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Synopsis: A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned and plotted the assassination based on the data and facts of the case. It posits that a covert group of rogue intelligence agents, ultra-conservative politicians, unscrupulously greedy business interests, and free-lance assassins become increasingly alarmed at President Kennedy's policies, including his views on race relations, winding down the Vietnam War, and ending the oil depletion allowance. They decide to terminate him through an "executive action" utilizing three teams of well-trained snipers during JFK's visit to Dallas and place the blame on supposed CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin.
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Director(s): David Miller
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG
Year:
1973
91 min
487 Views


And none between him

and the crowds on the sidewalk.

When a Soviet motorcade

passes a 10-story building...

...there's a separate agent

to watch each floor.

Now, in Jack's motorcades...

...the agents often travel

inside of closed cars.

- They can't see a damn thing.

- And they're paid less than the FBl.

They only have target practice

twice a year.

And they're often used

as White House errand boys.

And most of their intelligence

comes from other agencies.

Which means they get very little.

The FBl doesn't give much to anybody.

And Hoover, he doesn't like Kennedys

any more than we do.

The CIA?

After the Bay of Pigs, its director

and his deputy were forced to resign.

The mood of the agency

may best be described as bitter.

Are you trying to tell me

people in the CIA and FBl...

...are going to help with this project?

No. James, how many

government intelligence agencies...

...do you have personal knowledge of?

Fifteen. Maybe 17.

And how many private companies

act as fronts for American intelligence?

- Private? Maybe three or 400.

- Including six or seven of your own?

What one agency

finds inconvenient to do...

...may be very simple for another one

in the same area.

So you see, there aren't nearly as many

secrets as an outsider might imagine.

I can see how that could happen.

Even after a man leaves

the government service...

...he still has ongoing relationships...

...with the various intelligence outfits

he's left behind.

Yes, I can see that too.

It's that ongoing relationship

that gives him access to information.

He receives it because he's trusted.

And that's the way we receive ours.

Yes? Oh, Charlie.

Is that so?

I see.

Yes, of course

that would have worked out.

- Yeah.

- Thanks very much, Charlie.

- Quite all right.

- Bye.

Bye.

A conspiracy will make us

look like a banana republic.

We don't have them.

That's what we pay

our intelligence agencies to prevent.

They'll deny a conspiracy

down to the last man...

...lay the whole thing off...

...on some crazy damn fool

who did it all on his own.

- Who is the crazy damn fool?

- He'll be provided.

Charlie McCadden

just called from El Paso.

Governor Connally

just left the president.

And they made a private agreement...

...that he will make a political pilgrimage

to Texas to woo votes.

Probably in the fall.

There ought to be a better way

of settling things like this.

Have you researched the man's

private history?

- Thoroughly.

- Letters from the State Department?

Harold, if you'll forgive me...

...we're way ahead of you.

If we could find some way

to discredit him...

...believe me,

we would have done it by now.

Gentlemen, the hour is getting late.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of communist influences in the motion picture industry. He, along with the other members of the Hollywood Ten and hundreds of other industry professionals, was subsequently blacklisted by that industry. His talents as one of the top screenwriters allowed him to continue working clandestinely, producing work under other authors' names or pseudonyms. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards: for Roman Holiday (1953), which was given to a front writer, and for The Brave One (1956) which was awarded to a pseudonym of Trumbo's. When he was given public screen credit for both Exodus and Spartacus in 1960, this marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other screenwriters. He finally was given full credit by the Writers' Guild for all his achievements, the work of which encompassed six decades of screenwriting. more…

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