David
Ferrie: Oh man, why don't you fuckin' stop it? Shit, this is too fuckin' big for
you, you know that? Who did the president, who killed Kennedy, fuck man! It's
a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The fuckin' shooters
don't even know! Don't you get it?
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Jim
Garrison: I
never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment. Is that why?
X: Well that's the real question, isn't it? Why?
The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia.
Keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the
most important question, why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the
power to cover it up? Who?
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Jim
Garrison: The Warren Commission thought they had an open-and-shut case. Three
bullets, one assassin. But two unpredictable things happened that day that made
it virtually impossible. One, the eight-millimeter home movie taken by Abraham
Zapruder while standing by the grassy knoll. Two, the third wounded man, James
Tague, who was knicked by a fragment, standing near the triple underpass. The
time frame, five point six seconds, determined by the Zapruder film, left no possibility
of a fourth shot. So the shot or fragment that left a superficial wound on Tague's
cheek had to come from the three shots fired from the sixth floor depository.
That leaves just two bullets. And we know one of them was the fatal head shot
that killed Kennedy. So now a single bullet remains. A single bullet now has to
account for the remaining seven wounds in Kennedy and Connelly. But rather than
admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, the Warren Commission chose to endorse
the theory put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Spector, one of the
grossest lies ever forced on the American people. We've come to know it as the
"Magic Bullet Theory." This single-bullet explanation is the foundation
of the Warren Commission's claim of a lone assassin. Once you conclude the magic
bullet could not create all seven of those wounds, you'd have to conclude that
there was a fourth shot and a second rifle. And if there was a second rifleman,
then by definition, there had to be a conspiracy.
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Jim
Garrison: I
don't, I can't... I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change
things. In our time. In our country. X: Well
they've been doing it all through history. Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison, politics
is power, nothing more! Oh, don't take my word for it, don't believe me. Do your
own work, your own thinking. Jim Garrison: I
can't. The size of this is... beyond me. Testify? X:
Me? Jim Garrison: Testify. X:
Ha ha. No chance in hell. No, I'd be arrested and gagged, maybe sent to an institution,
maybe worse, you too. Now I can give you the background, but you have to find
the foreground, the little things. Keep digging. Remember, you're the only person
to bring a trial in the murder of John Kennedy. That's important, it's historic.
Jim Garrison: I haven't yet. I don't have much
of a case. X: You don't have a choice anymore.
You've become a significant threat to the national security structure. They would
have killed you already but you got a lot of light on you. Instead they're trying
to destroy your credibility. They already have in many circles in this town. Be
honest, your only chance is to come up with a case. Something, anything. Make
arrests, stir the shit storm, hope to reach a point of critical mass that'll start
a chain reaction of people coming forward, then the government will crack. Remember,
fundamentally people are suckers for the truth -- and the truth is on your side,
Bubba. I just hope you get a break.
