501 00:33:27,864 --> 00:33:29,464 544 Camp Street. 502 00:33:30,584 --> 00:33:32,384 531 Lafayette Street. 503 00:33:33,024 --> 00:33:34,624 Same building, right? 504 00:33:34,984 --> 00:33:38,904 Different addresses, different entrances, both going to the same place... 505 00:33:39,224 --> 00:33:41,024 ...to the office upstairs. 506 00:33:41,584 --> 00:33:43,104 Guess who used it? 507 00:33:45,464 --> 00:33:46,864 Lee Harvey Oswald. 508 00:33:48,264 --> 00:33:49,944 How do we know that? 509 00:33:50,344 --> 00:33:52,104 This address was stamped on... 510 00:33:52,184 --> 00:33:56,664 ...pro-Castro leaflets he handed out in the summer of '63 on Canal Street. 511 00:33:57,104 --> 00:34:00,024 The same leaflets they found in his garage in Dallas. 512 00:34:02,504 --> 00:34:06,624 After the arrest, 544 Camp St. never appeared on the pamphlets again. 513 00:34:08,024 --> 00:34:10,984 He was arrested for fighting with anti-Castro Cubans. 514 00:34:12,224 --> 00:34:14,024 But he'd contacted them already... 515 00:34:14,104 --> 00:34:17,544 ...as an ex-Marine trying to join their anti-Castro crusade. 516 00:34:18,344 --> 00:34:22,344 When they heard he was now pro-Castro, they paid him a visit. 517 00:34:22,984 --> 00:34:25,624 What's this Fidel shit? You lied to me! 518 00:34:26,864 --> 00:34:28,384 Liar! Son of a bitch! 519 00:34:28,904 --> 00:34:31,344 Do not take this Communist propaganda! 520 00:34:32,304 --> 00:34:33,944 If you want to hit me, hit me. 521 00:34:34,024 --> 00:34:35,464 You pinko shit! 522 00:34:35,744 --> 00:34:37,144 Go back to Moscow! 523 00:34:37,624 --> 00:34:39,184 There was no real fight. 524 00:34:39,264 --> 00:34:43,024 The arresting Lieutenant later said he felt it was a staged incident. 525 00:34:43,544 --> 00:34:45,864 In jail, Oswald has a private session... 526 00:34:45,944 --> 00:34:48,544 ...with Special Agent John Quigley of the FBl. 527 00:34:49,584 --> 00:34:51,024 Oswald is released. 528 00:34:51,144 --> 00:34:53,944 And Quigley destroys his notes from the interview. 529 00:34:54,144 --> 00:34:56,744 The arrest gets Oswald a lot of publicity. 530 00:34:57,384 --> 00:34:59,544 And he appears on a local TV debate. 531 00:35:00,224 --> 00:35:01,944 You are a Communist, are you not? 532 00:35:02,024 --> 00:35:06,824 No, Mr. Bringuier. I am not a Communist. I'm a Marxist-Leninist. 533 00:35:06,904 --> 00:35:10,904 Communist, Marxist-Leninist, what's the difference? 534 00:35:11,864 --> 00:35:16,624 What if I told you Oswald was trained in the Russian language in the Marines? 535 00:35:17,024 --> 00:35:19,264 I'd say he got intelligence training. 536 00:35:19,344 --> 00:35:21,344 You were a Marine. Who'd run it? 537 00:35:21,424 --> 00:35:23,304 Office of Naval Intelligence. 538 00:35:23,824 --> 00:35:25,504 Look across the street. 539 00:35:26,344 --> 00:35:27,464 Post Office. 540 00:35:27,984 --> 00:35:31,504 Upstairs, in 1963, that was the Office of Naval Intelligence. 541 00:35:32,424 --> 00:35:35,544 By coincidence, Banister, before he was FBl, was ONl. 542 00:35:36,104 --> 00:35:37,624 What's their saying? 543 00:35:37,784 --> 00:35:39,504 "Once ONl, always ONl. " 544 00:35:39,824 --> 00:35:42,184 He likes working near his old pals. 545 00:35:45,584 --> 00:35:47,184 We are standing in the heart... 546 00:35:47,264 --> 00:35:50,744 ...of the US government's intelligence community in New Orleans. 547 00:35:51,064 --> 00:35:52,264 That's the FBl. 548 00:35:52,544 --> 00:35:53,584 That's the CIA. 549 00:35:53,984 --> 00:35:55,584 That's the Secret Service. 550 00:35:55,664 --> 00:35:56,744 That's the ONl. 551 00:35:56,824 --> 00:35:59,144 Isn't this a strange place... 552 00:35:59,224 --> 00:36:01,704 ...for a Communist to spend his spare time? 553 00:36:04,864 --> 00:36:06,504 What are you driving at? 554 00:36:09,664 --> 00:36:11,624 We're going back into the case. 555 00:36:12,504 --> 00:36:14,024 The murder of the President. 556 00:36:14,104 --> 00:36:16,344 Lord, wake me. I must be dreaming. 557 00:36:16,744 --> 00:36:18,784 You're awake. I'm deadly serious. 558 00:36:19,224 --> 00:36:22,464 Let's track down your anonymous source from three years ago. 559 00:36:22,544 --> 00:36:25,624 How'd you find out David Ferrie drove to Texas that day? 560 00:36:25,784 --> 00:36:29,224 I can't remember last night, let alone three years ago, Boss. 561 00:36:33,784 --> 00:36:35,744 You're not being cross-examined. 562 00:36:35,824 --> 00:36:39,984 I need clarification about the night Guy Banister beat you over the head. 563 00:36:40,504 --> 00:36:42,584 Don't tell me you don't remember. 564 00:36:42,784 --> 00:36:47,304 You called our office from your hospital bed. You were hopping mad about it. 565 00:36:48,424 --> 00:36:49,824 Here's my problem. 566 00:36:50,344 --> 00:36:53,544 You told me you and Guy were good friends for a long time. 567 00:36:53,784 --> 00:36:56,224 - Over ten years. - And he never hit you before? 568 00:36:56,344 --> 00:36:57,704 Never touched me. 569 00:36:58,304 --> 00:37:00,384 Yet, on November 22, 1963... 570 00:37:00,464 --> 00:37:02,744 ...the day of the President's murder... 571 00:37:02,824 --> 00:37:04,664 ...the police report says... 572 00:37:05,384 --> 00:37:08,264 ...he pistol-whipped you with a. 357 Magnum. 573 00:37:09,024 --> 00:37:12,064 It also says you argued about the phone bill. Look! 574 00:37:13,384 --> 00:37:17,384 Is an argument over a phone bill a believable explanation to you? 575 00:37:20,344 --> 00:37:21,784 There's more to it. 576 00:37:23,264 --> 00:37:24,464 How much more? 577 00:37:25,144 --> 00:37:26,504 I shouldn't talk about it. 578 00:37:26,584 --> 00:37:29,704 I'd ask Guy. We were friendly. Heart attack? 579 00:37:30,384 --> 00:37:32,144 You buy what you read in the papers. 580 00:37:32,224 --> 00:37:35,344 - You have other information? - I didn't say that! 581 00:37:35,424 --> 00:37:40,544 All I know is he died suddenly. Just before the Warren Report came out. 582 00:37:42,424 --> 00:37:44,144 Why did Guy beat you, Jack? 583 00:37:51,744 --> 00:37:53,344 You were the only one here! 584 00:37:53,424 --> 00:37:55,064 The only one here! 585 00:37:59,664 --> 00:38:01,704 You didn't see a goddamn thing! 586 00:38:02,344 --> 00:38:06,184 Hell, Guy's dead, so it don't matter no more. It was all about those... 587 00:38:07,224 --> 00:38:10,344 ...people that was hanging around the office that summer. 588 00:38:11,544 --> 00:38:13,504 I was never part of the operation. 589 00:38:13,584 --> 00:38:17,264 I just handled their private-eye work as it came in for Guy. 590 00:38:17,584 --> 00:38:20,024 Not much did, but that's why I was there. 591 00:38:21,904 --> 00:38:23,304 It was a nuthouse. 592 00:38:24,424 --> 00:38:28,464 Cubans coming, going. And Christ, they all looked the same to me. 593 00:38:29,984 --> 00:38:32,544 You going to play with this rifle or pack it? 594 00:38:32,784 --> 00:38:34,104 Dave Ferrie. 595 00:38:34,304 --> 00:38:37,504 - You know about him? - We know Dave. Was he there? 596 00:38:38,384 --> 00:38:40,104 He practically lived there. 597 00:38:41,944 --> 00:38:43,664 The whole thing was... 598 00:38:44,424 --> 00:38:46,304 ...all cloak-and-dagger stuff. 599 00:38:46,464 --> 00:38:48,584 They called it "Operation Mongoose. " 600 00:38:50,344 --> 00:38:54,304 The idea was to train these Cuban exiles for another invasion of Cuba. 601 00:38:54,984 --> 00:38:57,704 Banister's office was part of the supply line... 602 00:38:57,784 --> 00:39:00,184 ...from Dallas through New Orleans to Miami. 603 00:39:00,304 --> 00:39:02,184 We stockpiled arms, explosives. 604 00:39:02,584 --> 00:39:05,784 In view of the intelligence community in Lafayette Square? 605 00:39:05,984 --> 00:39:10,024 Yes. Everybody knew everybody. They were all part of the network. 606 00:39:10,384 --> 00:39:12,104 All worked for the CIA. 607 00:39:12,944 --> 00:39:17,744 Pilots and black operators and civilians and the military. 608 00:39:18,304 --> 00:39:20,264 Everybody was running guns then. 609 00:39:21,184 --> 00:39:24,144 Ft. Jefferson, Bayou Bluff, Morgan City, you name it. 610 00:39:24,424 --> 00:39:27,304 McAllen, Texas? Big gun-run operation. 611 00:39:31,464 --> 00:39:33,744 Where does Banister fit in? 612 00:39:33,904 --> 00:39:36,544 He was running his camp north of Lake Pontchartrain. 613 00:39:36,664 --> 00:39:38,384 Ferrie did a lot of the training. 614 00:39:38,504 --> 00:39:42,864 They had a shooting range and tropical territory, like in Cuba. 615 00:39:43,504 --> 00:39:45,704 Some Americans were trained there too. 616 00:39:45,824 --> 00:39:47,624 Nazi types. Mercenaries. 617 00:39:48,704 --> 00:39:51,664 That Ferrie, though, Jesus, he was the craziest. 618 00:39:53,024 --> 00:39:57,904 Late summer the party was over. Kennedy didn't want another Bay of Pigs. 619 00:39:59,344 --> 00:40:01,464 He told the FBl, "Shut up the camp. 620 00:40:01,784 --> 00:40:04,184 "Confiscate the napalm, C-4 and all. " 621 00:40:04,784 --> 00:40:07,784 The G-men were just going through the motions. 622 00:40:08,704 --> 00:40:11,584 Their hearts were still with their old FBI buddy Banister. 623 00:40:14,144 --> 00:40:15,304 Oswald? 624 00:40:19,864 --> 00:40:21,464 He was there too. 625 00:40:22,624 --> 00:40:24,624 Sometimes meeting with Banister. 626 00:40:27,824 --> 00:40:29,224 With the door shut. 627 00:40:31,784 --> 00:40:35,544 Shootin' the bull with Ferrie, whatever. But he was there, all right. 628 00:40:35,744 --> 00:40:37,384 Anything more specific, Jack? 629 00:40:37,944 --> 00:40:39,144 It's important. 630 00:40:42,584 --> 00:40:45,224 One time, the secretary got upset. 631 00:40:45,344 --> 00:40:48,544 I can't believe it, Mr. Banister, Oswald is down on Canal Street... 632 00:40:48,624 --> 00:40:51,624 ...handing out Communist leaflets supporting Castro. 633 00:40:56,264 --> 00:40:58,744 It's okay, Delphine, he's with us. 634 00:41:01,344 --> 00:41:02,864 Was anyone else involved at... 635 00:41:02,944 --> 00:41:04,424 ...Banister's level? 636 00:41:05,344 --> 00:41:07,064 One guy. I don't know who. 637 00:41:08,064 --> 00:41:09,704 Big. White hair. 638 00:41:10,624 --> 00:41:13,824 I saw him in the office once. He looked out of place. 639 00:41:14,224 --> 00:41:16,064 You know, a society guy. 640 00:41:16,664 --> 00:41:19,424 Can't remember his name, but Oswald was with him. 641 00:41:21,144 --> 00:41:24,824 He had something to do with money, because Banister never kissed ass... 642 00:41:24,904 --> 00:41:26,704 ...but he kissed his. 643 00:41:33,904 --> 00:41:35,064 Clay something. 644 00:41:35,144 --> 00:41:36,984 That was his name. Clay... 645 00:41:37,064 --> 00:41:38,344 - Bertrand? - Yeah. 646 00:41:38,424 --> 00:41:40,624 - Clay Bertrand? - I don't know. 647 00:41:41,184 --> 00:41:43,024 - Maybe not. - No, that's right. 648 00:41:43,104 --> 00:41:44,144 I must go. 649 00:41:44,704 --> 00:41:47,624 He was in the Warren Report. He got Oswald a lawyer. 650 00:41:48,544 --> 00:41:49,784 Was Kennedy discussed? 651 00:41:49,864 --> 00:41:51,064 I don't know. 652 00:41:51,864 --> 00:41:53,544 - The assassination? - No. 653 00:41:53,664 --> 00:41:55,944 - Not with me. I've got to go. - Hold on. 654 00:41:56,144 --> 00:41:58,584 - That's all I'll say. - What's the problem? 655 00:42:02,664 --> 00:42:04,664 Do I have to spell it out for you? 656 00:42:04,744 --> 00:42:07,224 Nobody knows what we're talking about here. 657 00:42:08,824 --> 00:42:10,344 You are so naive. 658 00:42:20,504 --> 00:42:24,344 - When'd you do business with Bertrand? - Pipe the bimbo in red. 659 00:42:26,224 --> 00:42:29,064 - Lawdy. - She's not as cute as you. 660 00:42:30,304 --> 00:42:34,184 - You should try a legitimate business. - Why are you dancing on my head? 661 00:42:34,304 --> 00:42:37,464 - We've been friends since law school. - Because you're conning me. 662 00:42:37,544 --> 00:42:39,864 - I read your testimony. - Grain of salt. 663 00:42:40,144 --> 00:42:43,784 You said Clay Bertrand called you the day after the assassination... 664 00:42:43,864 --> 00:42:46,984 - ... and asked you to be Oswald's lawyer. - Right. 665 00:42:48,104 --> 00:42:49,784 That's pretty important. 666 00:42:50,224 --> 00:42:54,664 You told the FBI he's 6' 2". Then you tell the Commission he's 5' 8". 667 00:42:54,944 --> 00:42:57,384 How the hell does a man shrink like that? 668 00:42:57,784 --> 00:43:02,104 They put the heat on me, like you. I gave them whatever popped in my cabeza. 669 00:43:02,624 --> 00:43:04,584 Truth is, I never met the dude. 670 00:43:05,864 --> 00:43:08,264 - One likes friends that have friends. - Indeed. 671 00:43:08,344 --> 00:43:11,384 I don't know what that cat looks like or where he's at. 672 00:43:11,504 --> 00:43:14,144 All I know is sometimes he sends me some cases. 673 00:43:14,464 --> 00:43:17,944 One day he calls, talks to me about repping Oswald in Dallas. 674 00:43:18,184 --> 00:43:20,544 - You ever speak to Oswald in Dallas? - No. 675 00:43:20,624 --> 00:43:24,104 I told that Bertrand cat right off this ain't my scene. 676 00:43:24,264 --> 00:43:28,624 - I'm a hack. He needs a hot dog. - Then how did you get in the Commission? 677 00:43:29,304 --> 00:43:31,344 Like I told the Washington boys... 678 00:43:31,504 --> 00:43:35,384 ...Bertrand asked me that summer to help the kid upgrade his Marine discharge. 679 00:43:35,464 --> 00:43:39,544 Mr. Bertrand said he would take care of any of- 680 00:43:39,624 --> 00:43:40,344 Fine. 681 00:43:40,424 --> 00:43:44,304 - To whom am I speaking? - Clay Bertrand. I'll pay what they owe. 682 00:43:44,464 --> 00:43:48,744 There was no conspiracy. If there was, why didn't Bobby Kennedy prosecute? 683 00:43:48,984 --> 00:43:50,704 He was his brother. 684 00:43:51,424 --> 00:43:53,904 How'd so many people keep such a secret? 685 00:43:54,624 --> 00:43:58,224 - It was Oswald. He hated- - We're having a communication problem. 686 00:43:58,304 --> 00:44:02,864 I know you know who Clay Bertrand is. Stop eating that crabmeat and listen. 687 00:44:03,064 --> 00:44:07,424 I'm aware of our friendship, but I'll call you before the grand jury. 688 00:44:08,064 --> 00:44:11,824 You lie to them as you lied to me, I'll charge you with perjury. 689 00:44:12,064 --> 00:44:14,544 I took nine judges on here in New Orleans. 690 00:44:14,624 --> 00:44:17,424 I beat them all. Am I communicating with you? 691 00:44:19,384 --> 00:44:20,824 Off the record? 692 00:44:22,744 --> 00:44:25,024 In that case, let me sum it up for you. 693 00:44:29,344 --> 00:44:31,904 If I answer that question you keep asking... 694 00:44:32,784 --> 00:44:35,544 ...if I give you the name of the big enchilada... 695 00:44:36,704 --> 00:44:38,904 ...then it's bon voyage, Deano. 696 00:44:39,264 --> 00:44:41,344 Like a bullet in my head, you dig? 697 00:44:41,544 --> 00:44:45,184 You're a mouse fighting a gorilla. JFK's dead as that crabmeat. 698 00:44:45,664 --> 00:44:48,224 The government's still breathing. 699 00:44:48,664 --> 00:44:51,704 Either you give the grand jury Clay Bertrand's real identity... 700 00:44:51,784 --> 00:44:54,464 ...or your fat behind's going to the slammer. 701 00:44:54,784 --> 00:44:57,984 You're as crazy as your mama. It's in the genes. 702 00:44:58,464 --> 00:45:00,704 Do you know what you're getting into? 703 00:45:01,264 --> 00:45:05,384 The government will jump all over your head and go cock-a-doodle-doo. 704 00:45:06,064 --> 00:45:07,584 Good day to you, sir. 705 00:45:12,784 --> 00:45:15,704 District Attorney Garrison to see Prisoner 5388. 706 00:45:16,144 --> 00:45:17,744 Ward block 237B. 707 00:45:30,944 --> 00:45:33,064 We don't need gates with that swamp. 708 00:45:34,144 --> 00:45:36,944 Many of them gone in there, none of them came out. 709 00:45:50,824 --> 00:45:53,904 You got visitors here. Don't give them trouble. 710 00:45:54,584 --> 00:45:57,344 - How you doing, Mr. Broussard? - Let's go, Willie. 711 00:46:08,944 --> 00:46:11,224 Thank you, Mr. O'Keefe, for this time. 712 00:46:11,864 --> 00:46:13,544 I got nothing but time. 713 00:46:14,304 --> 00:46:16,504 Minutes, hours, days. Years of it. 714 00:46:16,944 --> 00:46:21,104 Time stands still here, like a snake sunning itself. 715 00:46:21,624 --> 00:46:22,824 Clay Bertrand? 716 00:46:26,424 --> 00:46:28,544 I met him sometime in... 717 00:46:28,904 --> 00:46:31,624 ...June of '62. The Masquerade Bar. 718 00:46:32,064 --> 00:46:34,824 Dave Ferrie took me there expressly to meet him. 719 00:46:35,344 --> 00:46:36,664 Sexual purposes? 720 00:46:38,064 --> 00:46:39,264 Did he pay you? 721 00:46:39,584 --> 00:46:42,944 $20 each time. Ain't no secret. That's what I'm in here for. 722 00:46:43,024 --> 00:46:44,544 Anything unusual about him... 723 00:46:44,624 --> 00:46:46,864 ...you'd be able to describe in court? 724 00:46:46,944 --> 00:46:50,104 He had something wrong with his leg, a limp. 725 00:46:50,224 --> 00:46:53,024 Don't get me wrong. He's not one of those limp wrists. 726 00:46:53,104 --> 00:46:56,024 He's a butch John. Meet him on the street, you'd never snap. 727 00:46:56,144 --> 00:47:00,584 You could play poker with him, go fishing, you'd never snap. 728 00:47:00,984 --> 00:47:03,344 One night we were at David Ferrie's... 729 00:47:03,584 --> 00:47:06,304 ...sometime late in the summer of '63. 730 00:47:07,944 --> 00:47:10,544 There was about nine to ten people there. 731 00:47:10,664 --> 00:47:14,944 Cuban. Friends who'd done stuff in the bush with him. Place was a mess. 732 00:47:15,224 --> 00:47:18,024 Dave's mind was a mess. He had caged mice... 733 00:47:18,464 --> 00:47:20,864 ...'cause he's working on a cancer cure. 734 00:47:22,104 --> 00:47:24,984 Dave's smart, though. Speaks five languages. 735 00:47:25,504 --> 00:47:29,744 Knows philosophy, medicine, military history, politics. 736 00:47:30,224 --> 00:47:34,144 He wanted to be a priest. They defrocked him 'cause he was queer. 737 00:47:34,424 --> 00:47:36,584 That's where you first met Oswald? 738 00:47:37,184 --> 00:47:39,584 Strange guy. Dave introduced him as... 739 00:47:39,664 --> 00:47:40,904 Leon Oswald. 740 00:47:41,224 --> 00:47:42,504 How you doing? 741 00:47:43,424 --> 00:47:45,384 What the fuck is he doing here? 742 00:47:45,464 --> 00:47:47,104 Fuck you, motherfucker. 743 00:47:49,184 --> 00:47:51,984 Leon's in a bad mood. Don't get excited. 744 00:47:52,584 --> 00:47:55,144 You said Leon was actually Lee Harvey Oswald? 745 00:47:55,264 --> 00:47:57,864 Yeah. I have no reason to lie to you. 746 00:47:58,264 --> 00:47:59,744 I'm already in jail. 747 00:48:00,264 --> 00:48:01,104 Go on. 748 00:48:01,304 --> 00:48:04,624 Finally they left and I was alone with Dave... 749 00:48:04,824 --> 00:48:06,264 ...and this Leon... 750 00:48:06,384 --> 00:48:08,864 ...two of the Cubans, and this guy Bertrand. 751 00:48:10,064 --> 00:48:12,104 Dave pulled out some clippings. 752 00:48:12,184 --> 00:48:15,264 He'd been obsessed with Castro and Kennedy for months. 753 00:48:16,544 --> 00:48:20,024 Little ass-wipe closed down the camps! Took our C-4! 754 00:48:20,144 --> 00:48:24,024 Took 10,000 rounds! 3,000 pounds of gunpowder! 755 00:48:24,104 --> 00:48:25,424 All our weapons! 756 00:48:27,024 --> 00:48:29,664 You want to free Cuba? Whack out the fucking beard! 757 00:48:29,744 --> 00:48:32,744 Kennedy won't let us. Our hands are empty. How can we? 758 00:48:32,944 --> 00:48:35,784 Problem is getting to him. Informers on every block. 759 00:48:35,864 --> 00:48:37,624 They got new stuff! 760 00:48:37,744 --> 00:48:42,224 I could show you dozens of poisons! Put it in his food, he'd die in three days. 761 00:48:42,464 --> 00:48:43,504 No trace! 762 00:48:43,584 --> 00:48:47,424 Put something in his beard, make it fall out. He'd look ridiculous... 763 00:48:48,584 --> 00:48:53,104 Fucking Kennedy is doing all kinds of deals with that bastard Khrushchev. 764 00:48:53,664 --> 00:48:55,024 Licking his ass. 765 00:48:56,344 --> 00:49:00,904 An inspired act of God should happen here and put a Texan in the White House! 766 00:49:02,664 --> 00:49:05,624 The Cubans left. Dave was drunk. 767 00:49:06,704 --> 00:49:08,664 He started in on Kennedy again. 768 00:49:08,944 --> 00:49:12,064 I will kill! In the White House! Stab him in the heart! 769 00:49:12,664 --> 00:49:14,544 Somebody must get rid of him! 770 00:49:15,864 --> 00:49:18,064 You won't get that son of a bitch! 771 00:49:18,224 --> 00:49:21,504 It won't be long. That fucker will get what he deserves. 772 00:49:21,704 --> 00:49:24,864 It could be blamed on Castro, the country will want to invade Cuba. 773 00:49:24,944 --> 00:49:27,224 We just need to get him in the open. 774 00:49:27,344 --> 00:49:30,584 Always some harebrained scheme. 775 00:49:33,784 --> 00:49:36,704 Let's have some more champagne, shall we? 776 00:49:36,784 --> 00:49:39,224 What about the Secret Service? The cops? 777 00:49:39,664 --> 00:49:43,104 If it's planned right, no problem. They got close to De Gaulle. 778 00:49:43,344 --> 00:49:45,264 Eisenhower always rode in open top. 779 00:49:45,344 --> 00:49:48,304 We need three mechanics in three different locations. 780 00:49:48,624 --> 00:49:51,064 An office building, a high-powered rifle. 781 00:49:51,424 --> 00:49:54,944 Triangulation of crossfire, that's the key. That's the key. 782 00:49:55,544 --> 00:49:58,424 A diversionary shot gets the Secret Service looking one way. 783 00:49:58,504 --> 00:50:00,184 Boom! Get the kill shot. 784 00:50:01,144 --> 00:50:03,144 One man has to be sacrificed. 785 00:50:04,264 --> 00:50:06,424 In the commotion, the job gets done. 786 00:50:06,544 --> 00:50:08,424 The others leave the country. 787 00:50:08,944 --> 00:50:13,224 Let's drop this subject. It's one thing to banter with these kids... 788 00:50:13,344 --> 00:50:17,024 ...but this sort of thing could be so easily misunderstood. 789 00:50:18,104 --> 00:50:21,224 I didn't think much about it then. It's just bullshit. 790 00:50:21,304 --> 00:50:23,984 People like to act more important than they are. 791 00:50:24,224 --> 00:50:26,064 Especially in the homosexual underworld. 792 00:50:27,584 --> 00:50:29,224 But when they got him... 793 00:50:29,664 --> 00:50:31,104 ...I got scared. 794 00:50:31,344 --> 00:50:32,704 Real scared. 795 00:50:33,184 --> 00:50:34,504 That's when I got popped. 796 00:50:34,584 --> 00:50:37,704 The things you said will be attacked by many people. 797 00:50:38,104 --> 00:50:42,544 Bring them on. Bring their college degrees in here, I got nothing to hide. 798 00:50:42,664 --> 00:50:44,584 No one can buy me. 799 00:50:44,664 --> 00:50:47,984 - I don't even need this parole. - What parole? 800 00:50:48,344 --> 00:50:52,824 You liberal, you don't know shit 'cause you never been fucked in the ass. 801 00:50:53,104 --> 00:50:56,824 This ain't about justice! No, this is about order! 802 00:50:57,184 --> 00:50:59,424 Who rules? Fascism is coming back. 803 00:50:59,544 --> 00:51:03,344 Nobody wants to buy you. No one's promising you parole. 804 00:51:05,184 --> 00:51:09,504 What I need to know is why are you telling us this. 805 00:51:09,944 --> 00:51:12,144 'Cause that motherfucker Kennedy... 806 00:51:12,224 --> 00:51:14,944 ...stole that motherfucking election, that's why. 807 00:51:15,104 --> 00:51:18,744 Nixon was going to be a great President until Kennedy wrecked this country. 808 00:51:18,824 --> 00:51:22,864 Niggers wanting rights! Why do you think we have all this crime. 809 00:51:23,184 --> 00:51:25,744 He promised those motherfuckers too much! 810 00:51:25,824 --> 00:51:28,784 Revolution's coming, bullshit! Fascism's coming back! 811 00:51:28,984 --> 00:51:33,544 The day that Communist son of a bitch died was a great day! 812 00:51:33,624 --> 00:51:35,544 A great day for this country. 813 00:51:35,824 --> 00:51:39,264 I hate to think they blame it on silly, fucking Oswald. 814 00:51:39,744 --> 00:51:41,744 Didn't know shit, anyway. 815 00:51:41,984 --> 00:51:45,264 People got to know. People got to know why he was killed. 816 00:51:45,984 --> 00:51:48,504 Because he was a Communist. 817 00:51:49,264 --> 00:51:53,544 You go ahead, put me on the stand, I'll tell the same goddamned story! 818 00:51:53,784 --> 00:51:55,384 Don't matter to me! 819 00:51:56,864 --> 00:51:58,944 All right, Willie. Thanks. 820 00:51:59,944 --> 00:52:01,344 We'll be in touch. 821 00:52:01,464 --> 00:52:02,664 All right. 822 00:52:07,784 --> 00:52:10,144 You know, you're not a bad-looking man. 823 00:52:10,744 --> 00:52:11,944 Not bad at all. 824 00:52:12,504 --> 00:52:15,464 I get out of here, I'll come see you. We can have fun! 825 00:52:15,984 --> 00:52:18,184 Their testimony won't hold up in court. 826 00:52:18,264 --> 00:52:21,224 Their reputations are lower than crocodile piss. 827 00:52:21,704 --> 00:52:23,184 That bothers you? 828 00:52:24,744 --> 00:52:28,784 If a woman's a prostitute, must she also have bad eyesight? 829 00:52:30,224 --> 00:52:32,984 Find Clay Bertrand. Start by checking around the Quarter. 830 00:52:33,064 --> 00:52:35,824 The six of us, with almost no budget and in secret... 831 00:52:35,904 --> 00:52:38,464 ...will solve a case the Warren Commission couldn't? 832 00:52:38,544 --> 00:52:42,224 - I didn't pick you for your legal skill. - Thanks, Boss. 833 00:52:42,424 --> 00:52:46,184 You're a fighter. I like a man who's not afraid of bad odds. 834 00:52:46,584 --> 00:52:49,224 Mr. Garrison, how are you? Remember me? 835 00:52:49,504 --> 00:52:50,704 You vote for me? 836 00:52:50,824 --> 00:52:54,104 I did. We sang together at the Royal Orleans, remember? 837 00:52:54,304 --> 00:52:55,424 We sang: 838 00:52:55,584 --> 00:52:58,504 "You're the cream in my coffee" 839 00:53:00,784 --> 00:53:02,664 Haven't seen you much lately. 840 00:53:02,784 --> 00:53:06,784 Been too busy. Elected men can't have as much fun as they used to. 841 00:53:06,904 --> 00:53:10,104 It's always nice to see you. Pleasure to serve you always. 842 00:53:11,904 --> 00:53:14,104 How are you? Nice to see you. 843 00:53:15,144 --> 00:53:16,664 Welcome back, Lou. 844 00:53:18,264 --> 00:53:21,544 - Think I could get a martini? - They're waiting for you, sir. 845 00:53:22,864 --> 00:53:24,824 Keep that table open for us. 846 00:53:27,704 --> 00:53:29,424 Anything on the hoboes? 847 00:53:29,864 --> 00:53:32,984 Dallas Times Herald photographer got great shots. 848 00:53:33,704 --> 00:53:35,184 Never published. 849 00:53:37,264 --> 00:53:39,704 Can't say that comes as a surprise. 850 00:53:40,544 --> 00:53:44,984 They took them to the sheriff's and let them go. No record of questioning. 851 00:53:45,864 --> 00:53:48,904 Do they look like the hoboes you remember? 852 00:53:49,784 --> 00:53:51,504 These two look young. 853 00:53:51,744 --> 00:53:55,784 Not a frayed collar or cuff, fresh haircuts and shaves... 854 00:53:55,904 --> 00:53:59,424 - ... clean hands, new shoe leather. - Who the hell are they then? 855 00:54:02,824 --> 00:54:03,944 Sit down. 856 00:54:06,384 --> 00:54:08,944 This could be it. Let's look for them. 857 00:54:09,664 --> 00:54:14,264 What about the railroad man, Lee Bowers, who saw the men at the picket fence? 858 00:54:14,784 --> 00:54:17,224 Graveyard. Dead. August this year. 859 00:54:17,784 --> 00:54:21,264 Single-car accident on an empty road in Midlothian, Texas. 860 00:54:21,544 --> 00:54:24,584 The doctor said he was in a strange shock when he died. 861 00:54:25,104 --> 00:54:26,984 We need to find more witnesses. 862 00:54:27,184 --> 00:54:29,464 There was Rose Cheramie, a whore. 863 00:54:29,744 --> 00:54:32,544 She said she was a dope runner for Jack Ruby. 864 00:54:33,064 --> 00:54:36,344 And that Ruby knew Oswald for years. 865 00:54:37,104 --> 00:54:39,744 - Can we talk to her? - She's dead too. 866 00:54:40,304 --> 00:54:41,544 Hit and run. 867 00:54:46,464 --> 00:54:48,704 Why don't we go to the horse's mouth? 868 00:54:49,224 --> 00:54:53,744 Jack Ruby's been in a Dallas jail cell for three years. Maybe he'll crack. 869 00:54:53,864 --> 00:54:57,824 Can't. If I go to him our investigation will hit the front pages. 870 00:54:58,224 --> 00:55:02,024 It'll blow up in our face. Susie, what did you find on Oswald? 871 00:55:02,424 --> 00:55:05,144 Negative on his tax records. Classified. 872 00:55:05,664 --> 00:55:08,224 First time a DA can't get a tax record. 873 00:55:08,824 --> 00:55:13,344 I asked for the CIA files on Oswald that were part of the Warren Report. 874 00:55:14,704 --> 00:55:18,744 About 1,200 documents. Can't get one of them. 875 00:55:18,904 --> 00:55:22,184 All classified as secret on the grounds of national security. 876 00:55:22,584 --> 00:55:26,624 Gave me his grammar school records. It's a study of his pubic hairs. 877 00:55:27,224 --> 00:55:28,784 Lonely kid, no father. 878 00:55:29,264 --> 00:55:31,184 Joins the Marines at 17. 879 00:55:31,664 --> 00:55:34,304 Learns Russian. Acts overtly Marxist. 880 00:55:35,144 --> 00:55:38,424 But he's stationed at a top-secret air base in Japan... 881 00:55:38,544 --> 00:55:41,344 ...where U-2 spy flights over Russia originate. 882 00:55:41,944 --> 00:55:43,424 He's discharged... 883 00:55:43,624 --> 00:55:46,984 ...supposedly because his mother's sick. Stays home three days. 884 00:55:47,104 --> 00:55:51,744 Then, with a $1,500 ticket from a $203 bank account, he goes to Moscow. 885 00:55:52,184 --> 00:55:53,824 Mr. Oswald, do you understand... 886 00:55:53,944 --> 00:55:56,904 - ... the action you are about to take? - Yes, I do, sir. 887 00:56:00,104 --> 00:56:02,264 I wish to renounce my citizenship... 888 00:56:02,984 --> 00:56:05,344 ...and become a Soviet citizen. 889 00:56:06,264 --> 00:56:09,824 I'll give them all the information I have on the Marines. 890 00:56:10,384 --> 00:56:13,304 He disappears for six weeks, presumably with the KGB. 891 00:56:14,064 --> 00:56:16,624 He's taken to a radio factory in Minsk... 892 00:56:16,704 --> 00:56:19,864 ...where he lives as high on the hog as he ever has. 893 00:56:20,064 --> 00:56:23,624 He's given 5,000 rubles, a roomy apartment with a balcony. 894 00:56:24,944 --> 00:56:26,784 Has affairs with local girls. 895 00:56:26,944 --> 00:56:28,864 Makes sense. He's a spokesman. 896 00:56:30,144 --> 00:56:33,584 But he never does any propaganda for the Russians. 897 00:56:34,704 --> 00:56:36,144 He meets Marina. 898 00:56:36,584 --> 00:56:39,584 Her uncle is a colonel in Soviet intelligence. 899 00:56:41,264 --> 00:56:43,464 She thinks he's Russian by his speech. 900 00:56:43,544 --> 00:56:46,384 Six weeks later they marry, have a daughter. 901 00:56:46,704 --> 00:56:50,704 Only explanation for the royal treatment is he gave them radar secrets. 902 00:56:50,864 --> 00:56:52,264 Or fake secrets. 903 00:56:52,344 --> 00:56:54,384 Six months after he's in Russia... 904 00:56:54,464 --> 00:56:57,784 ...Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy flight goes down... 905 00:56:58,024 --> 00:57:00,504 ...in Russia. That plane was untouchable. 906 00:57:00,784 --> 00:57:02,344 Powers hinted that Oswald... 907 00:57:02,424 --> 00:57:05,304 ...could've given the Russians enough data to hit it. 908 00:57:05,384 --> 00:57:09,744 As a result, the peace summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower failed. 909 00:57:09,824 --> 00:57:13,864 Perhaps our military didn't want the conference to happen? 910 00:57:15,104 --> 00:57:17,344 Maybe Oswald was part of that! 911 00:57:17,464 --> 00:57:21,784 - Stick to what you can prove in court. - You want facts? 912 00:57:22,384 --> 00:57:25,824 Don't get sidetracked. How'd he get back to the States? 913 00:57:26,744 --> 00:57:29,104 Does he have any problems with Uncle Sam? 914 00:57:29,184 --> 00:57:32,784 No. The State Department issues him a new passport in 48 hours... 915 00:57:32,864 --> 00:57:34,784 ...and loans him travel money. 916 00:57:35,384 --> 00:57:40,224 He's never investigated or charged for revealing classified information... 917 00:57:40,504 --> 00:57:43,104 ...or, as far as we know, debriefed by the CIA. 918 00:57:43,184 --> 00:57:47,064 Bastard should've been prosecuted as a traitor when he got off the boat. 919 00:57:48,264 --> 00:57:50,104 Did Marina have problems getting out? 920 00:57:50,184 --> 00:57:54,344 None, though it's almost impossible to get Russian sweethearts out. 921 00:57:55,224 --> 00:57:59,624 This is a man who defected once already. It's crazy. Ordinary people... 922 00:57:59,864 --> 00:58:03,064 ...get blacklisted for having leftist affiliations. 923 00:58:03,144 --> 00:58:04,344 Doesn't add up. 924 00:58:04,424 --> 00:58:07,704 Next thing, he's living in Dallas-Fort Worth, October '62... 925 00:58:08,064 --> 00:58:10,944 ...working six months at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall... 926 00:58:11,064 --> 00:58:14,384 ...a photographic firm that makes maps for the US Army. 927 00:58:15,584 --> 00:58:18,864 Oswald becomes chummy with the Dallas White Russian community. 928 00:58:18,944 --> 00:58:20,624 All rabid anti-Communists. 929 00:58:21,144 --> 00:58:22,064 It's odd. 930 00:58:22,144 --> 00:58:27,344 His closest friend is an oilman, named George DeMohrenschildt. 931 00:58:27,424 --> 00:58:32,664 He is 35 years older than Oswald, who is only 23 and supposedly broke. 932 00:58:34,584 --> 00:58:38,224 He is a part of the Dallas Petroleum Club, speaks five languages... 933 00:58:38,344 --> 00:58:41,144 ...and was a French Vichy intelligence during the war... 934 00:58:41,224 --> 00:58:44,384 ...also rumored to be a Nazi sympathizer. 935 00:58:46,784 --> 00:58:50,224 DeMohrenschildt draws a picture of Oswald as an intellectual... 936 00:58:50,304 --> 00:58:54,384 ...well read, speaks excellent Russian, a man who adored JFK. 937 00:58:57,944 --> 00:59:00,864 I think he's made some mistakes regarding Cuba. 938 00:59:01,544 --> 00:59:05,584 I think he's doing a pretty good job. If he succeeds, in my opinion... 939 00:59:05,664 --> 00:59:08,904 ...I think he'd make a great President and a handsome one, too. 940 00:59:09,144 --> 00:59:11,704 That's scenery, Susie. Now, don't get sidetracked. 941 00:59:11,784 --> 00:59:15,464 This is the same man that nailed Oswald to the Warren Commission... 942 00:59:15,544 --> 00:59:18,464 ...as a potentially violent man and linked him to the rifle. 943 00:59:18,704 --> 00:59:21,944 Well, in that sense Castro is an experimenter. 944 00:59:23,864 --> 00:59:26,104 It could go any way with that country. 945 00:59:26,264 --> 00:59:29,504 - It could go the way of the communism- - What you got there? 946 00:59:30,704 --> 00:59:32,584 Do you have rifles in there? 947 00:59:34,504 --> 00:59:39,144 Tell me what I'm shooting at, rabbits or Fascists? 948 00:59:40,424 --> 00:59:42,584 - I hunt. - You hunt? 949 00:59:43,304 --> 00:59:46,024 We don't know he's CIA. Let's circle him very probable. 950 00:59:46,104 --> 00:59:47,784 Call him Oswald's handler. 951 00:59:48,184 --> 00:59:52,384 The Oswalds are introduced to Janet and Bill Williams. 952 00:59:54,464 --> 00:59:58,824 It's through Janet Williams, in October '63, that Lee gets the job... 953 00:59:59,064 --> 01:00:02,224 ...at the warehouse on Elm Street at the Book Depository. 954 01:00:03,144 --> 01:00:07,704 So he can now exercise his intellect, stacking school texts at $1.25 an hour. 955 01:00:09,424 --> 01:00:12,624 Marina fights with Lee about many things. 956 01:00:14,904 --> 01:00:17,144 His secrecy, their lack of money. 957 01:00:18,024 --> 01:00:20,904 She says that Lee is not sexually adequate. 958 01:00:23,544 --> 01:00:25,624 Lee hits her on several occasions. 959 01:00:26,624 --> 01:00:28,024 At the age of 24... 960 01:00:28,104 --> 01:00:31,384 ...he rents a room in Dallas under the alias of O.H. Lee. 961 01:00:31,744 --> 01:00:34,584 Do you want to watch TV? Are you all right? 962 01:00:35,544 --> 01:00:37,224 No, thank you. I'm fine. 963 01:00:38,304 --> 01:00:42,024 All I know about the Williams is their tax returns are classified. 964 01:00:42,184 --> 01:00:45,544 Bill Williams has links to the CIA through his family... 965 01:00:45,784 --> 01:00:48,344 ...and does classified work for Bell Helicopter. 966 01:00:48,544 --> 01:00:52,784 Bill's convenient separation from Janet allows Marina to move into her house... 967 01:00:52,984 --> 01:00:55,784 ...where she suddenly becomes Marina's best friend. 968 01:00:55,864 --> 01:00:58,744 There Marina and Lee have a second daughter. 969 01:00:59,944 --> 01:01:02,464 I have to go away. Just for a short while. 970 01:01:03,424 --> 01:01:05,344 What's wrong with this family? 971 01:01:05,584 --> 01:01:06,784 I love Lee... 972 01:01:07,144 --> 01:01:09,184 ...and I sorry him. 973 01:01:09,744 --> 01:01:10,904 Sorry for him? 974 01:01:11,784 --> 01:01:12,544 Yes. 975 01:01:12,624 --> 01:01:15,464 When he's arrested, Marina buries him with the public. 976 01:01:15,544 --> 01:01:18,704 She describes him as a psychotic and violent man. 977 01:01:19,184 --> 01:01:20,744 I have too much facts... 978 01:01:20,824 --> 01:01:24,624 ...and facts tell me that Lee shot Kennedy. 979 01:01:24,984 --> 01:01:28,184 After being locked away by the feds for two months... 980 01:01:28,304 --> 01:01:30,344 ...and afraid she'd be deported... 981 01:01:30,664 --> 01:01:33,664 ...she was probably suffering from nervous exhaustion. 982 01:01:34,064 --> 01:01:35,984 They taught her how to answer. 983 01:01:36,104 --> 01:01:38,984 When they think she's ready, they buy her dresses... 984 01:01:39,064 --> 01:01:41,424 ...polish her appearance and wheel her out. 985 01:01:41,504 --> 01:01:44,984 - I'd like to thank the Warren Commission. - Oswald was no angel. 986 01:01:46,304 --> 01:01:47,624 But who was he? 987 01:01:47,904 --> 01:01:50,144 I'm lost. What are we saying? 988 01:01:51,224 --> 01:01:54,664 That when Oswald went to Russia, he was not a real defector. 989 01:01:55,544 --> 01:02:00,024 He was an intelligence agent for our government and remained one till he died. 990 01:02:01,224 --> 01:02:03,624 So, because Oswald pulled the trigger... 991 01:02:04,064 --> 01:02:07,024 ...the intelligence community murdered the President? 992 01:02:08,264 --> 01:02:10,504 I'll go you one better. Maybe Oswald... 993 01:02:10,584 --> 01:02:12,304 ...didn't pull the trigger. 994 01:02:12,384 --> 01:02:15,904 Nitrate tests indicate he hadn't fired a rifle on November 22. 995 01:02:15,984 --> 01:02:19,504 And they didn't bother to see if the rifle'd been fired that day. 996 01:02:20,184 --> 01:02:23,344 - His palm print was on it. - It went to the FBl. 997 01:02:23,984 --> 01:02:25,984 FBI didn't find a goddamn thing. 998 01:02:26,344 --> 01:02:30,784 It comes back a week later and a Dallas policeman suddenly finds a palm print? 999 01:02:31,424 --> 01:02:35,304 It could've been taken at the morgue. There's no chain of evidence. 1000 01:02:35,384 --> 01:02:39,664 I can't figure out why he orders a traceable weapon...