Is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people? It's become a dangerous country when you cannot trust anyone. When you cannot tell the truth. I say let justice be done, though the heavens fall!
— I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment. Is that why?
— 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 them guessing, like a game. Prevents them from asking the most important question: why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited?
— 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.
— What's the problem?
— Do I have to spell it out for you?
— Nobody knows what we're talking about here.
— You are so naive.
— I was on my way back, in New Zealand, when the President was killed. Oswald was charged at 7:00 p.m., Dallas time with Tippit's murder. That's 2:00 p.m. the next day in New Zealand. But already their papers had the entire history of this unknown, 24-year-old Oswald. Studio picture, detailed biography, Russian information, and were sure that he killed the President alone although it took them four more hours to charge him with that crime in Dallas. It felt to me as if a cover story was being put out. Like we would in a Black Op. After I came back I asked myself, why was I, the chief of Special Ops, sent to the South Pole to do a job many others could have done? I wondered if it could've been because a routine duty, if I'd been in Washington would've been to order additional security in Texas. I checked it out and found that someone told the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston to stand down that day, over the protests of Colonel Reich. I believe it's a mistake. It's standard procedure, especially in a known hostile city like Dallas to supplement the Secret Service. Even if we hadn't let him ride with the bubble-top off, we would've put 100 to 200 agents on the sidewalk without question. A month before, in Dallas, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was spit on and hit.
— Yes, exactly.
— There had been attempts on De Gaulle's life in France. We'd have arrived days ahead, studied the route, checked all buildings. Never would've allowed open windows overlooking Dealey. Our own snipers would've covered the area. If a window went up, they'd have been on the radio! We'd be watching the crowd, packages, rolled-up newspapers, coats. Never would've let a man open an umbrella. Never would've let the car slow down to ten miles an hour. Or take that unusual curve at Houston and Elm. You'd have felt an Army presence in the streets that day. But none of this happened. It violated our most basic protection codes. And it is the best indication of a massive plot in Dallas.