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The rifle, a cheap World War II, Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano...

...was ordered from a Chicago mailing house...

...and shipped to Oswald's alias, A. Hidell...

...at a post office box in March of 1963.

This same rifle was used to assassinate the President.

That ties it up.

Another nut. Jesus Christ, anybody can get a rifle in Texas!

As far as Oswald's associates, one name keeps popping up: David Ferrie.

Oswald was seen with him several times last summer.

I know David. Strange character.

He's been in trouble before. He was a hot-shot pilot for Eastern Airlines.

Got canned after an alleged homosexual incident.

These photos were found yesterday among Oswald's possessions...

...in the garage where Marina Oswald and her children are living.

Somebody mentioned Ferrie on that Texas trip. Find that out.

He no shoot anyone.

He good man. Good husband.

So it seems David Ferrie drove off on Friday afternoon for Texas.

A source said he might have been a getaway pilot for Oswald.

Hold your horses.

What kind of source?

The anonymous kind, Chief.

I remember Ferrie speaking at a meeting of some veterans' group...

...ranting against Castro. Extreme stuff.

They're bringing him out. Numa, turn it up.

Here he comes!

Anything to say in your defense?

Oswald!

He shot him!

He shot him on TV!

There's a man with a gun!

Seventy cops there. What were they doing?

No trial now. Somebody just saved the Dallas DA a pile of work.

Let's get David Ferrie in here anyway.

It's wrong. This is crazy!

Yesterday, in the midst of sorrow, the business of government went on.

The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge, our Ambassador to Vietnam...

...and members of his Cabinet.

The major subject was Vietnam...

...a crisis that does not pause for bereavement.

From this meeting...

...came affirmations that the US would continue aiding...

...the new government of Vietnam in its war against the Communist insurgents.

David Ferrie.

Come on in.

Thanks for coming.

Remember me? We met on Carondelet Street after your election.

I remember. You make quite an impression.

I've heard you're a first-rate pilot.

Legend has it you can get in and out of the smallest field.

I'm a pilot myself. Flew grasshoppers for the field artillery in the war.

Make yourself comfortable.

Mind if I smoke?

How could I?

As you know, President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday.

A man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested as a suspect...

...then murdered yesterday by a man named Jack Ruby.

We've had reports that Oswald spent the summer here...

...and that you knew Oswald.

I've never met anyone named Oswald. Anyone who told you that has to be crazy.

He served in your Civil Air Patrol unit when he was a teenager.

If he did, I don't remember him.

Lots of boys in and out.

Surely you've seen this. Perhaps you knew him under another name?

I never saw him before in my life.

Then we must have gotten mistaken information.

Thanks for straightening it out.

There's one other matter.

We heard you went to Texas shortly after the assassination on Friday.

True. I drove to Houston.

What was so appealing about Houston?

I hadn't been ice-skating lately. Some young friends and I...

...decided to go skating.

Why the urge to ice-skate in Texas...

...during one of the worst thunderstorms in recent memory?

Spur-of-the-moment thing.

Storm wasn't that bad.

Where did you drive?

We went to Houston.

Saturday we drove to Galveston, and stayed there.

And Sunday?

In the morning, we went goose hunting.

Did you bag any?

The boys got a couple.

Boys said they didn't get any.

They're right.

There were thousands of geese everywhere.

But you couldn't approach them. They're wise.

Your friends said you had no weapons.

Isn't it difficult to hunt geese without a shotgun?

I remember now. I'm sorry.

I got confused.

We got near the geese, then realized we had forgotten our shotguns.

Stupid, right?

So, of course, we didn't get any geese.

Thank you for your time.

Sorry this must end inconveniently...

...but I must detain you for questioning by the FBI.

Why? What's wrong?

Your story is not believable.

Really?

What part?

This afternoon the FBI released David W. Ferrie...

...of New Orleans.

After extensive questioning and a background check...

...the Bureau found no evidence that Mr. Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald...

...or had any connection with the assassination.

The agent in charge would like to make clear...

...that Ferrie was brought in for questioning...

...by the District Attorney of Orleans Parish.

I thought we were on the same side.

Why are they saying that?

Pretty fast, the way they let him go.

They must know something we don't.

So let's get on with our lives.

We have many homegrown crimes to prosecute.

The President has announced...

...the creation of a commission to probe the events in Dallas.

It will be headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren...

...and is expected to head off several Congressional and Texas inquiries.

On the panel are Allen Dulles, ex-chief of the CIA...

...Representative Gerald Ford, banker John McCloy...

Three Years Later

Fucking out of control. All these hippies running around on drugs.

You can't tell a boy from a girl anymore.

I saw a girl the other day. Pregnant. You could see her whole belly.

You know what she had painted on it? "Love Child."

Johnson Seeks $9 Billion In Extra Viet War Funds

It's a mess down there, Jim.

We've bitten off more Vietnam than we can chew.

It figures with that polecat Lyndon in the White House.

I sometimes think things have gone downhill since Kennedy died.

Don't get me started on that.

Those Warren Commission fellows were picking gnat shit out of pepper.

Nobody's going to tell me that kid shot like he did from that bookstore.

But the FBI test-fired the rifle to see if it could be done.

Three experts and not one of them could do it.

They say that Oswald got off three shots with world-class precision...

...from a manual bolt-action rifle in less than six seconds.

According to his Marine buddies, he got Maggie's drawers.

That means he wasn't any good.

Average man would be lucky to shoot twice.

And the first would be the best.

Here the third shot's perfect.

And they got that bullet zigzagging all over the place...

...hitting Kennedy and Connally seven times.

One pristine bullet? That dog don't hunt.

Something's always bothered me about that from day one.

Think other men were involved?

If I was investigating the case, I'd round up 100 of the world's best riflemen...

...and find out which ones were in Dallas that day.

You been duck hunting. Oswald's an old-fashioned decoy.

What did he say? "I'm just a patsy!" Believe it.

Dinner's just about ready.

Got a surprise for you tonight. Tried something new.

- What? - Dinner.

Smells good. Do you know Oswald...

...was interrogated for 12 hours after the assassination...

...with no lawyer present, and nobody recorded a word of it.

I can't believe it. An experienced police captain and a crowd of FBI agents...

...had to know that with no record, what Oswald said is inadmissible in court.

Let's talk at the table. It's getting cold.

What are you doing here?

Daddy said it's okay if I'm quiet.

Sure it is.

If I handled a minor felon that way, it'd be all over the papers.

This is the alleged murderer of the President.

Again and again credible testimony's ignored.

Leads are not followed up, conclusions are selective, no index.

It's the sloppiest investigation I've ever seen.

Dozens of witnesses heard the shots...

...coming from the grassy knoll in front of Kennedy...

...not the Book Depository behind him.

But it's broken down and spread around. You read it, but the point is lost.

I never believed it.

I'll do the dishes. You take Eb up.

Elizabeth, your bedtime too!

That was three years ago. We've tried to put it out of our minds.

You keep digging it up.

You're the DA of New Orleans.

Isn't the Kennedy assassination a bit out of your domain?

All those important people studied it.

I can't believe a man as intelligent as Earl Warren read those volumes.

Maybe you're right.

You got an hour to solve the case while I get the kids in bed.

Then you're mine. Mr. Kennedy will have to wait until morning.

Look, Dad. Look what I drew.

That's something. What is it?

It's a rhino in a cage.

- Can I stay up another hour? - I don't think so, Son.

Pickle and Snapper, my two...

...dancing partners.

Good night, doodlebugs.

One hour, you hear?

Some Saturday-night date you are.

Mama warned me this would happen if I married such a serious man as you.

When I come up, I'll show you how Saturday night got invented.

I sealed off the area and held off the trains till they could be examined.

There were some transients taken on at least one train.

Mr. Bowers, you already talked to us about this matter. Is that correct?

Yes.

Is there anything else you told us...

...that I haven't asked you about, that you can think of?

Nothing that I can recall.

Witness is excused.

A long freight was in there...

...and we pulled some people off and took them to the station.

Do you mean some transients?

Tramps and hobos.

Were they questioned?

They were questioned at the station.

Ask the question.

Let's go back to that Amos Euins matter.

Traffic had been cut off into the area since 10:00.

But three cars came in during this time...

...from around noon till the time of the shooting.

They circled the parking lot and left.

Like they was checking the area.

One of the drivers...

...was holding something up to his mouth.

The last car came in about seven to ten minutes before the shooting.

It was a white Chevrolet four-door Impala.

Muddy up to the windows.