changed forever as seen in this mesmerizing film about the assassination of JFK - and its chilling aftermath.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Nelson McCormick
Production: National Geographic Entertainment
  Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
PG-13
Year:
2013
87 min
Website
293 Views


Cutie, cutie! Who's got you?

That's right. Come here.

Papa's got you.

There you are.

Papa's gonna be president someday.

President?

Well, I could be

in 20 years or so.

How you be famous, huh?

How you be president

if you don't do anything?

How do you think

Kennedy became president?

His daddy bought it for him.

'Cause money buys everything here.

You know that.

Very handsome.

Hey!

You know you're not supposed

to say that about other men.

Well, if not me, then your

brother will be president.

I left you as much

money as I could.

$60 on the second of the month.

You and the baby can live for another

two months using $10 a week.

If I'm alive and

taken prisoner,

the city jail is located

at the end of the bridge,

through which we always passed

on going to the city.

This is the key to the mailbox

which is located in the main post

office in the city on Ervay Street.

You will find the mailbox

in the post office

which is located four blocks from

the drugstore on that street.

I paid for the box last month,

so don't worry about it.

Send the information as to what

has happened to me to the embassy

and include

newspaper clippings,

should there be anything

about me in the newspapers.

I believe that the embassy

will come quickly

to your assistance

on learning everything.

I paid the house rent on the

2-D, so don't worry about it.

Recently I also paid

the water and gas.

The money from work

will possibly be coming.

Certain of my documents

are in the small blue valise.

The address book can be found on the table

in the study, should you need the same.

The Red Cross will also help you.

Red Cross in English.

You can either throw out or give

my clothing, etcetera, away.

However, I prefer that you

hold on to my personal papers.

I did it.

I shot General Edwin Walker.

I just killed a very dangerous man.

Police here?

Why?

Why you shoot a man?

To show that I'm ready.

To show everyone.

And now, people will

think I'm a hero.

And now

we bring you a special report.

We have just learned that there

has been an assassination attempt

on the life of General Edwin A.

Walker of Dallas.

Walker was sitting at a desk in his home

when a bullet came through his window.

The bullet narrowly

missed Walker.

According to federal

authorities,

a neighbor witnessed two men in

an alley behind Walker's house

get into their cars

and drive away.

Walker...

You're kidding me.

You're kidding me! Two men?

Two men.

The FBI is stupid!

God damn it.

Alik?

I had him.

He must have moved his head at the last

minute. My aim was perfect. I know it.

God damn it.

Damn it, damn it, damn it,

damn it, damn it, damn it.

I was happy to see that in the

end it worked out for you down there.

What happened?

Well, the party's been going to

hell over the last six years.

I don't mean to throw any stones at

the man, but Daniel. Price Daniel.

Well, we have no leadership.

But we've made inroads

with that since the election.

No, you've done all right.

Except that they've got a lot of

organization on that side of the party.

This is true.

Well, the way

I see it, it looks like

it could very well

come down to Texas again,

and we're gonna need the money and

the votes and we do something for it.

What's the plan?

Well, I defer to the governor.

Maybe I can host a

dinner in Austin.

The three of us on a tour.

We do Austin,

San Antonio and Dallas.

No, not Dallas. You lost the hell

out of Dallas by 60,000 votes.

I lost by 20,000.

They just murdered all of us.

That's why we're

gonna change that.

What looks good, Kenny?

Dallas isn't safe.

Housewives came out of their houses to

spit on me during the '60 campaign.

November. Say a week

before Thanksgiving.

All right.

Let's book it.

Marina.

Marina, goddamn it,

where are my guns?

Nixon's in town.

I want to have a look.

Why need gun for look?

Promise me you'll

never shoot no more people.

Okay, I promise.

Promise me you'll get job.

Every time I get a job, the damn

FBI tells them I'm a communist.

No! It's not good here.

Why? Why you bring us here?

Dallas no good.

Well, maybe I'll go

to New Orleans.

Maybe they won't follow me there.

I'll get a job down there.

Okay.

Is better.

Alik.

I promise.

I promise, Mama.

Yes.

Thank you.

Fair play for Cuba? Tell the President

to keep his hands off Cuba.

Fair play for Cuba.

Fair play for Cuba?

I ask you, what do you

know about Cuba?

I'm recruiting for the

Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

I'm from Cuba.

I know Cuba.

Our homeland was taken from us

by a communist dictator.

The Cuban people want

Castro as their leader.

No, he's a killer. He sent

our children to execution.

Give me those!

This man is a communist!

I have rights!

He's an agent of Castro!

Go back to Cuba!

You FBI?

I asked specifically

to speak to an FBI agent.

Yes.

I'm Agent John Quigley.

This is supposed

to be a free country.

I was arrested for exercising

my right to free speech

and I've been here

all night long.

I understand that you

and the other three men

were charged with

disturbing the peace.

I did not disturb the peace.

I was attacked for my beliefs.

You're pro-Cuba?

Pro-Castro?

I belong to

Fair Play for Cuba, yes.

And who is AJ Hidell?

Hidell. He issued that

membership card to me.

Mr. Hidell is the president

of the committee.

Hidell is name you make up.

You tell FBI Hidell

rhyme with Fidel?

Tell FBI you want

name our baby Fidel?

All you do all day,

pass out Cuba paper.

Still no job.

Only Cuba, Cuba, Cuba.

You know, Cuba

not care about you.

Marina!

Look at you. Great man,

genius, and no one knows it.

You're going back to Texas.

You call that friend of yours, the

one you gave the Russian lessons to.

Tell her to come

get you and Junie.

Ruth? You no like Ruth.

She'll take care of you

till the baby comes.

Marina, as soon as

you get back to Dallas...

When you get back to...

I need to go

to Cuba immediately.

I have to.

I am sorry, but as I explained,

you will need a Soviet visa.

You're not listening to me.

I need you to make

an exception.

I've proven my support

of President Castro.

Mr. Oswald, I am telling you,

it will take four months.

No, I don't have enough money to

stay in Mexico for four months.

Then go back to the United

States, and you wait.

I'm being harassed in the United States.

I am sorry, Mr. Oswald.

I'm being persecuted

and followed by the FBI

because of my support

of President Castro,

your leader who they have

sought to overthrow.

Don't you care about your own country?

Go home, Mr. Oswald.

I don't have a home.

That's not my home.

The dramatic miracle

of birth and a fight for life

takes place at the Otis Air

Force Base Hospital on Cape Cod

as Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy

bears a premature son.

The baby, the first to be born to

a White House family in 68 years,

was the object of worldwide attention

during his dramatic fight for life.

You all right?

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Kelly Masterson

Kelly Masterson is an American screenwriter, playwright and writer who lives in New York. He wrote the screenplay for the film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, for which he is perhaps best known. Before moving to New York to stage several of his early plays, he studied Theology at the University of California, Davis.He tried to get the script for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, made seven years before director Sidney Lumet agreed to direct it. In describing his script he has said: "I don't know. It was winter, and I was depressed I guess when I was writing it. I'm fascinated by the folly of human nature. I love characters who we understand and sympathize with, but we just shake our heads at how stupidly they act. This probably comes from my theology background but I love the big themes of good and evil and how we're such a combination of both. We try to chart a path that's on the side of good, but we all have evil impulses in us."Subsequent to his success with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, he has worked in several media including stage plays, film and television. Masterson's play Edith. about Woodrow and Edith Wilson premiered at the Berkshire Theater Festival in 2012. He also collaborated with Korean director Bong Joon-ho on the critically acclaimed Snowpiercer, an English-language production that received a North American release in 2014. Masterson wrote the teleplay for the television movie, Killing Kennedy, which aired in November 2013 on the National Geographic Channel. more…

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