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INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION - DAY (STOCK SHOT) The police bring Lee Oswald out for another press conference. LEE An off- camera REPORTER asks . . . REPORTER LEE REPORTER LEE REPORTER Lee looks horror-stricken and doesn't know what to say, so the cops begin to escort him away. The Reporter calls out one more question . . . REPORTER LEE The reporters then converge on Dallas Police CHIEF FRITZ, a man in his sixties with glasses and thin hair greased back over his skull. An off-screen Reporter asks . . . REPORTER CHIEF
FRITZ EXT. WALTER REED ARMY HOSPITAL - EVENING Walter Reed Army Hospital is a big old concrete building from the 1930s, with a sign in front saying what it is. The ambulance and black sedans all pull up at the main door where they are met by yet more CIA agents. The bronze coffin holding the president is unloaded from the ambulance, placed on a gurney and rolled into the hospital. INT. MORGUE - EVENING The bronze coffin is pushed by orderlies, followed by the phalanx of CIA agents, Dulles, McCone, and Helms, and they all enter the morgue, with it's rows of stainless steel autopsy tables. Two gowned, masked and gloved SURGEONS step up. SURGEON DULLES HELMS DULLES Richard Helms turns to the orderlies. HELMS The orderlies leave. DULLES Agents step up, open the coffin, and carefully lift John Kennedy's nude, dead, blue-gray body, with a bloody sheet wrapped around the head, and set it on one of the steel tables. The surgeons step up and unwrap the sheet. A number of agents gasp when the horrible head wound is revealed, the brains hanging out the hole in the side and back of the skull. The two surgeons examine the wound, turning the head, sticking their fingers inside the skull. DULLES The two doctors look at each other, then poke at the wound as they speak. SURGEON
#1 DULLES SURGEON
#1 DULLES SURGEON
#1 Allen Dulles turns to the other Surgeon.
SURGEON
#2 Dulles turns to McCone and Helms. DULLES DULLES HELMS McCONE DULLES The surgeons carefully lift Kennedy's body by the shoulder revealing his back. There is a bullet hole in his upper back near the neck. DULLES McCONE DULLES McCONE Dulles turns to the surgeons. DULLES
DULLES HELMS Allen Dulles considers for a moment, strokes his white mustache, then nods. DULLES The Surgeons nod, then do as they're told, bend down and begin removing the president's brain. McCONE
HELMS DULLES Dulles, McCone and Helms leave. EXT. BETHESDA NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C. - DAY A helicopter lands in front of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Uniformed soldiers jump out and carry a plain wooden coffin into the building. INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY The autopsy room is jammed to capacity with over thirty generals, admirals, and ranking members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as top CIA and FBI officials, (subtitles identify each man). Included are: "J. EDGAR HOOVER, Director of the FBI," "GENERAL MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," "GENERAL EARLE WHEELER, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army," and "ADMIRAL DAVID R. MACDONALD, Chief of Naval Operations," "DEAN RUSK, Secretary of State," and "ROBERT MACNAMARA, Secretary of Defense." HOOVER A CIA AGENT steps forward.
HOOVER CIA
AGENT HOOVER CIA
AGENT CIA directors John McCone and Richard Helms, as well as Allen Dulles, enter the room. Hoover steps up to Dulles. HOOVER Before Dulles can reply a naval hospital ADMINISTRATOR steps into the room, salutes, and speaks to Admiral MacDonald. ADMINISTRATOR ADMIRAL
MACDONALD ADMINISTRATOR ADMIRAL
MACDONALD ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRATOR ADMIRAL
MACDONALD ADMINISTRATOR ADMIRAL
MACDONALD ADMINISTRATOR The hospital administrator salutes, turns and quickly exits. A moment later four soldiers carry the plain wooden coffin into the room, set it down on the floor, salute, turn on their heels and leave. Two doctors in their early sixties, DR. HUMES and DR. HOLMES, as well as several orderlies, enter the room. They open the wooden casket and remove Kennedy's body, which is now in a gray, plastic military body bag with a full-length zipper running up the front. They place the body in the bag on the examining table. As Dr. Humes unzips the bag, everyone in the room watches quietly. Dr. Humes and Dr. Holmes examine the dead president. They look at the hole in the side of the head. DR.
HOLMES Allen Dulles steps up. DULLES GENERAL
TAYLOR Allen Dulles turns to the others. DULLES ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DULLES All the military men turn and look at one another. GENERAL
TAYLOR DULLES HOOVER DULLES Robert MacNamara steps forward. MACNAMARA Helms interjects. HELMS HOOVER DULLES McCONE
ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DULLES GENERAL
TAYLOR ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DULLES ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DULLES MACNAMARA DULLES HOOVER MACNAMARA Allen Dulles waves his hand in utter disdain.
GENERAL
TAYLOR DULLES GENERAL
TAYLOR DULLES There is a general assent from the crowd of military men. GENERAL
TAYLOR There is another grunting assent from all present. The two doctors are brought back into the autopsy room. The two doctors stand there looking confused. DR.
HOLMES ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DR.
HOLMES The Admiral becomes angry. ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DR.
HOLMES DR,
HUMES ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DR.
HOLMES DR.
HUMES ADMIRAL
MACDONALD DR.
HOLMES
DISSOLVE: EXT. DALLAS POLICE STATION - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Outside the Dallas Police Station there is a lot of activity. Policemen are patrolling and are keeping bystanders back. A title reads: "Sunday, November 24, 12:30 PM, the Dallas Police Station." INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Reporters and TV cameramen are crowded together in the police station underground parking lot. Reporters interview Dallas Police Chief Fritz again. An off-camera Reporter asks . . . REPORTER CHIEF
FRITZ EXT. DALLAS POLICE STATION - DAY Jack Ruby steps up in front of the police station looking particularly tense, a cigarette in his mouth. He sees cops all over the place, and the ramp to the underground garage is being guarded. Jack frowns and puffs on his cigarette nervously. Jack goes around to the alley where there is an unguarded door into the police station. Jack looks around to see if anyone's watching, then flicks his cigarette and goes inside. INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION/ LOBBY - DAY The lobby is relatively quiet when Jack enters. He crosses the floor and opens a door leading to a stairwell. Jack enters the stairwell, goes down two flights
of stairs, then goes through another door. Jack enters the police station's underground garage. He crosses the parking lot, goes through another door, and comes out in a hallway that is jammed full of reporters and TV cameramen, as well as many uniformed and plain-clothes policemen lining both sides of the hall. Jack steps up and joins the cops and reporters. A fat uniformed cops turns and see him. FAT
COP JACK FAT
COP JACK FAT
COP INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION/ HALLWAYS - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Two plain-clothes policemen escort Lee Oswald in handcuffs through the Dallas Police Station. They walk down one hallway, then the next, then turn and go through a door into the underground garage. INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION/ UNDERGROUND GARAGE - DAY Jack stands there among the reporters and cops with his hand in his pocket. His eyes are narrowed and his breathing his shallow and rapid. His eyes dart back and forth, but he keeps his head still. Everybody hears something and turns to look at the door. Cameramen get their cameras ready and some begin filming. INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION/ UNDERGROUND GARAGE - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) A reasonably calm Lee Harvey Oswald is brought through the doors into the underground garage. As he is escorted down the two lines of reporters and policemen, Jack Ruby pulls his pistol, steps forward and shoots Lee Harvey Oswald point-blank in the stomach, and as Lee goes down to the floor Jack goes with him and fires another shot into his stomach for good measure. Lee's unconscious body is strapped onto a gurney, loaded into an ambulance and taken away. INT. SUBURBAN HOUSE - DAY Lucien, Marcel and Andre still sit on the floor in their shorts, drinking beer and watching TV. They just watched Jack shoot Lee. Andre looks worried. ANDRE MARCEL LUCIEN They other two nod again, then they all three light cigarettes. EXT. PARKLAND HOSPITAL - DAY Lee's inert body is taken out of the ambulance
and rushed into Parkland Hospital. A title reads, "1:07 PM, Nov. 24." Jack Ruby sits in his undershirt in a jail cell. A GUARD sits right outside the bars. Jack says . . . JACK GUARD UNIFORMED
COP Jack takes a deep sigh of relief, visibly calms down and leans back. The Guard offers him another cigarette. GUARD Jack waves his hand. JACK The Guard looks confused and puts the pack back in his pocket. EXT. WASHINGTON, D.C. - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Thousands of people line the streets of Washington, D.C. in the rain to watch President Kennedy's funeral procession. A title reads, "1:15 PM, Nov. 24." An honor guard of marines march by, then the horse-drawn hearse carrying the president's body, then comes a riderless horse with the stirrups on it's saddle turned around backwards. Many people, both men and women, cry for their dead leader. EXT. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) As the president's casket is brought forward for burial at Arlington National Cemetery, the president's son, John, Jr., who is only three years old, standing beside his bereaved mother, salutes his dead father. The Eternal Flame is lit, and flickers up through it's hole in the ground. DISSOLVE: EXT. THE FRENCH QUARTER, NEW ORLEANS - DAY CLAY Clay sips his coffee. Now it's temperature is just right. INT. SUBURBAN HOUSE - DAY Lucien, Marcel, and Andre all sit at the table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. The phone rings startling all of them. They all turn and look at the phone suspiciously. Lucien answers it. LUCIEN A VOICE asks . . . VOICE LUCIEN VOICE LUCIEN MARCEL The all nod, then dash around madly getting dressed. EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE - DAY A black sedan pulls up in front of the house driven by the man with the dark sunglasses. The three Frenchmen exit the house dressed as they were when they arrived, each carrying a small flight bag. They get into the car and it backs out of the driveway and drives up the street. EXT. DESERT LANDING STRIP - DAY The black sedan arrives back at the desert landing strip where the small Cesna airplane waits for them. The three men get out of the car, dash over to the idling airplane, open the door and climb in. INT. AIRPLANE - DAY David Ferrie sits in the pilot's seat. He turns to them and smiles. DAVID MARCEL DAVID LUCIEN DAVID LUCIEN The three men sit back and the plane starts to
move. The plane taxies down the runway and takes off into the blue sky. DISSOLVE: EXT. DEALY PLAZA - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Across Dealy Plaza from the book depository is the jailhouse where Jack Ruby is incarcerated. Jack is dressed up in a suit, handcuffed and taken out of the jailhouse. INT. DALLAS COUNTY COURTHOUSE - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Jack Ruby stands in a courthouse in front of a JUDGE. JUDGE The Judge brings the gavel down. Jack speaks to the reporters and TV cameras. JACK And off-screen REPORTER asks . . . REPORTER JACK Jack is taken away up the hallways of the courthouse. We see the familiar profile of Marseilles with
it's boats and docks and houses up on the hills. EXT. LUCIEN'S HOUSE - DAY Lucien steps around the corner, looks and sees his family out in front of his house. He smiles and walks toward them. One by one his children realize it's him and yell, "Papa!" then go running to him. He picks them up one by one as he nears the house. The front door opens and his wife, Marie, comes out. She smiles and opens her arms wide. MARIE LUCIEN They run to each other, hug and kiss, with children hanging all over them. ZAPRUDER FILM - EXTREME SLOW-MOTION The presidential motorcade makes the hairpin turn onto Elm Street . . . NARRATOR The president's motorcade is obscured for a second by a street sign. INT. AMBASSADOR HOTEL, LOS ANGELES - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Robert Kennedy is campaigning for president, smiling and shaking people's hands. NARRATOR NARRATOR INT. JOE KENNEDY'S HOUSE - DAY Joe Kennedy, who now looks very old and ill, has just watched his son Bobby get assassinated. He closes his eyes and slumps over. EXT. BOSTON CEMETERY - DAY (STOCK SHOTS) Joseph P. Kennedy's funeral, with long lines of black limousines. NARRATOR The first bullet strikes Kennedy in the back,
causing him to lean forward and his arms to raise up at the elbows.
Jackie turns to her wounded husband. NARRATOR Governor Connally turns and looks over his right
shoulder to see what's happening . . . INT. SAM GIANCANA'S BASEMENT OFFICE - NIGHT Sam sits at his desk in his basement office smoking a cigar and reading the newspaper. NARRATOR Sam hears someone coming down the steps and looks up through his thick, black-rimmed glasses . SAM Sam stands up. Two gloved hands holding pistols come up into view. Sam reacts in horror, then is shot twice in the face, shattering his glasses and throwing him back into his chair. A gloved hand shoves a smoking pistol barrel up under Giancana's throat and fires five more times, blowing his brains all over the walls. NARRATOR The second bullet hits Gov. Connally from behind, knocking him forward. NARRATOR We see the final head shot hit President Kennedy, throwing him backward and blowing his brains out, and we freeze frame. FADE
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