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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
495 Views


other teams then. Are we number one?

Two teams only...

...and there's a good chance

that you'll see action.

Maybe before Thanksgiving.

How soon will we find out

what the options are?

The probabilities for success

are almost 100 percent.

Yeah, like the Bay of Pigs.

You're a high-risk man,

you're on contract.

Your men are all experienced

in black operations.

You take your chances

and you get paid for it and damn well.

Okay, Jim.

I'll tell you this much.

I've never seen a better cover plan

in all my life.

Every man jack will be

out of the country within 36 hours.

New passports, new identities...

...plus $25,000 each

just for spending money.

I like that. Tell me more.

You'll stay out of the country

for two years.

You'll receive $25,000 a year

via Switzerland for the next five years.

All of us?

I said every man jack

involved in the operation.

And five years from now,

on January 2nd, 1968...

...provided no one

has broken security...

...each man will find $ 100,000...

...in his own personally numbered

Swiss bank account.

Jesus.

You just told me who we're gonna hit.

This nation was founded by men

of many nations and backgrounds.

Okay.

It was founded on the principle

that men are created equal...

...and that the rights

of every man are diminished...

...when the rights of one man

are threatened.

My fellow Americans,

this is a problem which faces us all...

...in every city of the North

as well as the South.

Today,

there are Negroes unemployed...

...two or three times as many

compared to whites.

Inadequate education,

moving into the large cities...

...unable to find work,

denied their equal rights.

We cannot say

to 10 percent of the population...

...that "You can't have that right.

Your children can't have the chance

to develop whatever talents they have.

The only way that they'll get their rights

is to go in the street and demonstrate. "

I think we owe them and we owe

ourselves a better country than that.

The computer threw out

Or sponsors, as we like to call them.

A young man named Lee Harvey Oswald

seems the best.

Born in New Orleans, 1939.

Father dead.

Mother remarried and divorced.

Boy was in an orphanage for a while...

...then shunted about with his mother

till he was 17.

You can start now, Tim.

He has remarkably muddled

political record...

...that can be steered

strongly to the left.

On October 24, 1956,

seven days after his 17th birthday...

...subject enlisted

in the United States Marine Corps.

Attended

Aviation Fundamental School...

...at Naval Air Station

in Jacksonville, Florida...

...studying basic radar theory,

map reading...

...and air-traffic-control procedures.

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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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